Example sentences of "as [pron] is [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her Frenchness , and whiteness , seem very much under threat as she is always surrounded by Africans , and Africa . |
| 2 | The text implies that Veronica has tea separately from John as she is still fed by her mother . |
| 3 | Kanga , as she is better known , was an ex-girlfriend and has remained a trusted friend . |
| 4 | Her first record shows her to be as musical as she is technically accomplished . |
| 5 | As it is thereby illustrated and developed its implications should clarify . |
| 6 | Plasticine is a good medium for supporting all sizes of specimen as it is easily moulded and re-used . |
| 7 | If so , make a note on your file accordingly , as it is easily overlooked and your buyer client could end up being asked to pay that particular figure twice unless it is taken into account either at exchange of contracts or on completion . |
| 8 | The issue of ‘ reprivatisation ’ , as it is quaintly termed , is also politically sensitive , and the Polish Sejm has been throwing it back and forth across the Chamber like a hot potato . |
| 9 | This position is not heterodox so far as relinquo ( or , as it is here expressed , dimitto ) is concerned : Section i argued that the problem with it is precisely that it attributes property directly to a beneficiary rather than vesting it in a trustee . |
| 10 | This is enough in itself to make us want to reject conditioned attention theory as it is presently formulated . |
| 11 | Most surprising of all , it has demonstrated that the scientific method , as it is presently formulated , is not adequate to explain even the physical universe , let alone human beings and their psyches . |
| 12 | Likewise , further development of Open Look as it is presently constituted is being discontinued , although there will be a new release in the Autumn incorporating the COSE specifications and X-Windows X11R5 . |
| 13 | It is certain that we have to devise ways to move beyond antiracism as it is presently constituted . |
| 14 | Rather than once again review the authorities in chronological order , therefore , I propose to encapsulate their effect in a number of propositions which can , I believe , be so stated as to reflect the law as it is presently understood with a reasonable degree of accuracy . |
| 15 | Similarly , gender neutrality which is theoretically desirable might in practice have little to commend it if introduced into the law of rape as it is presently constructed . |
| 16 | I should like my hon. Friend the Minister to imagine the effect of the Bill as it is presently drafted on the preserved and private railways . |
| 17 | Though not all laws are enforced with equal vigour , criminal law defines crime as it is officially recognized . |
| 18 | Desktop Sunergy Classics will run a 50MHz Tsunami ( or MicroSparc as it is officially known ( UX No 406 ) ) , and are rated at 22.6 SPECint(92) , 17.4 SPECfp(92) and around 14 MFLOPS . |
| 19 | In February The Smiths released ‘ Hatful Of Hollow Part Two ’ or , as it is officially entitled , ‘ The World Wo n't Listen ’ . |
| 20 | While Mr Patiño may well be selling to simplify his life after he moves into his new London residence , Mrs Johnson 's reasons for selling are much more controversial , as it is generally believed that the heiress has not paid for the celebrated Badminton Cabinet which she bought at Christie 's , London , in July 1990 for a record £7.6 million ( $15.2 million ) . |
| 21 | Full length waders are essential as it is generally accepted that the best depth to work is knee to waist deep . |
| 22 | … the paradigm of development as it is generally understood is not suited to explaining change in mature organisms . |
| 23 | The Pedrarias expedition , as it is generally called today , left Spain with 2,000 men in April 1514 |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Sasse , as it is generally known , is the oldest secondary school in the Cameroon Republic by a good ten years . |
| 26 | TVH , as it is generally known , was typified for me by a man called Alf Mignot , who died in 1987 in his early sixties . |
| 27 | Whatever ‘ turns you on ’ is okay , so long as it is not connected with modern materialism or the one-God religions , like Christianity , Judaism or Islam . |
| 28 | As it is not recorded until the work of Hermann and Florence of Worcester , who states that the saint speared Swegen from his horse , it would not be impossible to consider this story a reaction to taxation by the Normans ; but if it did originate earlier it too conceivably had something to do with Edmund 's increasing popularity , and if Florence 's version was current in Cnut 's time he can not have been flattered by the notion that Edmund had disposed of his father in a similar way to that in which St Mercurius was believed to have killed the emperor Julian the Apostate . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | This method could probably be applied widely , as it is not limited to strong photodissociating systems and does not , like absorption , require a third state to which excitation is caused in the probe step . |