Example sentences of "as [conj] it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence , as in so many other traditional cultures , the victims of affliction are thus revealed as criminals ; in contrast to the situation in Samuel Butler 's allegorical novel Erewhon , it is not so much that sickness in itself is a crime as that it is a symptom and consequence of criminal activity . |
| 2 | If = .5 , then it is as probable that h is true , given e , as that it is false , since in the calculus . |
| 3 | It is difficult to relate the proposals in the review to prospects for services for elderly people , as although it is entitled ‘ Working for Patients ’ , the Review makes little mention of health care for individuals or particular client groups . |
| 4 | Thus an observed value ( Y ) can be modelled ( see Section 4.3 ) as and it is often useful to isolate these components . |
| 5 | To make it easy I like the Jones + Brother punch , as unless it is positioned correctly it wo n't work , so you avoid punching a hole accidentally in the wrong place . |
| 6 | In particular , attention has been directed to such questions as whether it is being dismantled or whether its frontiers are being narrowed by privatisation . |
| 7 | I may look into the cost , work involved and practicalities of doing it mainly electronically as well as whether it is worth starting it at this stage of the season . |
| 8 | God 's grace can be as much misused when it is wrongly applied to those who are oversensitive as when it is completely forgotten by those who are insensitive . |
| 9 | To use patter ‘ B ’ the programming will be the same as when it is on a mylar sheet . |
| 10 | On the earlier electronics , you ca n't use the double-length switch on the 580 and modular electronics , the knitting sequence is the same as when it is not in use . |
| 11 | My head feels as though it is on fire . |
| 12 | The Corrado feels subjectively as though it is screwed together just a little more tightly but neither car suffers from rattles or shakes . |
| 13 | Now party influence looks as though it is again on the wane . |
| 14 | Also the end must feel as though it is an end . |
| 15 | But despite the fact that at first sight the novel looks as though it is going to offer a fairly conventional , though well-written account of an actual incident , this is not a book from which to learn about Russian history . |
| 16 | The Scottish Fold cat appears as though it is permanently in the act of lowering its ears . |
| 17 | At first sight , the filter circuit may appear conventional but the presence of the diode D1 is unconventional and it seems as though it is going to be switched off all the time anyway , the anode ( a ) always being at zero potential . |
| 18 | It is a phrase which often brings a gentle shiver of recognition — as though it is a truth we had always known but had long forgotten ; a truth concealed within our own hearts . |
| 19 | Sending a typed letter , or at least one that looks as though it is typed , so it looks personalised . |
| 20 | But we interpret it as though it is like ‘ Now I 'm sweating ’ , except that what is reported is a mental and not a bodily process . |
| 21 | When at rest during the daytime , the animal looks as though it is wrapped in a camouflaged fur blanket that matches the bark of the branch to which it clings , head uppermost . |
| 22 | Yet the government still acts as though it is business as usual . |
| 23 | Credit sounds as though it is something already on your side of the balance sheet . |
| 24 | The whole creature , as a result , looks as though it is divided into segments , but in fact these separate living packets of eggs are quite different from the permanent internal compartments of a truly segmented creature like an earthworm . |
| 25 | This one uses the word niveau , which he does not know , as though it is an English word , one of those border-hopping words like ambience . |
| 26 | The dye garden may look as though it is full of weeds , but most of them are only wild plants under another name . |
| 27 | When the light is distorted in this way , the star looks as though it is in the wrong position in the sky . |
| 28 | In N. emarginata this character behaves as though it is controlled by genes ( or by a block of very tightly linked genes ) acting through a single locus . |
| 29 | The trouble is that the promoter can then bowdlerise or doctor the final version that appears before the House , and it is presented as though it is objective , but is it really objective ? |
| 30 | They have also been introduced earlier on measures and Ministers have come forward , as though it is a matter of no significance , to recommend new guillotine procedures , some in novel circumstances . |