Example sentences of "as [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Catholicism is present in everyday life through state law , as well as through authoritative statements by clergy and through the national — popular consciousness .
2 That is why we have pursued its progress in the changes of society , as well as through individual story-telling .
3 Here and in the familiar later Ravel sonata the temperament feels as through applied from outside .
4 And then my mind shimmers in the great heat and all things appear to me as through coloured veils .
5 Like the craftsman , the strategic visionary would appear to develop strategic perception as much through practice and gut-level feel for the business , product , market and technology as through conscious cognition .
6 The Delivery Team will be responsible for ensuring that information about the Compact permeates the whole community through regular newsletters and press releases , as well as through public meetings .
7 And there is a body of opinion which suggests damage can be caused by inhalation , as well as through direct contact with the skin or mouth .
8 The findings will be disseminated to agencies and bodies responsible for transport provision through the medium of training conferences , as well as through conventional academic channels .
9 It does sound as through some of the rhythmic inflexions have lost their spontaneity and solidified into mannerisms ( they had already done so by the time of the 1978 Vienna Festival account once available on EMI ) .
10 ‘ Now as through this world I ramble ,
11 While purists may look on and dislike what the engineers have done to the looks of the Gooney , it looks as through this surgery may help keep the old girl flying commercially well towards the type 's centenary !
12 The rationale behind data creation is immensely broad , but might perhaps be categorised as as 1 ) the need for a smooth flow of information to make corporate activity possible , 2 ) the need for proof of activity or entitlement , 3 ) the presentation of the ‘ public face ’ of that activity .
13 he is liable to " hear " /0/ and as as this is the nearest sound in his consonant system .
14 Britain has its ‘ sale of the century ’ with the Saudis , which used to be reported as worth some £20 billion over 20 years or so .
15 As between civil occupations , there was a massive shift of workers into war-related jobs .
16 Priority , as between successive mortgagees of shares , is determined by the date at which the mortgages were effected , as a company is under no obligation to accept notices by mortgagees .
17 Obviously the courts can and will choose as between rational basis and rightness depending , inter alia , on whether they are in accord with the interpretation reached by the agency .
18 Thirty councillors from the London Borough of Poplar were sent to prison in 1921 for refusing to levy rate precepts for London County Council , the Metropolitan Police and the Metropolitan Asylums Board , in a protest against the unequal nature of the rates burden as between rich and poor areas of London .
19 Using × 20 I have suspected it — the integrated magnitude is given as between 7 and 8 — but not with certainty , and there is nothing else of any real interest in Lacerta .
20 For instance , forecasts for the total sales of bread , cakes and other bakery products in the UK can be calculated for any particular segment on the basis of trade and census data on the number of people in different socioeconomic classes ( see later chapters ) , their per capita consumption of bakery products , and trends in the consumption pattern as between standard lines , such as wrapped white bread , and value added lines such as wholemeal bread , cream cakes , crispbread etc .
21 Young adulthood was defined as between 18 and 30 years of age .
22 An inquiry into the referral and suspension of Afro-Caribbean pupils from Birmingham schools recorded that they were almost four times more likely to be suspended from secondary schools as white pupils ; even when the main reason for expulsion was common to both white and black pupils , the latter were more likely to be suspended and the inquiry alluded to a considerable level of hostility , mistrust and ‘ cultural misunderstanding ’ as between black pupils and white teachers ( CRE , 1985 ; see also Driver , 1979 ) .
23 Kestenbaum ( 1980 ) quotes the lifetime risk of developing the disorder as between 0.8 per cent and 1 per cent in the general population , which rises to 13 per cent for a child with one schizophrenic parent , and to 3540 per cent for a child with two schizophrenic parents .
24 He notes the erroneous conclusions which have been drawn from comparing the functioning of the Kenyan Industrial Court with apparently functionally similar wage-regulating institutions in New Zealand and Australia , in the absence of any consideration of the vast differences in the nature and basis of trade union power as between African countries and industrialised economies .
25 For , besides the materialist qualities , the spiritual quality of commitment and feeling is as present between homosexual as between heterosexual partners .
26 ‘ If intercourse under the circumstances now in question constitute an assault on the part of the man , it must constitute rape , unless indeed , as between married persons rape is impossible , a proposition to which I certainly am not prepared to assent , and for which there seems to me to he no sufficient authority …
27 The factors which permit public bureaucracies to engage in politics are variable in their significance as between political systems .
28 Lending policies vary widely between different banks as well as between individual branches .
29 The news agency Interfax on Oct. 16 put the turnout as between 70 to 90 per cent .
30 There was a significant correlation between faecal fat and amount of malabsorbed carbohydrate ( y=3.25+0.88x , r=0.60 , F 1 , 1 7 =9.70 , p=0.006 ) ( Fig 3 ) , as well as between faecal fat and stool wet weight ( y=146.70+7.13x , r=0.57 , F 1 , 1 8 =8.67 , p<0.002 ) , but not between stool wet weight and amount of malabsorbed carbohydrate ( r=0.28 , F 1 , 1 7 =1.45 , p=0.25 ) .
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