Example sentences of "as [noun sg] is [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To change the picture ; presuppositions are not a booster rocket to get faith off the ground — to be jettisoned as soon as faith is in orbit — but are as vital to faith as an engine to an aeroplane . |
| 2 | Modernization conceived as differentiation is of course the linchpin of Parsonian sociology , but can be traced back through the work of Weber and even of Lukács to the aesthetic writings of the mature Hegel ( Ká0tz 1982 ) . |
| 3 | But they will also be rivals when former Blue Peter girl Caron , 29 , presents a game show on Radio 5 — at the same time as mum is on air on Radio 2 . |
| 4 | CW to contact DCS , as PC is under warranty . |
| 5 | The first stage ( Bronze ) can be attained by any group of youngsters who are willing to work with enthusiasm , as assessment is on the basis of improvement on the standard of movement that the student starts from ; this means that due allowance is made , where appropriate , for individual physical handicaps . |
| 6 | The idea was prompted by commercial interests and , valuable as money is in the game , it has no place in setting up these gimmicky matches . |
| 7 | As gossip is to ladies and gambling to gentlemen , flirting is to both together . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | First , as essential as independence is to both , in the context of internal audit it is bound to have a different emphasis because internal auditors are officials of the audited organization . |
| 10 | Drug-taking is woven as tightly into teenage social life as drinking is into the social lives of their parents . |
| 11 | On a continuum of complexity from the bottom of the structure to the top , where are the discontinuities that will allow us to identify layers of hierarchy that are distinct and separable , as different as ice is from water and water from steam ? |
| 12 | But as far as aim is with , on a typical day , say if I get out of the depot at quarter to nine , if you like , and look at today 's string , I go to Derby . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'd promised I would never fall for the obvious attractions of another beautiful woman , but from the moment I held you in my arms my instinct told me that you were as different from Lotta as wine is from vinegar . ’ |
| 14 | As distribution is on a module name basis , the addition of a new version causes no further distribution . |
| 15 | ‘ … the notion of value within science is at the philosophical heart of scientific administration , just as truth is at the heart of the practice of science ’ . |
| 16 | This outperforms the return on conventional gilts of the same maturity so long as inflation is above 1 p.c. to 2 p.c . ’ |
| 17 | Information is as vital to a democratic regime as propaganda is to an authoritarian one ( Blumler , 1987 ) . |
| 18 | As education is by far the most expensive local government service , this distinction was highly important . |
| 19 | Morality without religion is unthinkable for religion is to morality as water is to seeds in the soil . |
| 20 | As price is in excess of marginal cost , consumers would value additional units of the product more highly than goods being currently produced with the resources that could be reallocated to the monopolized product . |
| 21 | ‘ Marxism is to Catholicism as methadone is to heroin , ’ said Ellen to Belinda , ‘ but enough of an improvement to count . ’ |
| 22 | Apple is to fruit as dog is to X . |
| 23 | Mr. Wood 's place as churchwarden is to be taken by Kathleen Presnail . |
| 24 | As albinism is of genetic origin , genetic counselling should be available to teenagers . |
| 25 | Fruit is to animal as apple is to X . |
| 26 | The main disadvantage to direct use lies in the fact that supply reaches its maximum at the same time as demand is at its minimum . |
| 27 | In the first half of the seventeenth century the traditional Elizabethan style carried on , unabashed by fashion ; then again there was the purely classical Queen 's House at Greenwich , built by Inigo Jones , as radically different to the former as chalk is to cheese . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Correct proportion is of primary importance , as long as size is within the Standard s range . |
| 30 | The image of modernism as artefact is in this sense a totalizing image using the project of art as its means of accomplishing such totality ( compare Gell 1986 for the ability of the commodity to perform this function in a non-industrial context ) . |