Example sentences of "that [is] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he has had his vision of family , home , and work , and that is as real as the thwarting of it . |
| 2 | That is as true now as it was in 1945 , when Olson wrote it . |
| 3 | And that is as acceptable an approach as a little touch of Harry at the conference . |
| 4 | That is as appropriate an outcome as any theorist could have hoped for . |
| 5 | It has always involved thin movable extensions of the side of the body , but that is as far as the resemblance goes . |
| 6 | Why , that is as wide as a sword blade . |
| 7 | In other words , if you do not receive a first grading , that is as far as you go although you get a written critique , so that you at least know why you did n't make the placings . |
| 8 | That is as far as the resemblance goes , however , for the pattern of joint and skin involvement in the two conditions is very different and in addition other systems are involved in Reiter 's disease which are spared in gonococcal dermatitis and arthritis . |
| 9 | I suppose that is as outspoken as an expert on etiquette can dare become in digging the dirt with his agricultural implement instead of a spade . |
| 10 | The most you can hope to do is to record the songs that you like , and that is as much ‘ planning ’ as there is in Kiss . |
| 11 | Labour , post-Kinnock , is saddled with a fundamentally undemocratic trade union link-up ; an autocratic structure , which , in the absence of the autocrat , sees power pass to the autocrat 's ( unelected ) nominees ; and a policy and decision-making process that is as devoid of inspiration and new ideas as it is of input from the wider constituency of party members and supporters . |
| 12 | ‘ That is as maybe — but my feelings for him are not sisterly , I promise you . |
| 13 | Particularly if that is as important as just about every politician insists it is . |
| 14 | That much is made clear by Shakespeare , early on in the sequence , as if to forestall suspicion or criticism , in Sonnet 20 , which his protagonist addresses to the deuteragonist ( if I may borrow the terminology of the historians of drama to stress the fictive , dramatic status of the personae in these poems ) : That is as clear a statement of the non-sexual relationship between the two personae as could be wished for , and a wittier one than most . |
| 15 | But that is as far as it goes . |
| 16 | If we picture a vibration as a cycle , that is as equivalent to a rotation round a circle to arrive back at the beginning again , the angular distance travelled in the mathematician 's natural units is 2π . |
| 17 | So the writer of police procedurals is basically faced with the task of making what is in life dull into reading that is as far as possible exciting . |
| 18 | That is as far as there is witness against him . |
| 19 | Barebow , which does not have the aiming and balancing mechanisms found on modern compound bows , looks more like a traditional bow — but Claudio says that that is as far as the connection with Robin Hood or William Tell goes . |
| 20 | Keep your tapes somewhere that is as free of dust and moisture as possible . |
| 21 | Overall teachers rated the ‘ gender dimension ’ of these texts in the same way as myself ; that is as fairly stereotypical . |
| 22 | Then , after a longer pause than usual , he affirmed : ‘ And that is as far as my thought has reached ’ . |
| 23 | That is as far as I have got . ’ |
| 24 | That is as absurd as if there were to be competition locally between environmental health officers or , nationally , if British Telecom and Mercury were to pick and pay for their own regulators . |
| 25 | That is as absurd a political point as was made by the right hon. Member for Manchester , Gorton , ( Mr. Kaufman ) . |
| 26 | That is as genuine an example of a knee-jerk reaction as it is possible to get in this place . |
| 27 | That is as far as I want to go in drawing morals from Biomorph Land . |
| 28 | In Chapter 5 Ryan shows how her formula can be used as a " fiction automaton " , that is as " a machine built for the purpose of telling fiction from non-fiction " ( p. 80 ) . |
| 29 | Whenever we can we try and do stuff that is as close as possible to this house . |
| 30 | ‘ But we do n't fling half bricks into the water because that is as likely to endanger fish as it is anybody else . ’ |