Example sentences of "as [adj] [conj] in [art] " in BNC.

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1 As examples of the achievements of these minds , I think of the Gandavyuha and the Sufis ' planes of reality but there have been many others whose level of vision is as extensive though in no sense more penetrating or more brilliant .
2 The correlation between median age at first marriage and infecundity at ages 20–24 years is negative and as strong as in the case of proportion married at exact age 16 years .
3 The atmosphere of the East End was not as unpleasant as in the night hours , but there was an air of threat and intimidation .
4 Oh yes , there 'll be young bucks out there who see you as old and in the way .
5 The Tories ' share of the vote is not as high as in the 1950s under Winston Churchill , Sir Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan , but it now appears impregnable to attacks by the other parties .
6 David Stirling stipulated the ‘ discipline , cleanliness , turnout and behaviour ’ must be as high as in the Brigade of Guards .
7 Visual observation in the Auvergne uplands gave the distinct impression that autumn grazing levels are not as high as in the Welsh uplands judging by the height of vegetation in pastures and on more extensive grassland areas .
8 Although the reference to memory is not as direct as in the other questions it is clear that such decisions at the strategical level are based on memory in at least two separate ways .
9 She liked the nights in the country better ; the mixed smells of the town contained more human corruption : the health of animal dung 's pungency was missing in the ammoniac whiffs from the town culvert , and the touch of the air was never quite as lively as in the yard .
10 The past 10 years has seen an explosion in our knowledge of the molecular biology of cancer , and nowhere has this been as exciting as in the field of large bowel cancer .
11 You can enjoy the water in a small dinghy as much as in a luxury yacht .
12 And frequently , at the end of his life as much as in A Free Man 's Worship , you find him talking about nature in these highly personalized terms .
13 In fact , her target audience has always been the unenterprising middle- classes , in big private companies as much as in the public sector , looking for security in the form of a home , a pensionable job and a company car .
14 There 's a ‘ truth ’ of pop music to be found in the wet seats at Beatles or Stones concerts — as much as in the pantheon of Lennon 's songwriting , or the vicissitudes of the counter culture .
15 In the arbitrariness of their actions , in their trivial comic act of cowardice , lust and vengeance , as much as in the sheer ridiculousness of history , lie the seeds of desperation and heartbreak .
16 You will increase the chances of your report being acted upon if you plan to invest a substantial amount of time , at least as much as in the writing stage , on promoting your report .
17 Zone de Piedmont has a mountainous character often with steep slopes and sufficient to limit agriculture but not as much as in the zone de montagne .
18 But the success of the organisation lay in the men who ran it as much as in the formal orders ( set down in a minute of July 1942 ) .
19 They are to be looked for in our Western indigenous psychological explanations as much as in the domains of scientific pursuit which , as Riches notes above , are not themselves free from such ontological conceptions .
20 The idea that the colonies might be told to go their own way was not considered ; an administrative system was set up to make sure that the King 's orders were obeyed on the far side of the Atlantic as much as in the more distant parts of the British Isles — it was realized that he could not expect complete obedience , and in some respects the system was losing its impetus even by the beginning of the eighteenth century , but the shift from the Greek pattern of virtual independence to the Roman pattern of general obedience in the colonies had been made and there was no reason to think it would be reversed .
21 This exhibition and its catalogue were the first to show the whole spectrum of Czech Cubism 's attempts to create a universal style in literature , music , theatre and cinema as much as in the visual arts .
22 this has inaugurated a new kind of critical atmosphere and has been gathering conviction at the institutional and managerial level just as much as in the studios and in the discussions around art .
23 Do not arch your back as much as in the previous exercise .
24 The relations of the European States continued to be influenced in the eighteenth century , almost as much as in the age of Louis XIV , by the idea of the balance of power .
25 The leading element in this upheaval was the student movement , and although students became independently active in political life all over the world — in Eastern Europe and in the Third World just as much as in the West — the principal expression of a distinctive radical doctrine and mode of political action , which became to a large extent a model for the whole international movement , was to be found in the US , in the Students for a Democratic Society ( SDS ) .
26 In the second phase assets affected were worth 25,000 million forints ( as at March 23 , 1992 , US$1.00=89.5858 forints ; there had been 1.9 per cent devaluation on March 16 ) , three times as much as in the first phase .
27 One has always to bear in mind that for very many people in early-modern England — in the towns as much as in the countryside — the home was also the place of work .
28 Output has fallen and price risen , but not by as much as in the case depicted in Figure 5.2 .
29 When any number of heads of diplomatic missions were assembled in one place , even on the most innocent social occasion , there was always in the seventeenth century , as much as in the preceding one , a likelihood of trouble .
30 In the seventeenth century , almost as much as in the sixteenth , Russia was a very marginal part of the evolving network of diplomacy .
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