Example sentences of "human [noun sg] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet for ten novels of adventure using this formulaic , superficial method there will be one , if we can find it , which by stretching the convention of improbable excitement by an acceptance of human nature both as it is and as it can be , offers not an escape but an enlargement of life through imagination . |
| 2 | Given basic ability , equality of opportunity to borrow at the market rate of interest to invest in your human capital so as to secure a future return makes observed income inequality a matter of individual choice . |
| 3 | In a passage like this ( and there are several very like it , as we shall see ) , Pound 's interest in Aeneas is limited to the matter of his semidivine birth , how he was conceived by Aphrodite after she had assumed human form so as to lie with Anchises . |
| 4 | Tigers do not know that humans beings have no sense of smell , and when a tiger becomes a man-eater it treats a human being exactly as it treats wild animals , that is , it approaches its intended victims up-wind , or lies up in wait for them down-wind . |
| 5 | Or a great space hulk might be reported drifting in the void or in the warp , harbouring suspected pirates or , worse , those fierce cunning invasive Genestealers which could infest a human world just as termites infest a house — so that it seems to remain firm timber until it crumbles apart . |
| 6 | Locke 's contemporaries marvelled at this human creation just as they marvelled at nature as seen through the microscope . |