Example sentences of "[adj] as in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A team existed before this as in February of the same year there was held at the Institute a cricket concert attended by a large audience . |
| 2 | This as in keeping with the style of the palace itself . |
| 3 | When the Home Secretary talked of the need for the Government to give a lead in tackling racial disadvantage he therefore saw this as in issue for the longer term . |
| 4 | There were only rare moments of poise and calm as in Henry Herford 's Qui Tollis or the choruses opening Sanctus . |
| 5 | In the Celtiberic Mountains of eastern Spain , the three-fold division of the Trias is as clear as in Germany and the cross-bedded , red " Bundsandstein " ( for example , along the Rio Cabriel , south-west of Teruel ) is exactly like the road.cuttings near Bridgnorth in the English Midlands . |
| 6 | However , arrested development may also occur as a result of both acquired and age immunity in the host and although the proportions of larvae arrested are not usually so high as in hypobiosis they can play an important part in the epidemiology of nematode infections . |
| 7 | British taxes on the ownership of a large lorry are almost as high as in Germany , at the top of the EC league ; the retail price of diesel is a touch lower than in Ireland . |
| 8 | Cripps gave his name to an era of austerity , queues , shortages and high income tax ( 9s. 6d. in the pound again in 1951 , almost as high as in wartime ) , flattening the peaks of the income range and lopping off any surviving Matterhorns . |
| 9 | Chichester , with a population approaching 2,000 , also had its substantial merchants , yet its wealth was matched by that of the prosperous farming community of the coastal strip and the South Downs , despite £5,850 coming yearly into the city from all corners of Sussex as the income of the cathedral dignitaries ; almost certainly the moveable wealth of the clerical establishment was proportionately every bit as high as in Exeter , where it equalled one-sixth of aggregate lay wealth . |
| 10 | In 1960 hourly manufacturing labour costs , including social security contributions , were around three times as high in the USA as in Europe , and ten times as high as in Japan . |
| 11 | Fevers are not as high as in Belladonna . |
| 12 | Although the rate of litigation in India was not as high as in Sri Lanka , interpretations by modern scholars of the Indian legal system provide some starting points for an analysis of Sri Lankan justice , and are worth pursuing here in some detail . |
| 13 | They know they must fill the empty space with movement , whether there is scenery in the background or where the costumes are at their simplest and the background merely a hint of some venue as , for example , in Symphonic Variations or Requiem , or even just shafts of light as in Monotones . |
| 14 | There is a slight indication of this in spinea but it is not as marked as in hamula. 5 . |
| 15 | This is commonly done where information needs to be transferred from one computer to another as in banking or for the operation of a fax machine . |
| 16 | Even when they are blanks , sightless as in sculpture , they focus the attention hypnotically . |
| 17 | According to principle 3 , on market practice , a firm should ‘ comply with any code or standard as in force from time to time and as it applies to the firm either according to its terms or by rulings made under it . ’ |
| 18 | Mild , persistent delirium , not as violent as in Belladonna restless with laborious dreams , muttering delirium . |
| 19 | Eliot 's linking of the savage and the city would never again be as prominent as in Sweeney Agonistes , but it would not be abandoned . |
| 20 | When labour supply is completely inelastic as in Figure 16–4 , income tax does not induce any distortion at all and there will be no allocative gain in reducing income tax rates . |
| 21 | However , a good fish meal with wine will cost as much as in England , and eating out is a lot more expensive than Greece ( though a lot better ! ) . |
| 22 | These include the introduction of a Northern Ireland curriculum for all children of compulsory school age in grant-aided schools , and a pattern of assessment criteria and attainment testing much as in England and Wales ( though the first key stage is to end at the age of 8 , not 7 , and Irish is to be a foundation subject in Irish-speaking schools ) . |
| 23 | It is here , as much as in psychology , that woman-centred theories of subjectivity are articulated ; for woman-centred theories look like humanist psychological theories which have redefined human potential as feminine potential . |
| 24 | Mr Ceausescu is certainly detested in Moscow as much as in London or Washington . |
| 25 | I think that nowhere so much as in London do people wear — to the eye of observation — definite signs of the sort of people they may be . |
| 26 | If , for example , a firm with its headquarters in London is running manufacturing plants in the UK , Third World countries and elsewhere , if it is using parts and even designs originating abroad , if its shares are owned by people and institutions of all nationalities and are bought and sold on the New York Stock Exchange as much as in London , why should its output and its profits be counted as part of the United Kingdom economy ? |
| 27 | The tacit assumption in Alexandria and Antioch , just as much as in Athens , was the superiority of Greek language and manners . |
| 28 | Black gravel shows the fish 's colours well , but has not caught on in Britain as much as in Europe . |
| 29 | They are very sensitive to cold air , as much as in Nux vomica which also has the aching bones and wants to be covered and in a hot room . |
| 30 | The lateral arm plates are wide and the area where the spines articulate is not raised up as much as in species like O. bidentata but is flatter . |