Example sentences of "as [adv] [be] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 As hard hit as ever are the young school leavers with inevitably limited skills , now being made to feel they 're useless .
2 The thrust is shown on the map , Fig.7 , as also is the wide zone of rocks affected by the movements on the thrust plane .
3 The other thing that we mentioned last week as well is the moral message erm be it , safety factors to deal with , with children .
4 There is a nettle for a somebody — it might as well be the new Environment Secretary — to grasp .
5 Only a few miles , but it might as well be the other side of the galaxy . ’
6 The other factor as well was the high turn out in the election .
7 Such interdisciplinary co-operation in teaching and supervision is particularly valuable , as indeed is the international composition of the graduate student body .
8 As indeed is the stubby gear shift with the ultra short throw .
9 Meanwhile I am exploring the edges of a continent where most of its people are clustered and , except in city and suburb , well scattered where settlement is at the mercy of geography , as indeed is the peroipatetic topographer , constantly on the lookout for some assembly of landscape elements that can be turned into pictures and — because of indoctrination by a European culture — pictures of a particular sort .
10 Even a cursory look at gay history and culture suggests that the sweep and conclusions of his argument are questionable at virtually every turn , as indeed is the very notion of a homosexual sensibility .
11 The Catholic community , especially in the Northern part of the diocese was undergoing , as indeed was the whole area , a gradual process of change , having to come to terms with a broader view of Church and society which sat rather uncomfortably with long held views .
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