Example sentences of "[noun pl] as it [is] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor can potential school achievement or social competence be directly linked to levels of sight : pupils with little or no sight have shown that they can achieve well in school , be independent and happy , since the interaction of the child and the learning environment is as significant for them in helping to achieve these goals as it is for any pupil in school . |
| 2 | In June , regular services began from South Shore to Bispham , which became a major terminal of the Promenade cars as it is to this day . |
| 3 | This time , the Third World has a lever of sorts in its willingness , or unwillingness , to co-operate , but one of limited value since co-operation in drawing up a climate convention is ultimately as much in the interests of the poor nations as it is in those of the rich . |
| 4 | Central heating can be as serious a scourge to fine old books as it is to fine old furniture . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | If it is any consolation , the whole question of arrangement seems just as much a problem for people with enviably rare and valuable collections as it is for those with hardly enough to call a collection of anything . |
| 7 | Each one should be cleaned , inside and out — it is just as effective for those hard-to-reach molars as it is for front teeth . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Erm , it could have been spread out over the whole twenty five years as it is with other products , but in life assurance at the moment , it 's out of those first four years . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | This particular form of controversy is well illustrated by recent discussions on karst geomorphology , which seem to have resulted in the general attitude that there are certain forms which characterise tropical karst , but that the effect of lithology is as important in tropical limestone landforms as it is in temperate limestone landforms . |
| 13 | Sometimes dismissed as a fringe activity ( ‘ an educational frill ’ ) , listening to music is clearly as important to as many children as it is to many adults . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | The female form — or imagery directly related to the female anatomy — is therefore as ubiquitous in Surrealist paintings by women as it is in those by men . |
| 16 | It should enable the employees to develop their interpersonal skills as it is on these the employees must primarily depend in preventing violence . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |