Example sentences of "[is] [vb pp] [adv] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This Act embraces a vast number of persons holding public office of a specified sort ; it is amended regularly as new offices are created and persons appointed to them . |
| 2 | It is modified continuously as external data is received and transformed into information . |
| 3 | In a photoionization process , on the other hand , any energy from the incoming photon over and above that needed to ionize the molecule is carried away as kinetic energy of the electron ejected from the molecule ; conservation of linear momentum is generally accomplished by recoil of the ion formed . |
| 4 | Unfortunately they may also prove a hindrance if BSL is presented only as manual English , through the tutor 's adherence to English or through the other necessity of providing English syntax for deaf people one is in contact with , since ‘ it will help their English ’ . |
| 5 | Regarding this use , Jespersen observes that the bare infinitive occurs only in exclamations " in which an idea is brushed aside as impossible by means of an ( exaggerated ) interrogative intonation … " ( p. 328 ) . |
| 6 | ‘ And when the race is over , I 'm do n't mind where he 's finished just as long as he 's not been hurt . |
| 7 | With sales of unleaded now well ahead of those of leaded and set to surge even higher after the Budget , the survival of relatively cheap unleaded petrol is assured only as long as the Autumn Statement which from this year replaces the traditional spring Budget . |