Example sentences of "as [noun pl] [prep] the [noun] ' " in BNC.
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1 | Less the arm the figure is complete in itself , but it was part of a larger whole : a four-horse team , the charioteer in the car holding the reins , possibly the dedicator as a warrior behind him on the ground or mounting , probably a groom at the horses ' heads ( a small-scale arm was found , as well as scraps of the horses ' legs and tails ) . |
2 | red-rimmed as syphilitics from the Baths ' |
3 | Thornton was one of a group of manuscript chart-makers , who , since the early seventeenth century , had plied their trade as members of the Drapers ' Company in shops lining the streets and alleys down-river from the Tower of London . |
4 | Nevertheless controversies continued between the verderers , as protectors of the commoners ' rights , and the officers of the Crown , who wished to enclose and encoppice to promote the growth and sale of timber . |
5 | Those eggs that did survive would have done so only because they contained , as hang-overs from the species ' earlier aquatic way of life , genes pertinent to a more aqueous existence , including perhaps the genes for nuptial pads . |