Example sentences of "[adv] as in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rooms are lit by windows on the exterior and in the courtyard walls and the rooms themselves are laid out much as in a modern flat . |
| 2 | Food prices are much as in the UK . |
| 3 | And , Newby went on , the superior class would have their baggage wheeled to and installed on the train , tipping the porters in the process , much as in the time of the last of the Tsars . |
| 4 | Sexism rarely manifests itself so grotesquely as in the cohabitation rule , and hostility to it among feminists is virtually unanimous . |
| 5 | Course naturally as in the service this , this cost , this for yourself ? |
| 6 | The poems are intended to be read aloud as in the late middle ages , a period to which Darras is keenly attracted because national and linguistic boundaries had not yet hardened . |
| 7 | It matters not that those others sought , however strongly , to persuade the patient to refuse , so long as in the end the refusal represented the patient 's independent decision . |
| 8 | To speak in the same right tones , a causal circumstance can be said to comprise everything needed so as in a way to guarantee its effect . |
| 9 | That 's a lot of people , so as in the nature of things , dieting became big business with faddy diets and weight-loss systems abounding . |
| 10 | The connectives may be separate and distinct throughout the body as in Machilis and Corydalis , or in the thorax only as in the Orthoptera , Coleoptera and many Lepidopteran larvae , but usually they are so closely approximated as to form a single longitudinal cord . |
| 11 | The unstressed syllables , although unstressed , do not get squeezed together as in a stress timed language , but are still distinctly pronounce . |
| 12 | The ‘ music ’ consists of orchestrated voices , that is , single or groups of high , low , harsh or shrill voices balanced together as in the orchestration of a symphony . |
| 13 | Many were two-storeyed and followed a custom not familiar in the classical period of Greece in that two orders appeared on the front colonnade , Doric on the ground floor and Ionic above as in the rebuilt Stoa of Attalos II of Pergamon in the agora of Athens ( 38 ) . |
| 14 | Between the lamps , just as in a proper home , was a pair of framed photographs . |
| 15 | Within the cloud itself , violent currents are at play , sweeping round and round in tight convulsive cells , just as in a thundercloud . |
| 16 | There were some contradictions in their stated motives just as in a previous ‘ chuguo chao ’ . |
| 17 | Here , works of different kinds can be shown in spiritual unity , just as in a church a fourteenth-century painting is perfectly compatible with a baroque altar . |
| 18 | For the present , let us note that in Marx 's view of history as a dialectical process , just as in a society whose mode of production was feudal , with its ‘ contradictions ’ , a ruling class of landowners had been overthrown by an exploited peasantry , so too in a society whose mode was bourgeois would the capitalists be overthrown by the proletariat . |
| 19 | That is , just as a county council in eighty five , all the councillors are up for re-election just as in a parliamentary general election , yeah ? |
| 20 | Just as in a previous era an official ‘ gentling of the masses ’ by way of induction into a culture of civilization had accompanied the educational and political entry of the working classes into citizenship within the nation , so now assimilation into an imagined British national culture and way of life became the preoccupation of the educational establishment ( Open University , 1974 ; Jones and Kimberley , 1982 ) . |
| 21 | In the event , women 's proportionately larger brain was taken as evidence of their childlike physiology , just as in a similar manner women 's recognised capacity to read faster and remember more was interpreted as shallowness . |
| 22 | People will understate how much they value the good in order to reduce their own payments , just as in a private market . |
| 23 | In Western civilization this has generally been considered to be Christianity , as this is the religion which has most powerfully moulded the values and beliefs on which society is based , just as in a Muslim country for example the religion to be handed on would be Islam . |
| 24 | This gain is accompanied by dispersion , just as in a laser , which is such as to reduce the frequency interval between two modes lying either side of the pump frequency ( mode-pulling ) . |
| 25 | Let me just , just show you a little thing here just enclosing , just linking it up there , there it is , it 's , it 's a well known little picture , it 's a picture of a wheel where there in the centre the hub is Christ , you see when the hub has got to be the centre otherwise the wheel does not run true and there with Christ is the hub , the centre of your life , the centre of my life , and you and I our lives our selves , there on the outside , were the rim and there 's those spokes that hold it together and make it run true the spoke of , of the bible , God 's word allowing him to speak to us , the spoke of prayer , our communion with God , our praying to him , the spoke of obedience following him obeying him , bringing our lives into , into line with what he says in his word , he says if you love me you will keep my commandments , that 's why we 've got to learn and get to know them from his word and then the spoke of fellowship somebody as likened them to prayer , being like air , our breath , the bible being like food , giving us nourishment and strength , fellowship , it 's the family situation and in just as in a nature family there is , that is the place for care , it 's the place for support it 's the place of sharing , it 's the place of love , where it should be , so God 's family , and then the final one their obedience like exercise , keeping fit , it 's the callisthenics , it 's keeping the muscles toned , obeying what he tells us in his word , well that 's what it means to be a Christian bringing ourselves into line with him and allowing him to re-fashion us in his image and it 's a process that 's going on all the time , Wesley and his hymn talks about us being used and the scripture being changed from glory into glory , till in heaven we take our place there , like him , John says when we see him , we shall be like him , but we shall see him as he is and that 's God 's purpose for you and for me , to be like him , and the moment we come to him and respond to him , the process starts and it goes on , day in , day out , night in , night out , week in , week out , over the years him changing and fashioning us into the image of his son , because that 's how he created us originally , he created to be like him and in this new creation , we were singing we are a new creation , it 's to be like him . |
| 26 | The contractors who mainly tender for local authority contracts would continue to do so , just as in the 1930s , when private building was unrestricted , they built close on 100,000 council houses annually . |
| 27 | The one fact which does stand out is this : in the creation of the Victorian town , just as in the life of the ancient universities , in the spread of learning and in the writing and publishing of Victorian literature , Nonconformists were a vital element in English life wielding an importance far beyond their numbers . |
| 28 | It may not yet be the FBI but , just as in the movies where the American flag stands behind the FBI chief 's desk , Mr Mullett has already propped the Union flag against the wall . |
| 29 | For these young children the haunted house gained in significance as they tackled the immediate problem of the bloody-minded landlord — just as in the ‘ prostitution , lessons a more respectful attitude to the problems of prostitution grew as the adolescents actually centred their attention on ‘ where poverty can hurt , . |
| 30 | But just as in the case of advice , and for the very same reasons , such grounds for recognizing the authority of another , even though sometimes good , are always deviant grounds . |