Example sentences of "as [pers pn] are to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But you , Bethlehem … small as you are to be among Judah 's clans , out of you shall come forth a governor for Israel , one whose roots are far back in the past , in days gone by . |
| 2 | Higueras warned Jim , ‘ Once a player is as close as you are to being number one in the world , the adjustments should be fractional in your game . |
| 3 | I will therefore , sir , dear as you are to me , give up your person to the happier , to my worthier rival . |
| 4 | We are therefore committed to continue managing rivers , as we are to managing every square mile of the English countryside . |
| 5 | Accustomed as we are to the damp rigours of most Scottish self-catering properties , the Rannoch flats and apartments seem like paradise . |
| 6 | The fathers were as close to the New Testament as we are to the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century . |
| 7 | This is the sort of situation which leads to our distinguishing ‘ ourselves as we feel ourselves to be ’ and ‘ ourselves as we are to others ’ . |
| 8 | The most bizarre of all these techniques , at least to our eyes , prejudiced as we are to a mammalian way of doing things , is that practised by Rhinoderma , a tiny frog that Darwin found in Southern Chile . |
| 9 | A student , faced with discourse slightly beyond his or her current knowledge , is in the same position relative to that discourse as we are to the above . |
| 10 | The sickness of morning is already upon us , unaccustomed as we are to being up so early . |
| 11 | The sexual feelings were there , and were overwhelming , as they are to many teenagers . |
| 12 | Dampness and lack of ventilation are as welcoming to insects as they are to wood fungi and once these conditions are rectified the beetles will feel less inclined to stay . |
| 13 | Overall the cost of a funeral often comes as a big shock to people and the vicar 's fees , peripheral as they are to the main bill , come in for lots of cynical comments like ‘ Even at a time like this , the church is making money . ’ |
| 14 | The figures from the United Kingdom , acknowledged as they are to be the most accurate , still underestimate the true incidence of infection . |
| 15 | It is unclear at this stage if direct comparison can be made with Behrensmeyer 's weathering categories , applied as they are to large mammal weathering in tropical climates , but as a provisional estimate these changes will be attributed to her stage 2 . |
| 16 | In their Narratives of love and loss ( 1987 , pp.1–2 ) they have set out ‘ to understand and … explain the astonishing emotional depth and moving power of works which might at first sight appear deceptively simple to adult readers , written as they are to be read by children ’ . |
| 17 | The tuners are Jackson-stamped Gotohs and have proved in the past to be man enough for the job , relegated as they are to being mere anchor points for the strings , taking into account the Floyd Rose licensed tremolo employed here . |
| 18 | The dates of these visits will be given to you as soon as they are to hand . |
| 19 | Presents from returning travellers or presents for your hostess are as much a sign of manners to the hareem as they are to us . |
| 20 | Since the node-link-node triples are not as meaningful to readers as they are to those who made the semantic net , the author may place any phrase in the margin . |
| 21 | Mark Watson and John Warwick , joint co-ordinators , who double as NISW consultant and information officer respectively , are happy to talk to those who have no more idea about what they want to do than , say , look at child abuse in Texas , as they are to someone who can build on a clutch of ready-made contacts . |
| 22 | The attainment of that general purpose and the nature of the scheme are prima facie as appropriate to the case of an unregistered company as they are to the case of a registered company . |
| 23 | All these features are as relevant to running a high-quality home for mentally disordered people as they are to selling hamburgers , and many services are now devising rules for ‘ human ’ care which can be monitored in exactly the same way , covering aspects of the physical environment , care practices and procedures and ‘ customer satisfaction ’ with the service . |
| 24 | There could be a good Dream in artificial intelligence the POV of an omniscient machine intellect , and its struggles with humans who are to it as they are to ants . |
| 25 | Market intelligence and sales and marketing expertise are , therefore , as crucial to the success of the technology transfer company as they are to innovation in general . |
| 26 | Suggestions of future disaster are never as convincing to the listener as they are to the talker . |
| 27 | Latterly it has become increasingly apparent that neighbouring small-scale communities , even when they are lumped together under the same " tribal " label , are just as likely to be sharply contrasted as they are to be very much the same . |
| 28 | But trade flows are at least as sensitive to the level of non-tariff barriers as they are to tariffs themselves . |
| 29 | Close as they are to being sold , electricity and water will be largely unaffected by this week 's change . |
| 30 | All such sources of conflict are familiar to those in the public sector as much as they are to those in the private . |