Example sentences of "[conj] [is] [adv] [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is important for the elderly to have heating in their bedroom because of the risk of hypothermia , and it is also essential to make sure that they are living in a home that is well ventilated as well as warm . |
| 2 | That is to say , your study will provide you with the knowledge that is generally accepted as making up the subject . |
| 3 | As used here , it is also confined to a type of disorder that is normally described as ‘ functional ’ . |
| 4 | Norwegian Jacquard : This stitch design option will allow you to knit many different colours in a design style that is best described as based on the traditional Scandinavian type of pattern , where small designs are laid on to a multi-coloured striped background . |
| 5 | The explanation that is usually given as to why we do n't see broken cups gathering themselves together off the floor and jumping back onto the table is that it is forbidden by the second law of thermodynamics . |
| 6 | The female , beating her wings as fast as 500 times a second creates the high-pitched hum that is so unsettling as you lie in camp trying to go to sleep without a mosquito net . |
| 7 | Similarly , few word processing packages can accurately hyphenate and justify text that is proportionally spaced as they were only ever designed to handle monospaced characters . |
| 8 | Overall , however , the railways are likely to be one of the toughest state sell-offs of them all , for BR has not made a profit for 40 years and is widely perceived as demoralised and run-down . |
| 9 | Whereas in ( 1 ) B's talk is received seriously — without laughter , in fact with silence followed by supportive agreements — in ( 2 ) , V 's talk is met with laughter and is clearly perceived as joking . |
| 10 | However , PCR is expensive and time consuming , and is generally regarded as unsuitable for the mass screening of clinical samples . |
| 11 | It is often represented in rugs as a cloud with a short tail , and is generally accepted as symbolizing a wish , or the hope that a wish be fulfilled . |
| 12 | Common to most ceramics , alumina does not cause adverse reactions on implantation and is generally classified as being inert , or nearly inert . |
| 13 | She is also rumoured to have turned her attention to acting , and is reportedly starring as Joan of Arc in a new film about the dangers involved when you get tied to a wooden stake with lots of sticks around it which is then deliberately set on fire by your political opponents . |
| 14 | Version 1 of Rescalc has been around for some years and is today regarded as rather palaeolithic . |
| 15 | ‘ Legal theory ’ is sometimes taken as being synonymous with ‘ jurisprudence ’ and is sometimes regarded as concerning itself with a narrower range of questions — in particular , What is the nature of law ? |
| 16 | H. gallinarum is the commonest nematode parasite of poultry , and is usually regarded as being non-pathogenic . |
| 17 | Although he has lived in the UK since 1969 , Zarei was born in Iran and is often listed as Iranian , but he is officially a British athlete , and won an England vest when competing in the Milton Keynes 24-hour Championships in 1989 . |
| 18 | In this situation the contingent relation results in the strengthening of the behavioural response and is therefore described as reinforcing . |
| 19 | The completed version of this famous composition belongs to the National Gallery of Victoria , Australia , and is now regarded as being too fragile to travel . |
| 20 | She is , however , only two years old but is often mistaken as being older . |
| 21 | The worst target of all is the one that seems to be near but is forever receding as one gets closer to it . |
| 22 | Long jumper Yinka Idowu from Carterton who competes for the Oxford City club won her place in the team a couple of weeks ago when she won the British title at Sheffield … she only finished third in trials at the weekend but is still regarded as one of our best young athletes … |
| 23 | Long jumper Yinka Idowu from Carterton who competes for the Oxford City club won her place in the team a couple of weeks ago when she won the British title at Sheffield … she only finished third in trials at the weekend but is still regarded as one of our best young athletes … |
| 24 | The novel opens with a page-long diatribe about the age of middlemen which appears to be the opinion of a third-person narrator but is subsequently identified as ‘ disloyal thoughts … not precisely verbalised as they turmoiled through the hazily discontented soul of Rusty Conway ’ ( 5–6 ) . |