Example sentences of "[noun] as [pers pn] is " in BNC.

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1 Soft flabby growth in plants is as much at risk to disease attack and structural collapse as it is with ourselves and other animals .
2 Reasonable foreseeability is always a necessary ingredient of a negligence action as it is required to establish duty of care .
3 My policy regarding Morecambe is this , people come into Morecambe as a private individual like yourself , like me , like my family and we come in here to accept Morecambe as it is
4 This is often misunderstood as cleaning oneself of contamination , but is obviously not the case as is proven by the fact that they had to clean themselves carefully before going into the bath , or mikva as it is called , so it becomes clear that it was to purify themselves spiritually , not physically .
5 The ‘ not invented here ’ syndrome is as prevalent in US military thinking as it is in Britain 's .
6 Paula designed a motif of a horse as she is with horses all the time and regularly goes eventing .
7 The next year von Moltke , one of the architects of Prussia 's military revival , remarked contemptuously but not inaccurately to his brother that " England is as powerless on the Continent as she is presuming " .
8 The second fragment ( 23kb ) detected by the 680-bp probe is from an unrelated locus ( see Fig. 3 legend ) and serves as a control for the amount of DNA loaded in this experiment as it is not deleted .
9 Vitamin B12 is rather an odd vitamin as it is only obtained from animal sources ( such as meat , milk , and eggs ) and not at all from plant foods .
10 The Reiterhof is a large hotel with plenty of facilities , and is well suited for walkers as it is located close to the mountain cable car .
11 Nearer to hand , you can also see steeply down 2,500 feet from the Col d'Aspin into the broad valley of the river Aure — the Neste d'Aure as it is called , neste here replacing gave as the local designation for a river .
12 It is certain that we have to devise ways to move beyond antiracism as it is presently constituted .
13 This is the technique favoured by the British Deaf Association as it is thought to give the child the greatest chance of expression and understanding .
14 All that we said in Part 2 about exploiting the control video gives us over the material is as relevant to the teacher trainer as it is to the teacher .
15 Now it is a fact that this creature so recently-come among us — gross , obscene and incapable of manipulating cutlery as it is — has nevertheless succeeded in getting itself equipped , just like big brother , with its own plastic spoon .
16 And there is no reason why consumer-led movements in the West ( and particularly Japan ) can not make it as unacceptable to use tropical hardwoods in the future as it is to use , say , CFC aerosol sprays today .
17 I says , the point is I 've got bad eyes as it is ,
18 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 .
19 So this aspect of defence is quite close to being a private good as it is excludable and rivalrous , hence some households build their own shelters .
20 The stumbling block is the composition of the Lords itself , predominantly hereditary peers and Conservatives who have a vested interest in keeping their club as it is .
21 Tax to pay for our holidays abroad , or Government in exile as it is more appropriately known , will be raised from the equitable basis of rating taxes at the point of sale , or in the case of blue tax , see above , conspicuous consummation .
22 Amenartas , escaping from Ayesha 's wrath , had borne a child whose line persisted through the centuries to end with Leo Vincey , who is as much a descendant of Kallikrates as he is a reincarnation of him .
23 Desktop Sunergy Classics will run a 50MHz Tsunami ( or MicroSparc as it is officially known ( UX No 406 ) ) , and are rated at 22.6 SPECint(92) , 17.4 SPECfp(92) and around 14 MFLOPS .
24 ‘ I never got into the rat-race — or the brat-race as it is now — because I never wanted to .
25 Dega is so myopic that he never takes his glasses off-there is a nice touch when Dustin holds his hand over his spectacles as he is showered down .
26 Words like that mean trouble , big trouble , and I 've got enough of that in my department as it is without you importing any more .
27 And yet even the New Testament as it is today bears witness , if one looks at it closely , to Jesus as a military and political Messiah — to Jesus , in other words , as a would-be precursor of Constantine .
28 Well what 's that staying as it is for ?
29 This is as true in the United States as it is in Britain .
30 This is as much a story of internally generated reform and state genuflection to Oxbridge as it is of institutional conflict and change .
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