Example sentences of "as [pron] is in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although most of these are CGLI craft courses , as there is not the same clear-cut distinction between craft and technician functions in agriculture as there is in other industries , many of the Institute 's schemes straddle the craft-technician boundary . |
| 2 | There is no reinstatement of the Sum Insured required in Marine insurance as there is in other classes of business e.g. fire . |
| 3 | ‘ We found as much wind in Germany , ’ said the memo attached , ‘ as there is in this pumpkin . ’ |
| 4 | The kitten 's signal is an invitation to the mother cat to inspect its rear end , so there is an element of subordination in this display , as there is in most greeting ceremonies . |
| 5 | But in my painting , the mother 's face is not , as it is in all similar images I have seen , pious and accepting . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | More important , the constitution in Russia is not , as it is in other countries , a fixed and historically proven set of rules . |
| 11 | A curious constellation inasmuch as it is in two halves , separated by Ophiuchus . |
| 12 | In Nepal , for example , receipts from tourism constitute some 46.4 per cent of export earnings and while there are adverse environmental effects of this development , as will be discussed below , tourism is an important source of employment , as it is in many developing countries . |
| 13 | They also insist that hunting is not done for sport , as it is in many ‘ sophisticated ’ countries , although they may admit that all forms of traditional hunting take on a certain glamour , especially in the minds of the younger men . |
| 14 | Clearly , however , where the overall number of speakers is small as it is in many sociolinguistic surveys , the number of higher-status speakers turning up in a random selection procedure which samples from the entire urban area will be correspondingly small . |
| 15 | But , in a situation in which an arboreal habitat has led to a reliance on visual cues and a generalized body-structure and postural suppleness , even the correct mating-position may not be obvious and automatic as it is in many other animals . |
| 16 | John has been getting to know the world as it is in 1992 , and coming to terms with both dramatic political changes and the way friends have moved on in their lives . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The constrained maximization problem becomes one where the level of income for the representative household ceases to be a choice variable , as it is in new classical theory , but becomes a datum , determined at the aggregate level by effective demand . |
| 19 | Rhythm in ballet is not therefore a mere time-keeper as it is in such social ballroom dances as waltzes and fox-trots . |
| 20 | Understanding is deferred , rather as it is in certain recent theoretical accounts of the way literature works . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But in a world where nature left to its own devices is as grim as it is in much of the Soviet Union , the belief that you can bend it on the heroic scale is unlikely to go away . |
| 24 | There were a privileged few who made the Grand Tour to complete their education and seek out Europe 's art treasures , but travelling for pleasure was not an accepted part of life as it is in Western industrialized countries today . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The majority of it is in private ownership but livestock are almost always excluded and regeneration of woodland is not prevented as it is in most of the upland woods in the UK . |
| 27 | In this example , such an endeavour could prove practically very difficult , as it is in most social situations . |
| 28 | That should be an entitlement , as it is in local government but for some reason is not in Government dealings . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |