Example sentences of "[adj] as is [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While high pay is not a myth , it is not as high as is generally supposed — but if you turn into a super advertising star , the sky 's the limit . |
| 2 | The popular culture of racism is neither so unified , nor the positions within it so fixed as is sometimes supposed . |
| 3 | Emperor Tetras are a quiet , peaceful fish and not as delicate as is sometimes thought . |
| 4 | If the phenomenon of mark up pricing ( alternatively known as ‘ administered ’ pricing ) is as widespread as is generally believed , what instruments of macroeconomic policy can governments bring to bear to alter — in this context , to reduce the real wage rate ? |
| 5 | Edward IV 's financial legacy was not as healthy as is usually assumed and the administration seems to have found itself juggling income and expenditure with more than usual anxiety . |
| 6 | Edward IV 's financial legacy was not as healthy as is usually assumed and the administration seems to have found itself juggling income and expenditure with more than usual anxiety . |
| 7 | Details may vary and certain climatic zones may produce more individual features than others , as was suggested above for the glacial and arid climatic zones , but it seems to be doubtful whether fluvially controlled landscapes formed in different climates are as distinctive as is sometimes maintained ( Stoddart , 1969 ) . |
| 8 | However , although these disanalogies were fundamental , Darwin 's theorizing had not taken him out of the causal , lawful , deterministic Newtonian universe , into one as irreducibly acausal and absolutely probabilistic as is sometimes thought implicit in quantum mechanics . |
| 9 | Political commercials might not be as persuasive as is commonly thought , but there are few doubts as to the importance of candidate appearances on ‘ free ’ news broadcasts . |
| 10 | Back in Britain , the performance of the four regional companies — the Great Western , the Southern , the London Midland & Scottish and the London & North Eastern — that were nationalised in 1948 was by no means as dismal as is sometimes claimed . |
| 11 | He denies his readers the pleasure of feeling superior , too : they must come to terms with Sylvia and her kind , who are not so rare as is commonly supposed , and a novel is a good place in which to begin the process . |
| 12 | But the process is not always as beneficial as is popularly supposed |
| 13 | A Sun version of cc:Mail is already announced and Ami Pro and 1–2-3 as is also promised for DEC 's Alpha platform running OSF/1 ( UX No 398 ) . |
| 14 | However , the creature 's capacity to change colour at will in order to blend into its surroundings is not as extensive as is popularly thought . |
| 15 | In the event of such disclosure will obtain from such third parties ' duly binding agreements to maintain in confidence the information to be disclosed to the same extent at least as is so bound hereunder . |
| 16 | Yet for many years gerontologists , in the many disciplines that make up gerontology , have been arguing that the gloom is overstressed , that future prospects need not be so bad as is often suggested . |
| 17 | First of all , it is not obvious to me that the speech strategies needed for typically male and female roles are so totally different and non-overlapping as is often implied . |