Example sentences of "[noun] as [noun sg] be to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mystic 's understanding of this joy at the heart of experience is called visionary ; it is to ordinary human perception as waking is to sleeping ; and this carol , in its excited evocation of the significance of redemption in words and images , answers to this understanding . |
| 2 | Morality without religion is unthinkable for religion is to morality as water is to seeds in the soil . |
| 3 | ‘ Marxism is to Catholicism as methadone is to heroin , ’ said Ellen to Belinda , ‘ but enough of an improvement to count . ’ |
| 4 | Mr. Wood 's place as churchwarden is to be taken by Kathleen Presnail . |
| 5 | This is because the relation between mountain and hill is the same as that between hill and hillock , and hillock and mound , with the result that the following proportionality holds : mountain is to hill as lake is to pond . |
| 6 | Reggae is to Jamaica as calypso is to Trinidad . |
| 7 | Fruit is to apple as animal is to X . |
| 8 | Wisdom was to this man as boredom was to others . |
| 9 | Apple is to fruit as dog is to X . |
| 10 | Cigarette smoking may prove yet to be as anachronistic to twenty-first century citizens as snuff-taking is to our own age . |
| 11 | Fruit is to animal as apple is to X . |
| 12 | But I take my immediate clue from the American critic , Norman Holland : ‘ unity is to the text as identity is to a person ; or you could say , identity is the unity I find in a person when I look at him as if he were a text . ’ |
| 13 | In the case of patient , doctor and dentist , the necessary relations of proportionality can not be found : DOCTOR is to PATIENT as DENTIST is to PATIENT is perhaps a satisfactory proportion , but DOCTOR is to DENTIST as PATIENT is to PATIENT most certainly is not . |
| 14 | Information is as vital to a democratic regime as propaganda is to an authoritarian one ( Blumler , 1987 ) . |
| 15 | The fact is that democracy is to planning and design as oil is to water . |