Example sentences of "as it [is] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BSB is also committed to spending as much on producing new programmes as it is on buying from the BBC archives . |
| 2 | It is a conditional influence , the bounds of which are dependent as much on the ability to mobilise and win popular support ( which it clearly did not do immediately after Vietnam , when expenditure on the military fell ) as it is on manufacturing an unholy alliance between numerous competing bureaucratic , industrial and military institutions . |
| 3 | Although the body is not as efficient at converting excess carbohydrate to body fat as it is at converting dietary fat to body fat , it was thought until recently that any extra calories would still end up as body fat . |
| 4 | The vermiculite is also as efficient at radiating heat as it is at absorbing it . |
| 5 | Designer shops rub shoulders with gourmet restaurants and the promenade is as much for dressing up and meeting people as it is for enjoying the glorious views . |
| 6 | The camera work can be kept as simple as it is for recording one person giving a talk — it can stay on the interviewee . |
| 7 | ‘ We 've always done it this way ’ is as daft an excuse for an industrial manufacturing process which has become fossilised as it is for saying that fossils have a life of their own . |
| 8 | But that 's enough , it seems , in this small town in the eastern part of Germany , unaccustomed as it is to dealing with foreigners . |
| 9 | This is invariably as true of urban locations selling cultural capital with voodoo economics as it is of declining industrial regions of manufacturing industry ( Harvey , 1989 ) . |
| 10 | The idea is that all results are published and schools are then placed in league tables , so the main purpose of the tests is as much about the stimulation of competition as it is about diagnosing individual children 's strengths and weaknesses . |
| 11 | Building self-esteem is about appreciating strengths and developing them as much as it is about gaining an understanding of weaknesses . |
| 12 | Witnessing is as much about showing people Christianity in the way we live as it is about explaining Christianity by the things that we say . |
| 13 | Never mind what you read and hear to the contrary ; your plants have had quite enough shock as it is without adding to it . |
| 14 | Do n't you think that man has done enough harm to Jennifer as it is without inflicting any more pain on her ? ’ |
| 15 | The expectations gap is a complex phenomenon , and it is caused as much by financial reporting problems as it is by auditing ones . |
| 16 | Education is important in enabling rural people to organise and plan , as much as it is in ensuring that the urban majority understand the nature of rural problems and lend their support to solving them . |
| 17 | The theme of instrumentality seems to be as important in understanding support in the form of accommodation , as it is in understanding financial support within families . |