Example sentences of "as [adj] [conj] it [is] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His respect for other faiths is as strong as it is for his own faith . |
| 2 | The report , People and Poverty in the North East , says that the cost of living for people on income support is three times as high as it is for those on an average wage . |
| 3 | Unemployment is rising in every European country except in Spain , but there it is twice as high as it is in Britain . |
| 4 | But the only other guidance necessary is to say : be as funny as it is in you to be but be careful not to go too far . |
| 5 | In this case , therefore , Burns 's idea of treating differences of status built on it as idle and artificial is just as appropriate as it is in the case of class . |
| 6 | The camera work can be kept as simple as it is for recording one person giving a talk — it can stay on the interviewee . |
| 7 | Matching drives to an XT is n't as easy as it is with an AT , because the range of drive sizes it supports will probably be quite narrow . |
| 8 | it wo n't be as warm as it is in the April |
| 9 | Building self-esteem is about appreciating strengths and developing them as much as it is about gaining an understanding of weaknesses . |
| 10 | But in practice , modern Earthly life is a protege of water , as much as it is of carbon . |
| 11 | Uncertainty is the enemy of marketers as much as it is of City markets . |
| 12 | Total quality is a developing concept , but it is applicable to the education business just as much as it is to any other business . |
| 13 | Education is important in enabling rural people to organise and plan , as much as it is in ensuring that the urban majority understand the nature of rural problems and lend their support to solving them . |
| 14 | Because of the stress that such feelings may cause , their physical health is at risk just as much as it is in the case of the busy executive trying to cram 200 hours-worth of activity into those 168 . |
| 15 | Enthusiasm in other Eastern European parliaments is waning too , but not as much as it is in Poland because Poland 's politics is even more fragmented than that of other countries . |
| 16 | I think it reinforces the case , not so much for retaining the bobby in New Deer , but for increasing policing in country areas where crime is increasing just as much as it is in the towns . ’ |
| 17 | This matters because recent discussion shows Weber 's conception of class ( Wright , 1985 ) to be determined by production just as much as it is by Marx , but that Weber is concerned with consequences in terms of market exchanges , whereas Marx focuses on exploitation . |
| 18 | Yes , yes , well I am too , and that we shall pay the penalty later on if we do n't get with us and I feel that erm , as difficult as the budget is , as tight as it is with reduction etcetera , I feel that we should make a positive funding for prevention or something , or er , because I think unless we do start somewhere , and quickly , we are going to pay the penalty at the end of the and so we 've got to make a date , you 've got to make a year , and if you wait and say and well we have n't got it now , well next year we shall say we have n't got it now , and the next year we 'll say we have n't got it now . |
| 19 | ‘ I know that sounds terrible , ’ he says , ‘ but the art scene in America is not as elite as it is over here . |
| 20 | The speed of sound in water is roughly four times as great as it is in air . |
| 21 | In some respects , temporary working in manufacturing is as traditional as it is in those parts of the service sector we have just examined . |
| 22 | With the show as buoyant as it is in these times , you will perhaps see why I have questioned his assertion that it is a local show and why I can absolutely refute the suggestion that we needed to discount . |
| 23 | ‘ This morning I 'm taking you up the coast to my house overlooking the Sound , and if the weather stays as good as it is at the moment we 'll spend the afternoon on the beach at Hornbaek , which means we 'll go right past Kronberg — we can even stop off and take the tour if it appeals to you . ’ |
| 24 | Threfore , accurate diagnosis of H pylori in these patients is at least as important as it is in patients not taking NSAID . |
| 25 | This October the weather is as balmy as it is in spring , mused Joshua . |
| 26 | Mr Forsyth 's support for student loans has ensured little support for him on the campus but , that apart , the student vote seems to be as divided as it is in the wider constituency . |
| 27 | He gave two reasons : over-critical remarks of Hailsham and Macmillan and — the main reason — ‘ It is judged that the showing of the Suez programme could have untoward consequences while the situation in the Arab world is as critical as it is at present . ’ |
| 28 | In no domain is it as difficult as it is in the matter of function and utility to distinguish the actual place of artefacts in human practices from the particular legitimations and assumptions we have about them . |
| 29 | But in a world where nature left to its own devices is as grim as it is in much of the Soviet Union , the belief that you can bend it on the heroic scale is unlikely to go away . |
| 30 | Attempting to analyse verb-initial languages such as Arabic in terms of Halliday 's model highlights the fact that , for some languages , this type of analysis may not be as workable as it is in English . |