The phrase "as in the act of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to clarify or specify a particular action or behavior being referenced.
Example: "He was caught red-handed, as in the act of stealing from the store."
Alternatives: "such as when" or "like in the process of".
Lifesaving, as in the act of saving human lives, is officially a sport.
It is truth as a kind of troth, a loyalty or fidelity to that which one is betrothed, as in the act of love.
In the afterglow of his unsolicited glorification, Beane has been alternately courted by Goldman Sachs types who are enamored of his emotionally detached approach to romance (as in baseball) and flayed by the game's purists for the flaws in his progressive thinking (as in the act of booting a computer).
According to Wiens (1984), competitive processes can be conceptualized in two ways: competition can occur through interference when resources are denied to individuals because of the aggressive actions of other individuals-or through exploitation, such as in the act of grazing, where limiting resources become scarcer.
Move your legs as in the act of walking to keep you afloat.
It's pretty clear that at a basic level, men are just as involved in the act of conception as women are.
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He contends that whatever title the government has was not acquired as provided in the act of June 28 , 1902 by treaty with the Republic of Colombia.
In my mind and conscience, it was a possible, permissible act of liberation from whatever humiliating bondage on earth could no longer be borne with self-respect, and our talk ended with the mutual declaration that if either of us ever killed ourself, the other was not to grieve but to remember that liberty could be as important in the act of dying as in the acts of living.
"As he thought Brown made a foul on Falcao as he was in the act of shooting, he dismissed Brown.
The spiral hams unfold as if caught in the act of stripping.
