Example sentences of "[noun sg] as it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they were now able to hear that story , and be able to make an overall and broad appraisal of that one-time promising religion as it now is , they would be appalled . |
| 2 | This was an undercover operation which had to be conducted with great speed as it quickly emerged that there was every chance that the Princess might well have left the royal circle by the proposed September publication date of the book . |
| 3 | The closing words of the subsection as it now stands , providing that ‘ in determining whether accommodation is suitable they shall have regard to Part IX ( slum clearance ) , X ( overcrowding ) and XI ( houses in multiple occupation ) of this Act ’ seem to me to call unmistakably for the exercise by the local authority of a subjective judgment as to what constitutes suitable accommodation . |
| 4 | The modification of the programme had angered Finance Minister Theodor Stolojan and Trade and Industry Minister of State Anton Vatasescu , and on March 20 they had tendered their resignations , complaining that the programme as it now stood was insufficiently radical . |
| 5 | The most that the British knew about armies was that intermittently over four or five centuries they got together in a sort of militia or Home Guard in case the enemy arrived , and the necessity of a state to run the affairs of the country for the country 's salvation , was never so present to the British mind as it always has been to the minds of most continental people . |
| 6 | In a real sense , our mind or at least , our mind as it truly is , our mind as it would be if it were purged of all individuality , partiality , incompleteness , confusion , emotion and what not , is identical with the total absolute which the business of philosophy is to study . |
| 7 | It reminded me of that episode in Rudyard Kipling 's Kim where the boy is confronted with a shattered pot and comes under pressure to reconstruct it in his mind as it once was . |
| 8 | It rapidly became established because of its immediate appeal to masses of people who were either ‘ pagan ’ , that is , people thus labelled primarily because they had not acquired knowledge of , or held allegiance to , the ‘ god ’ of the Hebrew scriptures , or others who were already questioning the absolute authenticity of the Old Testament as it then was , and were therefore ostracised . |
| 9 | Some have expressed doubt that Stevens ' scale types add up to a theory of measurement or , if they do , whether this approach is a useful one for social research as it currently stands . |
| 10 | The rule as it now stands is a contradiction . |
| 11 | The area was once covered by a glacier hundreds of feet deep , carving valleys out of rock as it slowly ground its way towards the distant Tasman Sea . |
| 12 | When a new consciousness is brought about it should n't bring about historical amnesia as it often does . |
| 13 | Today the church is no longer ‘ active ’ in the village as it once was , and sadly the congregation rarely has more than 15 worshippers . |
| 14 | There are also rivers for which LAOs have not attempted to make agreements on the grounds that there are no problems or there is not sufficient demand , all very well until someone decides to apply the letter of the law as it presently stands . |
| 15 | Traditionally , the centre-half , under the offside law as it then was , played chiefly as an attacker , but even before the offside law was changed in 1925 to increase goal-scoring chances , and thus bring about a need for stronger defence , he was becoming more a third defender . |
| 16 | Thus the common law must still be considered in order to gain the broader perspective of the law as it currently stands . |
| 17 | What is needed is a relaxation of the law as it now stands to allow the controlled admission of children to certain pubs at certain times of day . |
| 18 | He asked Office minister David Mellor whether he still wished or instructed local authorities to enforce the law as it now stands . |
| 19 | ‘ Community law as it now stands … does not preclude a member state , in authorising one of its vessels to fish against national quotas , from laying down conditions designed to ensure that the vessel has a real economic link with that state if that link concerns only the relations between that vessel 's fishing operations and the populations dependent on fisheries and related industries ; … |
| 20 | Thereafter , clause 54 was not the subject of further debate and passed into law as it now stands as section 63 of the Act . |
| 21 | This budget is extremely useful for management as it clearly sets out the short-term objectives and targets for the forthcoming budget period and is in a form that is easy to comprehend . |
| 22 | The British Rail scheme would certainly cost less than the old plan as it now proposed a single-track tunnel , not a twin tunnel . |
| 23 | The ducal retinue as it then stood was the creation of the previous fourteen years , during which Gloucester , with royal backing , had built up his power from negligible beginnings to become the acknowledged lord of the north . |
| 24 | The ducal retinue as it then stood was the creation of the previous fourteen years , during which Gloucester , with royal backing , had built up his power from negligible beginnings to become the acknowledged lord of the north . |
| 25 | This strategy , NEC insists , produces greater flexibility ( as it is not necessary to follow IBM slavishly ) and also keeps the company on a smoother footing as it no longer needs to follow IBM 's every turn . |
| 26 | I think we 've all gradually come to terms with Jennifer 's condition and learnt to make the best of it … but … ’ she stared at her telephone as it suddenly rang , her thoughts obviously far away ‘ … but I do n't think I 'll ever forgive David Markham for the way he treated her , ’ she said at last as she stretched out her hand to answer the phone . |
| 27 | His feet continued to pattern Ab-u-dah Ab-u-dah on the pavement as it slowly curved towards a junction with a similar , possibly even shabbier street , a terrace without any trees . |
| 28 | This was built to supply water for the Grand Union Canal as it still does today . |
| 29 | So it is a hostile atmosphere and so hostile was it in the United Nations that the Americans decided to cripple it , and what they did was to invoke erm an article which called for the removal of votes from those states who were in , who were in arrears in the payment of their dues , of their , their funds and there were several countries in that category , two of them the Soviet Union and France , and the reason why they had not pal paid their dues was because they objected to the use of the , these funds for peacekeeping forces which had not been authorized by the Security Council , in their argument the Security Council was the , the supreme authority and the General Assembly had in fact not the right to authorize er peacekeeping activities and indeed , if you read the charter , this is the case although legal advice is conflicting on that point as it usually is . |
| 30 | So it is a hostile atmosphere and so hostile was it in the United Nations that the Americans decided to cripple it , and what they did was to invoke erm an article which called for the removal of votes from those states who were in , who were in arrears in the payment of their dues , of their , their funds and there were several countries in that category , two of them the Soviet Union and France , and the reason why they had not pal paid their dues was because they objected to the use of the , these funds for peacekeeping forces which had not been authorized by the Security Council , in their argument the Security Council was the , the supreme authority and the General Assembly had in fact not the right to authorize er peacekeeping activities and indeed , if you read the charter , this is the case although legal advice is conflicting on that point as it usually is . |