Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun pl] as it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the world of the eighteenth century almost everything went easier with the patronage of a great man , a fact which is as true of non-governmental posts as it is of those in the service of the crown . |
| 2 | Sgt Barnes ( Tom Berenger ) leads those who have accepted the brutalities of war as a way of life , while Sgt Elias ( Willem Dafoe ) leads the more liberal faction which is as tolerant of ethnic minorities as it is of drugs . |
| 3 | This is , however , a weak argument in support of indirect taxes as it is quite possible to devise a system of direct taxation that avoids double taxation ( as currently with tax exemptions for returns on Post Office Savings and National Savings ) . |
| 4 | It will be impractical to fix a levy that is as fair for the three million owners of normal-speed machines as it is for future owners of half-speed machines . |
| 5 | Despite its Exmoor origins , the Devon has proved as tolerant of hot climates as it is of cold wet ones and is now reared extensively in Australia , New Zealand , the USA , Brazil and Jamaica . |
| 6 | This discovery did not prove to be particularly useful because the metabolite is a mycotoxin and mildly carcinogenic , illustrating that toxicological testing is just as important for natural products as it is for synthetic chemicals . |
| 7 | Er , it 's difficult enough with foster parents as it is , without erm , reducing further the er , the allowances . |
| 8 | We thus tend to think of ourselves as machines , and when things go wrong treatment is organized along similar lines as it is for our machines — servicing , repairing and patching as dictated by the appearance of aches , pains and loss of function . |
| 9 | The metabolic rate , i.e. the rate at which calories are burnt , is the same in obese individuals as it is in those of normal weight . |
| 10 | Our data also imply that it may be becoming rarer in Western societies as it is difficult otherwise to reconcile our findings with the greater prevalence of H pylori antibodies found in more elderly subjects in Western populations . |
| 11 | And here is a final point from a female conference organiser : firm seating is preferable to deep sofas as it is difficult to rise gracefully from the depths to greet a colleague , especially in a fashionably short skirt . |
| 12 | This image seems to be as appealing to romantic capitalists as it is to millenarian marxists , both of whom see it as a sort of primitive grace from which the modern world has fallen ( e.g. Diamond 1972 ; Wolf 1981 ; Durdin 1972 ; MacLeish 1972 ; Montagu 1976 ) . |
| 13 | PVCu works especially well for coastal properties as it is impervious to moisture . |