Example sentences of "[vb pp] in [noun] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of the 19th century , Guinness was being enjoyed in territories as far apart as America , Africa and Australia . |
| 2 | His ideas are being applied in settings as diverse as a rich Dallas school ( one computer for every five pupils ) and an institution for the severely handicapped ( who use their turtles to thereby explore space in a way otherwise denied them ) . |
| 3 | The worst hit areas were in North Wales , the north west and the Midlands , although no-one 's been hurt in the mini quake which was felt in districts as far apart as Devon and Scotland . |
| 4 | This can be seen in countries as different as Tanzania and Cameroun . |
| 5 | Well , Charles immediately set up the kind of court that he 'd had in London as far as he could , with a very set routine . |
| 6 | ( Above ) Noble Metals at Royston manufacture a wide range of fabricated platinum group metal products used in industries as diverse as glass , electronics , automotive and in advanced medical applications |
| 7 | The Government has invested £1.1m to make CD-Rom technology available in schools and apart from being available in many North-East schools our CD-Rom is widely used in schools as far afield as St Albans and London . |
| 8 | Altogether around 7,000 people are expected to be helped in locations as diverse as the inner cities to villages . |
| 9 | Not only were limestones deposited in Europe as far south as Cantabria and right across the Mid-West , they also went a lot farther . |
| 10 | The contents of the same CD-I disc can be displayed in NTSC as easily as in PAL or SECAM . |
| 11 | The tradition says she must be given in marriage as soon as possible . |
| 12 | And the absence of systematic programmes to teach basic literacy added to the impression that the prison was regarded in reality as little more than a ‘ warehouse ’ for inmates , not a vehicle for their improvement . |
| 13 | In a country where innovation is prized in welfare as much as in technology , there is no reason that this right will not increasingly extend to other groups — Specialised Housing 's initiative has already caused the families of people with a severely mentally ill child to start thinking whether such an option might be open to them — but the fact remains that in the USA parents have even fewer options than in this country . |
| 14 | This system is found in species as different as elephants and coatis . |
| 15 | ‘ Freedom to worship God ’ is found in England as fully as in America , in our day . ’ |
| 16 | Two of the very common gold coins of the Roman Emperor Claudius I , struck from the same dies , have been found in hoards as far apart as Kent and southern India . |
| 17 | Lingula -like species , looking much like the living form , can be found in rocks as old as Ordovician . |
| 18 | Undoubted crustaceans are found in rocks as old as Cambrian , at which time free-swimming species were living happily alongside the trilobites . |
| 19 | Other groups of reptiles were not exterminated at this time , even though their fossils may be found in rocks as old as those that yield dinosaurs and the other spectacular , extinct groups . |
| 20 | Jews settled in Czechoslovakia as early as the 10C , but it was not until the 13 and 14C that a small Jewish community became a feature of every large town . |
| 21 | The First Orchestra has recently appeared in venues as far apart as Worcester Cathedral , Dunkeld Cathedral , Huntly Parish Church and the Usher Hall , and also enjoys a number of foreign links which have taken them to Denmark , Bavaria and Italy within the last few years . |
| 22 | result is best understood in the general context of overestimation of low values and underestimation of high values which has been observed in tasks as diverse as relative loudness estimation ( Stevens & Galanter , 1957 ) and the estimation of the relative number of black and white dots in a stimulus ( Varey , Mellers & Birnbaum , 1990 ) . |
| 23 | In fact Trieste , which under the Austro-Hungarian Empire had been the main port of Middle Europe , had diminished in importance as far as Italy was concerned : Genoa had effectively taken its place . |
| 24 | OPENINGS LONDON AIR GALLERY Dave Mulholland , a Newcastle-born artist who has worked in locations as diverse as New York and Durham , and has organised community mural projects in London and the North-east , has his first solo exhibition at the Air Gallery in Islington , writes Paul Dunn . |
| 25 | On a larger scale one might observe that his lifelong preoccupation with words gave him a kind of sensitivity to them , even if it was an unorthodox one ; and further that it is strange that a myth should so make its way if enshrined and embodied in words as inappropriate as critics have made out . |
| 26 | Plans had been put in hand as early as 1978 ( the so-called ‘ Ridley plan ’ : Young , 1990 , pp. 358–60 ) to tackle the miners in a later confrontation on terms favourable to the government ; indeed , because the conditions were not felt to be ripe , the government pulled back from an earlier potential confrontation in 1981 , and allowed a large pay settlement for the NUM ( Young , 1990 ) . |
| 27 | This year we are engaged in projects as diverse as the Bill of Rights , delays caused by the interaction between domestic and European law , exemplified by the Sunday Trading cases ; and Long Fraud Trials . |
| 28 | Professor Stone 's assertion that there was " an upsurge of literacy " after 1780 " underlying the process of industrialisation " seems over-confident in view of evidence that the ratio of school places per capita actually declined in places as distant as Lancashire , Leamington , Cornwall , Devon and the East Riding . |
| 29 | Mr Ceausescu is certainly detested in Moscow as much as in London or Washington . |
| 30 | Indeed , in the author 's own village the parish register was being kept in Latin as late as 1657 . |