Example sentences of "as it [be] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Understanding is deferred , rather as it is in certain recent theoretical accounts of the way literature works . |
| 2 | The art that comes of them is one in which imagination takes power , the power to distort and exaggerate , in which difference of person is suspended , in which the experience of time is as it is in dreams . |
| 3 | Occasionally this can be interesting as it is in Bintley 's Consort Lessons ( 1984 ) . |
| 4 | Rhythm in ballet is not therefore a mere time-keeper as it is in such social ballroom dances as waltzes and fox-trots . |
| 5 | It is not formally structured as it is in the ballets of other countries where choreographers are more likely to present the traditional dance itself , slightly adapted for the stage with the footwork more complicated . |
| 6 | Besides building an 18-hole golf course , and charging trainers to exercise their horses on the track , he is instigating another new concept in this country by constructing American-style barns so that training can be done at the track as it is in the United States . |
| 7 | The question of management and legal representation for aspiring new-comers is just as valid in publishing as it is in recording . |
| 8 | Gentlemanly distaste for ‘ trade ’ is as out of place in sport as it is in the Conservative Party of Mrs Thatcher . |
| 9 | ‘ That mercy should season justice is a proposition as soundly based in law as it is in literature . ’ |
| 10 | It is not seen as a ‘ deadly disease ’ in the same way as it is in France . |
| 11 | Instead of being largely obscured , as it is in the conventional process , the beautiful grain of the timber is highlighted to stunning effect . |
| 12 | But in a world where nature left to its own devices is as grim as it is in much of the Soviet Union , the belief that you can bend it on the heroic scale is unlikely to go away . |
| 13 | This time , the Third World has a lever of sorts in its willingness , or unwillingness , to co-operate , but one of limited value since co-operation in drawing up a climate convention is ultimately as much in the interests of the poor nations as it is in those of the rich . |
| 14 | The ‘ not invented here ’ syndrome is as prevalent in US military thinking as it is in Britain 's . |
| 15 | The speed of sound in water is roughly four times as great as it is in air . |
| 16 | Mr Welch wants GE to be an enterprise where : ( a ) internal divisions blur , and everybody works as a team ; ( b ) suppliers and customers are partners ; ( c ) there is no segregation between foreign and domestic operations , and each GE business is just as much at home in South Korea and Paris , France , as it is in South Carolina and Paris , Texas . |
| 17 | With the show as buoyant as it is in these times , you will perhaps see why I have questioned his assertion that it is a local show and why I can absolutely refute the suggestion that we needed to discount . |
| 18 | The use of stylistic criteria for dating coins should , in theory at least , be as valid in the study of coinage as it is in any other field of art history . |
| 19 | Mr Forsyth 's support for student loans has ensured little support for him on the campus but , that apart , the student vote seems to be as divided as it is in the wider constituency . |
| 20 | He argues that creativity in advertising can not be as divorced from selling as it is in these awards . |
| 21 | Education is important in enabling rural people to organise and plan , as much as it is in ensuring that the urban majority understand the nature of rural problems and lend their support to solving them . |
| 22 | Eutrophication is nitrate limited in the Norfolk Broads during the summer , as it is in Loch Leven and the lakes of Cumbria . |
| 23 | In some countries , names demonstrate aristocratic status and the elite may be referred to , as it is in Peru , as the forty families . |
| 24 | As a result , there were simply more same-sex intimacies and ones of greater intensity than we are used to in our modern world , steeped as it is in post-Freudian heterosexuality . |
| 25 | For example , if aggressiveness can be undoubtedly shown to be an inherited trait rather than a learned response — as it is in those men with the extra male chromosome — we would be in a position to reject all conceptions which would produce an excessively aggressive individual . |
| 26 | This is why we pray , ‘ Your kingdom come , your will be done on earth as it is in heaven . ’ |
| 27 | There were a privileged few who made the Grand Tour to complete their education and seek out Europe 's art treasures , but travelling for pleasure was not an accepted part of life as it is in Western industrialized countries today . |
| 28 | This exported oil or gas is not , as it is in the West , that part of production which is surplus to domestic requirements ; it is a quota which a decision has been taken to meet in order to fulfil a particular objective . |
| 29 | Because of the stress that such feelings may cause , their physical health is at risk just as much as it is in the case of the busy executive trying to cram 200 hours-worth of activity into those 168 . |
| 30 | The trick is to aim your eyes at the sign as soon as it is in your line of vision and then to fix your gaze upon it as you go past . |