Example sentences of "[verb] as it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The class , located as it usually is in a prefabricated hut at the bottom of the school garden , is seen as inferior . |
| 2 | Of course Elmer Rice 's play had been censored and toned down before coming to the screen but Photoplay still needed to ask whether ‘ the public really wants a true cross-section of life presented as it actually happens ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ She 's leading you too , ’ Maggie reminded him quietly and his hand came as it often did to tilt her chin imperiously . |
| 4 | This is surely a slice of history shown as it really was , and all who served with Bomber Command will be delighted that John Searby recorded their courageous efforts so well . |
| 5 | This arrangement was terminated as it apparently consumed too much valuable wood . |
| 6 | In the hands of this artist , this transcription sounds as it surely was intended — as Busoni 's ‘ eighth elegy ’ , complete with delicate bell-like arpeggios , subtle sequential off-shoots , and a thickening of textures which help elucidate the Schoenbergian language . |
| 7 | Such a possession , once recognised as it now is , no university can afford to neglect . |
| 8 | This requires some time to be spent on organising access to playback machines and on introducing teachers to the concept , but that time is well spent as it then frees the tutor to give individual guidance to teachers with problems . |
| 9 | First , the NHS is no longer as progressively financed as it once was because of the current regressive system of taxation . |
| 10 | Such planning , involving as it always does public action — provision of good educational opportunity , good public housing and health care , competent attention to drug addiction , family counselling , adequate welfare payments — is systemically resisted by the contented electoral majority . |
| 11 | The rising toll of unemployment was another alarming problem , involving as it naturally did the families and children of the unemployed man or woman as well . |
| 12 | When the owner shouts at the cat , instead of simply stopping as it usually does , the cat will massively over-react with one of its mad-panic rushes . |
| 13 | Marshall knew Wickham would be ruefully amused by that ‘ yet ’ , carrying as it inevitably did an accusation of tardiness . |
| 14 | At the vote on the imposition of sanctions against Iraq , Yemen abstained as it also did from the vote at the Arab League meeting which approved Arab military intervention in Saudi Arabia . |
| 15 | It was usually taken , particularly when combined as it often was with the adjective " extraordinary " , as indicating a status superior to that of the resident : it became rapidly in many states during the later seventeenth century the most widely used of all diplomatic titles . |
| 16 | This openness is fundamental to the total quality culture that the Quality Scotland Foundation espouses as it firmly believes that , by bringing together people with expertise in the quality field to help and advise those who wish to make a commitment to it , attitudes can really begin to change . |
| 17 | If the bill were to be passed as it now stands it would result in the restriction , and even removal , of presently existing freedoms for evangelistic work . |
| 18 | When the New Year 's Honours List is published , Britons will learn once again that the snob system is functioning as it always has . |
| 19 | Moments later his suspicions were confirmed as it gradually slid open . |
| 20 | As Fokine said : ‘ There can never be revolution in dance , only evolution , because the human body remains as it always has been , a living apparatus which can only move in certain well-defined ways . ’ |
| 21 | When we set out to do something new we often assume that the baseline will continue as it always has done . |
| 22 | er one that occurs to me , no , no speaking on it myself , the jury might be interested , sometime I just like to get a feel of what a brochure looks like , not divided as it obviously has to be here , could , could we see a couple sometime , not , not now |
| 23 | Village life is therefore not as close knit as it once was , which is common in many villages today , but nevertheless local functions held in nearby Harpham village hall are always well attended proving that there is still a sense of community in the area . |