Example sentences of "as [noun sg] is [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is impossible to say how far this process will go , as agriculture is strongly influenced by a wide variety of external factors . |
| 2 | Credit facilities are not normally available as payment is usually made when the goods are ordered . |
| 3 | As mercury is now used in the construction of batteries and vapour lamps this ‘ elixir , in traditional terminology was undoubtedly what is now known as ‘ electromagnetism ’ , the vital essence of all living things . |
| 4 | The role of woman as employee is systematically ignored , and this may unintentionally help to maintain a situation where women form a docile and cheap work-force . |
| 5 | As silica is only mobilised in strongly alkaline environments and as gypsum and other soluble salts occur in the underlying zone of weathering , it is suggested that they may have been formed in an arid environment . |
| 6 | As sport is popularly thought of as a leisure time distraction rather than a central life interest or a possible career , it would have held only a marginal interest to the first generation . |
| 7 | Help at this time may help you or the person you look after to remain at home as confidence is slowly regained in managing in a new situation . |
| 8 | In the essay ‘ Theatum philosophicum ’ ( 1970 ) , written shortly after the Archaeology , Foucault attempts to avoid the snares of the problem of the relation of the event to the totality , or the particular to the general , that beset both Sartre and Althusser , by arguing that the event as event is only constituted through its repetition in thought as a ‘ phantasm ’ : ‘ it makes the event indefinite so that it repeats itself as a singular universal ’ . |
| 9 | Female kids can start to cycle at a very early age , even three to four months , and as breeding is not advised until they reach 70% of adult weight , they should be separated from males at two to three months old . |
| 10 | He is the first investment analyst to be charged with insider dealing , and as a result his trial will be seen as something of a test case in the City , especially as legislation is currently going through Parliament to extend the scope of insider dealing . |
| 11 | Yes , of course , um er their heads fall off or something like y'know in much the same way as chil people frighten children with with with bogies and with unlikely punishments in the same way as compliance is often enforced on children . |
| 12 | " Integration of the territory of the German Democratic Republic [ East Germany ] into the Community " was to " become effective as soon as unification is legally established , subject to the necessary transitional arrangements … [ and ] without revision of the treaties [ establishing the three European Communities — Economic ( EEC ) , Coal and Steel ( ECSC ) and Euratom ] " . |
| 13 | Awareness of this hypersensitivity phenomenon is important as dexamethasone is increasingly used as antiemetic therapy and for raised intracranial pressure , acute cord compression , and other common clinical conditions . |
| 14 | As height is genetically determined , it is difficult to see what it has to do with an acquired goal of achievement , except where parents or teachers convince tall children that they are achievers . |
| 15 | As information is slowly revealed , so the play in the game of incomplete information settles down to the equilibrium of the game where z is common knowledge . |
| 16 | Restorative proctocolectomy is not recommended knowingly for Crohn 's colitis , as recurrence is eventually anticipated and there is a high incidence of complications . |
| 17 | But of course natural law is false judged by positivist assumptions just as positivism is false judged by natural law assumptions . |
| 18 | Care should be taken to ensure that cover is in force as sickness is not covered under all PA policies . |
| 19 | As you start to use LIFESPAN , you will find that your users ' disk quota requirements decrease , as LIFESPAN is now holding all but immediately required files . |
| 20 | As indomethacin is also known to be an reactive oxygen species scavenger , however , its effect may be independent of its inhibition of cyclo-oxygenase . |