Example sentences of "[noun] and [noun] as it [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Research is paraded as strongly by many journalists and novelists as it is by sociologists . |
| 2 | The future is a plate of steel floor covering that creaks and whistles as it is dragged clear of the supports to which it was bolted down thirty years before . |
| 3 | This is as true in Scotland and France as it is in England . |
| 4 | This is as true of guavas and pomegranates as it is of maize and rice , as true of lettuce and asparagus as it is of cabbages and carrots . |
| 5 | It adds : ‘ The viability of this proposal will need to be further explored with the private sector and others as it is too early at this stage to value the commercial opportunities a road might bring for improved coal and mineral extraction , forestry , recreation and other developments to defray construction costs . ’ |
| 6 | When it comes to desserts , it is not as difficult to say no the those of Spain and Mexico as it is to those of some other countries . |
| 7 | It is therefore a continuous enquiry into the relationship between teaching and learning as it is enacted in particular classroom contexts . |
| 8 | This is as true of guavas and pomegranates as it is of maize and rice , as true of lettuce and asparagus as it is of cabbages and carrots . |
| 9 | This property is , however , not conceptualized as something in itself ( a kind of mystical link between people and things as it is with fully developed private property ) because it remains only an aspect of the social relations of which the tribe consists . |
| 10 | A great deal of importance is attached to planning and administration as it is seen as a time for problem-solving as opposed to task allocation . |
| 11 | This latter type of work , it is claimed here , is not logically as different from the work of sociologists and anthropologists as it is from that of scientists working with animals , plants or inanimate objects . |
| 12 | It is just as desirable to schedule pits , tips and earthworks as it is to schedule buildings and artifacts before uncontrolled enthusiasm hides them from generations . |
| 13 | This competition is not so much for food and territory as it is genetic . |
| 14 | But his new book is as comprehensively knowledgeable , caustically funny and subliminally alarming about western history and culture as it is about Iraq . |
| 15 | Mr Gates may yet make Microsoft as powerful in communications , multimedia , entertainment and information as it is today in software . |