Example sentences of "as [noun] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | For , as Lecourt describes it , he attempts |
| 2 | God keep you , Solper , ’ he muttered and went towards the door just as Fitzosbert threw it open . |
| 3 | Bazaar rumour had it that her closeness to Shah Jehan went beyond merely normal filial affection ; after all , as Bernier put it : ‘ it would have been unjust to deny the King the privilege of gathering fruit from the tree he himself had planted . ’ |
| 4 | Meanwhile , Marcus came less and less often , perhaps ‘ frightened off ’ , as Alison put it , by Pat 's noisy friends , or simply feeling that Pat no longer needed him . |
| 5 | As Nairn put it , the late nineteenth century witnessed ‘ first the containment , then the defeat , of industrialism by an older , more powerful and more political bourgeoisie ’ ( cited in Coates , 1984 , p. 117 ) . |
| 6 | Freeing the study of politics from its ‘ structural overtones ’ , as Almond put it , not only meant searching for the familiar functions of government in unfamiliar social structures ( such as administration by age sets ) . |
| 7 | As Corrigan puts it : ‘ The kids are not crazy . |
| 8 | As Corrigan puts it , the young supporter ‘ knows that a crowd of teachers chanting ‘ We hate Nottingham Forest' ’ is just not on' . |
| 9 | What origins , and what final justice , can be found for the critical assumption that , as Bradbury expresses it , ‘ the experimental tradition did shift or lapse ’ in Britain after modernism ( Bradbury 1973 : 86 ) ? |
| 10 | As MacDonald described it later : |
| 11 | As Stewart puts it : |
| 12 | By contrast with the Liberal understanding , the kingdom as Blumhardt preached it was not gradually evolving through history , nor identified with the moral progress of human civilisation , but would come ‘ from beyond ’ . |
| 13 | She watched as Roman poured it into small white cups . |
| 14 | As Mira sees it , this form of language use has had an indelible effect on human consciousness : |
| 15 | As Brooks put it , the New Criticism ‘ is concerned with the structure of the poem as poem ’ ( Brooks 1962 : 108 ) . |
| 16 | Society , as Frunze put it , is to be ‘ militarised ’ , as is the vocabulary of life . |
| 17 | As Ferguson put it : ‘ Sharpe is a deliverer , not a flatterer . |
| 18 | As Mills explains it , in Young and Willmott ( 1973 ) : |
| 19 | Fast asleep against the fence slumped Luke , his face as rumpled as an unmade bed , his shirt , as Perdita shook it , drenched with dew . |
| 20 | As Walahfrid put it , this honor remained " left over " . |
| 21 | As Walahfrid put it , " the glory of ruler and state were always reparable " . |
| 22 | In so far as institutions find it more profitable to invest abroad , UK companies may find it more difficult to float new share issues . |
| 23 | As McKerrow put it : " much of what we strive to find out was not and could not be known to those of the period which we study , for it was veiled from them by the life of everyday . " |
| 24 | Kleon , in Aristophanes ' Knights , is represented as a ‘ lover of the demos ’ , but Philodemos occurs as a proper name in an Athenian casualty-list of as early as c.460 ( ML 33 ) ; more important , Kleisthenes in the sixth century had taken the demos into partnership , as Herodotus puts it , and Pericles in the 460s had won over the people with jury pay . |
| 25 | This was an uplifting experience — as Haydn intended it should be . |
| 26 | This applies very clearly to the Zapotec , who , as O'Nell puts it , ask ‘ not so much , ‘ Who am I ? ’ , but ‘ How am I a part of something ? ’ |
| 27 | Her purchase by the B. J. Norsk Forsking of Larvik for seismographical work in the Bellingshausen Sea almost due south of the Horn was , as Ward put it , ‘ just about the very first good thin' that had ever happened to her , ’ even if it was a slightly clandestine operation . |
| 28 | As Fulbright presented it , in what amounted to a proclamation of American innocence and British guilt , the US had been had' by her allies ; and while this may not appear to be entirely convincing , Fulbright had picked up the importance of what Acheson had described as the danger of Ho Chi Minh 's ‘ direct communist connection ’ — and might , indeed , have gone further . |
| 29 | The two have been working on the wackier areas of the music biz for many years ‘ dabbling in whatever takes our fancy ’ as Jim puts it . |
| 30 | But , as prisoners see it , the new system means only that they receive negative replies to their complaints more quickly . |