Example sentences of "as is " in BNC.
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| 1 | They subsequently developed individual styles and separate interests , as is true of most groups of artists , but their initial appearance was defined by a programme . |
| 2 | The National Endowment for the Arts in the United States has been under heavy fire for its choices , as is usual for Ministries , whether in nineteenth-century France or the present-day USSR . |
| 3 | As is usual in such cases , the copy is not exact . |
| 4 | His own vicissitudes in love are a feature of the story he tells , as is his attempt to understand his disconcerting brother and to produce reflections on the meaning of it all . |
| 5 | The civil war was not fought over the partition of the island as is popularly believed . |
| 6 | As is often the case , some last-minute idea blossoms while what had seemed a brilliant solution and been pondered for ages falls quite flat . |
| 7 | The summer , which was a glorious one that year , gave way to a gusty autumn , and , as is the way with these things , after the autumn came the winter . |
| 8 | The passage from the Virgin to the Bride a kind of death , he wrote , as is the passage from bachelor to husband . |
| 9 | Guinness , a superb bitter-sweet beer , is naturally conditioned in crown-capped bottles ; all other forms are filtered and pasteurised ( as is the bottled version sold in Scotland ) . |
| 10 | Fancye and fresh as is the emrawde grene , |
| 11 | As is my usual practice , I pruned the first year 's growth back hard to produce several stems instead of just one , and I have been well rewarded for my efforts . |
| 12 | Applying the opposite rudder can not possibly cause the spin to reverse as is sometimes stated , unless the pilot is keeping the stick right back . |
| 13 | Move your arms as little as is necessary to achieve your purpose , and always move them together so that if the front hand is knocking down an incoming punch , the rear is executing a counter-punch . |
| 14 | Pare down your weight until you are carrying as little excess as is commensurate with health . |
| 15 | The Montreal into which Leonard was born was deeply segmented , as is Canada itself in its famous ‘ two solitudes ’ , the legacy of its Franco-British history ; a difficult dimension for those outside its rivalries to understand . |
| 16 | It is , as is so often the case in criticism of Leonard 's work , a travesty of Pope 's high standards , a supra-imposing of the critic 's personal standards not dispassionate appraisal . ) |
| 17 | The controversy surrounding the interpretation of Aristotle 's conception of form is unending , but , on all interpretations , his objective is to give forms as great an affinity with particulars as is possible , consistent with their retaining a sort of generality which is , so to speak , released in the intellect when they are thought . |
| 18 | A sample of the leaflet ‘ How To Cut the Cost of Keeping Warm ’ , with an entry form for the Icebreaker Award , is included in the pack , as is a sample poster advertising the Icebreaker Award . |
| 19 | The idea of ‘ care in the community ’ has developed over the past 20 years to encourage the development of services to help older people in need of care to remain in their own homes for as long as they wish , and for as long as is practical . |
| 20 | Price is a minor concern , as is packaging . |
| 21 | Both centre frequency and shift will be subject to component tolerances , but the circuit fills the bill as is for undemanding applications ; alternatively , present can be designed in to allow adjustment to a standard I.H shift such as 170 or 850 Hz . |
| 22 | They are slow and inappropriate , especially if time is at a premium as is most often the case . |
| 23 | The visual similarity in the detailed structure is obvious as is the regular nature of the rhythm ( Fig. 3 above left ) . |
| 24 | As is pointed in International Rectifier 's note AN-969m power mosfets possess advantages over bipolar transistors for ignition circuits , chiefly because of the high voltages then must withstand when used in place of a conventional mechanical contact breaker . |
| 25 | But if everything is political , as is often proclaimed , then nothing is ; one can invoke Saussure in the assertion that meaning is a matter of differentiation . |
| 26 | As is becoming well known , Bakhtin 's central ideas are basically straightforward , and prominent among them is ‘ dialogue ’ . |
| 27 | Swallow 's predicament is a very familiar one in British academics of his generation , as is his non-possession of a Ph.D. , that basic certificate of academic professionalism in American eyes ( and now in English ones ) . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | There are quite good educational reasons for believing that a diverse spread of subjects is more suitable for the late twentieth-century academy than the traditional single-honours degree , as is suggested by experience in America , and in Britain in polytechnics and colleges of higher education . |
| 30 | Yet Crane 's assessment of Williams still has its validity , as is apparent if we consider ( wearily , for it is the instance always cited ) Williams 's ‘ The Red Wheelbarrow ’ . |