Example sentences of "as is [adv] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | as earlier as is reasonably to do so |
| 2 | These suffer from the further problem of treating all deprivation as relative and scaling all measures to the same variance ( as is also done for the index of an ‘ area 's social conditions ’ used in the assessment of GRE ) . |
| 3 | One may choose to adopt a broadly aesthetic approach to texts , as is often done , perfectly appropriately , but one then encounters what seems to me a potentially disabling contradiction . |
| 4 | The fact that , for Moore , the value of a thing follows necessarily from its intrinsic nature , from what it is like , makes it a little misleading to say , as is often done , that it is supposed to be always an open question whether something characterised in terms of its natural , or metaphysical , properties is good or not , and that this is his chief reason for regarding good as indefinable . |
| 5 | These distinctions make it important that we do not confuse , as is often done in the linguistic and philosophical literature , the categories of addressee and hearer . |
| 6 | Tip : Decor materials can be sealed with matt or gloss polyurethane vanish , as is sometimes done to bogwood . |
| 7 | If , as is sometimes done , things are assimilated to events , we can speak of particulars as events , and of the latter as being " temporal " in the sense that every event exhibits a pattern of change in some direction , and can be said to occur simultaneously with , or before , or after , some other event . |
| 8 | Furthermore , it is , I shall argue , no less mistaken to regard experiences , as is sometimes done , as being analogous to " logical states " of certain sophisticated machines ; unless such machines are endowed with so many human characteristics ( including the capacity of " empathetic imagination " ) that a comparison becomes trivial , and the word " machine " no longer means what it ordinarily means . |
| 9 | It is not of course sufficient to obtain an order to say that the facts alleged are wrong , as is sometimes done , because that is a matter to be decided on a hearing . |
| 10 | The reason for this is because the requirements of continuously scanning the screen , as is usually done for a lightpen , would slow the games down too much . |