Example sentences of "[adj] as it [is] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To attribute this to the ageing process per se is as foolish as it is to describe physical disease as ‘ your age , my dear ’ . |
| 2 | Here lies the root of Callinicos , project — the buttressing of Marxism as the ‘ true radicalisation ’ of the Enlightenment ; and here I suspect lies also his ultimate discomfort with Modernism — prone as it is to slip the leash of a guiding politics and dance under the less biddable star of the Aesthetic . |
| 3 | What the dissolution meant , beyond a new fund of building material , it is difficult to gauge , impossible as it is to quantify the impact upon religious feeling , charitable works and education the monasteries and nunneries had had . |
| 4 | do n't obsess yourself with the idea that none of them ( Unionist MPs ) understand the view of the man in the street … there is plenty of soundness in the party inside the House … and , easy as it is to call everyone inside Parliamentarians , and to assume that everyone outside are the only judges … you will have to get inside before you realize the difficulties of the situation , or the value of the cool-headed men who still represent the Unionist party in the House , and remain independent of Cabinet influence … |
| 5 | Important as it is to recognise that the notion of abuse has wider connotations than the physical , not much purpose seems to be served by struggling to define more precisely such elusive matters as emotional interactions . |
| 6 | And , as I hope to demonstrate from time to time in later chapters , it is as legitimate to utilize Lévi-Straussian notions where these seem appropriate and fruitful as it is to derive inspiration from Freud — without necessarily being a dogmatic , doctrinaire Freudian . |
| 7 | Identifying indisputable winners , it suits Proportional representation : which system ? the great uncritical majority of the British electorate , inclined as it is to regard an election as some sort of sporting contest . |
| 8 | For the historian it is equally illegitimate to overlook what they had in common as it is to neglect the differences . |
| 9 | Mr Harvey McGregor has said in McGregor on Damages , ( 15th ed Sweet & Maxwell 1988 , para 1588 ) : It may be argued that the benefit of a mother 's personal attention to a child 's upbringing , morals , education and psychology , which the services of a housekeeper , nurse or governess could never provide has , in the long run , a financial value for the child difficult as it is to assess . |
| 10 | Price stability , difficult as it is to define , is a worthy objective but does not depend upon independence of the banking system in itself . |
| 11 | Difficult as it is to summarize so majestic a body of work as that produced by Hailey in the days when he reigned supreme as the Colonial Office 's oracle on Africa , it seems fair to say that the main impression to be derived from it is of his anxiety to avoid committing the British government to any course of action which might prove to be irreversible . |
| 12 | However , it is as naive to regard religious divisions as self-explanatory as it is to see nationalisms so . |