Example sentences of "[noun pl] as it [is] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor can potential school achievement or social competence be directly linked to levels of sight : pupils with little or no sight have shown that they can achieve well in school , be independent and happy , since the interaction of the child and the learning environment is as significant for them in helping to achieve these goals as it is for any pupil in school . |
| 2 | In June , regular services began from South Shore to Bispham , which became a major terminal of the Promenade cars as it is to this day . |
| 3 | Modernization in form as well , though , is not apparent in these authors as it is in the equally realist Flaubert . |
| 4 | This time , the Third World has a lever of sorts in its willingness , or unwillingness , to co-operate , but one of limited value since co-operation in drawing up a climate convention is ultimately as much in the interests of the poor nations as it is in those of the rich . |
| 5 | Central heating can be as serious a scourge to fine old books as it is to fine old furniture . |
| 6 | In the world of the eighteenth century almost everything went easier with the patronage of a great man , a fact which is as true of non-governmental posts as it is of those in the service of the crown . |
| 7 | We thus tend to think of ourselves as machines , and when things go wrong treatment is organized along similar lines as it is for our machines — servicing , repairing and patching as dictated by the appearance of aches , pains and loss of function . |
| 8 | It 's as difficult for the stewards as it is for us , ’ he said . |
| 9 | If it is any consolation , the whole question of arrangement seems just as much a problem for people with enviably rare and valuable collections as it is for those with hardly enough to call a collection of anything . |
| 10 | In their original context both stories had a different significance , but it was as impossible for fourteenth century Christians to experience the Christian revelation in the same way as the first Christians as it is for us today . |
| 11 | The second point is that I 've , the Americans I , I , it 's one of the promises about street life in second from the bottom , two weeks in the winter , four weeks in the summer , well I know to my cost erm through my ear being blasted which is why you 're a County Councillor anyway , that it 's been six weeks at the present time , we 've had a lot of lights going down , okay we 're trying to improve it , we had people walking into cars , er , er a few burglaries which I 'm pleased to say the police have helped out in , but if we 're going to change and get it down from a level of six weeks to two weeks as it is in the area I represent , is that not a question of putting extra resources in it and there 's no good putting promises unless we can deliver . |
| 12 | Each one should be cleaned , inside and out — it is just as effective for those hard-to-reach molars as it is for front teeth . |
| 13 | Waiting lists are known to be an inaccurate indicator of need , as many doctors do not refer patients if they know the wait will be long ( this is as true for instance for hearing aids as it is for hip replacements ) . |
| 14 | Labour , post-Kinnock , is saddled with a fundamentally undemocratic trade union link-up ; an autocratic structure , which , in the absence of the autocrat , sees power pass to the autocrat 's ( unelected ) nominees ; and a policy and decision-making process that is as devoid of inspiration and new ideas as it is of input from the wider constituency of party members and supporters . |
| 15 | The metabolic rate , i.e. the rate at which calories are burnt , is the same in obese individuals as it is in those of normal weight . |
| 16 | Erm , it could have been spread out over the whole twenty five years as it is with other products , but in life assurance at the moment , it 's out of those first four years . |
| 17 | It will be impractical to fix a levy that is as fair for the three million owners of normal-speed machines as it is for future owners of half-speed machines . |
| 18 | Despite its Exmoor origins , the Devon has proved as tolerant of hot climates as it is of cold wet ones and is now reared extensively in Australia , New Zealand , the USA , Brazil and Jamaica . |
| 19 | Other studies have shown that social class is as important a factor in the housing conditions of one parent families as it is in the two-parent families . |
| 20 | This particular form of controversy is well illustrated by recent discussions on karst geomorphology , which seem to have resulted in the general attitude that there are certain forms which characterise tropical karst , but that the effect of lithology is as important in tropical limestone landforms as it is in temperate limestone landforms . |
| 21 | For example , it would n't stretch the truth too much to assume that the organization of the visual system is the same in rhesus monkeys as it is in humans . |
| 22 | The harddisk does not suffer from the same problems as it is in a sealed unit which should not be tampered with in any circumstances . |
| 23 | The expectations gap is a complex phenomenon , and it is caused as much by financial reporting problems as it is by auditing ones . |
| 24 | The process is much more serious for primitive society , however , for getting older in this sort of world is not just a question of securing certain basic legal rights as it is for us , but is fundamentally concerned with acquiring prestige . |
| 25 | Sussman and McNeilage ( 1975a ) argued that whereas receptive aspects of language are lateralised to the left hemisphere , production of language is not so clearly lateralised in stutterers as it is in normals . |
| 26 | This property is , however , not conceptualized as something in itself ( a kind of mystical link between people and things as it is with fully developed private property ) because it remains only an aspect of the social relations of which the tribe consists . |
| 27 | Sgt Barnes ( Tom Berenger ) leads those who have accepted the brutalities of war as a way of life , while Sgt Elias ( Willem Dafoe ) leads the more liberal faction which is as tolerant of ethnic minorities as it is of drugs . |
| 28 | When fitting 8 spokes all the load is on the studs as it is with RR wheels and should only be used with the larger studs . |
| 29 | It is with such men as it is with the English landscape seen at its best as I did this morning : when one encounters them , one simply knows one is in the presence of greatness . |
| 30 | ‘ I give my personal guarantee that this production of Swan Lake will be as magical for children as it is for adults , ’ he wrote . |