Example sentences of "[noun prp] as it be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nearer to hand , you can also see steeply down 2,500 feet from the Col d'Aspin into the broad valley of the river Aure — the Neste d'Aure as it is called , neste here replacing gave as the local designation for a river . |
| 2 | Potatoes were planted on Good Friday as it was believed that this was one day on which the Devil had no power to poison and ruin the soil . |
| 3 | In seven tightly reasoned chapters , the author lays out the traditional interpretation of Gris as it was advanced by Apollinaire , Kahnweiler , Maurice Raynal , Zervos and other colleagues and critics who had known the artist and followed his development , and then proceeds to question their assumptions by looking more closely at the works themselves than any other scholar had previously done . |
| 4 | Soon it would be said in England as it was said on the Continent , that a good Catholic is a man whose wife goes to church . |
| 5 | The teachers need to be informed about the aims and content of foreign language teaching in the UK as it is controlled at present by exams such as GCSE and in the future by the National Curriculum . |
| 6 | It was noted that the rising of the Nile occurred when the last star to appear on the horizon , before dawn obscures all stars , was the dog star Sothis , or Sirius as it is known to us . |
| 7 | It was as difficult to record the casual speech of Zuwaya as it was to take an unposed photograph . |
| 8 | And when they arrived Great Britain or Britain as it was called then and the people living there were Britons . |
| 9 | It is as easy to knock Allen as it is to knock the cults he embraced . |
| 10 | Older Kashmiri women stick to the traditional Kashmiri form where the Kamiz ( or the Kurta as it is called in Kashmir ) is rather long , usually with a distinct waist , and the trousers are full , almost bulbous , with a deep and stiff cuff at the ankle . |
| 11 | Siemens has licensed SoftBench as it is incorporated in the Toolbus environment from Informix ; Encapsulator , a tool for adding software products to the SoftBench and Toolbus environment for integration of tools supplied by independent software vendors or users ; and the C++ Developer software construction and browsing tool used for object-oriented programming in C++ . |
| 12 | SNI may well be involved at this stage too — it already has a licence to HP 's SoftBench as it is implemented in Informix 's ToolBus , going back to June this year ( UX No 388 ) . |
| 13 | The Test series began at Edgbaston as it was to continue — with a thumping . |