Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] to the [noun sg] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | These usually began with a stern injunction to rise at 6.30 a.m. , first task to clear out the embers from the fire ( yet another pointer to the fire as the heart of the home ) and relight it . |
| 2 | The first is to provide a Scottish dimension to the study as a whole , allowing some assessment of the significance of historical , cultural and institutional differences , north and south of the border . |
| 3 | According to sources in Washington , officials in the Department of Commerce decided at the end of last year to recommend this strategy to the president as the most effective way of relinquishing responsibility for the US 's Landsat system . |
| 4 | It can only be up to ourselves to either be seduced by this sly trickster and his façade of grandeur or to laugh in the face of his absurdity and bring forth the somewhat obscured benevolence of God , his son , and our first ancestral parents , to achieve some perspective to the poem as a whole . |
| 5 | ‘ Operating creatively ’ on a proposal which was in effect another version of reparation , although this time to the community as a whole , Maudling echoed the sentiments of the ACPS in his speech commending the Criminal Justice Bill to the House of Commons on Second Reading . |
| 6 | a regular glass of beer or sherry to give a high spot to the day as a morale booster , and following a long held habit ( Roberts , 1988 ) ; |
| 7 | It is rather to point up the intense cultural sensitivity to the face as a motif in western representation . |
| 8 | It is a usual feature of such a comparison that there is a basic level of information which is common to most of the reviews , and it is the mark of a skilful critic to have worked in some personal assessment of works , or some individual response to the show as a whole . |
| 9 | If the Government can seriously contemplate investing £3,000 million in a company employing 100,000 people , they should also be prepared to start the discussion by studying the proposition with a view to supporting a project which could be of tremendous advantage to the nation as a whole . |
| 10 | These new regulations were made with no real reference to the membership as a whole . |
| 11 | In all six companies the corporate planning department formulated a list of environmental issues which were considered to be of key importance to the company as a whole . |
| 12 | And , above all else , members were obliged to display a total commitment to the Senate as an institution . |
| 13 | Thus , it appeared to be a curiously odd appointment to the District as the most active and successful Tutorial Classes already existed in Northamptonshire while there were large tracts of East Anglia where , from the WEA standpoint as a Responsible Body and as joint provider of Tutorial Classes with the Cambridge Board , much valuable work might have been undertaken by a university resident tutor . |
| 14 | is employed to give dramatic effect to the poem as a whole . |
| 15 | He expresses the view that strikes will be fewer in number where collective bargaining is conducted at higher levels and more numerous where there is plant bargaining , largely because , in the latter case , since all workers within an industry or region need not be brought out , strikes can be called at much less cost to the membership as a whole . |
| 16 | My postbag is the proof that a season 's secrecy — until Lamb forced some overdue action — has exposed professional cricket to the public as a game prepared to condone or cover-up cheating . |
| 17 | Therefore , although there was a breach of the court 's order , there was no practical loss to the plaintiff as a result of the acts of the appellants . |
| 18 | ‘ You get quite a good general introduction to the industry as a graduate trainee , you know . |
| 19 | In the last analysis , society and its institutions will be judged by their success in preparing the majority of young people to make an effective and valued contribution to the community as a whole . |
| 20 | LORD TENTERDEN C.J. : Assuming that the offer to pay the six guineas without costs was evidence of an express promise by the defendant to pay that sum to the plaintiff as a compensation to him for his loss of time , still , if the defendant was not bound by law to pay that sum , the offer to do so not having been accepted will not avail the plaintiff . |
| 21 | The tort is actionable per se and the plaintiff need not show any damage to the land as a result of the defendant 's act . |
| 22 | The mines would be confined to a narrow line of dunes which separate Lake St Lucia from the sea , but would still cause irreparable damage to the wetland as a whole , ecologists believe . |
| 23 | " Well , " Ajayi said , leaving the open entrance to the balcony as a light wind picked up and blew a small flurry of snow around her booted feet , " at least the game 's over . " |
| 24 | Subtle intensity : Tom Fleming makes a triumphant return to the stage as CS Lewis |
| 25 | In them the meditator projects a dramatisation of his own reaction to the Passion as a present reality . |
| 26 | The man in the doorway was certainly old and infirm , and none too reliable either , but when he ceased to be of any use to the Guild as a working docker , they had found him a sinecure job as night watchman on the Wharf . |
| 27 | The close proximity of the entrance of the vagina to the anus makes the anus a particular threat to the vagina as a source of candida and provides the bacteria to infect the bladder in cases of cystitis . |
| 28 | There followed such extravagant follies as Bonnie Prince Charlie ( 1948 ) and an Anna Karenina ( 1947 ) in which Vivien Leigh vainly tried to bring some of the same magic to the role as Greta Garbo had 12 years earlier . |
| 29 | SFE 's executive director , James Scott , said that no-one should be in any doubt about the importance of the financial sector to the country as a whole . |
| 30 | The five children of the household — all under twelve — sat staring at him and from time to time discussed him with one another in rapid French , which in spite of his recent visit to the country as a ski soldier , totally escaped his capacity to understand . |