Example sentences of "[prep] the [det] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | A case can be made here , for the latter as scenes of a " life-cycle " , spaced between the seasons of the year and followed by the ultimate triumph over death ( signified by ? |
| 2 | Her slogan is : ‘ we aim to create the arts as a service for the many as opposed to a luxury for the few ’ . |
| 3 | For the next half-hour Roland worked haphazardly , moving backwards and forwards in the Vico , half-looking for Proserpina , half-reading Ash 's notes , which was not easy , since they were written in various languages , in Ash 's annotating hand , which was reduced to a minute near-printing , not immediately identifiable as the same as his more generous poetic or letter-writing hand . |
| 4 | Of course they could read the monthly pack anyway but they do not see this as the same as actually having to insert each change in its correct place . |
| 5 | After this time they were never really separated for any long period , and the course of Dorothy 's life can be regarded as the same as Wordsworth 's . |
| 6 | C. I. Lewis used to claim that basic beliefs were ‘ certain' or ‘ incorrigible ’ ( Lewis , 1952 and 1946 , ch. 7 ) ; it is not always clear whether he thought of these as the same as being infallible or not . |
| 7 | Yeah , sorry … to be honest I do regard you Irish as the same as me ( whatever that is ! ) . |
| 8 | Mr is very different we must all be protected , I 've worked out my bill as the same as this year because no way shall I spend seventeen and a half percent more money I shall be as careful as I can and I sha n't starve and I sha n't get cold now I 've worked out that the V A T on my fuel bill is eight hundred and eighty five pounds , I 'd delighted if Mr could perform the trick and I need n't pay it , on behalf of the Duke of Westminster , the Duke of Rutland , I think I can also thank him . |
| 9 | Now , with a journey through the EC regarded as the same as an internal domestic trip , drivers are not obliged to carry any special documents . |
| 10 | It 's still a hundred gram jar as the same as that . |
| 11 | assessments are available , and Mrs will confirm as the same as the cycling issue for example the value and assessments will be made available , these are vast documents of many pages , if you look at the actual , the final page you 'll see there in fact that the |
| 12 | I like us to think for a little while this morning just what it means to be a Christian , we 've been hearing and seeing and been challenged and accepting Christ as our saviour and over the week in Harlow a number made that response and not only in Harlow and in Earls Court but right across the country and into Europe and into Africa as well , through the , through the life link , men and women who have been challenged into accepting Jesus Christ as their saviour and I 'd like us to think for a little while this morning just what it means to be a Christian now obviously as we perhaps know er , and , and , and God work clearly shows to us that it is not in being religion , somebody well said that religion is man 's attempt to find God but the gospel is God 's method of seeking out and finding men and so just as the same as you 've seen that bridge of life illustration and we try with our planks to get across to God we ca n't make it , |
| 13 | The price of books of academic criticism indicates that they are not aimed at the educated general reader ( once they cost about the same as a bottle of whisky ; now they cost three to four times as much ) . |
| 14 | He has plans now to buy a property in Venice : ‘ I love the palce so much : a five-room apartment there costs about the same as studio flat in Tufnell Park . ’ |
| 15 | But this followed the sharp decline in 1980 and 1981 ; over the period 1979 — 85 the annual average growth rate has been 1.9 per cent about the same as most other OECD countries — without the benefit of North Sea oil . |
| 16 | The proportion of voters identifying with the Conservative party is about the same as in 1964 ( although Labour 's fall has been steep ) and the party 's share of the vote in 1983 and 1987 was actually slightly less than in 1979 . |
| 17 | The final creations weighed a mere ten kilograms , about the same as a top-class racing bike and about half the weight of most ATBs . |
| 18 | It is about the same as we can anticipate in the next century , on the basis of currently predicted rates of greenhouse warming , according to scientists like Tom Wigley , Director of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia . |
| 19 | This is despite the fact that its acreage of farmland is about the same as that of the United States , a nation that has become the world 's greatest grain exporter . |
| 20 | And as for the future , the economist 's forecast is about the same as the weatherman 's : cloudy at best , more likely bleak . |
| 21 | As a rule of thumb , moving a nearly new greenhouse will only cost about the same as it would to have it erected in the first place . |
| 22 | The next step , then , is to ask a good friend ( preferably one whose height is about the same as yours and whose appearance you admire ) to take his or her own measurements . |
| 23 | In the same report ( UNEP 1982 : 265 ) , it is claimed that the total area being reclaimed by irrigation is probably about the same as is being abandoned through salinisation , alkalinisation and water-logging , and that these problems account for the loss of about 2–3 million ha of the world 's best agricultural land each year . |
| 24 | Combined production in 1984 was some 57 million tonnes — about the same as Iraq 's . |
| 25 | Current predictions for the cost of generating electricity with the Super-Phenix put it at about the same as coal but twice as expensive as a conventional reactor . |
| 26 | They verified both predictions , and calculated the effective mass of a moving soliton. it is about the same as an electron 's mass . |
| 27 | At present , Wheal Jane produces about 1600 tonnes of tin per year , about the same as South Crofty mine near Redruth . |
| 28 | It may be an engine from the old school — a single overhead camshaft per bank operates ‘ only ’ two valves per cylinder — but the Renault V6 produces a respectable 170bhp at 5500rpm — about the same as the Volvo 850 2.5 GLT 's 20-valve five and the Honda-derived Rover 2.7-litre V6 . |
| 29 | About the same as Land Registry fees . |
| 30 | Adult hadrosaurs were up to 13 metres in length and weighed from 4 to 6 tons , about the same as a large elephant . |