Example sentences of "is as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The art that comes of them is one in which imagination takes power , the power to distort and exaggerate , in which difference of person is suspended , in which the experience of time is as it is in dreams . |
| 2 | There is as yet no shift in the overall direction of the group , which remains dominated in terms of political action by its monopoly catholic and nationalist constituencies . |
| 3 | In it they asserted quite clearly that permitting divorce would certainly affect the stability of all Irish marriages because it rendered every Irish marriage dissoluble : ‘ It is as though the legal availability of divorce builds up a social pressure which , for large numbers of people , becomes stronger than moral or religious resistance ’ ( abridged version , Irish Times , 14 May 1986 ) . |
| 4 | Sometimes plays straight , sometimes starts to distort , hardly perceptible at first , then more and more , until he is producing wild expressionist shrieks or light medieval dances , then gradually the hymn reasserts itself until all is as it should be . |
| 5 | It is as though they are unable to change their minds and this is a very dangerous trait in a glider pilot . |
| 6 | It is as though you are drugged and have ceased to care . |
| 7 | There is as yet no vaccine against HIV infection and no cure for AIDS . |
| 8 | It is as though the panel has developed a blind spot which does not admit the possibility that the newcomer might win . |
| 9 | A rather similar , and equally mistaken , line of thought which might appeal is as follows . |
| 10 | There is as yet no way of explaining how objects are constructed out of events ; even less how the contrast between objects and events — one of the most pervasive features of everyday experience — is perceived . |
| 11 | Such a place is as beyond Jen as Xanadu . |
| 12 | As well as a rug he takes a book , author and title unspecified ; the eternal traveller is also the eternal student , and it is as ‘ the student ’ that Verkhovensky first appears in the manuscript drafts . |
| 13 | He is as Gadarene , as possessed , as any one , but at the level of total ideal obsession . |
| 14 | Burrows believes that smacking is as necessary as kissing and cuddling , and finds it ironic that the same kind of arguments about parents not knowing when to stop are used to undermine our instincts in both cases . |
| 15 | There is as yet no word on who will play the part of Toole 's hero , the bloated medievalist Ignatius J Reilley , though earlier suggestions for the part have included the late Divine ( Waters 's idea ) and the late John Belushi ( the studio 's idea ) . |
| 16 | In her second album , which takes a sensibly modest manifesto for its title , the mix is as before ; you will hear all the tracks over the next few months if you follow the charts . |
| 17 | The rigours of testing do not end next week as eight people , chosen by the Soviets and the British , will be taken to a Soviet hospital for further tests , the nature of which is as yet unclear . |
| 18 | The answer to our Lords And Commons Cricket Competition is as follows : the three England Captains to have played for the LCC are Lord Harris , Sir Stanley Jackson MP and Lord Tennyson . |
| 19 | The hierarchy is as follows : |
| 20 | The area is as yet largely untouched by the ugliness of mass afforestation and still a paradise for lovers of the outdoors . |
| 21 | The shape of a session is as follows : |
| 22 | Briefly , the argument is as follows : the homosexual is a creation of modern discourse , medical , sexological , and psychological , as evidenced by the fact that the word ‘ homosexual ’ was coined in 1869 : neither it nor the sexual sense of perversion appeared in the OED until its 1933 Supplement . |
| 23 | His argument is as follows : a man 's masculinity is indeed insecure ; it is an endless trial , a ‘ precariously held , endlessly tested , unstable condition ’ ( p. 91 ) . |
| 24 | He suggests that such tendencies occur here as an overcompensation for the closed consciousness or ‘ dual narcissism , to which Fanon attributes the depersonalization of colonial man ; that ‘ it is as it Fanon is fearful of his most radical insights ’ ( p. xx ) . |
| 25 | Thus post-Second World War art is as it is — — with an ‘ emphasis on the autonomous and abstract work of art ’ ( p. 154 ) — allegedly because of the ‘ effects ’ of the stabilisation and extension of capitalism . |
| 26 | They are possessions and their husbands think that is as it should be . |
| 27 | Children between eight and twelve seem too young to fight against cultural racism in school ; it is as though they are almost stunned into accepting the inferiority with which white society has labelled them . |
| 28 | Gentlemanly distaste for ‘ trade ’ is as out of place in sport as it is in the Conservative Party of Mrs Thatcher . |
| 29 | It is as though they could not wait to sink into a dotage spent in permanent contemplation of their childhood . |
| 30 | Having been to confession and passed through ‘ the wall of fire ’ , Lewis wrote to Sister Penelope , ‘ the suggestion about an orgy of egoism turns out , like all the Enemy propaganda , to have just a grain of truth in it , but I have no doubt that the proper method of dealing with that is as I intend to do , to continue the practice . |