Example sentences of "as [adj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edward lay in the bath as the water cooled around him — as usual it had never been adequately hot — and allowed physical discomfort to complement his state of mind . |
| 2 | As usual it concerned a death and a disputed inheritance . |
| 3 | But one day in late summer , when I was pointing the otter out to my passengers , and as usual it got up to move out of sight , I saw to my surprise that it was followed by two cubs ! |
| 4 | They drove home the Derry way , and as usual it set Mallachy off . |
| 5 | As usual it seems that once the initial heady thrill of an invention becomes history , the manufacturers , the committees and the salesmen take over . |
| 6 | The business Simpson acquired was charming , but a financial shambles ; as late as 1986 it had lost £1 million on sales of £3 million . |
| 7 | For some , ignorance may be bliss , but in a matter as vital as this it seems very negative . |
| 8 | As such it fills the hole labelled Common Transport Semantics . |
| 9 | As such it had an affinity both with utilitarianism and legal positivism . |
| 10 | As such it had serious defects : like all other Spanish parties , the Masons were distinguished by their domestic divisions . |
| 11 | It was also a strategic move towards the long-term goal of gaining international recognition for its struggle , and as such it had been resisted steadfastly by Ramos 's predecessors . |
| 12 | As such it gauges the extent to which the expected return of the security is affected by the expected return of the market itself . |
| 13 | As such it undermined the defences of the other 10 who faced charges arising from the affair and who , like Shinto , had argued that the shares did not constitute a form of bribery . |
| 14 | As such it presents an authentic record of early aviation in the local area , and although of limited general interest , it fills a gap in the country-wide documentation of aviation history in the UK . |
| 15 | As such it differs from ‘ knowledge by sense ’ . |
| 16 | As such it continued in existence until 1897 when it was formally wound up . |
| 17 | As such it offers a wide range of services : ‘ These include hardware , consultancy , on-site training and a telephone support hotline , ’ says Peter Munson . |
| 18 | As such it became the Science Museum 's first aircraft and the first aircraft to be entered into a museum in the UK ( if not the world ) at the same time . |
| 19 | As such it complements the introduction of unitary development plans for the metropolitan districts . |
| 20 | The prosody of Dame Sirith may be unobtrusive , but as such it represents a smooth and polished performance that itself contributes to the tone of the work . |
| 21 | What it appears to import is some positive act which is short of entering into a new contract and as such it does not fit neatly into the conceptual apparatus of contract law . |
| 22 | Instead , it has been suggested that the object tends towards presentational form , which can not be broken up as though into grammatical sub-units , and as such it appears to have a particularly close relation to emotions , feelings and basic orientations to the world . |
| 23 | In the main , it was a documentary type of novel which aimed to be an authentic depiction of a particular environment , and as such it tended to continue the tradition of nineteenth-century realism . |
| 24 | As such it holds the promise of much good . |
| 25 | Crucial to the financial stability is the fact that Highlander is recognised as a non profit-making organisation , and as such it has successfully applied for and sustained a tax-exempt status from the Federal revenue agency . |
| 26 | As such it has been identified as part of a general movement towards scientific naturalism in American thought and is associated with the behaviourist turn taken in political science and , in the study of law , with the legal realist movement which flourished in the inter-war period . |
| 27 | As such it has been used as a very weak tea ( 6g/¼oz to 600ml/1 pint/2½ cups of water ) ( one cup per day ) by male artists and craftsmen . |
| 28 | The New Criticism almost certainly constitutes the English-speaking world 's major contribution to literary theory , and as such it has exercised until recently a dominant influence on the teaching of literature in the United States and , to a lesser extent , in Britain . |
| 29 | Darlington 's Tourist Information Centre is part of the English Tourist Board network , and as such it has to abide by certain rules . |
| 30 | As such it underlined Clinton 's growing reputation for resilience and once again demonstrated his effectiveness as a campaigning politician . |