Example sentences of "[art] [adj] as it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beach lovers rarely fault the International as it backs directly , down a few steps , onto the sands and sea . |
| 2 | Between four and six episodes was Verity Lambert 's ideal length for a story , preferring the latter as it gave more opportunity for character development which , in her belief , audiences appreciated . |
| 3 | However , the contested takeover of Imperial by Hanson was not referred to the MMC as it did not adversely affect competition or the ‘ public interest ’ . |
| 4 | Thatcher 's legacy has forced the poverty lobby onto the defensive as it fights to simply to maintain child benefit , to restore benefits to 16- and 17-year olds , or to ensure that 18- to 24-year-olds receive the same rate of income support as over 25-year-olds . |
| 5 | Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates said in a televised interview with CNBC-TV that he knows of no effort by the US Federal Trade Commission to force a restructuring of Microsoft , despite its ongoing probe : ‘ I certainly have n't heard any suggestion that they 're even considering something that would change the structure of our company , ’ Gates said ; he also warned on the Business Insiders programme that Microsoft Corp will not be as profitable in the long-term as it has in recent years — ‘ The kind of profit margin we 've had in the past will be very unlikely for us to achieve in the future ; we 've said after tax margins probably wo n't stay over 20% in the mid to long-term , and they could go quite a bit lower than that in the short-term , ’ the company 's chief executive declared . |
| 6 | On board the B-17 as it climbed eastwards from Great Ashfield were the men responsible with Tommie taking the firing honours . |
| 7 | The Tate gallery gets £1.8 million , which is exactly the same as it got in 1984-85 . |
| 8 | shades they were made in Finland they were the paper pleated ones , er , most of them , no , no not most of them , a lot of them fitted er close up onto the ceiling where they 're intended for centre lights and were held up onto the ceiling with a little spring , erm , they also did some quite nice pleated paper shades , er at a time when you find that most electrical shops were , would have er the old type of erm what is it , imitation silk shades with fringes round them , er fringe at the top and fringe at the bottom and so on sort of thing , when the , when those was sort of old of age everywhere , it was just the same as it 'd been before the war , er it was , you know , quite right really to see these all in different colours , completely plain , but pleated shades but in just one particular colour each shade . |
| 9 | They are unhappy with the idea of a Universe that has not existed infinitely looking much the same as it does today — the same consideration which fuelled the Steady State Theory . |
| 10 | The national gallery gets £2.75 million , the same as it received seven years ago and rather less than it received 10 years ago . |
| 11 | The briefing was the same as it had been every day since he was born . |
| 12 | The ritual was the same as it had been the day before , adjusting the aerial , then , as he turned the tuner to the sound of whistles , crackles and snatches of foreign music , he said , ‘ Speak to me , London , ’ and , in obedience , it did . |
| 13 | It was wonderful to find the rapport was the same as it had ever been . |
| 14 | It was not just a reason to indulge in nostalgia ; though the tradition was basically the same as it had always been , except that in the past the people had walked further in the processions . |
| 15 | They used computers instead of quill pens , but the outcome of their labours was still the same as it had been for centuries — trade , the buying and selling of things that other people made . |
| 16 | His hairline at that age was receding at the parting , giving every intimation that he might be bald one day ; not so , in the event — photographs of him as an older man show clearly that same hairline , looking very much the same as it had in the days of his youth . |
| 17 | On this day , her mother always took an interest in the weather and the direction of the wind , and almost every year would look out at the white-capped waves and mutter about how the wind and sea looked much the same as it had on the day she lost her Sam . |
| 18 | But Bernice was sure she was still on the planet : the fourth wall and the floor consisted of blocks of masonry , and the gravity felt exactly the same as it had before the transmat trip . |
| 19 | Everything was the same as it had been when he left it to go to the club the night before last . |
| 20 | The pay of a sailor in the French navy in 1789 was practically the same as it had been a century before , though during that period prices had almost doubled . |
| 21 | ‘ Better than what ? ’ she asked innocently , thinking that two could play at that game of acting as though everything were the same as it had always been . |
| 22 | It annoyed her that , despite everything that had been said and done between them , and which obviously had meant absolutely nothing to him , since his attitude towards her was the same as it had ever been , she still found it difficult to control her emotions in his presence . |
| 23 | Apart from that , everything was the same as it had been — plus . |
| 24 | At the same as it released its survey of the quality of waterways , the NRA published a major consultation paper on a new framework for setting statutory water quality objectives for all rivers , lakes , canals , estuaries and underground and coastal waters . |
| 25 | That position now is the same as it stands before this legislation is passed . |
| 26 | And secondly , I think the second one is exactly the same as it stands Madam Chairman . |
| 27 | In other words , the constant term in the economist 's model — equation ( 4.29 ) — will fall , and by such an extent to ensure that the level of real output on average will equal the same as it did before , even though monetary growth is higher under the new policy regime . |
| 28 | Lord Tebbit claimed that if Britain said ‘ no ’ , the Community would go on just the same as it did yesterday . |
| 29 | The same as it has always been . |
| 30 | Telecommunications policy became more controversial in the 1980S as it came to feature on the political agendas of each nation and of Europe , or Europes . |