Example sentences of "it is as [adj] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , it is as well to realise that the title of ‘ karate champion ’ can only be legitimately conferred by a national governing body recognised by the Martial Arts Commission . |
| 2 | That may be a drastic example but it is as well to remember that the less we use our muscles the less efficient they will be . |
| 3 | It is impossible for any of us to monitor carefully every single thing we say — how boring and stilted our speech would be if we did — but it is as well to remember that young children take the spoken word very literally , and a great deal of harm can be caused by the use of thoughtless and insensitive phrases . |
| 4 | This is certainly true of the Hundred Years War , and it is as well to remember that at Crécy , Poitiers , and Agincourt , although the English emerged as victors , on each occasion they were not entering the French kingdom to attempt its conquest , but were actually leaving it , heading for the coast in search of transport to take them back to England , the main aim of the expedition already fulfilled . |
| 5 | Employment is a two-way trade and it is as well to remember that the conditions that we in the House think can be imposed on employers may backfire on the very people whom they are supposed to help . |
| 6 | This may seem a curious exception , but it is as well to remember that Gregory would have known of the versification of Sulpicius Severus 's Life of St Martin by Paulinus of Périgueux , and that he counted among his friends the poet Venantius Fortunatus , himself the author of a poetic work on the miracles of St Martin . |
| 7 | Before considering the automatic directions , it is as well to remember that ( although they will be sufficient in most instances ) they are only the bare bones of the directions the parties may need in a personal injury case , and do not prevent the parties seeking any further directions they may need under Ord 25 whether set out in PF51 or not . |
| 8 | However , without being too pedantic about it , there are clear differences which it is as well to realize and bear in mind . |
| 9 | It is as well to appreciate that a body in free fall from a fixed starting event will follow different geodesics if it is given different starting velocities . |
| 10 | The leader still has the same weaknesses and strengths as any other man and it is as well to study and know them . |
| 11 | Before we get carried away by this dazzling technology though , it is as well to recognise that all this automation will not produce good videos if the operator of the equipment is lacking in the knowledge of editing principles and in creative ability ! |
| 12 | My spontaneous recoil from awareness of others ' troubles ( or of future danger to myself ) is no less or more natural than my impulse to sympathy or cruelty ( or to avoid or irrationally court danger ) when I do become aware ; it is as pointless to ask whether human nature is selfish or unselfish as whether it is improvident or far-sighted . |
| 13 | ( Davidson , 1980c , d ; Kim , 1973 ) However , it is as natural to say that it was the fact that the switch was flipped that caused the windscreen wipers to start to work . |
| 14 | It is as bizarre to suppose that I do not have a clear idea of a particular causal circumstance , say the one which gives rise to a query on the console of my computer , when I am unable to enumerate its elements . |
| 15 | But whatever I do ( and I do plenty ) I can not change Rainbow 's belief that it is as blessed to give as to receive . |