Example sentences of "[adj] as it [is] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 As with all COBUILD materials , the emphasis is on English as it is really used today , drawing on the evidence of the COBUILD corpus devised by Professor John Sinclair 's English Language Research team in the University 's School of English .
2 Of all Edward 's legislation , three pieces particularly affected the church : the statutes De Viris Religiosis , or Mortmain as it is commonly called , Circumspecte Agatis , and Westminster II , chapter 41 .
3 The label is awkward as it is also used loosely of anything inspiring a sense of inexplicable awe and mystery , however vaguely , or anyone thus moved .
4 So the English village is neither as immemorial nor as unchanging as it is conventionally believed to be .
5 There 's nothing , it seems , that ca n't be turned into a salad as long as it is properly dressed .
6 Obviously in many cases the car is a ‘ family car ’ and as long as it is generally used for the benefit of the disabled person it can be treated as any normal family car .
7 However , the guard can be loosened and repositioned for particularly awkward jobs , as long as it is fully retightened .
8 But they sho er er er , it 's good to have and sharing it but I but I , but I , I personally feel as long as it 's well monitored within the within the district council in the event of a minister not being able to be there then er a reco , er som , a recognised person to .
9 In accounts that were given of first meetings we find that the situation is often important as it is usually mentioned .
10 Full length waders are essential as it is generally accepted that the best depth to work is knee to waist deep .
11 This assumption is not tenable as it is now recognised that the unstimulated output of prostacyclin by blood vessels is low ( reviewed by Dollery et al , 1983 ) .
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