Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | And which is natural because you know , the very early motor cars were only a sort of toy for the rich as it were and er when it came to you see er grocer 's vans or , or er laundry vans made out of old pr private cars . |
| 2 | There are almost as many varieties of holidays available for the disabled as for able-bodied people . |
| 3 | When the younger counsellor shares these experiences with the older counsellee they are both doing far more than embarking on a process of recalling the past , they are sharing a common heritage which has been formative for the young as well as the old , although less directly so . |
| 4 | Malcolmson has shown that fairs had special significance in terms of courtship and sexual activity for the young as well as allowing participants the chance of winning status and prestige among their peers . |
| 5 | Sexuality , for the celibate as well , remains a wonderful gift of God , given because he loves us so. , |
| 6 | A similar relative price term may affect the demand for the good as well : if demanders feel that the price of the good is high relative to its likely future value , they may well delay purchases until the price is lower . |
| 7 | It 's a well-known therapy in places like mental hospitals and prisons and has a place for the elderly as well . |
| 8 | It also rejected worship of the saints and relics , pilgrimages , indulgences , and masses for the dead as futile attempts to purge the sins of the deceased or pile up merit for the living . |
| 9 | The incidence of a tax measures the final tax burden on different people once we have allowed for the indirect as well as the direct effects of the tax . |
| 10 | Demands for licences grew steadily during the fourteenth century , but endowment of the religious orders never regained its earlier level , and alienations were increasingly directed to the establishment of chantries and secular institutions ; by mid-century almost as many licences were for the secular as for the religious churches , but this has more to do with declining enthusiasm for the vastly endowed monastic orders and the growing popular appeal of the mendicants who lived from alms , and not from farming extensive estates . |
| 11 | There was no rest for the wicked as John Gribbin told New Scientist 's readers that the results of a Chinese study of the alignment of the planets meant we were in for years of terrible weather . |
| 12 | There were increasing demands for a national policy for the unemployed as distinct from central support of local efforts . |
| 13 | It was also said that good motivation alone was not enough for the unemployed as training was necessary , however determined a person was to obtain employment . |
| 14 | The analysts therefore need a ‘ feel ’ for the informal as well as the formal system . |
| 15 | There is nothing as joyful for the opinionated as to have finally been proved right and I ca n't help but think there are many marginally employed musicians around Ireland today who weep or harrumph glumly into their pints when they think what might have happened if they 'd listened to Nicky . |
| 16 | In fact , in every microsecond of perceptual experience there is a tension between the real as refractory , as something we can not choose or will , and the subjective as chosen and willed . |
| 17 | The determinism to be considered here , then , like other determinisms , has to do with all of the realm of the mental as widely conceived . |
| 18 | Every culture as well as the personal adjustment of each individual gives evidence of this , both at the level of the unconscious as well as conscious processes . ’ |
| 19 | In short , what is the mark of the moral as opposed to the immoral ? |
| 20 | It seems ironic that where , in the eighteenth century , novelists and architects alike look out of their elegant windows on to the cottages of the poor as pleasing little features in the landscape , the Victorians , for whom the dwellings of the middle class tended increasingly to set the standard , should view the great house itself from that perspective — from the outside , as the focus for a landscape , much as the eighteenth-century painters had done ( Fig. 24 ) . |
| 21 | Of course , in this particular case it is questionable whether voters in local authorities are as concerned with the plight of the poor as is suggested in King 's approach . |
| 22 | They construct it in the sense of developing a conception of the real as being the refractory limit of their own actions . |
| 23 | Surrealist photography indeed developed techniques that self-consciously played upon this juxtaposition of the real as signifier and the signifier as real . |
| 24 | Surrealist photographers indeed developed techniques which self-consciously addressed this juxtaposition of the real as signifier and the signifier as real . |
| 25 | The search for the nature of the distinctively gay sensibility can be productively redirected as an exploration of the limitations of the aesthetic as conventionally understood , especially the way it is said to transcend the socio-political , and used in support of the proposition that discrimination is the essence of culture . |
| 26 | He achieves this by taking a central pillar in this tradition , Kant 's concept of the aesthetic as distanced contemplation which transcends the immediacy of experience , and demonstrating that this is only a single perspective , that of the dominant class . |
| 27 | The Open University 's ( address on page 148 ) pre-retirement course book lists some of the good as well as the bad feelings you can have about being alone : ‘ I feel I do n't have to put on an act ’ , ‘ I feel really me ’ , ‘ I feel relaxed ’ are some of the items on the list . |
| 28 | The significance of the allusion to Freud in this famous passage is to suggest that to conceive of the economic as operating in isolation is as illusory as to imagine that the ego can operate without the unconscious : they are both the reciprocal products of the other . |
| 29 | Beveridge and his contemporaries were much inspired by Canon Barnett , who by 1900 was firmly convinced of the economic as well as personal causes of distress and that more state help was needed for the destitute . |
| 30 | English watercolours also became very popular at the end of the nineteenth-century as three English artists , Alfred East , Alfred Parsons and John Barley Jr came to Japan and taught the technique . |