Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] in [noun] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The population is predominantly English in birth as well as residence . |
| 2 | However , the distinction between discretions and duties is not so clear in practice as it is in theory . |
| 3 | It is not for me here to try to account for the common features of movements so different in nature as those we have mentioned . |
| 4 | The sculptural work is vastly inferior and is so high in relief as to be almost in the round ( 88 ) . |
| 5 | The first deals with the reasons of the ( apparent ) diminution of objects as they recede from the eye , and is known as Perspective of Diminution : the second contains the way colours vary as they recede from the eye : the third and last explains how objects should appear less distinct in proportion as they are more remote . |
| 6 | Militant anti-war protest has ( with the possible exception of the early 1980s ) never been so widespread in Britain as it was in the years immediately before the Second World War . |
| 7 | The initial intake to English was large — so large in fact as to require organisation in two parallel classes and to strain rather seriously the initially slender staffing position . |
| 8 | I am not interested in art as affirmation or in art as manifestation of complicity . |
| 9 | She is not interested in data as entities to be modeled but in texts as purposeful acts of communication which carry meaning and which are related to other texts . |
| 10 | Residential workers are not involved in decisions as to whether , when and where to admit children into care ; fieldworkers fail to provide basic information about the personal histories of the children and young people admitted to care ; young people are admitted to care precipitously , without warning or preparation ; fieldworkers sometimes fail to keep in touch with the young person and the residential staff once the child is admitted ; discharge for the young people can be as sudden as their arrival . |
| 11 | Ea RNA was not present in brain as expected , while a low level was present in liver , corresponding to the presence of Kupfer cells ( data not shown ) . |
| 12 | Caccini was always more interested in song as such and his most important work is not Euridice but his collection of solo songs , Le nuove musiche ( Florence , 1602 ) , with figured bass — which he describes in his preface as ‘ bass for the chitarrone ’ . |
| 13 | These higher order units are probably semantic in nature as Butterworth ( 1975,1976 ) has suggested . |
| 14 | Safety is also uppermost in mind as he works as a lifeguard . |
| 15 | Her eyes flew wide open in surprise as he lifted her easily into his arms . |
| 16 | It was only when his mouth claimed hers that some kind of reality surged back into her consciousness and her eyes flew wide open in horror as she belatedly realised just what was happening . |
| 17 | Their disappearance has not caused the same level of concern as the disappearance of tropical rainforests , but the report points out that some temperate forests are as rich in species as rainforests . |
| 18 | However these products tend not to be as rich in calcium as dairy products and red fish . |
| 19 | It is twelve times as rich in fats and four times as rich in proteins as the best Jersey cow 's milk . |
| 20 | I do n't find the whole situation as rich in humour as he does . |
| 21 | London Irish as resilient in defence as effective in attack . |
| 22 | Sadly this is only really possible in PageMaker as Ventura 's rulers are defined and whilst you can set up vertical grids in XPress you ca n't change them once defined . |
| 23 | The hero of Waugh 's Sword of Honour trilogy ( 1952–61 ) , again , is virtuously gauche ; so is Kingsley Amis 's Lucky Jim in 1954 , a comic hero usually as polite in aspiration as he is socially incompetent in practice ; and so , it must be imagined , was the young Betjeman who , as he revealed in ‘ A Subaltern 's Love-song in New Bats in Old Belfries ( 1945 ) , adored girls too strong for their fainting admirers , whether at love or tennis : |
| 24 | Another facet : a ribbed hall of towering , icon-stencilled machine tools , littered with corpses , many of them as grotesque in death as they had been in life … |
| 25 | In addition , traditional anti-popery was as alive in America as in England and politically as important , especially after the arrival of Catholic immigrants in the 1840s . |
| 26 | They want to engage in as mature a fashion as possible in realities as they are being experienced in order to take and make their own authority for their existence without being caught in the many traps for immaturity which are open to them . |
| 27 | The defeat was severe , for the internationalist Left had been as strong in Finland as in Great Russia . |
| 28 | Perhaps therefore Edward 's claim was not as strong in principle as has sometimes been suggested , and if accepted in 1328 it might eventually have been subject to challenge by sons born to other Capetian females . |
| 29 | This is very unusual for a European wine region ( in most cases , vineyards generally face south to some degree ) and especially for one as northerly in latitude as Champagne . |
| 30 | Harry looked as derelict in death as he must have done in life . |