Example sentences of "[adv] as we [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | By contrast gardening , much as we love it , is generally a bit static . |
| 2 | So long as we boil it , it should be OK . |
| 3 | The Intifada was perhaps the most convincing refutation ever of the time- honoured , complacent dogma that ‘ the status quo can last as long as we want it to . ’ |
| 4 | He then astonished us by lending us a jeep , with its driver , Abu , for as long as we needed it . |
| 5 | That 's right , so as we mentioned it exert yourselves vigorously |
| 6 | As Bones himself might have reported , ‘ It 's pop , Jim , but not as we know it . ’ |
| 7 | It 's pop , folks , but not as we know it . |
| 8 | Yes , but not as we know it . |
| 9 | It 's a care manager , but not as we know it |
| 10 | I mean Spock is more concerned with the external situation , and what 're they gon na do , and you know he says Captain that 's not rational , or this is life but not as we know it , er that kind of thing . |
| 11 | It 's life Jim , but not as we know it . |
| 12 | But just as we thought it was going to flatten us , if somehow back-pedalled , slowed , cut its jets , rippled its fringes and turned pink . |
| 13 | At first , close up , it seems very dirty and sullen and yet dignified , large and powerful in its presence until it becomes loud , hurrying up and down the tracks with a frenzied passion , and then , just as we see it disappearing beyond the horizon it seems like a far off star or ‘ comet ’ silently entering another world . |
| 14 | Yep , it 's the future Jim , and just as we remembered it . |
| 15 | Passing Wattisham we identify Stowmarket ( R ) and look for a specific road/railway junction ( S ) , which turns up exactly as we expected it . |
| 16 | Life , according to metaphysics , is exactly as we want it to be . |
| 17 | The more responsibility we take for our lives , the more power we have to create life exactly as we want it to be . |
| 18 | A committee member said last night : ‘ As soon as we get it , it will be made public . |
| 19 | Ever since you went away we have been unable to get the fire to burn ; even if we borrowed a light from the neighbours it went out as soon as we brought it in . " |
| 20 | And as soon as we finish it 'll go and get dark again . |
| 21 | Royston was a cold , sombre place which blighted our spirits as soon as we glimpsed it . |
| 22 | But of course the problems are with this contract that it would n't suit everybody , one because you 've got no access for the ten years , you 've bought the contract up front , and if you want access to it , it 's very limited and of course if you cash an endowment early as we know it 'd damage the , the er the income sorry the , the growth at the end of the plan . |
| 23 | I think we live with the local authority set up as we have it . |
| 24 | Put it all back as we found it eh ? |
| 25 | That matter is not really as we perceive it has been known to chemists and physicists for over 150 years , but despite Einstein 's demonstration , and that of other atomic scientists since , that matter and energy are interchangeable , we persist in our view that physical matter is solid and stable . |
| 26 | It was obviously different from the religion of Jesus , as far as we understand it , and also from the Jewish vision of St Paul , who had been the first to bring the semitic faith to the hellenistic world of the Roman empire . |
| 27 | As far as we believe it is the best thing for the school . ’ |
| 28 | Intelligent input/output board supplier , Byfleet , Surrey-based Specialix Ltd , says its flagship product , the transputer-based RIO controller , is n't going down the storm that it had hoped it would : even OEM deals with the likes of Groupe Bull SA have not boosted sales , says marketing director , Ian Cummins , ‘ RIO is not selling as well as we thought it would … and our estimations on its performance in the market are nine months ahead of what has actually happened ’ . |
| 29 | Historically local government in England and Wales is a fascinating subject and from its study it will be found that local government whilst not quite as we know it today , existed for centuries before the first parliament was ever convened . |
| 30 | It seems clear then that life , at least as we know it , can exist only in regions of space-time in which one time and three space dimensions are not curled up small . |