Example sentences of "is [adj] as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is unnecessary as regards persons whom the husband has not by his previous conduct induced to look to him for payment ; it is ineffectual as regards those who do not happen to see the advertisement . |
| 2 | During that time he sought inspiration and enrichment of the texture of the story in the surrounding countryside , in the paintings of Turner ( ‘ What he paints chiefly is light as modified by objects ’ ) and Romney ( ‘ I am struck by the red glow of [ his ] backgrounds , and his red flesh shades ’ ) , in the faces of women he met at dinner parties or saw by chance in a passing omnibus . |
| 3 | But I think conductors would not be the answer because what happens when the driver is smoking as has happened to me three times in three weeks . |
| 4 | Approximately that now I 've it 's very y'know woolly , most people do n't bother but you should really do the scatter plot to see whether a relationship is linear as opposed to something like that which would be curvier linear . |
| 5 | I think we 've all got used to , with some products at least , asking questions about how green it is , whether it 's recycled paper , whether it 's going to destroy the ozone layer , as well as asking questions like what price is it , but if we 're going to decide whether one jar of coffee is fair-traded as opposed to another one , what questions do we need to kn know the answers to , to decide that . |
| 6 | Generally the offence is straightforward as outlined but if an unlicensed pillion passenger on a motor bicycle persuaded the rider to take off his ‘ L ’ plates or the passenger took them off himself he would aid and abet the rider 's offence of no ‘ L ’ plates . |
| 7 | But the refuges of a mindless artistry which represents what is human as opposed to the social mechanism are being relentlessly hunted down by a schematic reason which compels everything to prove its significance and effect . |
| 8 | It is unnecessary as regards persons whom the husband has not by his previous conduct induced to look to him for payment ; it is ineffectual as regards those who do not happen to see the advertisement . |
| 9 | County are a tall , muscular team and their football , if not subtle , is effective as demonstrated by their fifth place in the Fourth Division . |
| 10 | The striking out is automatic as compared with Ord 13 , r 3(4) where the court has to give notice of intention to strike out where no action has been taken for 12 months . |
| 11 | The article is unmarked as regards spatio-temporal relations ; so the function of deictic reference is to set up a continual spatial , temporal and subjective opposition between proximal and distal relations . |
| 12 | Basic rocks form the other end of the spectrum , they contain much less silicon dioxide , there is no free quartz ( all the silica is present as silicates ) , but there is a lot of feldspar , and a great deal of pyroxene , olivine and oxide minerals . |
| 13 | The kindness of my Kildalton friends in thinking of me for their minister is encouraging as showing that no truly earnest , honest . |
| 14 | There was a murder two nights ago in a clunch pit at Muddington — that Jacket is in exhibit and she 'll want to get on with that Is well as coping with the usual heavy load . " |
| 15 | The Soviet Union fears the short , medium and long term consequences of bordering countries which are actually sovereign nation states — that is sovereign as conceived outside Soviet ideology . |
| 16 | Thorough cleaning of the sieve meshes is important as retained particles severely restrict the aperture spaces available for grains to pass through . |
| 17 | The tree is robust as indicated by its bootstrap values ( all above 93% ) . |
| 18 | Some empirical evidence is available as regards the first of these ; the present research seeks to assess what role syntactic input plays . |
| 19 | Guidance and assistance on filing procedures is available as required . |
| 20 | A good eye is essential as illustrated by the Mexican who practised for only 10 minutes before becoming King Conker , and the first overseas winner , in 1976 . |
| 21 | The decoration is lavish as befits a bejewelled reliquary writ large . |
| 22 | Logically , that question is otiose as regards the nationality and residence requirements if the court rules , as I suggest it should , that those requirements are in any event contrary to Community law . |
| 23 | That an agreement is void as infringing Article 85 |
| 24 | Sheppard still intends swimming at the Grand Prix Superfinal as a guest competitor as she continues the build-up towards the National Championships in Sheffield in June ; a meet which is vital as regards selection for the European Championships , also to be held in Sheffield , in August . |
| 25 | While the information is correct as regards a growing number of employers ' occupational pension schemes , it does not apply to the basic State pension . |
| 26 | O. chelys differs from O. abyssalis in the following ways : the radial shields are separated and recessed into the disk while those of O. abyssalis are contiguous and not recessed ; the oral papillae are contiguous and slightly angular ; those of O. abyssalis are longer and more spinelike ; the oral shield is pentagonal as opposed to slightly arrow shaped in O. abyssalis . |
| 27 | While this is true as regards the specific wording of the offence of genocide , it was pointed out in the parliamentary debate relating to the Genocide Bill that almost all the offences included in the Convention were in fact already offences under English law . |
| 28 | That figure is true as regards loans made in the 1991 fiscal year , and means 69% ( worth $1.8 billion ) of the contracts were won by non-Japanese companies . |
| 29 | However , a direct vasomotor effect of central neuropeptide Y on the nepatic artery vasculature , resulting in increased blood flow , can not be ruled out entirely and may indeed be the mechanism causing the observed effect on biliary secretion in dogs where the arterial component to blood flow is significant as opposed to rats . |
| 30 | The iron is made into a high-resistivity material by adding silicon , and its cross-section is laminated as shown in Fig. 4.15 . |