Example sentences of "as it is [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is hard for science to verify such an idea as it is beyond its scope to understand certain aspects of the unborn personality . |
| 2 | ‘ I know that sounds terrible , ’ he says , ‘ but the art scene in America is not as elite as it is over here . |
| 3 | They 're in plenty enough trouble as it is over this deal . ’ |
| 4 | Only some of the leaves are stripped , however , as it is through the foliage that the vine breathes , and the cultivator must use his skill to decide which leaves to strip . |
| 5 | These areas are of vital importance as it is through them that the majority of people experience ‘ the countryside ’ at first hand , whether for formal or informal recreation . |
| 6 | The nearest naked-eye star to the pole is Sigma Octantis , but as it is below the fifth magnitude it will be hidden by mist or moonlight . |
| 7 | ‘ New Eros ’ — carried as it is on an elaborately established sobbing and languorous rhythm , the word ‘ new ’ denies itself . |
| 8 | BSB is also committed to spending as much on producing new programmes as it is on buying from the BBC archives . |
| 9 | In fact his death made this unrealizable , although Engels 's book , The Origin of the Family , Private Property and the State , based as it is on Marx 's notes , was intended to be the one that Marx was unable to write . |
| 10 | Such an ambitious Tuscan confection surely deserves a cakestand , assembled as it is on a noble pedestal of rock , its buildings ( mixed plain and fancy ) composed of that porous tufa which looks much like sponge cake and which comes in all the golds , pinks , browns and mauves of the best Battenberg . |
| 11 | Modelled as it is on the a priori science of geometry , his ideal of a scientific natural philosophy is that of a textbook rationalist . |
| 12 | Before the arrival of the Packman , filling sprayers at Overy Farm was done in much the same way as it is on thousands of farms across the country . |
| 13 | ‘ My routine in practice is just as it is on course . ’ |
| 14 | I do n't know how you normally do this for overseas payments : possibly take the rate of exchange as it is on the day of cheque request ? |
| 15 | My ambition now is to move into film and music with Hysteria — which promises to be as big a success as Zabat — centred as it is on the passionate potential of Blackwomen 's Creativity ! ’ |
| 16 | Our comprehension , however , based as it is on observation , intuition , and guesswork is always only partial . |
| 17 | And that statement , given that such a book can never be complete nor , when based as it is on Burke 's volume , without error , is true . |
| 18 | Edwards noted in 1977 that ‘ reorganisation in Scotland , based as it is on small authorities , is unlikely to do much to stimulate development ’ . |
| 19 | It is difficult to accept Gandhi 's argument , based as it is on an evolutionary view of history , that mankind is continually moving in the direction of an utopia where ahi sā will prevail . |
| 20 | ‘ I once went to Japan to advise on a course , ’ he continued , ‘ and they wanted this bunker reproduced exactly as it is on the Old Course . ’ |
| 21 | Ralph Lauren 's trademark steed certainly is n't speaking the same language on a bootleg shirt here on a Brooklyn market stall as it is on Manhatten 's Upper East Side . |
| 22 | The often surprising results of the January Old Master drawing sales in New York revealed that it is just as easy to overspend on a drawing as it is on a painting , and conversely , that despite high prices for a few grand names , drawings still remain a little understood and modestly priced field . |
| 23 | The claim that on this basis the Greek fossils fit better with Australopithecus afarensis is certainly correct , but based as it is on primitive characters this conclusion has no phylogenetic significance . |
| 24 | A word processor is a screen-based memory system which means that if you type a letter or a calculation on the visual display unit then press the print-out command , the letter or calculation will be typed exactly as it is on the screen . |
| 25 | It is not , however , as clear-cut in this country as it is on the continent . |
| 26 | The value of EModE occasional spellings is given considerable support by the Belfast evidence , put together as it is on the basis of detailed observation of the spoken variety and real-time evidence ( Patterson , 1860 ) . |
| 27 | I would respectfully agree with this comment , based as it is on the premise that the case can be brought within one or other of the paragraphs of section 82(1) . |
| 28 | What needs to be stressed at this juncture is the fact that this historical moment , the focus of attention in this book , centred as it is on the literary production of an interwar French communist writer , marks only the first phase of development of French socialist realism , a phase characterised in the international sphere by an objective alliance after 1934 between Western liberalism and Soviet communism designed to counter the threat of fascism , and characterised in the French national context by practical collaboration between the PCF and bourgeois liberal parties . |
| 29 | Based as it is on " literary standards " culled from the nineteenth-century realist tradition , it does not envisage the possibility of " reflecting " the complexity of the historical process in anything other than relatively conventional and traditional formal terms . |
| 30 | 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 . |