Example sentences of "[det] as it [be] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Cathy had been assigned a tutor , she used to take her daughter along to a little school ( not her previous school ) and have lessons there in the staffroom : I never liked school before but I liked this as it was only half-past nine till half-past twelve so it was n't a long day and I could take Rebecca with me .
2 Life then was much as it is now .
3 Where the home environment seems to be unsupportive in as much as it is highly arousing , strategies to increase the social distance in key relationships , or to modify their ways of interacting , would be helpful .
4 Eglantine also said that children are always the first to suffer and that is certainly as true today as it was then which means that the Save The Children Fund 's work is needed now as much as it was then .
5 Their solidarity was based on sex , their own sex , as much as it was ever based on class .
6 You know everything was just the same as it is here .
7 And there was just , well Road , other than er the Estate was pretty well the same as it is today , very little improved .
8 Ah well more or less much the same as it is today .
9 The magazine 's message then was the same as it is today : that ‘ women hold up half the sky and a great deal more besides ’ and that development will at best hobble along until women 's disproportionate contribution to the work , wealth and well-being of their communities is both recognized and rewarded .
10 ‘ Much the same as it is behind , ’ Boxer replied .
11 After all that toil and trouble , the outcome was the same as it is more often than not in a constituency of the Republic — the same , that is to say , as if not a single vote had been transferred : the candidates elected were those who , on the showing of the very first count , had the greatest number of first-preference votes .
12 The LTA 's principal claim to fame at the end of 1992 will be the same as it is now — the richest tennis organisation in the world .
13 Oh well there was clothes and gardens and and just the same as it is now .
14 And what , see it 's gon na be the same as it is now never in .
15 ‘ Is your view about them today the same as it was then or do you now feel you might have acted differently ? ’
16 It seems to me , everything 's going on just the same as it was before .
17 Thank you very much , er I ca n't carry along because you want to stop me , but if I were capable of telling , I 'd say my attitude is still the same as it was before .
18 Tuesday , same as it was before .
19 Well my question was to be erm would your guests be happy to return to a Kuwait the same as it was before , but having listened I feel somewhat enlightened , although perhaps they 'd still like to answer the question in that form .
20 The overall effect of these new arrangements is the same as it was under traditional accounting but there are important differences also .
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