Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Individuality counts for little as the nurse in the antenatal clinic brightly calls us ‘ Mother ’ , and the doctor treats us as if we were half-witted . |
| 2 | You should be as devious and cunning about this as the book is itself . |
| 3 | We now see underlying inflation moving above 4% ( and outside the Government 's new 1% to 4% target range ) through 1993 as the impact of the lower pound feeds through . |
| 4 | These resonances correspond to constructive interference of the circulating field with the incident field , and 8 thus sweeps through 2 as the total cavity length is fine-tuned over an optical wavelength . |
| 5 | Parliament 's control over direct taxation thus increased in importance after 1558 as the Crown became more dependent upon that source of revenue . |
| 6 | Share issues were subdued in the early 1980s but rose strongly after that as the market improved . |
| 7 | It 's a flexi-time job — start as long before 9 as you like and go on as long after 5 as the situation requires ( 6 , 7 , 8 — not mention weekends ! ) . |
| 8 | it 's the person in the post as much as the post itself th th that |
| 9 | And the implications of that as the government readied itself for the privatisation of British Airways were too horrific to contemplate . |
| 10 | There is an interesting contrast between the Church of Ireland and the Roman Catholic Church in that the Church of Ireland tends to create new parishes out of old as the need arises while the Roman Catholic Church builds new churches where they are needed but keeps still to the already existing parish structure . |
| 11 | The improvement achieved in all major classes during 1992 continued into the first quarter of 1993 as the portfolio benefited increasingly from action on rates and operating costs . |
| 12 | The [ Gold Coast ] line is equipped with Webb and Thompson 's instruments , and to explain the electric staff regulations , in a temperature somewhere around 90 degrees , to a native stationmaster who understands about as much of English as the average English railway official does of French , is a task which white officials feelingly affirm requires a considerable amount of patience , to say nothing of linguistic gymnastics . |
| 13 | You will be listening to many of these as the election approaches as they are a wonderful invention of the broadcasting industry : a reporter stands alone with just a small tape recorder to protect him and leaps out in front of unsuspecting members of the public asking them an inane question . |
| 14 | It was still quite early , and banks of mist lay between the mountain peaks , touched by a haze of pink as the sun caught them . |
| 15 | Umbrellarama … a forest of umbrella 's brightens up the Hong Kong stadium 's cloak of grey as the rain sets in on finals day . |
| 16 | Kate had been brought up as what her father called ‘ a healthy heathen ’ , or at least as much of one as the English state school system would allow . |
| 17 | To the west he could see the outline of houses , probably a council estate , a trim row of identical roofs and square slabs of darkness broken by patterned squares of yellow as the early risers switched on their lights . |
| 18 | This resolution was taken up through the United Nations , and the declaration of 1968 as the ‘ International Year of Human Rights ’ provided the impetus to take up the question of human rights in armed conflicts . |
| 19 | It was a good job she was n't called Ramsbottom or anything like that as the material would n't have stretched far enough . |
| 20 | Bradley Dredge , last year 's beaten finalist , also looked poised for a 67 after a run of five straight birdies to the 11th on Dunluce , but happily settled for 69 as the wind reduced the 17th to a drive and short iron , but put the 18th out of range for everybody . |
| 21 | That may be the constitutional position — though no one knows for sure as the situation has not arisen since Henry VIII created the C of E for this purpose — but it is certainly not one which is acceptable . |
| 22 | No records will be broken that 's for sure as the sun begins to boil … |
| 23 | A shock for many as the rights of a citizen were now being made plain . |
| 24 | Last week , NASA 's engineers in Florida replaced the $30 million leaking engine with another as the shuttle stood on the launch pad . |
| 25 | Rebuild your original engine or replace with 2¼ as the fitting of a larger engine requires extensive modification to the rest of the vehicle i e brakes , gear ratios , tyres etc If you fit a larger engine you will have to convert to 12v . |
| 26 | This is thought to reflect our evolutionary history in that as the head became larger , the development of the anterior somites was modified . |
| 27 | In 1799 as the new century dawned , Arthur Guinness , then seventy four , brewed his last ale . |
| 28 | Yeah I mean I assume it 's the same tube in this as the er Grundig in n it ? |
| 29 | This proportion will continue to grow in 1993 as the Company will be included for a full 12 months . |
| 30 | Plans to turn it into a members ' club had begun long before 1985 as the Crown alleged , said Mr Cinnamond . |