Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [pron] [noun] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The enlightened Baptist minister Robert Robinson in Cambridge denounced the trade as an encroachment on natural rights and envisaged its end as the result of a general offensive , congenial to Rational Dissenters , making ‘ the natural connection between civil and religious liberty ’ . |
| 2 | Others shuffled and stamped their feet as the cold from the frosted pavement penetrated the thin soles of their shoes . |
| 3 | Environmentalists dubbed it a failure for this reason , but acknowledged its importance as the first occasion on which all major world governments had agreed that global warming was a reality . |
| 4 | His death in 1930 halted the immediate ascendancy of his version of socialism , but facilitated his canonisation as the prophet of a distinctly Latin American Marxism . |
| 5 | It is a fine , Medieval bridge , guarded at each end and fortified as befitted its position as the sole river crossing and approach to the castle . |