Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun pl] as it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any competent bush mouse , not to mention man or elephant , can step aside and contemplate the whole grass-roots frenzy at leisure , an object less of menace than of strangeness and wonder , the culmination of an evolutionary story as different from that of mammals as it is possible to conceive in this world . |
| 2 | ‘ I give my personal guarantee that this production of Swan Lake will be as magical for children as it is for adults , ’ he wrote . |
| 3 | As Okely ( 1987 : 67 ) observes , the urge to create publications is not always as crucial to others as it is to the academic . |
| 4 | This matter of cellulose breakdown is of vital importance to the whole question of the nutrition of the living cells , for it has been shown by experiment that raw cellulose can be injurious to plants as it is indigestible to animals , and in both the soil and the digestive tract of herbivora , cellulose decomposition is largely performed by fungi . |
| 5 | Is the appeal of physics the same for women as it is for men ? |
| 6 | 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 . |