Example sentences of "as [pron] is [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is built up as a result of encountering these words in print as one is learning to read , though of course new word forms will be added throughout adult life as they are encountered . |
| 2 | 14 ) when replying to the question what was God doing before he made heaven and earth , ‘ I answer not , ’ he wrote , ‘ as one is said to have done merrily ( eluding the pressure of the question ) , ‘ He was preparing hell ( saith he ) for pryers into mysteries ’ . ’ |
| 3 | As one is encouraged to endorse broad humanitarian concerns , one is also expected to respond not so much to specific songs or artists so much as to generic types of music . |
| 4 | Such explanation as there is tends to rely on ‘ competition ’ as the major factor rather than on the elitism . |
| 5 | It can take a great deal of courage and confidence to challenge colleagues in this way , but as you will see by studying the Code itself , the definition and standards of conduct required are clear and unequivocal , even if putting them into practice is not always as easy as it is made to sound . |
| 6 | ‘ For its devotees communism has the value of a religion , insofar as it is felt to provide a complete explanation of reality and of man as part of reality , and at the same time to give to life , as religion does , a sense of purpose . ’ |
| 7 | STEVE Hancock monitors one of the Group 's three slip tankers as it is fuelled to transport slip clay around factories . |
| 8 | The traditional approach is the obvious one — as much must be raised as it is intended to spend , no more and no less . |
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| 19 | No special LIFESPAN privileges are required to use this option as it is intended to provide information for all LIFESPAN users . |
| 20 | No special LIFESPAN privileges are required to use this option as it is intended to provide information for all users . |
| 21 | No special LIFESPAN privileges are required to use this option as it is intended to provide information for all LIFESPAN users . |
| 22 | No special LIFESPAN privileges are required for this option as it is intended to provide information for all LIFESPAN users . |
| 23 | In my view , the requirement at issue as it is worded does not in itself rule this out : it is the vessel which has to be operated from within the United Kingdom and it is its use , that is to say the operations of the vessel , which must be directed and controlled from the United Kingdom ; this does not prevent the onshore unit responsible for the actual management of the vessel ( whether it be in the form of a subsidiary , a branch , an agency or an administrative unit ) from being subject to the general control of the natural or legal person who set it up . |
| 24 | For the ability to play on stage is important in life , as it is to continue to fill that empty space with our vision . |
| 25 | The revelation in that time , as it is believed to have been , is then transposed like a self-enclosed capsule into the present age . |
| 26 | The result is that the relay RLA is heard to click at the end of the timing period , but the timer re-starts as it is caused to re-commence timing for a further period . |
| 27 | We are on the floor together : the door has to swing to on its own , as it is designed to do , though more for the sake of security than lovers . |
| 28 | It is true that there is a distinction between art as it is used develop mentally in schools and art as we know it in the world , but for most people is n't art what we knew it as in school ? |
| 29 | A striking example of their dissociation is provided by the following exchange : on the one hand , Runciman takes it for granted that methodological individualism is ‘ now generally conceded to be almost trivially true ’ , while on the other Torrance asserts that ‘ In so far as methodological individualism is true it is trivial and irrelevant to sociology , while in so far as it is used to curb or dictate explanatory methods it is either incoherent or false ’ . |
| 30 | ( The key is referred to as the Enter key as it is used to enter a command , and sometimes as the Return key in word-processing because of its similarity with the typewriter carriage return lever . ) |