Example sentences of "as is [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the result of competition in the newspaper world to produce as much information or pseudo-information in a headline as is verbally possible . |
| 2 | They will invoke as much systemic knowledge of this language as is indexically necessary and no more , using both their first language and the foreign language tactically as a source of clues to meaning , while taking bearings , as usual , on their schematic knowledge . |
| 3 | But , as one eminent Scottish judge pointed out in MacCormick v Lord Advocate ( above ) , why should it be assumed that successive reconstituted Parliaments at Westminster have inherited the attribute of ‘ sovereignty ’ peculiar ( and , as is above suggested , perhaps with a limited meaning even then ) to the English Parliament . |
| 4 | That principle must also be applied here , since to require a company incorporated under the law of one member state , which has its registered office , central administration or principal place of business in that member state ( within the meaning of article 58 ) , or even in another member state , to transfer its principal place of business to the member state where a certain activity , such as fishing , is to be carried on , deprives that company of the possibility of exercising its right of establishment through the setting up of agencies , branches or subsidiaries , as is expressly provided for in the second sentence of the first paragraph of article 52 . |
| 5 | It must be greater than unity unless all the molecules are of equal length , as is easily seen . |
| 6 | The Medical Defence Union , in its pamphlet entitled ‘ consent to Treatment ’ , advises that ‘ a patient who is compulsorily detained under the Mental Health Act must submit to treatment for his mental disorder whether or not he agrees ’ , but that ‘ if a compulsorily detained patient develops a condition unrelated to his mental disorder , then only such treatment as is immediately necessary to preserve his life and health may be given without his consent . ’ |
| 7 | Most of this research , as is immediately obvious , is posed within the logic of state-centrism . |
| 8 | Second , he should leave as quickly as is courteously possible . |
| 9 | In this respect we believe that the next generation of GIS will be more akin to DSS than to sophisticated mapping packages , as is presently the case . |
| 10 | An irritating feature of Wien filters is that to vary the pass or rejection frequency , ideally both capacitances or , as is rather easier , both resistances should be varied in sympathy . |
| 11 | These figures suggest that where items are available at all times ( as in the case of items housed in the Main Building , which are accessible whenever the Library is open to the public ) and can be delivered relatively quickly ( as is again the case with items from the Main Building ) readers will tend not to make advance reservations , but where access is restricted ( as in the case of material from the Annexe and from the Advocates ' Library , both of which have restricted hours of service ) or where delivery may take some time ( as is particularly the case with Annexe materials ) advance orders will more frequently be placed . |
| 12 | The Pacific , as is surely now evident , is an Ocean which , while long trying to assume some kind of unity , is plagued by a grossly inconvenient diversity . |
| 13 | Each different form requires the mastery of its specific skills if , as is surely the object of the enterprise , the product is to be available and to communicate to all who may be interested . |
| 14 | Britain and Hong Kong claim they are eager for international agencies to monitor the resettlement of the illegal migrants , just as is already being done for those boat people who have returned voluntarily . |
| 15 | And this need not be just the prerogative ( and burden ) of leaders but develop into a healthy mutuality between lay people , as is already happening in various parts of the Church . |
| 16 | As is already known , a high proportion of our samples had died or gone into institutions one year from their referral to the psychogeriatrician . |
| 17 | Other mitigating measures could involve the encouragement of private concerns to develop their own plantations , as is already occurring on a small scale , not only in the rainforest regions but also in savanna regions where Eucalyptus is being successfully cultivated to provide fuelwood and poles . |
| 18 | More recently there have been letters and articles predicting a world population of 15 billion , but no account has been taken of the fact that between 10 and 25 per cent could die of AIDS in the next twenty years , as is already happening in parts of Africa . |
| 19 | More significantly , as is already clear from our discussion so far , functional psychosis also contains within itself a potential for the very opposite of deficit , the occasional capacity for superlative functioning and high achievement ; this is the paradox of which we wrote in the previous chapter . |
| 20 | But as is already clear from what was said in the last chapter , the irreducibility thesis , plausible though it may appear at first sight , remains highly vulnerable to criticism and requires important additional assumptions if it is to be taken at all seriously . |
| 21 | ‘ Their effect will be to require the same accuracy of description in relation to property sales as is already required of sellers of goods and other service providers . |
| 22 | Instead he believes priorities have to be drawn up and stuck to even if that means low-priority areas are ignored altogether as is already the case in some parts of the country . |
| 23 | As is already happening in electrochemical technology , the provision of product packages , backed by technical expertise and know-how , could well point the way to the future . |
| 24 | Mozart was the master of the concerto form , as is already apparent in some of his earlier works , to be performed at this year 's Festival . |
| 25 | As is pretty well known the double helix of DNA is right-handed . |
| 26 | Therefore , the choice of construction projects for the research holds constant as many elements of the business environment as is feasibly possible , allowing a focus on the different managerial practices in the two countries , and the ways in which SGE is trying to combine them . |
| 27 | It makes unarguable sense to concentrate materials purchases as much as is commercially desirable and to obtain supplies from as few sources as possible . |
| 28 | Hence , as is otherwise obvious from the derivation of ( 1.16.8 ) , the eigenvalues of A are given directly by |
| 29 | As you are lying with the books under your head , bring your feet as near to your buttocks as is comfortably possible so that your knees are pointing to the ceiling . |
| 30 | Injuries and deaths at work are a significant and reducible source of danger to the citizen , and the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 provides the framework for the regulation of safety in work-places with an offence of failing to ensure that , ‘ so far as is reasonably practicable ’ , employees are not exposed to risks to their health or safety . |