Example sentences of "[adj] as [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of those homes may already have been hocked by granny to pay for care in her declining years ; and house prices may be depressed as inheritors who already own their homes sell those they inherit . |
| 2 | Member states were allowed a discretion as to whether to include a state of the art defence and its inclusion is controversial as states which do have the defence could become testing grounds for new products . |
| 3 | But it was not in the way that the poor had always looked alike — it was not , that is , because they were shabby , shoeless and grubby as moles — but because the gangs wished to look alike , and had adopted a uniform dress-style . |
| 4 | Now the County Councils and the City Council 's assessment of the capacity of the Greater York study sites are roughly the same , you can see , sir , that as things have moved forward in only a six month period , the City Council calculate there 's a residual requirement of nine hundred and forty seven dwellings , only twenty five percent of the migration assumption , none hundred and forty seven dwellings left , compared to the County Council 's outdated information which suggested it 's one thousand three hundred and thirty five . |
| 5 | tried to do joined writing , apparently we are supposed to do that as teachers , actually said got ta put their primary on primary education , it says sit down and write a poem in joined up writing and look at your own writing and before you try to teach it to children make sure that you know |
| 6 | My contention is , that as animals ourselves , we inherit genetically a whole network of such reactions within which our language-games are integrated and to some extent grounded . |
| 7 | And it 's good for us to recognise and to be aware and to realize , that in a day when we are so often just numbers , that as individuals we matter to God . |
| 8 | Six directors of a fund management company in the City of London , Mercury Asset Management received more than one million pounds ( $1,600,000 ) each as wages for their last year 's work . |
| 9 | He started afresh on this work which appeared privately in 1893 as Rules for Compositors and Readers at the University Press , Oxford . |
| 10 | Only the ‘ other neurotic ’ group were indistinguishable as children from those who grew up to be well ; if anything , their home lives were slightly more adequate than those of the comparison group . |
| 11 | Alan Greenspan , the Fed 's chairman , has defined this as changes in the price level which are too small to have a material effect on the decisions of businesses and households — 2% or less , say . |
| 12 | I mean if you ask what happens when electrons drop down from one orbit to another inside the atom , the emit light , which is the thing we are familiar with , but erm physicists tend to think of this as particles which they call photons . |
| 13 | In his heart , he still regarded this as women 's work , and felt humiliated that it was now Joshua who acted as Marcus Judge 's chief assistant at the dockyard . |
| 14 | The Shamir administration refrained , however , from challenging for the time being the apparent PLO involvement with the Jordanian-Palestinian delegation , nor did it decide to use this as grounds for withdrawing from the conference . |
| 15 | It is most important that arts teachers see themselves first and foremost as teachers and only after carrying out their duties in this respect to see themselves as artists . |
| 16 | These benefits , which were introduced in legislation passed in the year of the British Sex Discrimination Act , are perhaps two of the most blatant examples of the way in which married women are seen first and foremost as housewives and thus responsible for all the domestic work within the home . |
| 17 | The sophisticated systems of electro-chemical replacement and depletion gilding and silvering developed by Andean metallurgists during the first millennium before Christ were designed first and foremost as symbols of rank , power and religious force . |
| 18 | The stigma attached to fat means that we are low-status as lovers , thus people who are attracted to fat women may repress their desire because they risk ridicule and pity if they choose such a low-status lover . |
| 19 | They acquired a significance that grew ever more painful as weeks and then months away from home turned into years . |
| 20 | I mean we did n't know this , well Mark knew , but I did n't know and there was some as Germans and some as English forces it was really good and it got erm the D J got all the old records and all that really was a good night ! |
| 21 | Those who in peacetime seemed brave or merely quaint for believing in all those old doctrines found themselves in wartime much in demand , some as evangelists , some as prophets , some as teachers . |
| 22 | Some were marked as regular orders , some as one-offs . |
| 23 | Those who in peacetime seemed brave or merely quaint for believing in all those old doctrines found themselves in wartime much in demand , some as evangelists , some as prophets , some as teachers . |
| 24 | ‘ I just do n't hear about it at all from the sales force , ’ he said , adding that he 's heard it referred to by some as Windows for Warehouses — ‘ because it sits on shelves . ’ |
| 25 | From photographs I see that some were dressed as chickens , some as rabbits , some as Indian statesmen . |
| 26 | When the signal for launching crusade finally did come to the Fists ' astropaths , Battle Brothers would depart in warpships from the jutting sword-deck — to return , perhaps years later in realspace time , as heroes … and some as cripples needing reconstruction by the experts in the Apothacarion … and others as honoured corpses , or perhaps only in the form of retrieved progenoid glands from which new Marines would be kindled . |
| 27 | Those who in peacetime seemed brave or merely quaint for believing in all those old doctrines found themselves in wartime much in demand , some as evangelists , some as prophets , some as teachers . |
| 28 | It is not that these initiatives do not contain good educational practice which is being criticised here ( for they do ) , but rather the way in which they are seen by some as panaceas which can succeed without full professional involvement . |
| 29 | confirming their readiness to reinforce security , in particular by adopting effective arms control , disarmament and confidence-building measures ; their willingness not to regard each another as adversaries but to work for a relationship of trust and co-operation ; and accordingly their readiness to consider positively the setting up of appropriate institutional arrangements within the framework of the CSCE ; |
| 30 | Inadequate as its arable was , Sussex managed to build a considerable eighteenth-century prosperity on stock- and sheep-breeding , with an intensive use of downland and marshland grazing to complement the smaller Wealden pastures ; the beasts were moved from one to another as seasons changed . |