Example sentences of "[adj] as it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practice it is unrealistic as it calls for at least two freshly laundered or new cloths , a paper towel and three water changes . |
| 2 | To Gray , this constant flying is not as inconvenient as it sounds . |
| 3 | Initially they make respectful small-talk about him , but their comments grow increasingly resentful as it becomes apparent he will not show up . |
| 4 | However , with social feeling about child sexuality running high as it does at present , we may be well advised to keep quiet about it in public ; while , if we ourselves feel guilt as to our own emotions in any such case , a knowledgeable and understanding senior or colleague may be able to help us — otherwise we would be well-advised to hand the case on to someone else . |
| 5 | Without the villus a visitor would see very little in Wilpattu , though occasionally a day-hunting leopard will step out on the road , or a sloth bear stand 6 ft ( 1.8 m ) high as it reaches for the fruit , honey or tree termites on which these fierce-looking predators feed . |
| 6 | One of the main planks of the CCAUK 's argument is that the Annual Percentage rate is not so high as it looks , since though most transactions are contracted for ( say ) 26 weeks , in fact they end up being repaid — with no series problem — in about 30 or 33 weeks , with no penalty . |
| 7 | Dressed by Mainbocher , painted by Dali and fêted by writers and the fashionable world , C.Z. is American high society as high as it comes . |
| 8 | ‘ All groups have said we will review it in September and there is a general feeling that the charge should not have been set as high as it has been . ’ |
| 9 | By far the most common escape mechanism for organisms ranging from bacteria to human beings is ‘ habituation ’ , a kind of behavioural boredom by which an animal becomes less responsive as it encounters the same stimulus repeatedly . |
| 10 | and it 's going to be a record , simply a record of erm , English as it 's spoken in nineteen ninety one , I 've got a little blurb on it which I 'll show you . |
| 11 | ‘ That as unpleasant as it sounds ? ’ |
| 12 | When taking aim , the fish also has to make allowance for refraction — the bending of light as it travels from the air into the water . |
| 13 | For instance , Yadin Dudai in Jerusalem , amongst others , has exploited the behavioural and biochemical possibilities opened up by mutations amongst fruit flies ; for him and some other neurobiologists Drosophila has become as popular as it has been for most of this century for geneticists . |
| 14 | Derived from the Indian reel , with extensions to allow the line to run free as it spools out with the ends spinning in the hands , the plastic reel is to be recommended . |
| 15 | The decoration is therefore not quite as free as it looks , in reality forming part of an evolved construction . |
| 16 | The wall is not as steep as it looks and a pleasing sequence of stretches and foot-changes , made all the more enjoyable by more excellent protection , leads to a stopping place just short of the arête . |
| 17 | I do not doubt that over the next 20 years the Community 's evolution will be as marked as it has been in the nearly 20 years since we joined . |
| 18 | GRID — a cassette of interlocking Hytrel strings fitted into the midsole — is the highlighted technology , but it 's not alone in a shoe which looks as different as it feels . |
| 19 | This passage is interesting as it assumes that there would have been no right of recovery in any of the cases to which the section referred although had the Woolwich principle been applicable there would have been recovery , apart from the section , in some . |
| 20 | Again , the justification for this is interesting as it draws on both structural and thematic evidence . |
| 21 | This is particularly intriguing as it incriminates food in the pathogenesis of Crohn 's disease . |
| 22 | Considerably more work will be required to investigate this possibility , but it is particularly intriguing as it has been suggested that sorghum and millet were domesticated somewhere in the African savannah zone . |
| 23 | But like every other species , including the human , the bee is just as clever as it needs to be . |
| 24 | Say what you like about the Ryder Cup and The Belfry , if it was n't for the 9th , 10th and 18th holes , it would be as average as it looks . |
| 25 | While all these points are important , the last-named is crucial as it influences the way in which new development is linked to the existing village core . |
| 26 | dying as it has done on other nights |
| 27 | This treatment , which originated in Japan , is by no means as violent as it sounds and it can be used , in varying degrees , on anyone from babies to the very old . |
| 28 | The result would be a diagram which becomes ever more precise and explicit as it moves from left to right , with a long list of fairly narrowly defined functions on the right-hand side . |
| 29 | They do show , though , that the world even now is not quite as crowded as it seems ; that if agriculture was better organized , then it probably would be possible to feed the present human population , and still leave plenty of room for the rest of nature . |
| 30 | Yet neither her choice nor Julia 's is as one-sided as it seems . |