Example sentences of "[noun] as [pron] is [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Reasonable foreseeability is always a necessary ingredient of a negligence action as it is required to establish duty of care .
2 This is often misunderstood as cleaning oneself of contamination , but is obviously not the case as is proven by the fact that they had to clean themselves carefully before going into the bath , or mikva as it is called , so it becomes clear that it was to purify themselves spiritually , not physically .
3 The next year von Moltke , one of the architects of Prussia 's military revival , remarked contemptuously but not inaccurately to his brother that " England is as powerless on the Continent as she is presuming " .
4 The Reiterhof is a large hotel with plenty of facilities , and is well suited for walkers as it is located close to the mountain cable car .
5 Nearer to hand , you can also see steeply down 2,500 feet from the Col d'Aspin into the broad valley of the river Aure — the Neste d'Aure as it is called , neste here replacing gave as the local designation for a river .
6 This is the technique favoured by the British Deaf Association as it is thought to give the child the greatest chance of expression and understanding .
7 And there is no reason why consumer-led movements in the West ( and particularly Japan ) can not make it as unacceptable to use tropical hardwoods in the future as it is to use , say , CFC aerosol sprays today .
8 Dega is so myopic that he never takes his glasses off-there is a nice touch when Dustin holds his hand over his spectacles as he is showered down .
9 On-line handwriting recognition requires some kind of digitising data tablet to capture the script as it is written .
10 It 's as hard to do justice to the beauty of the Eternal City in a few words as it is to see everything in a few days .
11 Agricultural resource management is now an important aspect of the industry as it is becoming increasingly necessary to place primary agricultural production within the context of environmental and market constraints .
12 Animal protein , or first class protein as it is known , contains all eight essential amino acids which the body depends on for good health .
13 A great deal of importance is attached to planning and administration as it is seen as a time for problem-solving as opposed to task allocation .
14 Furthermore , the data were based on assessments made by care staff ; in the public sector staff have an incentive to minimise the dependency of their clients as it is seen as an index of the quality of care being provided .
15 When these indicators are examined in more detail in relation to investment , productivity and competitiveness , the picture which emerges is not predominantly one of inadequate supplies of labour in manufacturing industry but one of the low productive efficiency of the existing labour force as it is employed in combination with other factors of production .
16 This is the story of a young man who falls in love with a girl as he is driving away from a car park .
17 But , certainly , it is my aim to show the work as it is constructed , the ebb and flow of the tension , the musical line , the many voices , and so on .
18 In my view , the requirement at issue as it is worded does not in itself rule this out : it is the vessel which has to be operated from within the United Kingdom and it is its use , that is to say the operations of the vessel , which must be directed and controlled from the United Kingdom ; this does not prevent the onshore unit responsible for the actual management of the vessel ( whether it be in the form of a subsidiary , a branch , an agency or an administrative unit ) from being subject to the general control of the natural or legal person who set it up .
19 But an obligation to obey the law as it is understood in political writings today is a mere prima facie obligation .
20 above , could also be used to translate the meaning of run as it is used in any or all of groups 2–4 .
21 It is just as desirable to schedule pits , tips and earthworks as it is to schedule buildings and artifacts before uncontrolled enthusiasm hides them from generations .
22 Since this chapter is concerned with describing what pluralism is , this is not the place to comment in detail upon the relative strengths and weaknesses of pluralism and the critiques of pluralism as it is debated in the American community power debate .
23 Cam is denied the colour and glamour of Barbados as he is kept at work on a tally of the cargo as it is landed : later , a talk with the captain helps him to see this and other causes for resentment in a different light .
24 Echo-location , or sonar as it is called , is only used by small insect-eating bats .
25 A curve of constant breadth must remain in contact with two parallel lines as it is rotated .
26 As Francis Bacon , the patron saint of the scientific method , wrote four centuries ago , ‘ The Universe is not to be narrowed down to the limits of our understanding — rather the understanding must be stretched and enlarged to take in the image of the Universe as it is discovered . ’
27 It 's just as dangerous to strain the engine as it is to neglect it .
28 Labour , he insisted , must abandon its commitment to free trade : ‘ If socialism is to be established piecemeal , it must be protected from capitalism as it is erected . ’
29 As the disturbance goes more deeply into the organism from the physical to the emotional plane , from the emotional to the mental and finally to the spiritual , it is at the same time becoming higher up in the organism as it is pictured diagrammatically in Figure 3 .
30 A careful note must be taken of this DC identifier as it is required in all other operations regarding the DC .
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