Example sentences of "is [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is rather as though there is a central axis , around which the gemstone of beauty is formed . |
| 2 | The situation is rather as though instead of going to the zoo I had invited a small group of creatures to come to me . |
| 3 | Culture is within as well as surrounding us . ’ |
| 4 | Life is rarely as it should be and , given that Bowe ran scared of him , the WBC belt fits just right . |
| 5 | Whilst US administrations certainly have instigated ‘ two-track ’ policies ( for example , in Allende 's Chile ) these have not proved particularly successful , and it would seem that American foreign-policy-making is rarely as well co-ordinated as this analysis suggests . |
| 6 | THE heat is on as cub reporters throughout the North-East put the finishing touches to their schools ' entries to School Scoop . |
| 7 | That is all as it should be : but there are some dangers in conventional wisdom . |
| 8 | This is all as it should be . ’ |
| 9 | Act 4 Scene 1 Line 139 he also says , ‘ Damned those that trust them ’ which perhaps shows the decline that his mental state is in as he himself trusts them . |
| 10 | The type is basically as described for the Ayrshire of Scotland and average milk yields are about 5,800kg at 4.4 per cent butterfat ( the Finnish Friesian averages similar yields but only 4.1 per cent butterfat ) . |
| 11 | The model implied by this definition is basically as follows . |
| 12 | The interpretation of the output from the computer is basically as required by 1 but , almost always , new questions arise during the course of the study . |
| 13 | If terms like ‘ affective psychosis ’ , ‘ schizophrenia ’ and ‘ schizoaffective disorder ’ have a use , therefore , it is merely as labels of convenience , as shorthand descriptors of the flavour of a given individual 's form of insanity — and even then often only at a certain point in time and subject to qualifications as to the severity of disability . |
| 14 | I mean , one scapegoat is enough as long as he does hit bit . ’ |
| 15 | It is only as we remain exiles , stay-behind agents , spies in enemy territory , that we can really learn to delight in God alone . |
| 16 | It is only as we become at ease with the condition of our own humanity that we can accept another person 's . |
| 17 | The fact that the younger the subject is , the more able he is to recall details of past lives , seems to me to be quite simple to understand : it is only as our children pass through the Western educational system that they are taught to forego intuition and creativity in favour of logic and calculation . |
| 18 | It is only as deaths of red or green moths in that environment that these are fortuitous events ; this fortuitousness being , as philosophers say , description relative . |
| 19 | It is only as economic circumstances have eased , for most people at least , that the expressive aspects of relationships have become more prominent , although whether family relationships can ever be regarded as ‘ purely ’ expressive is very questionable ( ibid . |
| 20 | In fact the wording of the Act makes it clear that it is only as mothers that women are given priority in the public sector . |
| 21 | If it can be significantly talked about , it seems , then it is only as some kind of state , or situation , an ontological " event " perhaps , certainly not as an entity . |
| 22 | Therefore , even if complex real-world situations can only be represented by complex models , the proponents of the object-oriented model argue that it is only as it need be to represent these situations on computers and to manipulate those representations for the purpose of processing queries . |
| 23 | This is only as one might expect -at all times and in all places — for it is always a problem in art history or archaeology to know to what degree certain persons can be held responsible for the appearance of particular aspects of design ( especially where one is dealing with aspects of arrangement , structure , and figural types ) . |
| 24 | Partly this is so as not to contrast too blatantly with the speech patterns of your characters . |
| 25 | This was certainly brought home to me when , by taking the long way round Australia this year , i.e. buying a round the world ticket to the Australian Open , rather than a straight forward London–Melbourne return , with a stop-off in Sydney for the New South Wales Open , I saved The Daily Telegraph , which is naturally as cost conscious as any other company in these difficult financial times , a considerable amount of money . |
| 26 | You will find the speeches scattered like jewels throughout the text , but it is perhaps as well to keep to the simpler ones for your audition piece — those where Romeo and Juliet are directly enthralled by love and the declaration of love to another person . |
| 27 | It is perhaps as well that the British Library does not concern itself with such phenomena , but the absence of the raw material means , again , that it can not be studied properly at what is the centre of literary culture par excellence . |
| 28 | It prompts the thought that the perception of weight in a shoe is perhaps as closely linked to comfort and ‘ feel ’ as to straight numbers . |
| 29 | ( It is perhaps as well to make clear that these systems are not necessarily amenable to introspection . ) |
| 30 | It is perhaps as well to remember at the outset that the main injury in this particular case was a hip injury which , if it had occurred to a younger man , would have produced an arthrodesis operation . |