Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the [adj] [noun] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | This followed a succession of smaller mergers during the previous decade as the once dominant , but then struggling , independent British car makers joined together in an attempt to gain economies of scale and to maintain their market share in the face of fierce international competition . |
| 2 | MacRae dismissed his case notes for the third stage as ‘ rubbish ’ . |
| 3 | Describing the contacts between the two countries as a " positive development " , Vellayati also said that the exchange of prisoners of war between the two countries , abruptly suspended by Iraq in September [ see p. 37727 ] , would resume shortly . |
| 4 | Under local authority accounting practice , the minimum revenue provision for the local authority as a whole is a fixed percentage , determined by the Government . |
| 5 | From the revving intro to Jagger 's absurd Robert-Johnson-on-the-acid vocals , ‘ Jumping Jack Flash ’ single-handedly did change the face of rock , and for the first time provided a fitting soundtrack for The Rolling Stones as devil bastards from Planet Murder . |
| 6 | It ran like a click-click-clack off the beaten track as the Brownsville Train comes through , like the tick-tack-toe of Old Black Joe … |
| 7 | It is important to emphasise that , although students will be able to gain a ‘ merit ’ award for the general SVQ as a whole , individual National Certificate modules making up the programme will not be graded . |
| 8 | What was the erm what was the link between the rich peasant as the economy industrialization ? |
| 9 | In the matter of relating Christianity to economics this is a vitally important assumption because we face great cultural and intellectual pressure as Christians to adopt a form of dualism in which we substitute Smith or Marx or Friedman or Hayek for the divine revelation as the ultimate authority in this area of life . |
| 10 | Most MPs see the cross-party support for the new Speaker as an omen of a kinder , gentler House , a suitable legislature for the kind of country , ‘ at ease with itself ’ , that John Major has said he wishes to create . |
| 11 | With support for the 88000 RISC as a system architecture dwindling to a few hardy companies , a core 88open unit will continue to service their requirements , testing and branding system software and applications . |
| 12 | A guide wire was placed in the gall bladder for the entire procedure as a safety measure . |
| 13 | Recovery in the UK gathered momentum during the second quarter as the UK portfolio continued to respond positively to action on rates and operating costs . |
| 14 | But it illustrates a radical divergence between the Anglo-American tradition as a whole and a great deal of modern European literary theory . |
| 15 | Justifying the coup of President Alberto Keinya Fujimori as necessary for the political and economic regeneration of the country , de la Puente offered no agenda or guidelines for the National Dialogue as such , but stated that " working commissions " would be established to address six main issues , none of which were delineated . |
| 16 | DEVALUATION of the pound , deep cuts in military spending , phased withdrawal of the Army from Northern Ireland and tax increases on earnings over £26,000 a year were proposed by Mr Ken Livingstone yesterday as he launched his bid for the Labour leadership as the candidate for the party 's hard-Left . |
| 17 | But most of all , they have the determination to put their name on the trophy for the first time as a tribute to club president George Blower who tragically died at the end of a league game almost four weeks ago . |
| 18 | In some ways most striking of all , the perception of the Soviet Union as a closed , aggressive society had been largely replaced by one of a changing and liberalising system genuinely committed to peace and headed by a dynamic , Kennedyesque leader and his personable wife . |
| 19 | FANS OF THE open-top jeep as a means of safari travel will have a wider choice in Zambia from next year , when the national airline 's subsidiary , Africa Bound , will start regular game drives through South Luangwa and Kafue national parks — £1,233 for a 10-day tour . |
| 20 | To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the internal market as the mechanism to determine the future pattern of health services in London . |
| 21 | The four harbingers of East European apocalypse — the collapse of the Soviet Union as a trading partner , dear oil , government paralysis and civil disorder — visited last year and may have already done their worst . |
| 22 | The War heralded ‘ the collapse of the national State as an independent economic unit ’ ; henceforth , the nation would be only ‘ a cultural , ideological and psychological fact ’ . |
| 23 | Answer guide : Broadly the criteria is : has there been an enhancement of the future benefits as a result of incurring the cost ? |
| 24 | Even though the obvious explanation of the abnormal rhythmicity is that these people suffer from the loss of the light/dark cycle as a time-cue , the result also indicates that the other time-cues ( social factors , activity , and meal times ) are inadequate . |
| 25 | Sandys would have liked to have unified the policy direction and command of the three Services as part of his Reformation . |
| 26 | Our position is that the problem arising from the activities of the Mandela Football Club can and must be resolved within the ambit of the democratic movement as a whole , both at local and national levels . |
| 27 | His plea was well received by his listeners who , if they did not quite accept his characterisation of the present moment as a ‘ cultural war ’ between the advocates of free expression and individuals he referred to as ‘ know-nothings ’ , nonetheless were happy , even relieved , to have something resembling moral high ground from which to defend themselves in the controversy and even take the battle back to the ‘ enemy ’ . |
| 28 | The seal on this rapprochement was set with a treaty of peace with the Picts to which Bede refers in the penultimate chapter of the Ecclesiastical History as a significant aspect of the situation in 731 ( HE V , 23 ) . |
| 29 | His mind was the richest repository of the past : he had been a child oblate at Canterbury before the Conquest ; he had heard all the gossip of the older monks as a child , and he remembered as an adult all that he had heard . |
| 30 | The correspondence-computations match primitive elements ( those defined by Marr ) in successive views , and do not depend on computation of the overall shape as a whole . |