Example sentences of "[adj] as it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practice it is unrealistic as it calls for at least two freshly laundered or new cloths , a paper towel and three water changes . |
| 2 | To Gray , this constant flying is not as inconvenient as it sounds . |
| 3 | Then he spoke , his voice not quite as calm as it had been previously , the accent humming roughly in the depths of the tones . |
| 4 | Initially they make respectful small-talk about him , but their comments grow increasingly resentful as it becomes apparent he will not show up . |
| 5 | Improvement ensued under Tub LM1 ( again taken from a 5ml dropper bottle ) although the patient commented that the wheeziness was n't as clear as it had been on the first Phosphorus . |
| 6 | However , with social feeling about child sexuality running high as it does at present , we may be well advised to keep quiet about it in public ; while , if we ourselves feel guilt as to our own emotions in any such case , a knowledgeable and understanding senior or colleague may be able to help us — otherwise we would be well-advised to hand the case on to someone else . |
| 7 | Higher than its current rate of 1.8m ( 6.2% ) , but probably not as high as it had to in the mid-1980s . |
| 8 | Although the number of recorded offences in that decade was not as high as it had been in the 1950s it is nevertheless an important trend . |
| 9 | Without the villus a visitor would see very little in Wilpattu , though occasionally a day-hunting leopard will step out on the road , or a sloth bear stand 6 ft ( 1.8 m ) high as it reaches for the fruit , honey or tree termites on which these fierce-looking predators feed . |
| 10 | One of the main planks of the CCAUK 's argument is that the Annual Percentage rate is not so high as it looks , since though most transactions are contracted for ( say ) 26 weeks , in fact they end up being repaid — with no series problem — in about 30 or 33 weeks , with no penalty . |
| 11 | Dressed by Mainbocher , painted by Dali and fêted by writers and the fashionable world , C.Z. is American high society as high as it comes . |
| 12 | ‘ All groups have said we will review it in September and there is a general feeling that the charge should not have been set as high as it has been . ’ |
| 13 | By far the most common escape mechanism for organisms ranging from bacteria to human beings is ‘ habituation ’ , a kind of behavioural boredom by which an animal becomes less responsive as it encounters the same stimulus repeatedly . |
| 14 | McIllvanney had offered to let her stay on board Wavebreaker , so long as the boat 's air conditioners were disconnected , but his offer was not as generous as it seemed for Ellen would have been little more than an unpaid security guard and also subject to Bellybutton 's endlessly tedious suggestions , and she far preferred her small hot room in the busy crowded apartment block that smelt of cooking all day and marijuana all night . |
| 15 | and it 's going to be a record , simply a record of erm , English as it 's spoken in nineteen ninety one , I 've got a little blurb on it which I 'll show you . |
| 16 | ‘ That as unpleasant as it sounds ? ’ |
| 17 | This too had to be curbed on cost grounds , along with plans for two monolithic block-like structures , within the control room , which would darken to black as the ship landed , and fill with light as it took off . |
| 18 | When taking aim , the fish also has to make allowance for refraction — the bending of light as it travels from the air into the water . |
| 19 | For instance , Yadin Dudai in Jerusalem , amongst others , has exploited the behavioural and biochemical possibilities opened up by mutations amongst fruit flies ; for him and some other neurobiologists Drosophila has become as popular as it has been for most of this century for geneticists . |
| 20 | Derived from the Indian reel , with extensions to allow the line to run free as it spools out with the ends spinning in the hands , the plastic reel is to be recommended . |
| 21 | The decoration is therefore not quite as free as it looks , in reality forming part of an evolved construction . |
| 22 | Nor could the academic organization of the schools remain as rudimentary as it had been : communication and management would not just ‘ happen ’ in schools of a thousand pupils or more , and the stream of curriculum innovation needed to be carefully channelled — especially in a system where each school enjoyed considerable freedom in choosing patterns of study and teaching methods . |
| 23 | The fierce face was still unsmiling as it spoke again . |
| 24 | The wall is not as steep as it looks and a pleasing sequence of stretches and foot-changes , made all the more enjoyable by more excellent protection , leads to a stopping place just short of the arête . |
| 25 | Secondly , the raising of the school leaving age in 1947 meant that the difference between types of secondary schooling was not so marked as it had been . |
| 26 | I do not doubt that over the next 20 years the Community 's evolution will be as marked as it has been in the nearly 20 years since we joined . |
| 27 | Investigations were still proceeding , but unless Dalziel had some private little line well hidden from everyone else , the phrase was as empty as it sounded . |
| 28 | Monarchy became itinerant as it had not been since the Middle Ages , but the reason for this was not administrative but political and diplomatic . |
| 29 | GRID — a cassette of interlocking Hytrel strings fitted into the midsole — is the highlighted technology , but it 's not alone in a shoe which looks as different as it feels . |
| 30 | It was a bit different as it turned out . |