Example sentences of "as it [be] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strach is not quick enough to beat his full-back either — so as it is we have to rely to much on our full-backs overlapping if we want to get to the bye line . |
| 2 | As it is we search for interpretations of early Modernism in her work . |
| 3 | As it is they have to brave all kinds of weather , from high winds which whip away their hymn books to snow which engulfs them in that unsheltered spot . |
| 4 | I suppose Newmarket will be first one to make two , th they 've got two courses here as it is you see . |
| 5 | As it is he knows nothing whatever about me . |
| 6 | In your letter dated Tue , 18 Jan 94 10:25:54 MET , you wrote : If I thought Wilko was going there with the intent to win I might feel a little happier , but with the form as it is I think we 'll wind up in one of those boring 1–0 or 2–0 defeats where nothing exciting happens in the game . |
| 7 | I 'll leave it as it is I think because |
| 8 | If I were a teacher of French , I would be worried that 50 million French people would know ‘ my ’ subject better than I do ; as it is I have no such fears . |
| 9 | But as it is I feel before the world as Sidney before Stella ( Sonnet L ) |
| 10 | It would be otherwise if I had my husband with me and my first-born but as it is I feel neither one thing or the other . |
| 11 | As it is I came to reading very late , at 18 or 19 , and I think it is entirely the fault of the box . |
| 12 | But as it is I do n't find him remotely attractive ! ’ |
| 13 | She would have had great difficulty establishing herself , but as it is she has sold her pottery successfully through shows and through galleries . |
| 14 | Now if I say , oh well as it 's I mean Easter we 'll forget about that . |
| 15 | As it was we finished a stroke behind Dai Rees and lied for second with Kel Nagle . |
| 16 | As it was she stored his words to mull over in her room . |
| 17 | If she had been an ordinary teacher , trying to teach an ordinary sedentary subject like history or Latin , she would have been mercilessly flouted and mocked , but as it was she managed to get by . |
| 18 | She wished desperately that Ellen were in London that she might send Lizzie to judge how Oreste fared and what he understood , but as it was she had no means of knowing . |
| 19 | This was only partly true : but for her pock-marked skin she would have been much sought after : as it was she had been pursued more through calculation than desire . |
| 20 | As it was he had to be satisfied with a rise of 48 per cent to £514,558 , well below the highest-paid public company boss , Lord Hanson , who received £1.5million for his efforts . |
| 21 | As it was he had obviously grown tired of the regular struggles and gone off to find someone who gave in more readily . |
| 22 | As it was he had to find his own way out of an embrace involving him far more seriously than he intended . |
| 23 | As it was he tried to think of other things . |
| 24 | Without employing his own servants as agents and deputies Sadler obviously could not have managed his group of offices ; as it was he complained of seldom going to bed before midnight and generally waking by 4. a.m . |
| 25 | In the eighteenth century he would have become prime minister before he was thirty ; as it was he appeared honourably ineligible for the struggle of life . |
| 26 | Remembering that he had sent Catherine Crane to see Angela Morgan 's employers , he decided to find out how she had got on ; late as it was he did not think she would have gone off duty without reporting to him . |
| 27 | But as it was I felt it would have been presumptive . |
| 28 | As it was I got Doreen because Duncan was half way down the garden path ( all three feet of it ) on his way to the pub . |
| 29 | I had rather a dread of this post 's conveyance for it was only a spring cart , and I thought I felt myself being bumped , but as it was I enjoyed this nine miles in the post gig better than all the drives I had had . |
| 30 | As it was I said nothing . |