Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [is] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is saying that this good thing , this knowledge , can be used — to tell us , for example , that Amis is not a Tudor writer : but she is rather more moved to say at the same time that it ca n't or can hardly be used , devoted as she is to the thought of a separation between , in this case , Amis 's friendships and politics , his life — and his art . |
| 2 | Here the spectator is much more ambiguously positioned , as he/she is by the problematization of representation and reality in Cronenberg 's Videodrome . |
| 3 | Only some of the leaves are stripped , however , as it is through the foliage that the vine breathes , and the cultivator must use his skill to decide which leaves to strip . |
| 4 | Based as it is on the north western edge of Snowdonia the centre is an ideal base for all kinds of climbing . |
| 5 | I do n't know how you normally do this for overseas payments : possibly take the rate of exchange as it is on the day of cheque request ? |
| 6 | Registration of title is no guarantee of boundaries , showing general boundaries only , although the clarity and accuracy of the filed plan ( based as it is on the Ordnance Survey ) is commonly superior to most of the plans you 'll find on the unregistered title . |
| 7 | It 's every bit as much grey men in grey suits on one side of the Commons as it is on the other , with occasional flashes of yellow from Mrs Shephard or Mrs Currie , flashes of grey sports coat from Dennis Skinner and flashes of who knows what from Sir Nicholas Fairbairn . |
| 8 | The value of EModE occasional spellings is given considerable support by the Belfast evidence , put together as it is on the basis of detailed observation of the spoken variety and real-time evidence ( Patterson , 1860 ) . |
| 9 | A word processor is a screen-based memory system which means that if you type a letter or a calculation on the visual display unit then press the print-out command , the letter or calculation will be typed exactly as it is on the screen . |
| 10 | I would respectfully agree with this comment , based as it is on the premise that the case can be brought within one or other of the paragraphs of section 82(1) . |
| 11 | It is not , however , as clear-cut in this country as it is on the continent . |
| 12 | No VAT arises on the reimbursement of such fees to the landlord as it is outside the scope of VAT ( Law Society 's Gazette ( 11 July 1990 ) p 14 ) . |
| 13 | This clerk is amorously alive and even experienced : — " " deerne love " " is as double in meaning here as it is at the beginning of Dame Sirith , and the same must hold for the semantically similar " " privee " " ; slyness is very much more the quality of a fabliau lover ( cf. |
| 14 | They are considering now short-term leases rather than sell on the market as it is at the present , and they are including the clinic in the buildings for which they are looking for alternative uses . |
| 15 | as it is at the Lyceum that there is kind of historically a certain amount of , not exactly friction , but I mean something that has |
| 16 | The machine tool industry meets the worst of the problem , as it is at the end of the manufacturing cycle and can not respond quickly either in recession or in a boom , because of the long lead-times involved in production and delivery . |
| 17 | I 'd like , I think as it is at the moment is erm is superb ! |
| 18 | ‘ This morning I 'm taking you up the coast to my house overlooking the Sound , and if the weather stays as good as it is at the moment we 'll spend the afternoon on the beach at Hornbaek , which means we 'll go right past Kronberg — we can even stop off and take the tour if it appeals to you . ’ |
| 19 | On section eleven , yes we are along with the Liberals , we are trying to maintain the budget against the government cuts , but do n't anybody get away with the impression that that is going to maintain the service as it is at the moment , because we are really to pick up extra pupils . |
| 20 | It is bad enough as it is at the moment . |
| 21 | No shaved from there back and then as it is at the moment in the front . |
| 22 | but he 's so opposed to the National Health as it is at the moment , you see Margaret a lot of these figures are being conned |
| 23 | So what is our verdict on the aircraft , aimed as it is at the businessman/touring market ? |
| 24 | It can be as difficult for them to adjust as it is for the individual in distress . |
| 25 | It can be as difficult for these people to adjust as it is for the individual in distress . |
| 26 | What remains true is that the responsibility for accounting standard-setting for companies is clear , as it is for the Government . |
| 27 | But it is accepted by physicalists of all kinds that the meaning or semantic value of internal states must be analysed in terms of their causal relations to stimulus and response , just as it is for the behaviourist 's dispositions , and is not something they possess in their own right , or of themselves . |
| 28 | Neither can it be forecast whether registration will be an essential prerequisite for the creation of in rem rights in the cargo , as it is for the creation of in rem rights in real property in the German Grundbuch or whether it will have a purely notice giving function . |
| 29 | Finding different ways to describe a miserable unchanging pattern is becoming as difficult for the car market as it is for the weather men . |
| 30 | As we have seen , there are distinct limitations on what can be achieved by way of conditions on a planning permission ; this can often be as awkward for the developer as it is for the planning authority . |