Example sentences of "[noun sg] as it is [prep] " 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 | The ‘ not invented here ’ syndrome is as prevalent in US military thinking as it is in Britain 's . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Well what 's that staying as it is for ? |
| 6 | The often surprising results of the January Old Master drawing sales in New York revealed that it is just as easy to overspend on a drawing as it is on a painting , and conversely , that despite high prices for a few grand names , drawings still remain a little understood and modestly priced field . |
| 7 | This is as important in ethnographic research as it is in any other style of research ( see p. 20 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It is as true in political campaigns like Greenham and against male violence as it is in the reconstruction of an education which serves the concerns , reflects the values , and enhances the priorities of women . |
| 10 | Important as the academic qualifications are , university is as much about education in the wider sense of the term as it is about lectures , essays and exams . |
| 11 | However , the distinction between discretions and duties is not so clear in practice as it is in theory . |
| 12 | David Profumo wrote in the Daily Telegraph : ‘ Heresy as it is in literary circles , I have to say I have never been taken with the work of the late Angela Carter . |
| 13 | In so doing it suggested a small but distinct improvement on that model : the party-list vote should be the first on the ballot paper , not the second as it is in West Germany , and the constituency vote should come second instead of first . |
| 14 | ‘ That mercy should season justice is a proposition as soundly based in law as it is in literature . ’ |
| 15 | But he said : ‘ Football is as much to do with your mental attitude as it is to anything else ours just is n't right at the moment . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It is as applicable to the running of the parish council as it is to the leadership of IBM and I hope that you find in this book something , even if only one thing , that you can apply and that will help you gain the results you seek . |
| 18 | Gentlemanly distaste for ‘ trade ’ is as out of place in sport as it is in the Conservative Party of Mrs Thatcher . |
| 19 | Advances in telecommunications have meant that it is just as easy to work from a computer terminal at home as it is from a town centre office . |
| 20 | Nevertheless library and information promotion and orientation is relevant , and in fact this activity seems to be as common in this sector as it is in the educational sector ; something illustrated in a detailed survey by Sullivan of 1,437 UK special libraries . |
| 21 | I do n't know how you normally do this for overseas payments : possibly take the rate of exchange as it is on the day of cheque request ? |
| 22 | We have been arguing that changing concepts is a political activity ; that it is not value-free , but arises out of a particular ethical or political interpretation of the word , and that one of the aims of the dialogue between feminism and philosophy should precisely be to reconceptualise the world that is offered by philosophy as it is at present . |
| 23 | As we have seen , there are distinct limitations on what can be achieved by way of conditions on a planning permission ; this can often be as awkward for the developer as it is for the planning authority . |
| 24 | So when you 're looking at a file on the screen , what you 're looking at is the file as it is in the , in the memory of the computer , and if you change your spreadsheet , then all you 're doing is changing what 's in the memory . |
| 25 | The problem of the observer is as crucial in biology as it is in physics . |
| 26 | That was something to have , she told herself , to know precisely where you belong , and to be as essential to that place as it is to you . |
| 27 | That apparent drawback means that each rotating show is as much about curatorial overview as it is about the objects themselves . |
| 28 | If we take the ‘ developing countries ’ as a group , compared with the ‘ more developed countries ’ , infant mortality ( in the first year ) is more than five times as high in the first group as it is in the second ; but during the years from one to four — that is , after weaning — the mortality rate in the developing countries is forty times as high as elsewhere : forty deaths for every thousand children surviving their first year , compared with one per thousand in the more developed areas ( Pate , 1965 ) . |
| 29 | As a consciousness which is objectively necessary and yet at the same time false , as the intertwining of truth and falsehood , which is just as distinct from the whole truth as it is from the pure lie , ideology belongs , if not to a modern economy , then , in any case , to a developed urban market economy . |
| 30 | Economic recovery is as much about confidence as it is about deficit financing , as the resolute measures recently announced by President Clinton have demonstrated . |