Example sentences of "as it [be] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Results of surveys taken in recent years in AIB have indicated that staff morale is low — as it is in all banks — and this can certainly be said for those in Britain where members have had to endure in the past five years a two year period of unreal thinking , the additional pressures brought on by the recession , the pressures brought on by short staffing and on top of all that the lack of recognition in monetary terms for their efforts in ‘ keeping the ship afloat ’ . |
| 2 | This particular form of controversy is well illustrated by recent discussions on karst geomorphology , which seem to have resulted in the general attitude that there are certain forms which characterise tropical karst , but that the effect of lithology is as important in tropical limestone landforms as it is in temperate limestone landforms . |
| 3 | Such permanent divergences in character have often arisen in the distinct races of a domesticated species , and in the wild they would be accompanied by an unwillingness or inability to interbreed ; for there , Darwin argues , the reproductive system , with the associated instincts , is not disrupted as it is in domesticated species . |
| 4 | More important , the constitution in Russia is not , as it is in other countries , a fixed and historically proven set of rules . |
| 5 | If habituation is involved in displacing preferences away from the familiar to individuals that are slightly different , then the learning process may be facilitated by the performance of precocious sexual behaviour which is common enough in humans ( Finkelhor , 1980 ) as it is in other animals . |
| 6 | A curious constellation inasmuch as it is in two halves , separated by Ophiuchus . |
| 7 | As a result , there were simply more same-sex intimacies and ones of greater intensity than we are used to in our modern world , steeped as it is in post-Freudian heterosexuality . |
| 8 | It was known originally , however , as the ‘ Darby and Joan pie ’ as Mrs Kitson thought that the pensioners of Denby Dale should have their own community centre , but the village hall which was acquired from the proceeds of the 1964 pie — known appropriately as Pie Hall — benefits the whole community as it is in regular use by a variety of organisations . |
| 9 | This has now become particularly important , since recent laws have made the disturbance or destruction of a badger sett illegal , so long as it is in regular use . |
| 10 | The Deutsche Bundespost Telekom has realised that it does not need a change in the German constitution to privatise its cellular telephone business , and has decided that as it is in keen need of cash for investment , it will go ahead and do it ahead of its own privatisation . |
| 11 | That should be an entitlement , as it is in local government but for some reason is not in Government dealings . |
| 12 | Furthermore , the relationship between literature and language in the structuralist view is not primarily a negative or oppositional one , as it is in Formalist theory ; in accordance with the basic principles of structuralist theory , the relationship between the two is one of parallelism , or , to use a structuralist term , homology . |
| 13 | This is as true in any detective novel as it is in scientific research or investigative journalism , and in supposing that the test-tube fusion idea had been overlooked for half a century we are already repeating a media ‘ factoid ’ that is incorrect . |
| 14 | In our hands , double dose omeprazole ( 20 mg twice daily ) plus amoxicillin 2 g for two weeks is at least equally effective in eradicating H pylori in gastric as it is in duodenal ulcer disease . |
| 15 | I urge my right hon. Friend to ensure that other EC countries emulate our far-reaching rules and regulations to ensure that there is a total ban on veal crates throughout the Community and that the transportation of live animals , particularly horses and ponies , inside the European continent is as stringently controlled as it is in this country under our domestic rules and regulations . |
| 16 | That is why we need history presented as it is in this book : not just as the brief flicker of time since the industrial revolution or since the invention of writing , but as the 40,000 years of modern thought and language , and the sweep of six million years since we were born as the third chimpanzee . |
| 17 | It 's hot enough as it is in this place . |
| 18 | The more esoteric or higher understanding of the reality of one universal , wholistic creative principle ( monism ) is embraced only by those who are able to transcend the confines of theistic involvement as it is in any country or civilization . ’ |
| 19 | The ‘ nation ’ is not as obvious a fall-back position everywhere as it is in those parts of the globe whose frontiers were drawn on Wilsonian-Leninist lines after 1918 , and neither is that old-time religion . |
| 20 | In some respects , temporary working in manufacturing is as traditional as it is in those parts of the service sector we have just examined . |
| 21 | For example , if aggressiveness can be undoubtedly shown to be an inherited trait rather than a learned response — as it is in those men with the extra male chromosome — we would be in a position to reject all conceptions which would produce an excessively aggressive individual . |
| 22 | With the show as buoyant as it is in these times , you will perhaps see why I have questioned his assertion that it is a local show and why I can absolutely refute the suggestion that we needed to discount . |
| 23 | He argues that creativity in advertising can not be as divorced from selling as it is in these awards . |
| 24 | David Profumo wrote in the Daily Telegraph : ‘ Heresy as it is in literary circles , I have to say I have never been taken with the work of the late Angela Carter . |
| 25 | This is the case in most spheres of public and private management and administration ( eg civil service , commerce and industry ) , just as it is in public relations , sales-promotion and the media . |
| 26 | Membership of your employer 's scheme is no longer , as it was in many companies , a compulsory condition of employment . |
| 27 | Insulated as it was in many ways from the rest of the country , fifteenth-century Sussex developed institutions which dominated its life until the eighteenth century brought other forms of change . |
| 28 | Here you will be transported backwards in time as you meander through the Victorian street , with its working craftsmen , and into the period rooms showing life as it was in Victorian times . |
| 29 | ‘ The demands , in a sense , were ridiculous for Television as it was in that time . |
| 30 | And look this grate here 's the same thing now as it was in nineteen O eight and I make a fire in it everyday but I have n't made it today . |