Example sentences of "as it be to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In particular , Chandra Talpade Mohanty 's essay seems odd , devoted as it is to a detailed comparison of essays from as long ago as 1981 and 1984 , in which she takes issue with Robin Morgan 's universalist feminism . |
| 2 | It was in the nature of the Franco regime , as it is to a greater or lesser degree in that of all authoritarian systems , not to provide the public with full information , for problems can be " resolved " more rapidly if those in power have a free hand simply to suppress them . |
| 3 | The pagan counterpart of the eagle 's song may be the death of Aragorn , relegated as it is to an Appendix . |
| 4 | As Okely ( 1987 : 67 ) observes , the urge to create publications is not always as crucial to others as it is to the academic . |
| 5 | The submerged fringe of each continent is the continental shelf , which may be a thousand or more kilometres in width ( as it is to the south of Madagascar ) or have a width of practically zero ( as around parts of the Philippines ) . |
| 6 | Important as it is to the understanding of the world today , it was in these years only occasionally decisive for Europe . |
| 7 | It is as applicable to the running of the parish council as it is to the leadership of IBM and I hope that you find in this book something , even if only one thing , that you can apply and that will help you gain the results you seek . |
| 8 | What is common to all of them and to others , as it is to the first two sorts of " if " statements , is that none states the kind of connection of one thing with another which is expressed by any dependent conditional . |
| 9 | St Ives , exposed as it is to the advertising cycle through the production of magazines , has done well to achieve profits stability after a sharp fall from £29.1m in 1989/90 . |
| 10 | For all its great altitude , the view from the top of the Col du Tourmalet is much less open and memorable than many , blocked as it is to the south by a row of peaks and overpowered immediately to the north by the bulk of the Pic du Midi de Bigorre , which is a most assertive mountain . |
| 11 | but now we can acknowledge that the advance in South Africa 's cricket prospects is as much in their debt as it is to the current leaders who have united South African cricket and allowed it , for the first time in two centuries , to look forward to drawing on all the resources of the nation 's youth regardless of race , colour or creed . |
| 12 | All that we said in Part 2 about exploiting the control video gives us over the material is as relevant to the teacher trainer as it is to the teacher . |
| 13 | However , despite its title , the article does not investigate the complexity of the issue , limited as it is to the historical aspects of textuality , such as spelling , punctuation and typography . |
| 14 | The political press , directed as it was to a small , literate and politically informed public , did not aim to capture its readers with an entertaining and interesting package . |
| 15 | They saw the growth of unemployment , related as it was to a deepening economic crisis , as being accompanied by growing state coercion . |
| 16 | Of all the uniformed organizations , the Boys ' Life Brigade founded in Nottingham by the Revd John Brown Paton , was the most distinctive in so far as it appeared to be non-military , committed as it was to the principles of life-saving , even though it had a BB-style uniform and a military command structure . |
| 17 | What they would not accept was that vain and dreadful C.P. Snow , whose appointment as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Technology was as insulting to the scientific community as it was to the Labour Party . |
| 18 | Mr Copley took an occasional service at St Andrew 's when Mr Smollett , the vicar , was on holiday , an involvement in church and village life which , Meg suspected , was as important to him as it was to the church . |
| 19 | And this just reinforces the ancient sexist perception that the word woman is somehow embarrassing and offensive ( as it was to the Victorians , who associated it with sex and low class status ) . |
| 20 | Obviously , when sport offers itself as one of the few accessible routes away from deprivation , as it was to the early slaves , it takes on an attractive quality . |
| 21 | In comparative terms the Courage income was not as crucial to the leading sides as it was to the Sudburys of the set-up . |
| 22 | LINKED as it was to the constantly shifting world of Soho , Minton 's personal life during these years underwent continual change . |
| 23 | Instead , for Bentham , there were only interests and , because the interests of the majority had to prevail , Himmelfarb noted : " The principle of the greatest happiness was as inimical to the idea of liberty as it was to the idea of rights . " |
| 24 | Erm , we 're coming as it were to the end of the first part of the proceedings , er , but , I 'd like to give a brief thanks to the er , C R group , that 's the Charities Recruitment Group , for the part sponsorship of this A G M Conference . |
| 25 | Erm , I think Yeltsin 's threat as it were to the Ukrainian is actually a diplomatic move , he wants Ukraine to remain within the Soviet Union , er and if it does so he 's not going to make an issue of the border , but , er , if it does break away completely I think what he 's saying is well there 's a frontier that we 're going to have to reconsider because large Eastern areas of Ukraine including huge industrial towns are predominantly populated by Russians . |
| 26 | This is very difficult because it means er it is a potential threat as it were to the countryside of the county . |