Example sentences of "as it [be] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Austin 's views are challenged , Petrey almost always comes down on Austin 's side ( the one obvious exception is that Petrey , unlike Austin , believes that speech-act theory is as relevant to literature , and to written language in general , as it is to spoken language ) . |
| 2 | Sometimes dismissed as a fringe activity ( ‘ an educational frill ’ ) , listening to music is clearly as important to as many children as it is to many adults . |
| 3 | In general , Highlander have found that it is unwise to place too much reliance on Government funding for support , subject as it is to political whim and shifts of policy of the administration . |
| 4 | Accordingly , in Clarence ( 1888 ) 22 QBD 23 , a woman 's agreement to sexual intercourse with her husband meant that , surprising as it is to modern ears , he was not guilty of inflicting grievous bodily harm when he infected her with VD . |
| 5 | We have an infrastructure that 's been built up over twenty years so er and you 've read our brochure and I hope it 's it was as impressive to you as it is to most people . |
| 6 | On this personal level he is aware that change happens all the time and what is important to him , as it is to any composer , are ‘ those moments when people come up to me and say , ‘ this work has changed my life ’ ’ . |
| 7 | This image seems to be as appealing to romantic capitalists as it is to millenarian marxists , both of whom see it as a sort of primitive grace from which the modern world has fallen ( e.g. Diamond 1972 ; Wolf 1981 ; Durdin 1972 ; MacLeish 1972 ; Montagu 1976 ) . |
| 8 | In June , regular services began from South Shore to Bispham , which became a major terminal of the Promenade cars as it is to this day . |
| 9 | Nearly 10 per cent of the Earth 's surface is covered by ice , which remains as terra incognita to climatologists as it was to 17th-century explorers . |
| 10 | Contact with less advanced elements might well fluctuate , subject as it was to constant police intervention . |
| 11 | They can be more selfless , more public spirited , more erm idealistic than they would be on their own , because the super ego can presumably erm influence the ego in both directions , it can make the ego erm transcend itself as it were to higher ideals and like someone sometimes sees this in , in group behaviour , but equally of course it can erm debase the ego by setting lower standards than the ego would normally accepted itself . |