Example sentences of "as [is] [adv] supposed " in BNC.
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| 1 | While high pay is not a myth , it is not as high as is generally supposed — but if you turn into a super advertising star , the sky 's the limit . |
| 2 | But the process is not always as beneficial as is popularly supposed |
| 3 | His explanation is not , as is often supposed , the fact that in Britain multi-employer agreements failed to determine actual earnings levels in the workplace , or that employers have come to prefer independent negotiations . |
| 4 | Appadurai ( 1986 ) provides a survey of some of the relevant literature , pointing out that in some respects commodities are not necessarily as divorced from wider cultural considerations as is often supposed . |
| 5 | Certainly there is no need , as is sometimes supposed ( Thorp , 1980 , pp. 43–4 ) , to consider whole mental states in connection with the relation between the mental and the neural . |
| 6 | The popular culture of racism is neither so unified , nor the positions within it so fixed as is sometimes supposed . |
| 7 | As soon as we turn our attention to the source of police errors we find that they do not , in the main , spring from malpractice , ill will or even slackness , as is sometimes supposed . |
| 8 | He denies his readers the pleasure of feeling superior , too : they must come to terms with Sylvia and her kind , who are not so rare as is commonly supposed , and a novel is a good place in which to begin the process . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Incidentally , in this area , it is Darwin who is derivative of the moral philosophers and not as is commonly supposed , largely I think because of the work of Spencer , the other way around . |
| 11 | ( The horns fetch tens of thousands of dollars in the Far East , where they are used in fever-reducing medicines — not as aphrodisiacs , as is commonly supposed . ) |