Example sentences of "as it is [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The interactionist perspective ( as it is most familiarly known ) proved in the end to be unable to incorporate all the radical demands that came to be made of it . |
| 2 | It may have bloomed with the post-war boom , but it may wither with recession as it is no longer needed to secure stability . |
| 3 | The finding of anaemia at presentation in almost half our patients is worth noting as it is still widely taught that this is an indicator of chronic rather than acute renal failure . |
| 4 | Easing the passing , as it is often euphemistically described , is not unlawful . |
| 5 | The issue of child abuse , or child protection as it is often now described ( Parton and Parton , 1989 ) , perhaps more than any other area of child care policy and practice has brought the activities of a variety of health and welfare professionals into considerable public , political and media focus in recent years . |
| 6 | While the earliest sources give no clue to the date of Molla Fenari 's appointment to the Muftilik but simply state that he was Mufti , later Turkish tradition has asserted that the Muftilik was created in the time of Murad II ; and as it is almost universally held that Molla Fenari was the first Mufti , his appointment , if the tradition is to be believed , must have occurred after 824/1421 , the year of Murad II 's accession . |
| 7 | You are very unlikely to be suffering from it , as it is almost entirely confined to males . |
| 8 | If you have an existing Section 226 policy ( or retirement annuity contract , as it is sometimes also called ) , then , as you will know , it is an insurance policy designed to invest money for your retirement . |
| 9 | He took a pristine white handkerchief out of his pocket and rubbed at the faint hand-print Kenneth had left on the glass partition as he said , ‘ These passivation glasses are of much use in the semi-conductor industry , and we have high hopes that with the burgeoning of the Scottish computer industry Silicon Glen as it is sometimes jocularly called — we shall shortly be supplying … ’ |
| 10 | The large unit known as the syssel , a subdivision of the country broadly similar to the English shire , is in Jutland believed to be pre-Christian , although its function is something of an open question , as it is now best known in connection with later ecclesiastical organisation . |
| 11 | A new dimension of communication education was added by Central Committee in 1989 , namely , Media Awareness Training , also known as Media Literacy , Media Pedagogy , Critical Reading or , as it is now usually called , Media Education . |
| 12 | The advent of the silicon chip , or integrated circuit , as it is more properly called has revolutionised the field of electronics . |
| 13 | Ideally , the golden spike ( or " marker point " as it is more prosaically called ) should be chosen in a section where sedimentation seems to have been as nearly continuous as is ever possible , where there are no marked lithological changes and where there are unbroken records of several different groups of fossils . |
| 14 | An alternative approach which has a number of advantages over linear control systems , is the switching regulator , or as it is more usually known , the ‘ switch-mode power supply ’ . |
| 15 | Aromatherapy , as it is more usually practised , is about prevention of major illness and the symptomatic treatment of minor ailments . |
| 16 | Tax to pay for our holidays abroad , or Government in exile as it is more appropriately known , will be raised from the equitable basis of rating taxes at the point of sale , or in the case of blue tax , see above , conspicuous consummation . |
| 17 | Transmission teaching , or ‘ recitation teaching ’ as it is more commonly called in the United States , is so pervasive within the school system that it can easily be interpreted as the ‘ natural ’ or ‘ proper ’ way to teach , as a network of rules and procedures special to the teaching environment which must be learned , rehearsed and developed in a practical way by the new teacher in order to gain competent membership of the teaching community , and of the classroom order in particular . |
| 18 | ( Wilson chooses the word ‘ companies ’ in preference to the currently favoured term ‘ laudesi confraternities ’ as it is more commonly found in contemporary Italian documents . ) |
| 19 | It is of course acknowledged that the new TransAction scheme ( or the National Protocol as it is more commonly known ) does not apply to commercial transactions , or indeed to transactions involving building or farmland . |
| 20 | I call it curry cheese as it is very heavily flavoured with cumin seeds . |
| 21 | The dining room , with its pale marbled walls and black and glass furniture , has survived from its first overhaul as it is only really used for entertaining and for Ella 's piano practice . |
| 22 | I do not think that these qualities arise wholly , or even mainly , as it is so often assumed , from the character of its buildings and the beauty of the natural forms , such as trees , which stand in juxtaposition to them . |
| 23 | But apart from this small point , I do n't think that anyone could fault it as it is so cleverly constructed and presented . |