Example sentences of "as [is] [adv] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As is pretty well known the double helix of DNA is right-handed . |
| 2 | This suggests that ( like general deterrence ) instrumental denunciation can not justify any particular level of severity of punishment ; nor can the penal system ( as is sometimes fondly imagined ) ‘ give a lead ’ to public opinion about the rights and wrongs of how people should behave . |
| 3 | This is common in many sediments and takes place adjacent to pore spaces as the result of flushing by undersaturated pore fluids and not , as is sometimes mistakenly stated , as the result of ‘ corrosive ’ growth of a later mineral phase ( Section 5.3.5 ) . |
| 4 | That a rule can take the form of a statement ‘ Given P , then Q on 75 per cent of occasions ’ , as is sometimes seriously suggested , is to use the concept of rule in a very dangerous and misleading way . |
| 5 | If , as is so often said , one of the most important parts of life is getting on with people , our years at Nottingham University have certainly prepared us well ! |
| 6 | A stake is there to hold up the tree and not , as is so often seen , the other way round . |
| 7 | Is it reasonable , in the absence of unanimity , to equate the will of the people with the will of the majority , as is so often done in everyday politics ? |
| 8 | This rural bourgeoisie was not , as is so often assumed , a ‘ new feudalism ’ created by the sales of church and common lands after the 1830's . |
| 9 | Our advice for the first launch is — hands together , arms outstretched ( but never above your head as is so often attempted by first time flyers ) and as the kite rises , sustain an even line tension . |
| 10 | against the queen , her blood , adherents and affinity , which have intended and daily doth intend to murder and utterly destroy us and our cousin , the duke of Buckingham , and the old royal blood of this realm and , as is now openly known , by their subtle and damnable ways forecasted the same , and also the final destruction and disinheritance of you and all other the inheritors and men of honour , as well of the north parts as other countries that belong [ to ] us . |
| 11 | against the queen , her blood , adherents and affinity , which have intended and daily doth intend to murder and utterly destroy us and our cousin , the duke of Buckingham , and the old royal blood of this realm and , as is now openly known , by their subtle and damnable ways forecasted the same , and also the final destruction and disinheritance of you and all other the inheritors and men of honour , as well of the north parts as other countries that belong [ to ] us . |
| 12 | Trace gases in the atmosphere are key components of the cycles of such elements as carbon , nitrogen , oxygen , sulphur and the halogens ; as is now well known , their concentrations are much influenced by biogenic and anthropogenic activities and the concentrations of such gases as carbon dioxide , ozone , methane , nitrous oxide and the chlorofluoromethanes ( CFMs ) strongly affect radiative transfer and provide a link with the physical climate system . |
| 13 | As is now well known , the thrust and outline of the proposed reforms were announced by Mr Kenneth Clarke , the then Secretary of State for Education and Science in a speech to the North of England Education Conference in early January and by way of a consultation document at the end of that month . |
| 14 | And as is now widely recognised ( see Thomas Kuhn 's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions ) , scientists , like other thinkers , tend to get stuck in particular conceptual frameworks , and hence to be blind to possible alternatives . |
| 15 | In other words , if he does n't like what he sees , the eventual succession from Davies to Jenkins would not , as is now widely assumed , be inevitable . |
| 16 | It is only misleadingly expressed as if P then Q , as is now widely accepted . |
| 17 | If , as is now widely believed , all particles are made up of perhaps six different varieties of quarks , the final explosion would have an energy equivalent to about ten million one-megaton hydrogen bombs . |
| 18 | As is now widely known , when , on 2 September , Ho Chi Minh made his declaration of Vietnamese independence , his opening and acknowledged quotation was from the American original . |