Example sentences of "as they are [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sexual feelings were there , and were overwhelming , as they are to many teenagers . |
| 2 | However , interventions with other agencies and community development may be as relevant at this stage as they are at earlier levels of intervention . |
| 3 | Perhaps the words of his ‘ Old Dialogue ’ ( Flowers for Hitler , p128 ) come from this time , overshadowed as they are with other meanings and claims : |
| 4 | By regulation 9 of the 1989 regulations , licences of right are not available in relation to semiconductors as they are with other designs ( such licences are normally available in the last five years of a design right ) . |
| 5 | The halls look like Dante 's Circles , packed as they are with anxious parents grasping their child 's schedules , trying not to be late for class . |
| 6 | There are many other activities and sports that are just as suitable for older women as they are for younger ones : golf , badminton , skiing ( cross country or downhill ) , croquet , table tennis , bowling , rambling , sailing , archery — anything that is , and continues to be , enjoyable . |
| 7 | In this test the sample is subjected to a periodic load ( or displacement ) , and a complex modulus is found which , for linear viscoelasticity , relates the stress — to the strain , these no longer being in phase with each other as they are for elastic materials . |
| 8 | The Crime Survey is a victimisation study and its main conclusion is one that has been noted , in a less systematic way , many times before : working-class crime is a problem , and it is a problem for the working class , since they are its principal victims , as they are of all types of crime : |
| 9 | Furthermore , thought and deed are not distinguished as sharply by primitives or children as they are by modern adults , and therefore the impact on primitives of the wish to kill and devour father(s) was as great , psychically , as the deed would be to modern people . |
| 10 | If knowing how to go on in a discipline is largely a matter of rule-following , it remains the case that the rules are as much socially imposed by the disciplinary tribe as they are by epistemic considerations ( Becher 1989 ) . |
| 11 | Using H-thymidine autoradiography , Deschner , Lipkin , et al have shown that in high-risk subjects , proliferating cells are not confined to the lower two thirds of the colonic crypts , as they are in normal subjects , but are scattered throughout the entire length of the gland . |
| 12 | Surveys are a way of life with an I B M. as they are in many companies today . |
| 13 | However , it has also been argued that women are discriminated against by the agents of the law , just as they are in other areas of life . |
| 14 | Many of the statements on strategy and thinking of Clausewitz or the earlier Chinese military authors are as applicable to competition in the business world as they are in military matters . |
| 15 | The human eye is very sensitive to green and the visible differences between the samples , small as they are in some cases , corresponded to a smaller difference in the reflected light levels . |