Example sentences of "as it [vb mod] [be] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tactile consciousness too , powerful as it may be in intimate contact , can not represent our wide apprehension of the world to so marked a degree . |
| 2 | For the concomitant of Callinicos ' critique of postmodernism is not , as it would be in half a hundred other cases , the defence of modernism . |
| 3 | We rarely saw its summit , lost as it would be in thick mist , but its mystery made it all the more attractive and seductive . |
| 4 | Meanwhile the Labour Party continues to be as inadequate in Opposition as it would be in government . |
| 5 | The aim of treatment is not for a young child to lose weight as it would be in an adult , but to maintain their weight or make below normal weight gain ( Dietz 1984 ) . |
| 6 | Alternatively , we may say that the plates are so close to each other ( as it would be in a practical diode ) that the electron beam has n't got a chance to spread . |
| 7 | I shall assume that the zoological species Homo sapiens is indeed a unity in the sense that in the hypothetical absence of all cultural restraints interbreeding between the members of any randomly selected human population of randomly selected individuals would be random , just as it would be in a randomly selected pack of mongrel dogs provided always that particular individual dogs were prevented from asserting dominance over their neighbours . |
| 8 | This would pose a problem if natural illumination were used , as it would be in a field setting or greenhouse . |
| 9 | Each play was presented on a single set , as it would be in a theatre . |
| 10 | For example , while the /r/ of person is pronounced ( as it would be in JC ) [ P15 ] , the speaker has also pronounced /r/ in mother , where it is less usual for Jamaicans to pronounce it , and at the end of Jamaica , where it does not occur historically at all . |
| 11 | The flights of stairs ended in galleries with pine balustrades and all the heavy , badly carved dark-stained woodwork was pine , as it might be in a church . |
| 12 | To be sure it is not always functioning ‘ with all the stops out ’ as it might be in a problem-solving task . |
| 13 | I asked her to prepare everything as it might be in America , so that you would feel at home . |
| 14 | The vote was overwhelmingly urban , as it must be in a densely populated country like Britain , and almost certainly middle-class . |
| 15 | The subject is merely touched on , as it must be in setting out to take a sport , an integral part of English society , from the early 18th century to the late 20th . |
| 16 | Back in 1973 the Turin vice squad had a tip-off that all was not as it should be in one of the city 's massage parlours which offered a variety of therapeutic services , among them ‘ Overall body massage with opportunities for meditation ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ I agree therefore with all your Lordships that the practice of exacting an undertaking in damages from the Crown as a condition of the grant of an interlocutory injunction in this type of law enforcement action ought not to be applied as a matter of course , as it should be in actions between subject and subject , in relator actions , and in actions by the Crown to enforce or to protect its proprietary or contractual rights . |
| 18 | The story count is high — page three of the winning issue positively buzzed with 11 stories , and eight were crammed on to the back , which is as it should be in a conglomerate all about communication . |
| 19 | We disagree among ourselves about much , and that is as it should be in an open society . |
| 20 | Every hairpin and dynamic nuance is scrupulously observed but never selfconsciously so ; not pasted on as it can be in less dedicated , self-aware performances . |
| 21 | Better still , if you are anything of an artist , is then to transpose your scale plan to a three-dimensional drawing , preferably coloured , showing it as it will be in three or four years " time when the perennial plants are mature . |