Example sentences of "[adj] as [pron] is [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As with all COBUILD materials , the emphasis is on English as it is really used today , drawing on the evidence of the COBUILD corpus devised by Professor John Sinclair 's English Language Research team in the University 's School of English . |
| 2 | Of all Edward 's legislation , three pieces particularly affected the church : the statutes De Viris Religiosis , or Mortmain as it is commonly called , Circumspecte Agatis , and Westminster II , chapter 41 . |
| 3 | The label is awkward as it is also used loosely of anything inspiring a sense of inexplicable awe and mystery , however vaguely , or anyone thus moved . |
| 4 | So the English village is neither as immemorial nor as unchanging as it is conventionally believed to be . |
| 5 | If Ronald Kray really was as vile as he is herein depicted , he should have been put to death and swiftly forgotten . |
| 6 | There 's nothing , it seems , that ca n't be turned into a salad as long as it is properly dressed . |
| 7 | Caletti 's admirable attempt at removing fear , ignorance , and stigma from sexual topics is tempered slightly by his view that prostitution is ‘ disgusting ’ and that masturbation is not harmful as long as it is not indulged in more than twice a month ( my italics ) . |
| 8 | The notion of educational ‘ stages ’ is useful as long as it is not interpreted too rigidly or schematically ( Squires 1989a ) . |
| 9 | In other words science is seen by Parsons to be free from social determination as long as it is not penetrated by secondary selectivity or ‘ ideology ’ . |
| 10 | Obviously in many cases the car is a ‘ family car ’ and as long as it is generally used for the benefit of the disabled person it can be treated as any normal family car . |
| 11 | However , the guard can be loosened and repositioned for particularly awkward jobs , as long as it is fully retightened . |
| 12 | Mo may just not care what gets said about the Company — it 's all the new team now — as long as he is n't caught saying it himself And if he gas blamed for some dirty work that got started fifteen years ago — and I doubt he was directly responsible ; he was too senior then — how much does it hurt him now ? |
| 13 | In accounts that were given of first meetings we find that the situation is often important as it is usually mentioned . |
| 14 | It is possible that our finding of inappropriate staining with anti-B , and to a lesser extent anti-A , antibodies reflects non-specific binding of the antibodies to carbohydrate epitopes in biliary cells and hepatocytes , although this seems unlikely as it is not seen in other cells . |
| 15 | Full length waders are essential as it is generally accepted that the best depth to work is knee to waist deep . |
| 16 | Her first record shows her to be as musical as she is technically accomplished . |
| 17 | This assumption is not tenable as it is now recognised that the unstimulated output of prostacyclin by blood vessels is low ( reviewed by Dollery et al , 1983 ) . |