Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] as it is [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The social structure of the society of the classroom seems to us as well adapted to be the nursery of crime as it is of ‘ good ’ behaviour . |
| 2 | I do n't know how you normally do this for overseas payments : possibly take the rate of exchange as it is on the day of cheque request ? |
| 3 | This is as narrow a view of critique as it is of musical response ( which in fact traverses the entire body , the activity of the ears being just as ‘ physical ’ as that of the dancing limbs or the sensating nerves ) . |
| 4 | We need periodically to consider whether existing methods are the best that can be devised for dealing with crime in the context of society as it is at a given time . |
| 5 | The idea is that all results are published and schools are then placed in league tables , so the main purpose of the tests is as much about the stimulation of competition as it is about diagnosing individual children 's strengths and weaknesses . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The use of stylistic criteria for dating coins should , in theory at least , be as valid in the study of coinage as it is in any other field of art history . |
| 8 | It is as important to be ruthlessly clear about the underlying causes of success as it is to be analytical about the basic faults which have led to failure . |
| 9 | The migration reversal is as pervasive across the socio-demographic characteristics of movers as it is across regions . |
| 10 | As the saying goes , ‘ a woman 's place is in the wrong ’ ; and this is as true of language as it is of anything else . |
| 11 | ‘ This is as much about ergonomics as it is about fashion . |
| 12 | Economic recovery is as much about confidence as it is about deficit financing , as the resolute measures recently announced by President Clinton have demonstrated . |
| 13 | Economic recovery is as much about confidence as it is about deficit financing , as the resolute measures recently announced by President Clinton have demonstrated |
| 14 | Economic recovery is as much about confidence as it is about deficit financing , as the resolute measures recently announced by President Clinton have demonstrated . |
| 15 | ‘ Economic recovery is as much about confidence as it is about deficit financing' |
| 16 | Because for some people it 's as easy to get into Newcastle as it is into . |
| 17 | However , the distinction between discretions and duties is not so clear in practice as it is in theory . |
| 18 | Gentlemanly distaste for ‘ trade ’ is as out of place in sport as it is in the Conservative Party of Mrs Thatcher . |
| 19 | ( Romaine 1978a : 156 ) It seems then that ( r ) is not the ‘ same ’ variable in Scotland as it is in England or the United States . |
| 20 | ‘ That mercy should season justice is a proposition as soundly based in law as it is in literature . ’ |
| 21 | The problem of the observer is as crucial in biology as it is in physics . |
| 22 | Sussman and McNeilage ( 1975a ) argued that whereas receptive aspects of language are lateralised to the left hemisphere , production of language is not so clearly lateralised in stutterers as it is in normals . |
| 23 | Things are changing and work in public affairs will probably become as accepted and widely used in Britain as it is in the United States . |
| 24 | Lord Scarman has said of inner city riots that ‘ public disorder usually arises out of a sense of injustice , ( Scarman , 1986 : xiii ) , and as the Woolf report recognized , this is as true in prisons as it is in the inner city . |
| 25 | Well , it 's not as bad in Oxfordshire as it is in some other parts of the country because there are a lot of urban areas around here , a lot of people who want digs and accommdation , so many farmers who are on a main route , on a bus route , whatever , can in fact let their properties . |
| 26 | Our Father , our Father , which art in heaven , hallowed to be thy name , thy kingdom come , thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven . |
| 27 | Right so , you know , there are those who would teach that Jesus he would die for our sins and he 's forgiven us sins , but only those who come to him , Jesus died for the sin of the whole world , for every man , woman , boy and girl that has ever lived or ever will live , he died for the sin of the whole world , not just for those even who lived after his death , that 's why it talks about in the Old Testament people like Abraham looking for that day , and so Jesus who in , when he died , because he 's eternal , so we 've got the problems with time , God has n't got problems with time , he 's eternal and so his sacrifice , the sacrifice of him on the cross was effective for Abraham as it is for you , it was as effective for David as it was for Paul otherwise Abraham would never of had his sins forgiven because what happened with all the sacrifice with all the little lambs that were killed and all the goats and all the rest they only acted as a covering for sin , did n't take them away , it covered them , what for , until the moment when Jesus would come and would take those sins away and so when you think of David 's sin , his adultery and his murder , how does he get forgiven for that because Jesus died from the cross and he takes upon himself David 's sin and he takes upon him Abraham 's sin and Noah 's sin and Adam 's sin , just as much as your sin and the person who will be born in ten years time their sin also , all our sins er as Gloria just read there from , from one John to two they were all of him he has died for every one , well that 's his humiliation , hurry along quickly now his exhortation , the period from Jesus 's resurrection onward is referred to as to the , as the state of exhortation , now what does that term mean , well as Jesus according to his divine nature has always been , he was always every where , now in his human nature , before , be , sorry it 's not , it 's not on that one , but before he , he came to earth , he was every where , he was God , he was , he was omnia present that means he was every where at the same time , but he takes upon himself he 's su , he 's , he 's human nature and he takes upon himself the limitations and when Jesus is walking down second avenue in , in Jerusalem he 's not in Nazareth that 's why there were times when people came to er , to , to , came rushing out because they heard that Jesus was passing by , see he was n't there resident with them , he passed by , now he 's gone back to heaven and where is he , he 's in heaven , he , er whereabouts , where do you think Jesus is now , that resurrected body that was glorified that has gone back to heaven , where do you think it is |
| 28 | This is as much a story of internally generated reform and state genuflection to Oxbridge as it is of institutional conflict and change . |
| 29 | It 's not as far to Chester as it is to Swansea is it ? |
| 30 | The metaphor of ventriloquy is therefore as appropriate to criticism as it is to fiction , since object texts , like fictional worlds , have no autonomous existence . |