Example sentences of "in the [adj] [noun sg] as [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may not , however , have sat in the final term as he was under sentence of excommunication , possibly for his part in the battle of Lewes . |
| 2 | These changes were to lead eventually to competition and dissent between the two main providers , particularly in the Eastern District as it was a predominantly rural area . |
| 3 | Try to coach the item in the correct order as it can confuse the class members if they suddenly have to put it together differently . |
| 4 | He practises tilting his pelvis in the correct pattern as he moves forwards and backwards , and he straightens and relaxes his knees as instructed and guided . |
| 5 | There had always been that choice , and it was as difficult to take , and as easy to reject , in the twentieth century as it had been in any other . |
| 6 | Sometimes the contrast is not so clearly expressed for us in the twentieth century as it would have been in the first century , so we have to rely on commentaries to point out the way that the apostle was thinking . |
| 7 | He did not look back again , except in the rear-view mirror as he drove away . |
| 8 | The Bank is also influential in the gilt-edged market as it administers the issue of new bonds when the government wishes to borrow money . |
| 9 | Everyone was up on the sun deck in the early morning as we approached the magnificent twin peaks of this imposing looking island . |
| 10 | And er if I just run through them in in the amended version as I understand it . |
| 11 | Even those men , such as Bert Cooke and John Douglas , who were later critical of ministers becoming professional politicians , found themselves acting in the political arena as they tried to explain to an increasingly interested audience why their spiritual leader was being sent to prison . |
| 12 | The peak associations of business and labour were important in the economic sphere as they controlled resources that were needed by government if public policy was to be effective and capable of implementation and enforcement . |
| 13 | Mira was there also , forlorn in the snowy courtyard as she contemplated Bicker leaving her yet again . |
| 14 | He could see the whites of the fear-filled eyes in the black face as he leapt at him . |
| 15 | The gothic spires of parliament shimmered in the autumnal sunlight as they drove to the far side of Parliament Square and turned right towards Victoria . |
| 16 | The notes hovered in the still air as he played a lament then errupted into a dance rhythm . |
| 17 | Insects buzzed in the hot night as they got out of the moke . |
| 18 | Claire Thomas will be er in the hot seat as it were . |
| 19 | He saw his face in the glaucous basin as he cleaned his teeth . |
| 20 | Cobras do not hear in the ordinary sense as they have no extended ears . |
| 21 | Hubert squinted as though at some object in the middle distance as he tried to recall . |
| 22 | The news of the happy event was of special interest to all in the sales-admin office as it is where both mother and father work — Donna as Customer Service Supervisor and Craig as Financial Accounts Manager on the admin side . |
| 23 | Discarded papers blew in the narrow street as they walked back to the car . |
| 24 | THE Chicago Cubs scored six runs in the first inning as they beat the San Francisco Giants 9-5 at Wrigley Field on Thursday to level the National League championship series at 1-1 . |
| 25 | The procedure is very informal ; a short note or even a telephone call will suffice in the first instance as we are mainly interested in concepts rather than with detailed descriptions . |
| 26 | If we take the ‘ developing countries ’ as a group , compared with the ‘ more developed countries ’ , infant mortality ( in the first year ) is more than five times as high in the first group as it is in the second ; but during the years from one to four — that is , after weaning — the mortality rate in the developing countries is forty times as high as elsewhere : forty deaths for every thousand children surviving their first year , compared with one per thousand in the more developed areas ( Pate , 1965 ) . |
| 27 | The acid clearance test failed to discriminate between patients and volunteers in the first group as it was grossly prolonged in most of the subjects ( both patients and volunteers ) . |
| 28 | The poem ends by asking if humans and the world were evolved so that they could be destroyed in war then why did the sun bother to give life to things in the first place as it all seems silly and pointless . |
| 29 | The yen 's rise could help trim the trade surplus in the long run as it could make U.S. exporters more competitive , although in the short-term that could help lift the amount of exports in dollar terms from Japan . |
| 30 | Their axes sounded loud in the long wood as they cut the timber for their cooking fires . |