Example sentences of "as it [is] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 To attribute this to the ageing process per se is as foolish as it is to describe physical disease as ‘ your age , my dear ’ .
2 ‘ Anthem for Doomed Youth ’ has a completely different angle of viewing as it is comparing two types of death , slaughtering and a ceremonial death .
3 And although Jesus himself remains to a significant degree elusive , it is as possible to deduce plausible information about him as it is to deduce such information about Arthur , or Robin Hood .
4 It 's all good-humoured teasing and winding up , and for my part I 've long since ceased to care whether or not anyone regards me as the worst climber in the world or some sort of antediluvian relic with no rights to any opinion on ‘ rock climbing as it is done these days . ’
5 Some homoeopathic practitioners advise that patients should not drink coffee , or even tea , while under homoeopathic treatment , as it is considered that coffee in particular tends to inactivate the remedies .
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