Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] as [prep] " in BNC.

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1 In the changing conceptual frame inside which a science progresses , it would be as out of place to look for progress as in the styles of an art .
2 Cleanliness is very important for hair as for every other part of the body .
3 P/O Atherton was a very experienced pilot , with a second pilot as navigator , so one can not accept that they could be so far off course as to reach the target thirty minutes later , especially as the fires started in the docks by the bombing raid of Blenheims of 59 Squadron could be seen from many miles away .
4 It is a matter for conjecture as to how far the prospect of different classificatory structures will ultimately prevent the sort of comparisons such systems are meant to facilitate .
5 Likewise , Dr Lynn Margulis 's theories , which hold that evolution advances as much through symbiosis as by tooth and claw , correspond to the late anarchist Kropotkin 's theories of social evolution .
6 Watkins L.J. , at p. 82 , asked where else the Home Secretary could look for guidance as to retribution and deterrence , if not to the judges .
7 It is clear from reading Hansard that the Committee was repeatedly asking for guidance as to the effect of the legislation once subclause ( 4 ) of clause 54 was abandoned .
8 The Futurists , on the other hand , were men who started from violent ideological principles of their own but looked to Cubism for guidance as to how they could best express themselves .
9 She was angry at the time , and she was praying for guidance as to what to do with her life .
10 We asked for guidance as to how this may work following local government reorganisation .
11 However , there are a number of organisations to whom a practitioner can turn for guidance as to the best expert to instruct in a particular case .
12 I do n't think any of us have ever seen it my Lord , erm the erm , the just , the , in this was a case where you will find er that er a reference was made for guidance as to the scope of the broadcasting directive
13 With so many of the competitors and spectators at Ferndown who purchased these designs having since had enquiry after enquiry as to where they came from , herewith the address : David Boccara , 87 Avenue Niel , 75017 , Paris .
14 They should not be put in automatically , but only after consideration as to the circumstances surrounding the formation of the contract .
15 Histamine in 1 ml of supernatant : pipetted in duplicate into tubes containing 0.4 ml 2 M perchloric acid for assay as for perfusate ;
16 As a matter of principle , if , as I think , the defendant 's case for rectification as against the building society can not be brought under any of the paragraphs of section 82(1) , I would conclude that that must be an end to the rectification claim .
17 Although he was convinced that there was conclusive evidence that Japanese intelligence organizations were behind the Vietminh and their revolt , he also said that throughout their handling of the situation the French appeared to lack every vestige of imagination but , ‘ provided the French are prepared to deal with the Annamites as human beings and not as chattels for exploitation as in the past , there is every reason to believe that the leading Annamites will not only listen to them , but will help them … ’
18 Sponsorship is Advertising : The following quotations are equally valid for sport as for arts sponsorship :
19 Otherwise they hated him , though there are degrees of honesty as to how far they admit it . ’
20 There are thought to be about three times as many species of insect as of all other kinds of animal put together .
21 Maybe now I can get at this business of amor as of Ezra , and get at it right .
22 If such an exclusion of the Withington mosaic is accepted , It still remains a matter of conjecture as to which of the three closely related mosaics was earliest .
23 It does n't say that solitude much a state of freedom as of imprisonment .
24 In addition , registration operates to protect the security holder by providing him with a certain degree of protection as to the validity and priority of his charge once it is registered ; this in turn benefits the company by enabling it to give the chargee the guarantee of such protection .
25 The harbour porpoise is already designated as endangered under Canadian law , but such designation does not incur the same level of protection as in the US , despite repeated warnings about the level of porpoise deaths .
26 The squat , short-limbed build once characteristic of the Eskimo ( now generally called Inuit ) is rapidly disappearing in modern generations ( Godin and Shephard , 1973 ) ; it was probably as much a product of malnutrition as of genetic endowment .
27 Does he accept that not only that youth 's family but many other people have a total lack of comprehension as to how someone could be hanged in this country when he was in police custody when the gun was fired and the unfortunate police officer was killed by another person ?
28 is automatically void and it is then a pure question of severance as to whether or not
29 The signing of the Free Trade Treaty of 1860 with Britain was as much an act of faith as of policy , for it created great opposition among French industrialists , but the faith was justified in that the economy , deprived of its protective barriers , continued to grow and expand .
30 In their emphasis on ritual and doctrine he sensed the same danger of a too purely objective conception of faith as in the rigid understanding of man , sin and atonement in which he had been brought up , and which , like Erskine and Campbell , he rejected .
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