Example sentences of "[noun sg] as is [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wilberforce was not the only representative of Anglican opinion , and even he was not as obscurantist as is sometimes implied . |
| 2 | The size or shape of a Consignment necessitates the use of a vehicle of greater carrying capacity than the weight of the Consignment would otherwise require , in which case the tonnage rate shall be computed upon and apply to the carrying capacity of such vehicle as is reasonably required . |
| 3 | If all the requirements are fulfilled , civil legal aid consists of representation for the purposes of proceedings , and it includes all such assistance as is usually given by a solicitor or counsel in the steps preliminary or incidental to any proceedings and all such assistance as is usually given by a solicitor or counsel in civil proceedings arriving at or giving effect to a compromise to avoid or bring to an end any proceedings . |
| 4 | If all the requirements are fulfilled , civil legal aid consists of representation for the purposes of proceedings , and it includes all such assistance as is usually given by a solicitor or counsel in the steps preliminary or incidental to any proceedings and all such assistance as is usually given by a solicitor or counsel in civil proceedings arriving at or giving effect to a compromise to avoid or bring to an end any proceedings . |
| 5 | It was an excellent idea to couple the 1915 El Amor brujo with El Retablo de Maese Pedro , to show that there is not such a gulf between the ‘ Andalusian ’ and ‘ Castillian ’ periods of Fall 's musical output as is commonly supposed . |
| 6 | The former communist states of eastern Europe are not suffering as badly from pollution as is widely believed , according to a study by Professor Gordon Hughes of Edinburgh University . |
| 7 | Indeed , archaeologists now believe it was due to agricultural mismanagement combined with a booming population , for investigation of a major palace in the site at Copan , Honduras , has revealed that there was only a small contingent of specialist workers employed in constructing the elaborate structure , in other words that this was not enough to overburden the economy as is sometimes alleged to be the cause of the collapse of that civilization . |
| 8 | The civil war was not fought over the partition of the island as is popularly believed . |
| 9 | by no means all farmers are as antipathetic to the conservationist case as is sometimes assumed , but eventually they must all make a living . |
| 10 | To conclude : we have found that the industrial co-operative , in a market economy , is a fully effective form of organisation for production or provision in the United Kingdom as in other liberal democracies ; that there is no necessary reason to attach to it limitations of size or kind ; and that the general adoption of the form would import into the national economy such a structural change as is urgently needed to resolve the problem , ominous and intractable , of securing near-full employment without inflation at other than an insignificant rate . |
| 11 | But her novels are not nearly so remote from the realities of her time as is often claimed . |
| 12 | ‘ Where a person designs , manufactures , imports or supplies an article for or to another on the basis of a written undertaking by that other to take specified steps sufficient to ensure , so far as is reasonably practicable , that the article will be safe and without risks to health when properly used , the undertaking shall have the effect of relieving the first-mentioned person from the duty imposed by paragraph ( 1 ) ( a ) to such extent as is reasonable having regard to the terms of the undertaking . ’ |
| 13 | Where the seller obtains such an undertaking it will relieve him from his liability " to such extent as is reasonable having regard to the terms of the undertaking " . |
| 14 | I believe that a low brace should be taught with a low elbow and not with the elbow raised above the paddle shaft as is commonly taught in the UK . |