Example sentences of "as is [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 But , as one eminent Scottish judge pointed out in MacCormick v Lord Advocate ( above ) , why should it be assumed that successive reconstituted Parliaments at Westminster have inherited the attribute of ‘ sovereignty ’ peculiar ( and , as is above suggested , perhaps with a limited meaning even then ) to the English Parliament .
2 That principle must also be applied here , since to require a company incorporated under the law of one member state , which has its registered office , central administration or principal place of business in that member state ( within the meaning of article 58 ) , or even in another member state , to transfer its principal place of business to the member state where a certain activity , such as fishing , is to be carried on , deprives that company of the possibility of exercising its right of establishment through the setting up of agencies , branches or subsidiaries , as is expressly provided for in the second sentence of the first paragraph of article 52 .
3 It must be greater than unity unless all the molecules are of equal length , as is easily seen .
4 ‘ Their effect will be to require the same accuracy of description in relation to property sales as is already required of sellers of goods and other service providers .
5 Other mitigating measures could involve the encouragement of private concerns to develop their own plantations , as is already occurring on a small scale , not only in the rainforest regions but also in savanna regions where Eucalyptus is being successfully cultivated to provide fuelwood and poles .
6 And this need not be just the prerogative ( and burden ) of leaders but develop into a healthy mutuality between lay people , as is already happening in various parts of the Church .
7 More recently there have been letters and articles predicting a world population of 15 billion , but no account has been taken of the fact that between 10 and 25 per cent could die of AIDS in the next twenty years , as is already happening in parts of Africa .
8 As is already happening in electrochemical technology , the provision of product packages , backed by technical expertise and know-how , could well point the way to the future .
9 As is already known , a high proportion of our samples had died or gone into institutions one year from their referral to the psychogeriatrician .
10 as earlier as is reasonably to do so
11 The size or shape of a Consignment necessitates the use of a vehicle of greater carrying capacity than the weight of the Consignment would otherwise require , in which case the tonnage rate shall be computed upon and apply to the carrying capacity of such vehicle as is reasonably required .
12 Actually the Voice is Gandalf 's , as we might have guessed from its asperity , and as is anyway confirmed at II , 99 : it may seem fair enough to let a wizard oppose a necromancer .
13 If the phenomenon of mark up pricing ( alternatively known as ‘ administered ’ pricing ) is as widespread as is generally believed , what instruments of macroeconomic policy can governments bring to bear to alter — in this context , to reduce the real wage rate ?
14 As is generally known , true Marxism lies in the fact that he examines models of production and their superstructure from the standpoint of their specific historical features ( model features ) .
15 If , as is generally agreed , it is not Parliament itself which governs , to what extent is the Government itself , minister , civil servants , and the whole apparatus of the state , actually accountable and answerable to the Commons , and so in principle controllable by it ?
16 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 .
17 Franz Dornseiff — a German scholar who proved his courage and independence in difficult times — tried hard to persuade us that it was in fact authentic Greek poetry of the sixth century B.C. He also tried to show that a long description of the Jews attributed by Photius to Hecataeus of Miletus was really composed by this late sixth-century writer , and not ( as is generally admitted ) by the younger Hecataeus of Abdera who lived after Alexander .
18 As is widely observed , rationalist philosophy paved the way for a reexamination of women 's place in society and in the family If Locke could subject the divine right of kings to a critical examination , the rights of husbands were likewise vulnerable to a reasoned critique .
19 This urge is not merely the nostalgic ‘ village patriotism ’ of a dwindling breed who remember Palestine before 1948 , as is widely believed in Israel .
20 The former communist states of eastern Europe are not suffering as badly from pollution as is widely believed , according to a study by Professor Gordon Hughes of Edinburgh University .
21 However , as is widely attested , irrespective of minimum wages , women do tend to earn less than men in the First as well as the Third World .
22 This is not entirely explained by huge increases in population , as is widely propagated by the mass media and widely believed .
23 As is widely known , results showed that those in the experimental group were more likely to remain at home than those in the control group , that the scheme held no cost disadvantages , that levels of subjective stress in carers were reduced , and that there were ‘ significant improvements in a range of indicators of subjective well-being and quality of care ’ for the clients in the experimental group compared with the control group .
24 As is widely known , the race never happened .
25 As is widely known , Jack Lang is a staunch supporter of President Mitterrand , an important factor in the current protective government formed by Pierre Bérégovoy around the head of State .
26 To conclude : we have found that the industrial co-operative , in a market economy , is a fully effective form of organisation for production or provision in the United Kingdom as in other liberal democracies ; that there is no necessary reason to attach to it limitations of size or kind ; and that the general adoption of the form would import into the national economy such a structural change as is urgently needed to resolve the problem , ominous and intractable , of securing near-full employment without inflation at other than an insignificant rate .
27 In fact , as is clearly illustrated by this data , inequalities are relatively consistent throughout childhood .
28 Normal locomotion involves local reflexes , however , as is clearly shown in Carausius ( Wendler , 1964 ) .
29 Dickens chooses his characters and their names very carefully as is clearly shown with the character of Pip .
30 What are the rules/options regarding pension age for women if , as is increasingly becoming the case , this has recently been raised to bring it in line with male pension age ?
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