Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] as it [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The area was highly unsuitable as it was considered a watershed for the Lee Valley . |
| 2 | TV missed the end of Empire , except for little bits like the Argyll Highlanders ' steamy evacuation from Aden in 1967 , but it caught the Vietnam War , the Nigerian Civil War , and so much as it was permitted in the Falklands . |
| 3 | Pitch , of course , gets progressively softer as it is heated , and similarly , since the rocks of the mantle are also at high temperatures — the temperature in the earth increases downwards at a rate of about 30 degrees C per kilometre — they can also be thought of as being rather ‘ soft ’ . |
| 4 | That might seem like the wackiest of wacky ideas but it becomes ever more fascinating as it is explored in a barrage of speculation , invective and anecdotes , all designed to prove that money , in a practical rather than puritanical sense , is the root of all evil . |
| 5 | To attribute this to the ageing process per se is as foolish as it is to describe physical disease as ‘ your age , my dear ’ . |
| 6 | He did not turn to the centre-spread of college colours until he was outside again , guessing that he would need the privacy of a crowded pavement in which to confront a discovery that was as chilling as it was unsurprising . |
| 7 | It can take a great deal of courage and confidence to challenge colleagues in this way , but as you will see by studying the Code itself , the definition and standards of conduct required are clear and unequivocal , even if putting them into practice is not always as easy as it is made to sound . |
| 8 | The town is full of Tyrolean charm , and the naturally extended welcome to be found in this corner of Austria is every bit as warm as it 's reputed to be . |
| 9 | This legitimation function is also its limitation in as much as it is tied to the prevailing ideology of the family which will inhibit the articulation of problems as structural , societal deficits : children and young people will become problems because their parents failed them . |
| 10 | Rupert Murdoch 's TV Guide could be in the strongest position , to scoop a lion 's share of the market , since it is already established , listing all satellite channels and as much as it is allowed in the way of BBC and ITV previews . |
| 11 | Well erm it , oh well I mean it is better in as much as it was sticking out like that |
| 12 | Second , this investment abroad was not financed out of domestic profits ; over the same period US business received profits from its past investment overseas equivalent to around 1¼ times as much as it was sending overseas . |
| 13 | The 1984 British Open may well go down as the Open that was lost by two players as much as it was won by Severiano Ballesteros . |
| 14 | If the Act is as good as it is claimed in their motion , why has n't the Government ensured proper funding for it ? |
| 15 | Each room has a colour TV — ideal for checking out if Italian football is as good as it 's cracked up to be . |
| 16 | Generally , though , management 's view of the process had become ‘ it 's as good as it 's going to get . ’ |
| 17 | Discerning Greeks like Thucydides ( i. 10 ) knew that the relative splendour of the physical remains of Sparta and Athens was no index of their real strengths : suppose , he says , that the city of Sparta were to become deserted , future generations would find it hard to believe that the place , an old-fashioned , higgledy-piggledy collection of villages , was really as powerful as it was represented to be ; whereas if the same were to happen to Athens , one would think that she was twice as powerful as she really was . |
| 18 | No doubt the journey back was as hazardous as it was coming . |
| 19 | Of all Derek Jarman 's written work , At Your Own Risk is his most militantly outspoken , as courageous as it is heedless , as intemperate as it is driven by profound moral injustice . |
| 20 | As the leisure industries move towards the heart of consumer capitalism 's new conditions , then pop 's sexuality is increasingly as controlled as it is exploited . |
| 21 | Your child 's imagination is as big as it 's allowed to be . |
| 22 | People see you on TV and give you a " celebrity " status that is as crazy as it is flattering . |
| 23 | This implied that only in the sphere of the mathematical sciences can the human intellect attain knowledge that is as objective and as certain as it is known to the divine mind . |
| 24 | Life is not as glamorous as it is cracked up to be on Tour . |
| 25 | ‘ All this modelling is n't half as glamorous as it 's made out to be . |
| 26 | We can agree that the city does not always look good , that mistakes have been made in its redevelopment , but we emphasise that the picture of the city is not as bad as it is painted . |
| 27 | ‘ The crisis in British education is not as bad as it is portrayed . |
| 28 | However , it is as naive to regard religious divisions as self-explanatory as it is to see nationalisms so . |
| 29 | Russell and Ann Mills ' flat is particularly impressive as it is located on the upper floor of the school 's west wing ( Plate 37 and Fig 53 ) and so extends up into the apex of the steeply-pitched roof . |
| 30 | The pole moved off with her straddling it , slowly to begin with , then faster as it was caught in a current . |