Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [is] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fond as she is of children , however , they are by no means her only interest . |
| 2 | This is as true of guavas and pomegranates as it is of maize and rice , as true of lettuce and asparagus as it is of cabbages and carrots . |
| 3 | This is as true of guavas and pomegranates as it is of maize and rice , as true of lettuce and asparagus as it is of cabbages and carrots . |
| 4 | But in practice , modern Earthly life is a protege of water , as much as it is of carbon . |
| 5 | In short , patchiness , in space and time , is as much a feature of the oceans as it is of land ; indeed , ‘ patchiness ’ is a great principle in ecology — though it is rarely singled out as such . |
| 6 | What should that placid little people know of the rattle and rush of an express train , typical as it is of the nerve-wasting haste with which we Westerners live our lives ? |
| 7 | I do n't know the details of the plan as it is of course an Eighth Army operation , but I would like to stress the point that Stirling 's chief value is that of commanding a parachute force . |
| 8 | Thus the burning of coal formed as it is of vegetable matter , is a stage in the conversion of solar energy . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | There is considerable confusion about the black-and-white pied lowland cattle which have originated in the Netherlands , not helped by frequent name changes after export to other countries and the very misleading use of the name Holstein : there is no such place in the Netherlands , yet the latter is their country of origin , just as it is of the Friesian . |
| 11 | This interaction between the small and the large scales is a fundamental feature of the model , just as it is of the real atmosphere . |
| 12 | This is invariably as true of urban locations selling cultural capital with voodoo economics as it is of declining industrial regions of manufacturing industry ( Harvey , 1989 ) . |
| 13 | Uncertainty is the enemy of marketers as much as it is of City markets . |
| 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 | This is at its most practical in empathizing sufficiently to collect useful facts about a person but closing oneself to sympathy ; it is at its purest in vanity , basking in awareness from other viewpoints as long as it is of oneself . |
| 16 | This is just as true of a mechanical joint as it is of a glued joint and most of the load in such joints comes upon the first and last bolts or rivets . |
| 17 | As the saying goes , ‘ a woman 's place is in the wrong ’ ; and this is as true of language as it is of anything else . |
| 18 | If this is the aim of current policy , as it is of this series of unit texts , we have to begin by examining ways in which schools and school policies can themselves be a major element in children 's difficulties . |
| 19 | The model may be removed once the crew are slain , as it is of no further value . |
| 20 | It is not possible to talk of a ‘ further education special needs sector ’ as it is of a ‘ special school sector ’ . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The serious backing for the adventure of the lost prince , compounded as it is of romantic but genuine love of country and an equally genuine love of son for father and father for son , gives Frances Hodgson Burnett 's tale a richness of texture and an emotional maturity which is not easily matched in later stones for children adopting a similar subject . |
| 23 | The social structure of the society of the classroom seems to us as well adapted to be the nursery of crime as it is of ‘ good ’ behaviour . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | This is as true of nineteenth-century Whitley Bay ( which literally ceased to be farmland ) as it is of almost all of Longbenton , developed as a Newcastle over spill after 1945 . |
| 26 | But , even though Sir Hugo Mallinger holds parties for his tenants in the gallery he has built above his cloisters , the social dimension that Disraeli liked to imagine is not a conspicuous aspect of such houses as it is of St Genevieve . |
| 27 | This is as narrow a view of critique as it is of musical response ( which in fact traverses the entire body , the activity of the ears being just as ‘ physical ’ as that of the dancing limbs or the sensating nerves ) . |
| 28 | In the longer term , as Alan Walker and Dulcie Groves show in Chapters 12 and 13 here , current state , occupational and private pension schemes do not take adequate account of women 's caring responsibilities and this is as true of women 's care of disabled and elderly people as it is of young children . |
| 29 | Yet what Eliade has called " the myth of the eternal return " is just as characteristic of Hinduism , with its elaborate literary traditions , as it is of the totemism of the Australian Aborigines . |
| 30 | Pamela washed them once and will not bother to wash them again until they are saturated with her own smell , not a bad smell , made up as it is of tea , musk oil , turpentine and taramasalata . |