Example sentences of "[adj] as [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On this as on all the other resolutions relating to " security issues " , amendments proposed by the right of the party were defeated . |
| 2 | The council was responding as much to this as to real economic circumstance . |
| 3 | I B M , U K has long established policies for managing its corporate social responsibility , and as I said earlier , applies the same principles to this as to any other business activity . |
| 4 | In contrast to some critics who would rather see the collection as a one-directional story , with its ‘ phases ’ and ‘ developments ’ , I recall readers to the essentially , inherently repetitive or ongoing nature of this as of all deep and long-lived human relationships . |
| 5 | Friction between locals and newcomers has been as much a function of this as of any other factor , a conflict between the aesthetic appreciation of the qualities of the English countryside and a utilitarian assessment of its productive capacity . |
| 6 | However , sociology , a term invented by Auguste Comte in 1839 and popularised by Herbert Spencer ( who wrote a premature book on the principles of this as of numerous other sciences [ 1876 ] ) , was much talked about . |
| 7 | Today his seducer was a respected Tory backbencher while Henry — in this as in all other matters of pleasure , a broad-minded man — had retained a part-time interest in members of his own sex . |
| 8 | As a delinquent nine-year-old at his prep school , he had once been required by the headmaster to write out in his best handwriting the whole of the third chapter of Ecclesiastes , old Gumboil , economical in this as in all matters , believing that writing lines should combine punishment with literary and religious education . |
| 9 | The search for a theory that will combine structural explanations in terms of societal forces and psychological explanations in terms of individual attributes is as far from success in this as in all other fields of sociological research . |
| 10 | In this as in other areas , the fundamental error in our approach to policing is revealed : we do not trust the police so we build safeguards into the way they exercise their power . |
| 11 | The mentality of the time is captured in the statement by Sir Alfred Mond , ICI 's first chairman , when the company set up an agricultural research station : ‘ My ideal is to see , in this as in other chemical manufactures , our great organisation controlling the production and sales of the whole chemical manufacture within the Empire . ’ |
| 12 | The likelihood is that in this as in other matters Beowulf is meant to appear a good prophet , since the unsuccessful , possibly treacherous , but in heroic terms entirely praiseworthy attack which Ingeld made on his father-in-law is repeatedly mentioned in Northern story . |
| 13 | In this as in other areas the ends can never justify the means . |
| 14 | In this as in other respects particular groups within a class may be rising or falling in importance , according to the general development of the class and the society . |
| 15 | If committees were to be as business-like in this as in other matters , they would resort to this method rather than to mountebank exhibitions , in which the bold and unscrupulous fare best , and the honest and modest worst and there would be fewer vain regrets and miserable depositions afterwards , than is unhappily the case at present . |
| 16 | The Central Asian nationalities were the most resistant to russification in this as in other respects : no more than 3 per cent of any of the five major nationalities concerned claimed Russian as a native language in the 1989 census , a much lower proportion than for the non-Russian population as a whole , and levels of fluency in Russian were also much lower than among minority nationalities elsewhere in the USSR . |
| 17 | The Government fully recognise the importance of the industry that my hon. Friend the Member for Harborough , ( Sir J. Farr ) so ably represents , and we want proper GATT disciplines for fair trading in this as in other sectors . |
| 18 | In this as in other respects ( see Halliday 1971 : 354 ) the language of the second part of The Inheritors is an interesting blend of the standard language and the norms established in the text . |
| 19 | The words written by Hinrich Medau in 1933 continue to guide our work today : ‘ The all-important inspiration of Medau work still remains the close connection between movement and music and we are constantly working at the deepening and widening of our knowledge in this as in other spheres ’ . |
| 20 | And Karajan , in this as in many other things , was of a similar mind to Legge . |
| 21 | In this as in subsequent encounters with Englishmen , Nkrumah was very sensitive to atmosphere . |
| 22 | Wölflinn 's writings are strong on observation ; this can be understood from his choice of terms to describe tendencies in form ; linear as against painterly , plane surface as against recessional depth , closed against open form , composite clarity against fused clarity , or absolute clarity against relative clarity . |
| 23 | ‘ A witness may be cross-examined as to previous statements made by him in writing or reduced into writing relative to the subject matter of the indictment or proceeding , without such writing being shown to him ; but if it is intended to contradict such witness by the writing , his attention must , before such contradictory proof can be given , be called to those parts of the writing which are to be used for the purpose of so contradicting him : provided always , that it shall be competent for the judge at any time during the trial , to require the production of the writing for his inspection , and he may thereupon make such use of it for the purpose of the trial as he may think fit . |
| 24 | Furthermore , because of the higher coefficient of variation paraffin embedded material cell cycle analysis is not as reliable as in fresh tissue of solid tumours . |
| 25 | If I 'm wrong as to that , there was also open to her a further route to a degree qualification . |
| 26 | The role definition of the teacher placement organiser is not as clear as in most authorities but nevertheless an effective system of placing teachers to develop curriculum material or management expertise has been established . |
| 27 | This difference is usually formulated in terms of a difference in knowledge ( pure as against applied , theoretical as against practical ) but it may be more accurate to see it as a difference of stance . |
| 28 | With American stocks this week again confronting the record books and confounding the experts , the S&P 500 index is 2.5 times as high as in 1980 . |
| 29 | ‘ The skills are not as high as in first-class rugby and winning is not your prime objective . |
| 30 | It has not been possible to determine the non-submission rate for Scottish geology , but discussions with senior staff suggest that the rate is not as high as in other disciplines . |