Example sentences of "[Wh det] [is] [vb pp] [adv] as " in BNC.

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1 Even more significant is the impression alluded to by both grammarians that the infinitive evokes a mere possibility here — something which is brushed aside as " impossible " , something which the speaker can not conceive as actually existing .
2 A substa substantial area of open land which is shown there as being within the inset of the village ?
3 Office equipment and vehicles are stated at cost less accumulated depreciation , which is provided so as to write-off those assets over their estimated useful lives , ranging from four to 15 years .
4 To see this argument as somehow cancelling what went before is probably to interpret the pamphlet according to modern and anachronistic notions of authorial intention , character utterance , and textual unity ( all three notions privileging what is said finally as being more truthful than what went before ) .
5 ( This assumes the behaviourist position that what is experienced subjectively as thought and emotion is identical with the behaviour , incipient as neural process as well as overt as bodily movement , which objectively is perceived by the senses . )
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