Example sentences of "[adj] as is [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While high pay is not a myth , it is not as high as is generally supposed — but if you turn into a super advertising star , the sky 's the limit . |
| 2 | The closed-loop input impedance is easily found as To find the closed-loop output impedance , a source , is considered to be connected to the input in which case Assuming for simplicity that the feedback network negligibly loads the output and so from which the closed-loop output impedance is If further as is often the case , |
| 3 | Draft agreements in the UK are not usually as one-sided as is frequently the case in the United States . |
| 4 | It is difficult to say how much force is permissible , and the universal but anodyne expression ‘ as much as is reasonably necessary ’ does not give sufficient guidance as to the true state of the law . |
| 5 | It makes unarguable sense to concentrate materials purchases as much as is commercially desirable and to obtain supplies from as few sources as possible . |
| 6 | So they 've got to connect up as much as is humanly possible . |
| 7 | My gardening activities are , perhaps , slightly unorthodox , in that I make a point of growing plants whose flowers are known to be attractive to insects , plant flowers and vegetables together , tidy and prune only as much as is absolutely necessary , encourage plants , even ‘ weeds ’ , that give continuous ground cover , and rigorously exclude poisonous chemicals . |
| 8 | The popular culture of racism is neither so unified , nor the positions within it so fixed as is sometimes supposed . |
| 9 | Emperor Tetras are a quiet , peaceful fish and not as delicate as is sometimes thought . |
| 10 | These surveys are as comparable in content as is ever likely to be achieved . |
| 11 | If the phenomenon of mark up pricing ( alternatively known as ‘ administered ’ pricing ) is as widespread as is generally believed , what instruments of macroeconomic policy can governments bring to bear to alter — in this context , to reduce the real wage rate ? |
| 12 | Babies born to teenagers , especially those who are unmarried as is frequently the case in developed countries , and to older women with many children are often unwanted . |
| 13 | Moore does , indeed , somewhat notoriously , think that a beautiful object has some value in its own right , apart from consciousness of it , but he believes that this is slight as is also the value of mere consciousness apart from its objects . |
| 14 | Since professional development is a dynamic process , the training which some South Asian teachers have received in the subcontinent should not be condemned as totally inadequate as is currently the case in official circles . |
| 15 | Edward IV 's financial legacy was not as healthy as is usually assumed and the administration seems to have found itself juggling income and expenditure with more than usual anxiety . |
| 16 | Edward IV 's financial legacy was not as healthy as is usually assumed and the administration seems to have found itself juggling income and expenditure with more than usual anxiety . |
| 17 | Details may vary and certain climatic zones may produce more individual features than others , as was suggested above for the glacial and arid climatic zones , but it seems to be doubtful whether fluvially controlled landscapes formed in different climates are as distinctive as is sometimes maintained ( Stoddart , 1969 ) . |
| 18 | However , although these disanalogies were fundamental , Darwin 's theorizing had not taken him out of the causal , lawful , deterministic Newtonian universe , into one as irreducibly acausal and absolutely probabilistic as is sometimes thought implicit in quantum mechanics . |
| 19 | Political commercials might not be as persuasive as is commonly thought , but there are few doubts as to the importance of candidate appearances on ‘ free ’ news broadcasts . |
| 20 | The great triumphal arch is covered by mosaic as is also the apse ( 173 ) . |
| 21 | What about my freedom to eat a canteen meal in relatively clean air , to wear clothes that do not reek of stale tobacco and to breathe air as clean as is reasonably possible . |
| 22 | The information obtainable on the quality of a batch of items , intended to be as near identical as is economically achievable , is related only to the number in the sample . |
| 23 | The information obtainable on the quality of a batch of items , intended to be as near identical as is economically achievable , is related only to the number in the sample . |
| 24 | Back in Britain , the performance of the four regional companies — the Great Western , the Southern , the London Midland & Scottish and the London & North Eastern — that were nationalised in 1948 was by no means as dismal as is sometimes claimed . |
| 25 | Ideally , the golden spike ( or " marker point " as it is more prosaically called ) should be chosen in a section where sedimentation seems to have been as nearly continuous as is ever possible , where there are no marked lithological changes and where there are unbroken records of several different groups of fossils . |
| 26 | He denies his readers the pleasure of feeling superior , too : they must come to terms with Sylvia and her kind , who are not so rare as is commonly supposed , and a novel is a good place in which to begin the process . |
| 27 | But the process is not always as beneficial as is popularly supposed |
| 28 | These have a combined vibrating and rotating action , and come as close as is currently possible to the scratch-free appearance of hand sanding . |
| 29 | A Sun version of cc:Mail is already announced and Ami Pro and 1–2-3 as is also promised for DEC 's Alpha platform running OSF/1 ( UX No 398 ) . |
| 30 | After being in The Birthday Party , where everybody wanted their part to be as loud as is humanly possible , it 's quite refreshing to find someone who does n't even care if he 's on the record or not ! ’ |