Example sentences of "[coord] it is as " in BNC.

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1 However , mats can themselves pose hazards , and it is as well if you are aware of these .
2 Since dancing can not earn them a living , Chela and Urna are into self-help , and it is as humiliating in personal terms as any perceived national , cultural subservience to the US .
3 Since dancing can not earn them a living , Chela and Urna are into self-help , and it is as humiliating in personal terms as any perceived national , cultural subservience to the US .
4 Since dancing can not earn them a living , Chela and Urna are into self-help , and it is as humiliating in personal terms as any perceived national , cultural subservience to the US .
5 There is an enormous body of data in support of the theory and it is as close to being a factual representation of the nature of evolutionary change as any theory can be .
6 Some of these points are still raised today , and it is as well to tackle them now prior to the examination of achievement .
7 The leader still has the same weaknesses and strengths as any other man and it is as well to study and know them .
8 This is certainly true of the Hundred Years War , and it is as well to remember that at Crécy , Poitiers , and Agincourt , although the English emerged as victors , on each occasion they were not entering the French kingdom to attempt its conquest , but were actually leaving it , heading for the coast in search of transport to take them back to England , the main aim of the expedition already fulfilled .
9 A novel has therefore these two interrelated modes of existence — as a fiction , and as a text ; and , to adapt Lodge 's statement to our own purpose , it is as text-maker that the novelist works in language , and it is as fiction-maker that he works through language .
10 And it is as one of photography 's great satirists that she will surely be remembered — I never tire of her work , its invention , its humour and its pathos .
11 Employment is a two-way trade and it is as well to remember that the conditions that we in the House think can be imposed on employers may backfire on the very people whom they are supposed to help .
12 Thus entries for , say , the year 1680 will not end at 31 December but continue through January , February and most of March 1681 ; sometimes they will be written as 1680/1 for the period between 1 January and 25 March , and it is as well for the local and family historian to adopt that convention or else he will get in a hopeless muddle .
13 We shall start our study of these with the Shipman 's Tale , as that tale forms a good bridge between the non-Chaucerian fabliaux and Chaucer 's other examples of this genre in certain ways , and it is as good a starting point as any for a discussion of Chaucer 's complex response to the norms of fabliau tradition within the Canterbury Tales .
14 This is Red Rock West ( QFT ) , a beguiling and modest little thriller which delves into the dark and murky emotions lurking underneath the sleepy face of a tiny American town — and it is as good a film noir as has been on show this year .
15 Other puzzlements arise at the table , and it is as well to know them .
16 The Radio 1 playlist is much maligned , but it is as honest and fair as any system .
17 But it is as dashing or as docile as you want , giving a ride that is firm but supple .
18 I do not know when this piece of nonsense first became currency but it is as prevalent as ever : a recent poll of literary luminaries in France placed Simenon in the category of most under-valued prose writers of this century .
19 That may be a drastic example but it is as well to remember that the less we use our muscles the less efficient they will be .
20 It is impossible for any of us to monitor carefully every single thing we say — how boring and stilted our speech would be if we did — but it is as well to remember that young children take the spoken word very literally , and a great deal of harm can be caused by the use of thoughtless and insensitive phrases .
21 But it is as well for high-profile entrepreneurs to remember that they are always at some risk of being damned by association if they use structures that appear , or can with journalistic licence be made to appear , too close to those behind which fraudsters have hidden .
22 Practically speaking , this may not be important except at very brief exposure durations , but it is as well to be aware of the problem .
23 Teaching language for the literature and history of a country is a valuable and essential exercise but it is as different from teaching community interpreting as dressage is from steeple chasing .
24 Coalitions are not alien to British political experience but it is as well to consider the implications of this form of government .
25 The trumpet is capable of considerable agility , but it is as well not to write rapid passages for it of any great length .
26 For polyethylene Δε is about 3.0 kJ mol -′ , but it is as high as 18.0 kJ mol -′ for poly(tetrafluoroethylene) .
27 This may seem a curious exception , but it is as well to remember that Gregory would have known of the versification of Sulpicius Severus 's Life of St Martin by Paulinus of Périgueux , and that he counted among his friends the poet Venantius Fortunatus , himself the author of a poetic work on the miracles of St Martin .
28 This silence over Chlothild and the Alaman victory need not imply that they played no part in Clovis 's conversion , but it is as well to consider what Avitus did choose to emphasize .
29 The law generally would provide ( unless the contract specifically stated to the contrary ) that such intellectual property would vest in the seller , but it is as well to clarify the point ahead of time .
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