Example sentences of "as it [be] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're in plenty enough trouble as it is over this deal . ’ |
| 2 | Edwards noted in 1977 that ‘ reorganisation in Scotland , based as it is on small authorities , is unlikely to do much to stimulate development ’ . |
| 3 | Dark as it is on this patch of forgotten ground , I can see the eagerness in his eyes . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | As a method of developing pupils ' skills in speaking and listening , drama is as important within secondary school learning as it is at primary level . |
| 6 | Erm , it could have been spread out over the whole twenty five years as it is with other products , but in life assurance at the moment , it 's out of those first four years . |
| 7 | The depraved state of women in monogamy , associated as it is with private property and capitalism , will according to him , be replaced when capitalism is overthrown . |
| 8 | It is not as easy to switch clerical workers around or to replace them as it is with manual workers . |
| 9 | University sport , these days , is as much concerned with ‘ wellness ’ as it is with competitive results . |
| 10 | Those familiar with hand-jamming will find this quite accommodating , well-furnished as it is with excellent placements . |
| 11 | Once the window is opened , though , however , small the gap , the insulation value will be lost , as it is with thermal insulation . |
| 12 | Each one should be cleaned , inside and out — it is just as effective for those hard-to-reach molars as it is for front teeth . |
| 13 | The secure knowledge of a parent 's presence is the precondition for such exploration , as it is for satisfying curiosity and for sharing new experiences . |
| 14 | It will be impractical to fix a levy that is as fair for the three million owners of normal-speed machines as it is for future owners of half-speed machines . |
| 15 | If this seems too scandalous an idea , as it is for many people , it can be modified without damage to Freud 's other theories , and the cultures of human societies may be seen as transmitting the repressed material of earlier generations to the present one . |
| 16 | This discovery did not prove to be particularly useful because the metabolite is a mycotoxin and mildly carcinogenic , illustrating that toxicological testing is just as important for natural products as it is for synthetic chemicals . |
| 17 | But this is so different to what I 'd been doing as it is for most people . |
| 18 | This is as true for print-on-paper publishers who may deliver products in hard copy but invariably originate electronically , as it is for electronic information traders who both originate and deliver their products in electronic form . |
| 19 | The ‘ look ’ in this stratum is as considered and serious a matter as it is for any Sloane , and just as rigid . |
| 20 | Nor can potential school achievement or social competence be directly linked to levels of sight : pupils with little or no sight have shown that they can achieve well in school , be independent and happy , since the interaction of the child and the learning environment is as significant for them in helping to achieve these goals as it is for any pupil in school . |
| 21 | For those theses who have only one recorded citation , the citation period is zero , as it is for those theses whose citations all fall within a single year . |
| 22 | When Austin 's views are challenged , Petrey almost always comes down on Austin 's side ( the one obvious exception is that Petrey , unlike Austin , believes that speech-act theory is as relevant to literature , and to written language in general , as it is to spoken language ) . |
| 23 | Sometimes dismissed as a fringe activity ( ‘ an educational frill ’ ) , listening to music is clearly as important to as many children as it is to many adults . |
| 24 | In general , Highlander have found that it is unwise to place too much reliance on Government funding for support , subject as it is to political whim and shifts of policy of the administration . |
| 25 | Accordingly , in Clarence ( 1888 ) 22 QBD 23 , a woman 's agreement to sexual intercourse with her husband meant that , surprising as it is to modern ears , he was not guilty of inflicting grievous bodily harm when he infected her with VD . |
| 26 | We have an infrastructure that 's been built up over twenty years so er and you 've read our brochure and I hope it 's it was as impressive to you as it is to most people . |
| 27 | On this personal level he is aware that change happens all the time and what is important to him , as it is to any composer , are ‘ those moments when people come up to me and say , ‘ this work has changed my life ’ ’ . |
| 28 | This image seems to be as appealing to romantic capitalists as it is to millenarian marxists , both of whom see it as a sort of primitive grace from which the modern world has fallen ( e.g. Diamond 1972 ; Wolf 1981 ; Durdin 1972 ; MacLeish 1972 ; Montagu 1976 ) . |
| 29 | In June , regular services began from South Shore to Bispham , which became a major terminal of the Promenade cars as it is to this day . |
| 30 | In the longer term , as Alan Walker and Dulcie Groves show in Chapters 12 and 13 here , current state , occupational and private pension schemes do not take adequate account of women 's caring responsibilities and this is as true of women 's care of disabled and elderly people as it is of young children . |