Example sentences of "as [det] in [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are as well dressed as is possible to be in such a country as that in which they live . |
| 2 | Not since Mavis mourned the passing of Harriet the budgie has a death been so dramatically evoked as that in which Ted finally succumbed to rigor mortis . |
| 3 | Stevenson commented on this that we disagree in attitude , but not ( necessarily ) in belief , and in any case , for attitudinism , since the two statements express opposite attitudes , they are incompatible in much the same way as that in which statements which express opposite beliefs are . |
| 4 | The beliefs cause the attitudes in as non-rational a way as that in which wind drives sails . |
| 5 | Moral philosophers who hold this sort of view are wont to agree with the attitudinist that moral judgements , or value judgements on which they are based , express emotional attitudes , but will insist that these can be correct or incorrect in quite as objective a way as that in which judgements can be true or false . |
| 6 | In the sixth scene those poor French wretches on the raft were represented in very much the same posture as that in which they had been first delineated by Monsieur Jerricault . |
| 7 | Now that he had arrived at the wildest part of Britain , he wished to use his adventure in the same spirit as that in which Montaigne wrote his famous Essais — as trials of himself , as investigations of the ideas that arose in the non-stop chatter of his mind . |
| 8 | The meeting must be convened in the same way , as nearly as possible , as that in which meetings are to be convened by the directors and must be held not later than 3 months from the date of service of the notice . |
| 9 | However , I shall argue that it is only when they do point in the same direction that conditions are suitable for the development of intelligent beings who can ask the question : why does disorder increase in the same direction of time as that in which the universe expands ? |
| 10 | The direction of time in which a computer remembers the past is the same as that in which disorder increases . |
| 11 | And why is the direction of time in which disorder increases the same as that in which the universe expands ? |
| 12 | Or in other words , why does disorder increase in the same direction of time as that in which the universe expands ? |
| 13 | Conditions in the contracting phase would not be suitable for the existence of intelligent beings who could ask the question : Why is disorder increasing in the same direction of time as that in which the universe is expanding ? |
| 14 | More generally on durability , it seems that the requirement that the goods be of merchantable quality is a continuing requirement that they will continue to be of merchantable quality for a reasonable period after delivery so long as they remain in the same apparent state as that in which they were delivered , apart from normal wear and tear . |
| 15 | In Lambert v. Lewis ( 1981 H.L. ) Lord Diplock said that the condition of fitness for purpose was a continuing obligation ‘ that the goods will continue to be fit for that purpose for a reasonable time after delivery , so long as they remain in the same apparent state and condition as that in which they were delivered , apart from normal wear and tear . ’ |
| 16 | I have never felt as strong as this in my whole life . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Do you have islands as beautiful as this in your country ? ’ |
| 18 | Unless the base stock was kept for many years in the same conditions as those in which estimates were made , problems could have arisen . |
| 19 | Some engineering companies had experienced a decline in demand for their traditional output and were moving into new areas which , if more buoyant , did not offer the same continuity as those in which they had previously operated . |
| 20 | In the case of the job evaluation exercise this was achieved by producing a program whose function was to " translate " a proposed set of grade boundaries into consequences quoted in the same terms as those in which the management 's negotiating aims were couched : costs , grade changes , etc . |
| 21 | None the less , it seems likely that the course of studies was so arranged that the students would pass through the same grades of medreses as those in which they would later teach : such would in any case seem to have been the practice in later times . |
| 22 | For instance , if examples in which females play an active role appear as often as those in which the active person is male , this may help counteract the prevailing view in society that mathematics is primarily an activity for males . |
| 23 | Is my right hon. Friend happy that the monitoring systems in Bolsover are as good as those in my constituency ? |