Example sentences of "as [art] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He felt no fear that either the militia or the rebels would molest him or his men , since all the troubles were occurring in what he thought of as the richer areas . |
| 2 | Or else it could indicate genuine remorse , and , even more important , an acknowledgement of Esau 's status as the elder brother . |
| 3 | Earlier we might have said his conduct and manner of speech were appropriate for one who wished to renounce the status he had stolen , and show his recognition of Esau 's authority as the elder son . |
| 4 | As the elder brother , it was his privilege and his right to ‘ go oot ’ whenever the fancy took him , especially as he was a toiler . |
| 5 | The younger policeman shuffled in embarrassment under my glassy gaze as the elder one continued to recite the report from a notebook in his mind . |
| 6 | Sukarno was hailed as the Elder Brother of the Indonesian people . |
| 7 | As the elder boy and Lan turned away in relief , the mandarin let his hand fall on the bamboo cane ; he rolled it between his fingers for a moment before glancing up at his younger son again . |
| 8 | As the elder son , he had responsibilities over and above those to his fiancée . ’ |
| 9 | Yes , Clinton told the world 's press , he was personally committed to maintaining the ‘ special relationship ’ , and he was pleased to accept the advice of Major as the elder statesman . |
| 10 | Bill and John : presidential praise for the Prime Minister as the elder statesman |
| 11 | Last year a group of 45 Fortune 500 chief executives and university presidents , known as the Business-Higher Education Forum , published a report saying that the country could not ignore the growing isolation of its inner-city minorities . |
| 12 | Yet what do we then make of a Gallup finding ( 21 — 6 May 1987 ) that , when asked to choose between inflation and unemployment as the greater threat to them and their families , 49 per cent chose inflation and only 43 per cent unemployment ? |
| 13 | Hill was eventually persuaded to drop this proposal to gain acceptance for what he regarded as the greater reform : that price should be independent of distance . |
| 14 | Peasant conservatism is just as much an ideology to the planner as the greater public good is to the crofter If way of life is natural and familiar , ideology is contrived and foreign . |
| 15 | There can be no argument that , on average , women are physically smaller than men , and there are other features such as the greater proportion of fatty tissue which give men the advantage in relation to tolerance of heat stress and physical effort involving fast or heavy work or awkward posture . |
| 16 | This especially applies to the large pointed snail known as the greater pond snail or freshwater whelk . |
| 17 | Plunder and lawlessness from the free-born slowly emerge as the greater menace . |
| 18 | The army , which had overthrown the government of President Ramsewak Shankar in December 1990 [ see pp. 37912-13 ] , apparently perceived the SLA as the greater threat and had been keen to isolate it . |
| 19 | It seems likely that child labour underground increased after 1815 as the greater use of wheeled wagons on rail tracks brought the drawing of coal within their physical capabilities . |
| 20 | In each gear you could tell the carburettors were better balanced after 12,000 miles as the slower increments always favoured the later set of figures . |
| 21 | Erm however w w with the changing environment erm such as the bigger demonstrations , also the continuing victory of the nor the northern expedition erm it was more easy to join these associations er indeed the there 's a sort of climate of opinion that , you know , if you do n't join that then you 'll be left behind and threatened yourself . |
| 22 | As an employer , you need to pay NI contributions for those employees aged 16 or over , who earn at or above what is known as the lower earnings limit , which stands at £52 a week from 6th April 1991 . |
| 23 | The North Committee recommended a reformulation of the offence of reckless driving so as to encompass ‘ very bad driving ’ of a wider kind , retaining careless driving as the lower offence . |
| 24 | Sensory loss sometimes occurs in large areas such as the lower limbs and lower trunk ; in all four limbs and the whole trunk ; in the arm and leg on the same side of the body . |
| 25 | The Z1 Carbonate is also widely referred to as the Zechsteinkalk and in N.E. England it is known locally as the Lower and Middle Magnesian Limestone ( Brueren 1959 ; Füchtbauer 1964 and 1972 ; Richter-Bernburg 1955 ; Rhys 1975 ; Smith 1980 ; Taylor 1981 ; Taylor and Colter 1975 ; van Adrichem-Boogaert and Burgers 1983 ; Wagner et al . |
| 26 | Moreover , smoother driving is as much a characteristic of Tempo 30 as the lower overall speeds , as Döldissen has shown ( Figure 6.30 ) . |
| 27 | You should find it easy to consume 35g of fibre daily , and we suggest this as the lower limit in order to achieve the slimming benefits described in the previous chapters . |
| 28 | As the lower layer sediments , the upper layer continues to cool and crystallization begins again . |
| 29 | Even in Northern Ireland , the districts are best thought of as the lower tier in a system that simply lacks a democratically elected higher level of local government . |
| 30 | Let unc Here we have chosen B as the lower triangular portion of A , and C is of course B — A. We are given that unc To four places of decimals we now find unc and to this order of accuracy , unc is null . |