Example sentences of "as in [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every hundred metres or so when we met the road zigzagging its six kilometres to the top we turned to the landscape : huge conical mountains with valleys that knit together as neatly as in a child 's drawing . |
| 2 | A slight deviation from the walking stance quickly puts a student into the taekwondo fighting stance , in which the body is slightly inclined to present less of an open target and the fists are held high as in a boxer 's pose . |
| 3 | The level of detail may seem much the same as in a catalogue raisonné , but the stress falls in a different way . |
| 4 | The strong forces between the particles would correspond to pieces of string that went between other bits of string , as in a spider 's web . |
| 5 | The two are mixed in the gun ( as in an artist 's airbrush ) and , given the correct air temperature , the resulting mist which is squirted out crystallises , falling as snow . |
| 6 | Ezra Pound 's long love affair with England , and his angry and wounded turning against her in 1917 or 1918 , can not of course bulk so large in an American 's sense of him as in an Englishman 's . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Sometimes the definitions can border on the eccentric : the American admiral who commands all his country 's ships , airmen , soldiers and marines in what the pentagon regards as ‘ the Pacific ’ — as in the admiral 's official title CINCPAC , Commander-in-Chief , Pacific — holds sway over an ocean which has its westerly shores oft Mombasa , and is arbitrarily cut off along a line running due south from the border between Mexico and Guatemala . |
| 9 | Yet by the end things have shifted , as in The Doll 's House where the children are too poor to be brought in to see the house . |
| 10 | SAS Institute Inc — it likes to be called sass , not SAS as in the UK 's Special Air Services — held its tenth annual European User Group meeting , SEUGI ‘ 92 , in Vienna a couple of weeks ago . |
| 11 | 's ( singular ) or s' ( plural ) as in the boy 's books = the books which belong to the boy and the boys ' books — the books which belong to the boys . |
| 12 | The scFv fragment is flanked by SfiI and NotI sites as in the vector pHEN1 23 , to facilitate the cloning of scFv fragments selected from phage display libraries 4 . |
| 13 | This was distanced from the earlier stress on Old Testament religious morality by its rationalism ; as in the story 's metaphor of electricity , wondrous yet calculable , which demonstrated the inexorable consequences of wrong-doing-disease , death and social degeneracy . |
| 14 | In this , as in the Institute 's opposition to uneconomic fee scales , the battle has been fraught over the protection of architectural quality . |
| 15 | It is merely intended as a very easy-to-fit deterrent which a car owner may use in place of an alarm or , as in the author 's car , the unit can complement an existing security system which previously had no visual deterrent . |
| 16 | Whereas written language sentences are generally structured in subject-predicate form , in spoken language it is quite common to find what Givo/1n ( 1979b ) calls topic-comment structure , as in the cats + did you let them out . |
| 17 | It also seems fairly certain , from the seismic wave speeds and from the densities based on the polar moment of inertia , that though the outer 300 km or so very probably consist largely of common silicates this detailed composition is not the same as in the Earth 's mantle . |
| 18 | As in the Miller 's Tale , most prominent amongst these is animal imagery . |