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

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1 Gradually it became more institutionalised as something resembling organised diplomatic services emerged .
2 I was later puzzled that it did indeed happen as we had prayed it would .
3 In many ways , McLaren was an early , if not the first , prototype of the modern racing team , and it did indeed seem as though Emerson fitted in very well .
4 It becomes more concentrated as the day wears on , and by the time it reaches peak levels , in the late afternoon , the polluted air will usually have drifted away from the cities into the countryside .
5 A I tend to agree with you — it does rather seem as though you need several dozen supplements to keep a successful marine aquarium .
6 It does rather sound as though DTP is where you 're heading , and your choices are limited only by the memory in your machine and your budget — in that order .
7 I do not want to get bogged down in a semantic quibble but it does rather look as though sociologists have just as much difficulty as anyone else in doing without the word ‘ profession ’ .
8 It does indeed seem as though Marx 's concept of ‘ socialisation ’ was too general and too poor .
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