Example sentences of "as [adv] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the eighteen fifties and sixties , a generation after his death , the classical philologist 's separatism is something normal and generally unquestioned , and interplay between classical studies and life as a whole is an ideal as little in prospect as the " wholeness " of life itself . |
| 2 | Wheeler clicked his tongue , as much in irritation that the conversation should continue so long without his leading it as in deprecation of the mention of police , and past history discreditable to the Church . |
| 3 | She was as individualistic as Rokovssky , as much in love with her own competence as he was with his . |
| 4 | He saw it all reflected in the eyes of those blood-spattered gallopers and bears and lions and tigers and ostriches , all frozen in mid-stride , helpless witnesses of the terror they could not run from , and Preston trying desperately to escape from it , as much in terror of the mutilated corpse of Mary Moxton as he was of her murderer , and running from room to room and pulling open the last door of the last room and out into the night and down the long black tunnel under the railway line getting closer and closer to the grey patch of light at the end until , on the verge of safety , the figure would leap out at him in its bloody clothes with the meat cleaver in its hands … |
| 5 | The war was , therefore , as much in need of integration into psychoanalytic theory as were masochistic patients . |
| 6 | One can imagine that if Xerxes had been successful and absorbed Greece into the Persian empire , Greek archaic art might have crystallised in the decorative academic formulae which characterise Achaemenian ; while the threat and its repulse can be seen as the catalyst which released the spirit of Hellenism , flowering in the fifth century as richly in literature and thought as in the visual arts . |
| 7 | As elsewhere in limestone country , appearances deceive . |
| 8 | As elsewhere in Restoration Europe , the secret police served as a partial and imperfect substitute for parliamentary institutions by informing the ruler of the state of popular feeling . |
| 9 | Leeds has received objections to its own U D P which proposed new settlements just beyond the ten miles on the A A sixty four corridor as well as elsewhere in East Leeds . |
| 10 | As elsewhere in industry , this terrific pace could not be maintained and ultimately , when the Minister of Labour recommended the reduction of working hours to 56 , the Railway Workshop followed suit , so far as was practicable . |
| 11 | The traditional Grand Tour of the young nobleman had not yet even the Grand Hotel in common with the tourism of the capitalist era , partly because this institution was only now developing — initially as often as not in connection with a railway — partly because noblemen hardly deigned to stop at inns . |
| 12 | This regards the child as not in need of socialization or control , but basically er , good in its own right . |
| 13 | By this date Ludford was probably already employed at the collegiate church of St Stephen , Westminster , and on 30 September 1527 , as already in occupation of his offices there , he was confirmed in his appointment as verger of the chapel . |
| 14 | I have I think it 's an addendum erm to rewrite a particular phrase in the statement to become he died on the cross for the sins of the world and by his resurrection as already in print . |
| 15 | The great majority saw faithfulness as being as important as ever in marriage and condemned casual sex — more for women than for men . |
| 16 | Winterbottom , who led England out in honour of his 50th cap , was as vigilant as ever in defence and always to hand in attack . |
| 17 | And here came Aranyos , resplendent as ever in hussar uniform of scarlet , blue , green and gold , mounted on a grey of the Imperial Staff . |
| 18 | The physical manifestation of his manhood , as always in repose , appeared a shrunken , insignificant part of him . |
| 19 | ‘ I was obviously disappointed , but as always in football , I must look forward and hope I can quickly get back into the game . |
| 20 | A photograph of the artist is included , cigarette as always in hand , and every inch the debonair Frenchman . |
| 21 | This indeed is the origin of the word : the ‘ se ’ root of ‘ sex ’ means to cut or divide — as also in section , secateurs , segment — and sex is the great cutting of humanity . |
| 22 | Here was a creative writer of great historical importance in vernacular Italian , as also in neo-Latin ; one who played a crucial role in the promulgating of manuscripts of lost classical texts which embodied the ancient culture and could propagate that culture anew in his own time ; whose creative writing variously reflected the new access to ancient literature ; and whose overall achievement helped to ensure that classical scholarship , in its work of reclaiming the ancient world , became not merely a prestigious activity , but a central and formative activity in contemporary culture as a whole . |
| 23 | The NCC has identified this habitat as urgently in need of protection since only about 3% remains . |
| 24 | All records will be in their correct places and the file will be physically as well as logically in sequence . |
| 25 | When the blessed saint visited us in the church there , as before in vision , she came with showers of may-blossom . |
| 26 | The mean wealth per person is , as before in equilibrium , and the condition is once more implied by the steady state of the general equilibrium . |
| 27 | As often in heraldry , the Trusbut device involved a pun — three water bottles , or ‘ trois bouts de Wartre ’ . |
| 28 | We can have ( 52 ) but never ( 53 ) : ( 52 ) Lewis left the bag in a dark corner his short answer irritated her ( 53 ) Lewis left the bag in a corner dark his answer short irritated her In suggesting the elements from which an answer can be constructed , we should bear in mind that here , as often in syntax , to assume a single explanatory factor risks oversimplifying matters . |
| 29 | The appeals were made as often in sorrow as in anger . |
| 30 | As Keith Thomas has pointed out , ‘ This change in working habits constituted an important step towards the social acceptance of the modern notion of time as even in quality , as opposed to the primitive sense of time , s unevenness and irregularity . ’ |