Example sentences of "as it [modal v] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If on the other hand , the colony gets too cold , as it may in winter , the workers eat honey and use its energy to vibrate their flight muscles within their thorax without moving their wings , so generating body heat . |
| 2 | The terminals worked on a line by line basis , with the screen information scrolling upwards just as it would on a teleprinter roll . |
| 3 | You do n't need special equipment to hear the effect , so it should provide the same sensaround sound on your crappy hi fi as it would on an expensive job . |
| 4 | You do n't need special equipment to hear the effect , so it should provide the same sensaround sound on your crappy hi fi as it would on an expensive job . |
| 5 | As it would on the telephone , yes . |
| 6 | Regan is right to the extent that to talk of recognition in such circumstances does have a purpose , as it would of a dog 's staccato barks and tail-waving on hearing its master 's voice , but he fails to realise that the same form of words now features in a related , but different , language-game . |
| 7 | Such ‘ greater detail ’ would include things like recognition of the individual dog by its own voice , the depth of its excitement and so on , just as it would with ourselves . |
| 8 | When Brau and Brunner AG and Cadbury Schweppes plc notified the creation of a joint venture that would prepare and sell mineral water , the Commission found that this joint venture was not a concentration but a cooperative agreement , because the parent companies would stay active on the soft drinks market and so the structure of competition would not be permanently altered , as it would with a concentration . |
| 9 | Bingham ca n't take his eyes off Ali ; the still life of his friend , tethered so completely , seems as incomprehensible to him as it would to others who followed the radiated glow of Ali 's invulnerability . |
| 10 | ‘ A gang war would be as damaging to Connelly as it would to us . |
| 11 | Furthermore , his body will respond to this self-made reality precisely as it would to what we now regard as ‘ the ’ universe . ’ |
| 12 | Er , yes I am a person who uses public transport and I believe in it very much , but I must say that erm its very , very inconvenient , I have to rely on three different forms of public transport to get to my work and it takes twice as long as it would as if I , if I could go by car and so I can see the , the attraction of , of going by car and there are many improvements that could be made where I live for instance in , in Glasgow so that you would only have one change and not constantly shuttling to and fro between stations and buses and so forth . |
| 13 | So and I would extend the same argument to abortion and I would say erm wh what happens in abortion admittedly erm an artificial abortion mean means that presumably a spontaneous abortion has has n't happened , but a modern woman is using extra means that she has er at her disposal , probably to deal with extra problems which evolution originally could not foresee and ultimately her self-interest might be just as well served by having er induced the abortion ultimately as it would by erm by not having but I mean this is just my personal view , and I do n't |
| 14 | Soft materials , like fibreboards and soft furnishings , also do n't respond , and so prevent sound reflecting or bouncing back off them , as it would from a hard surface like a mirror . |
| 15 | In this way the local communities can continue as collective organic wholes yet their continuing existence does not challenge , as it would in other systems , the external dictatorial force of the State . |
| 16 | Until recently , public interest in the West has centred largely on the performances of the girls , as it would in any competitive sport . |
| 17 | Life , as much as it would in such an uneventful place , carried on regardless . |
| 18 | ‘ Face-on ’ display is the method or arranging books so that the dust jacket is seen face-on as it would in bookshop display . |
| 19 | The form can be made more flexible in English , ( the translator of Bashó0 has bent the rules considerably ) because it does not possess the same internal formal necessity as it would in Japanese , but try to stick roughly to the proposed number of syllables . |
| 20 | In this approach the particle is not supposed to have a single history or path in space-time , as it would in a classical , nonquantum theory . |
| 21 | In this approach , a particle does not have just a single history , as it would in a classical theory . |
| 22 | If that image changes rapidly in time , as it would in a moving video sequence , for example , then a huge amount of digital information must be stored , transferred and processed to keep up with the requirements of delivering the motion video to the user . |
| 23 | The meat does not become tough as it would in conventional steaming , as it is not being immersed in water and it is gentle pressureless steam . |
| 24 | The members of the tribunal should not have any other personal interest in the proceedings ( though on an exchange that is of its nature run by practitioners , this requirement may not be treated as strictly as it would in an ordinary law court ) . |
| 25 | This is not as ridiculous as it might at first seem . |
| 26 | If there is a desire to go down this road it has to be said it may not be as easy as it might at first seem . |
| 27 | Getting in is n't as bad as it might at first appear , the cockpit is very roomy and the seats are quite comfortable for reasonable journey lengths . |
| 28 | As such , an apparently straightforward procedure is not as simple as it might at first seem . |
| 29 | So there is still an uncomfortably strong possibility that the Yugoslav confrontation may end messily , perhaps even bloodily , just as it might in the Soviet Union , where Yugoslav events are followed with special interest . |
| 30 | So , for example , the behaviour of people who fall in love , such as kissing in public , is tolerated rather than drawing censure as it might in other circumstances . |