Example sentences of "[adv] as it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | to see it entirely as it never is , |
| 2 | It could have been taken , he reckoned , from the very spot where he was standing , capturing the scene much as it now was , altered only by the onset of winter . |
| 3 | The tug of war was still going on , just as fiercely as it ever had , only now Charles was tugging her towards Damian Flint while Jamie hurled accusations of betrayal . |
| 4 | Labour 's spokesman on food had come to the House thinking — unwisely as it soon turned out — that he was going to roast Mr Gummer . |
| 5 | The dominant response may at present be a favourable one , but this is only maintained so long as it implicitly accepted that functions are being successfully and rationally fulfilled . |
| 6 | Oh , yes , he was himself again , he would be trailing this glory after him for as long as it still shed lustre . |
| 7 | Its membership , appointed for renewable four-year terms , has grown over the years and has proved , as it was intended to be , a useful sounding board , especially as it quickly subdivided itself into specialist groups of experts on specific topics — in which , in fact , most of the work of the Committee was to be done . |
| 8 | He said : ‘ The EC meat does n't keep very well , especially as it often comes quite a distance . |
| 9 | Staring at the door , Ellie seemed quite unable to tear her eyes away as it slowly opened and Feargal walked in . |
| 10 | We act upon reality as we represent it to ourselves , not as it physically is . |
| 11 | I told it the way it felt , not as it actually was . |
| 12 | There was always a danger that the legend would become larger than the man , just as it certainly has with his close friend Warren Beatty and thus it is easy to see why Jack Nicholson now guards himself well and repels invaders . |
| 13 | Firstly , what would happen to the profitability of Britain 's most successful consumer credit organisation if it mailed debt collection notices to its customers on ( typically ) just two dates each year , just as it currently mails its personal loan promotions ? |
| 14 | Fascination with the older girls won just as it always did and she crossed the landing , an expanse of lino dotted with what her mother referred to as ‘ slip mats ’ , pushed open the door and went in . |
| 15 | just as it always had been . |
| 16 | She had put her hair up so as to look older than her sixteen years but even so she straightened her music and her shoulders with such self-consciousness that the maturity of her voice came as a shock to him just as it always did . |
| 17 | Actually so far as I can see it 's sod 's law for women , just as it always has been . |
| 18 | Just as it always has been . |
| 19 | She threw up until the nausea passed , just as it always did if she drank alcohol , but now it was almost as if her body already knew alcohol was bad for the tiny life growing inside her . |
| 20 | There was silence , filled only by the glare of expression , the tension that sparked between them , just as it always had , always would as long as they lived and breathed . |
| 21 | At the highest levels of attainment in developed societies , like postgraduate research fellowships , or master classes in the arts , this is exactly what does happen — just as it always has with farmers , hunters , mothers , shamans , poets , and makers of things tangible or mental . |
| 22 | In the morning , everything was just as it always was when Mother went away ; much pleasanter , with nobody quarrelling even in that dreadful quiet way of just looking and going out of rooms when other people came into them , and Gran told them several good long stories in the evening . |
| 23 | ‘ This is just as it always was except that I usually have some of his sketch books , a few of his letters , and his work-book on display , but those things are on loan to the exhibition . ’ |
| 24 | Everything was exactly as it always was . |
| 25 | He hesitated , his anger subsiding quickly as it always did , and leaving him feeling exhausted . |
| 26 | Unless one school was created as rapidly as it honestly could be , then the corrosive uncertainty would spread , tentative plans would proliferate but never come to fruition . |
| 27 | I do n't believe the programme has taken off here as rapidly as it possibly could have had all the judges been as enthusiastic as I was in the beginning , but I would say 5 to 10 per cent of the sentenced people now are at least given that option . |
| 28 | In the process of examining how routine policing is affected by social divisions , researchers may , however , obtain some direct and first-hand impression of public order policing , if only unsatisfactorily as it briefly or infrequently enters their research location . |
| 29 | Indeed , that term is no longer used as confidently as it once was . |
| 30 | I remember running on the rolling lawns of Kikuyu grass before dinner , the night noises of the exceptionally vocal African insect life striking up as it quickly grew dark , night unrolling from the ground upwards ; bullfrogs — in fact all manner of rana and bufo-frogs the size of a pair of roiled-up rugby socks , toads with great horned eyebrows , and tiny , reddish , darting amphibians , starting to howl , shriek , growl , and purr , a backdrop to our dinner on the terrace to which we have been summoned by the stirring , thrilling , beating of a gong hung from a pair of tusks . |