Example sentences of "as it [modal v] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not as much of a gamble as it may appear at first sight , there are general principles of how to cope with the system , some of which can be built into automatic safeguards and some of which can be conveyed to the operator as knowledge and instructions . |
| 2 | The role of management is not as simple as it may appear at first glance . |
| 3 | However , this limitation is not as serious as it may seem at first sight , since the thoughtful response may well be regarded as an adequate objective . |
| 4 | Daft as it may seem after three years of knowing Jim Bob , I still do n't know him at all . |
| 5 | ‘ ( 1 ) The Bank may , on an application duly made in accordance with section 8 above and after being provided with all such information , documents and reports as it may require under that section , grant or refuse the application . |
| 6 | This is analogous to the 1970 decision of the House of Lords in Bushell v Faith [ 1970 ] 1 All ER 52 , in which a provision about voting rights , which had the effect of making a special resolution incapable of being passed if a particular shareholder or group of shareholders exercised his or their voting rights against a proposed alteration of articles , was held to be enforceable ; an article in terms that no alteration shall be made without the consent of a particular member would be invalid , as it would come into direct conflict with statute law . |
| 7 | This conclusion is not so unsatisfactory as it might appear at first sight . |
| 8 | Some LDCs have been reluctant to rely too heavily on foreign finance ( and investment ) as it might result in undue foreign interference and intervention by richer nations in their countries . |
| 9 | The establishment of such a correlation is not as easy as it might seem at first , because lead is only one ( and probably not one of the more important ) influences on the behaviour and intelligence of children , so that the correlation would at best be low , and hence require a large number of cases to be established at an acceptable level of statistical significance . |
| 10 | This was not quite as outrageous as it might seem at first . |
| 11 | This is not as heretical a suggestion as it might seem at first sight . |
| 12 | Implausible as it might seem at first , there is now good evidence that nitric oxide ( NO ) is an important endogenous dioactive substance . |
| 13 | Here we have an extraordinary influence wielded by two similarly structured and ( as it must seem to many ) identical educational institutions , neither of which offers anything close to a Continental conservatory . |
| 14 | A further element of Lele thought illustrates another common principle of cosmological logic or , if you prefer , of religious symbolism : tribal systems of thought , and perhaps all closed or relatively closed systems of belief , tend to exhibit a strong and , as it must seem to some , edifying concern for tidiness . |
| 15 | If we look at the next slide , you 'll then see er , the change from net funds from operations , plus eighteen million , down to the various large reduction in borrowings , you 're already aware of and , of course , the erm , disposals less acquisitions as it should read for ninety one er , stands out there . |
| 16 | It comes in a slimline ‘ mini ’ tower casing , which is common among file server designs as it should allow for maximum expandability . |
| 17 | A friend has just told me that you should not wear tampons overnight as it can lead to toxic shock syndrome . |
| 18 | If this leaves the gripper too far from the desired point , the robot tries adjusting each joint a little in turn to see which adjustment moves the torch 's image most quickly towards the point I. It selects the most significant joint and keeps moving this one until the torch 's image is as close as it can get to I ; then it tries adjusting another joint , and so on , until the gripper is close enough . |
| 19 | Database technology has significance as it can assist in many of these problem areas : high-level end-user languages such as SQL can be embedded in standard programming languages to integrate data-base facilities with other functional aspects ; management of large volumes of persistent data , including such aspects as security , integrity , concurrency and optimization of access , is a central tenet of the technology ; multi-level architectures with mappings from logical to physical levels provide different views of the same stored data ; content-addressing can be integrated with navigation to give facilities as sophisticated as those found in information retrieval systems . |