Example sentences of "[noun] as it [is] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second fragment ( 23kb ) detected by the 680-bp probe is from an unrelated locus ( see Fig. 3 legend ) and serves as a control for the amount of DNA loaded in this experiment as it is not deleted . |
| 2 | Vitamin B12 is rather an odd vitamin as it is only obtained from animal sources ( such as meat , milk , and eggs ) and not at all from plant foods . |
| 3 | It is certain that we have to devise ways to move beyond antiracism as it is presently constituted . |
| 4 | Desktop Sunergy Classics will run a 50MHz Tsunami ( or MicroSparc as it is officially known ( UX No 406 ) ) , and are rated at 22.6 SPECint(92) , 17.4 SPECfp(92) and around 14 MFLOPS . |
| 5 | And yet even the New Testament as it is today bears witness , if one looks at it closely , to Jesus as a military and political Messiah — to Jesus , in other words , as a would-be precursor of Constantine . |
| 6 | To clarify how the model outlined in the previous chapter relates to , and draws upon , research as it is academically defined , it will be helpful to start by considering the nature of research in general terms . |
| 7 | Absorption or wet scrubbing as it is often called has however the disadvantage of having to dispose of the liquid effluent obtained , which may itself require treatment before disposal , and has led to the comment that we may be merely replacing one effluent problem by another by using this method . |
| 8 | Though not all laws are enforced with equal vigour , criminal law defines crime as it is officially recognized . |
| 9 | With the very poor Artificial Horizon presentation in average aircraft , the pitch attitude will be expressed in terms of the Horizon Bar thickness , or width as it is sometimes called , each attitude being the relationship of the top of the aircraft symbols wings on top of the Horizon Bar . |
| 10 | Similarly , gender neutrality which is theoretically desirable might in practice have little to commend it if introduced into the law of rape as it is presently constructed . |
| 11 | The judge did not , in terms , say whether or not he regarded this evidence as establishing undue influence as it is normally understood . |
| 12 | Rather than once again review the authorities in chronological order , therefore , I propose to encapsulate their effect in a number of propositions which can , I believe , be so stated as to reflect the law as it is presently understood with a reasonable degree of accuracy . |
| 13 | However , constraints of time and the intellectual range of those who have the teaching of criminal law in charge counsel pessimism , and unless and until the four-year degree is established legal education in general will suffer through the narrowing effect of criminal law as it is now taught . |
| 14 | Care management , or case management as it is sometimes called , is a concept which developed in the United States in the mid-1970s and is growing rapidly in popularity in Britain . |
| 15 | ‘ I HAVE received vague but disquieting information about the inaccessibility of the Willoughbys ’ old home , ’ wrote William Dutt in 1914 , who was keen to see Parham Old Hall ( or the Moat Hall as it is sometimes called ) , before nightfall . |
| 16 | Pravda , the leading anti-Yeltsin newspaper in Moscow , has printed excerpts of what it claims is a memo from Mr Primakov , dated March 21st 1992 , in which the spook outlined the properties of red mercury , or mercuric salt of antimonous acid as it is also known , in detail . |
| 17 | ‘ If there are no other objections , ’ Sladen was carefully not looking for any , ‘ then I think we can proceed with the meeting as it is currently constituted . |
| 18 | ( a ) The child protection conference Very often a child protection conference , or case conference as it is often called , will be convened at the culmination of inquiries . |
| 19 | Plasticine is a good medium for supporting all sizes of specimen as it is easily moulded and re-used . |
| 20 | This traditional form of taxation remains in an amended form for non-domestic ratepayers but domestic rates have been replaced by the community charge , or poll tax as it is popularly known . |
| 21 | Most people think dementia ( or senility as it is wrongly called ) is inevitable . |
| 22 | We 've looked very closely at fire safety as it 's currently existing , and within out current statutory and discretionary responsibilities . |
| 23 | The modern Letter of Credit ( or Documentary Credit as it is often called ) which is used in international trade can be traced back , at least in part , to the Travellers Letter of Credit . |
| 24 | The British Mesozoic Committee ( who concerned themselves with such matters ) therefore found it impossible to accept the stratotype concept as it is usually proclaimed on the continent . |
| 25 | The mantle-crust boundary is marked by the Mohorovicic discontinuity ( or the Moho as it is usually abbreviated ) . |
| 26 | It pretends that there 's single no-fault ground for divorce — that the marriage has irretrievably broken down — but in practice it encourages nearly three-quarters of divorcing couples to rely on fault based grounds — adultery , or unreasonable behaviour as it 's usually called — and then makes it difficult for anybody to defend allegations , irrespective of whether that was the real reason why the marriage broke down . |
| 27 | This date is too late for the birth of Jesus as it is well known that Jesus was born in the reign of Herod the Great , who died in 4 BC . |
| 28 | Black lead , or wad as it is sometimes called , is found in a number of places in the Lake District and has been mined for centuries at Seathwaite in Borrowdale . |
| 29 | … the paradigm of development as it is generally understood is not suited to explaining change in mature organisms . |
| 30 | And again that 's the er er platforms as it is now looking towards . |