Example sentences of "as [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No , it 's not the cab , Mr Fitzroy , so much as where it 's been . ’ |
| 2 | Still it is now part of the larger narrative , and read as that it suggests a period of peaceful coexistence before their final parting . |
| 3 | ‘ Think how it wakes the seeds ’ , this itself suggests that the force in question is not God and is indifferent to whether the man lives or dies as although it takes the effort to wake the seeds and the earth it can not wake ‘ sides full-nerved — still warm ’ . |
| 4 | I remember that when Philip and I first made our way through London to a shop which was depicted in an advertisement , in spite of the crowds on either hand all along our route , in spite of the full directions of our elders , we were as much elated by our achievement as if it had been an arduous discovery made after a journey in a desert . |
| 5 | His father 's face was as red as if it had been turned inside out . |
| 6 | For Skaller saw everything again , as it had been then twenty-five years ago , as clearly as if it had been yesterday . |
| 7 | You see , your subconscious mind can not tell the difference between what is real and what is imagined ; so , although the information it had received during those twelve days was in fact a product of Sylvia 's imagination , the effect on her subconscious was precisely the same as if it had been actual experience . |
| 8 | She saw it all as plainly as if it had been magically transported from Yorkshire and spread out on the quayside , the moors stretching away in the distance until they met the skyline . |
| 9 | It was slightly damp not in patches but all over as if it had been soaked in water then wrung out and left to dry through the night . |
| 10 | Miss Lambe helped him to unpack his books , holding each one with as much reverence as if it had been the Sacrament . |
| 11 | … crime and folly and error can be as severely lashed , as virtue and morality can be upheld , by a series of amusing causes and effects , that entice the reader to take a medicine , which , although rendered agreeable to the palate , still produces the same internal benefit as if it had been presented to him in its crude state , in which it would either be refused or nauseated . |
| 12 | And yet the same claim , when promulgated by Robert Graves , then by Dr Schonfield in The Passover Plot , attracted as much scandal and incredulity as if it had never been broached before . |
| 13 | The Collector popped it into his mouth , let himself savour the sensation of it wriggling on his tongue for a moment , then crunched it with as much pleasure as if it had been a chocolate truffle . |
| 14 | She saw it all in terms of Edmund 's settlement : a brief holiday on the Riviera , and such a sum could vanish as if it had never been . |
| 15 | At the editorial conference Rain brushed aside Holly 's error of judgement as blithely as if it had been her own . |
| 16 | Complying with her appeal , Dada abandoned his kedgeree and , sucking his moustache inwards always with him a sign of annoyance he picked up the viburnum , still with its precious burden , opened the bottom sash of a long window , and flung out the double butterfly as viciously as if it had been a slug in the salad . |
| 17 | She realized that she was feeling it too , frozen to the marrow in this bitter East wind which kept whipping her cloak off her shoulders as contemptuously as if it had been made of pocket-handkerchieves instead of tablecloths , her stomach hollow and aching , her head feeling light and aching a little too . |
| 18 | And so it was as the " candidate " that he spoke to them , his accent so neutral by now that he could have come from anywhere and everywhere , his green broadcloth jacket still shabby but worn as jauntily as if it had been lined with ermine , his lean , dark face handsome enough to please the women and hard enough to reassure the men . |
| 19 | Through the brushed cotton of her sweater she could feel the pressure of his fingers , his touch scorching her as surely as if it had been on her bare skin . |
| 20 | The battery in your readers equipment could be a NiCad and it would be ruined if he had left it on , just as surely as if it had been a lead acid battery . |
| 21 | In the event of circumstances arising under 1 or 2 above which require the Insurers to notify the Society of the reduction or cancellation of cover the Insurers shall during the period from such reduction or cancellation until ten days after notification of the Society indemnify the Society against losses to the same extent as if cover had not been reduced or cancelled and if the Society shall within seven days of notification by the Insurers inform the Insurers that it wishes cover to continue on the same terms as if it had not been reduced or cancelled the Insurers shall indemnify the Society against losses on such terms for such period not exceeding six months as the Society shall specify and the Society shall be responsible for the payment of premium for such cover . |
| 22 | Ally Pally 's pre-restoration days undoubtedly had associations of tatty romance — they lay in the contrast between the Cecil B. De Mille bravura of the original concept and such visible signs of its decline , as if it had become a Victorian actor/manager unable to gesticulate because of rheumatism . |
| 23 | The front of the jeep was as clean as if it had just come off the boat from Japan . |
| 24 | At once I can see Annexe B , Summerchild 's list of possible members of the Unit , as clearly as if it had just come out of the porridge oats box . |
| 25 | With a final darting glance to ensure that her appearance was in order she made her way as nervously downstairs as if it had been she herself about to marry . |
| 26 | It had vanished as silently as if it had been only a figment of her imagination . |
| 27 | I wo n't say through the door , looks as if it has been . |
| 28 | When they reached her floor eventually , she bade him a perfunctory farewell and stepped out of the lift with a feeling of release , hurrying towards her apartment , heart and hormones defeating any intention of greeting Luke 's arrival as coolly as if it did n't matter to her one way or the other . |
| 29 | And as as it goes one she gets more and more permanent . |
| 30 | Zarathustra declared that at death God passes judgement on man and that this decides his fate when the world is finally transformed into the same state of perfection as when it left the hands of the Creator . |