Example sentences of "[prep] the [num] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | This comparative study of five representative prisons for adult males in one region of the prison system , seeks to provide benchmarks for the 1980's as to how far humane containment is achieved in the context of maintaining security and control . |
| 2 | The IBM concurrent copy , sequential data striping , enhanced dynamic cache management and search assist will be available for the 7980-3 as well as the 7690 in the first quarter 1994 . |
| 3 | Although it took so long finally to dispose of the machinery and tanks , other material was removed from the incline during the 1920's as uses for it were found . |
| 4 | As a result , the USA suffered a net outflow of gold in every year but one during the 1960s as pressure of the kind described by Triffin built up . |
| 5 | R. Rhodes , ( 1984 , p. 355 ) , observing the increased assertiveness of the Thatcher government , has characterized the changes in relationship between central and local government during the 1970s as shifting from bargaining through incorporation to direction and centralization in the 1980s . |
| 6 | The tendency in the historical literature has been to dismiss the number of homeworkers during the 1900s as insignificant , but the numbers of women employed in casual tasks are extremely difficult to estimate . |
| 7 | The importance of the Leicestershire coalfield declined during the 1980s as seams gradually became worked out , but new opencast sites continued to provide useful revenue for BR . |
| 8 | This new ‘ philosophy ’ , enshrined in the 1980 Act , was to lead to increasing central-local tensions during the 1980s as central government sought to impose , and reinforce where necessary , controls over the expenditure of individual local authorities . |
| 9 | They provide about 80 per cent of total lending for private house purchase , though this figure has fluctuated during the 1980s as banks entered , retreated from and then re-entered the mortgage market . |
| 10 | The policies of the Fabians were described by Beatrice Webb during the 1890s as ‘ essentially collective ownership wherever practicable ; collective regulation everywhere else ; collective provision according to need for all the impotent and sufferers ; and collective taxation in proportion to wealth ’ . |
| 11 | The situation changed steadily during the 1950s as more and more black men came to high office , and naturally the West Indian people could see no reason why the same should not happen on the cricket field . |
| 12 | This riposte throws into relief the central difference between the two as Barth saw it . |
| 13 | Leaving this aside for the moment though , let us set up a contrast between the two as follows : |
| 14 | The contrast between the two as they stood one behind the other struck Melissa as comical . |
| 15 | By the time we conclude our comparison of fabliau and exemplum at the end of this book we shall face a very similar formulation of the difference between the two as lying in the fabliau 's divergence from the normal modes of exemplum , which may in itself be funny , rather than in an all-preceding intention to be funny . |
| 16 | As a member of one of the two departments into which the direction politique of the foreign ministry was then divided , he found that he and his colleagues spent much of their time playing draughts and that there was considerable rivalry between the two as to which could make the better " five o'clock tea " . |
| 17 | What remains of the 42 AS buildings are employed for a variety of uses , including a company making boats and the compounds provide open storage for governmental vehicles . |
| 18 | Dr Schwarz measures the decline of the 1760s as being as marked as that of the 1790s . |
| 19 | An odd thought came to each one of the four as they chewed , ; they were sharing a meal , eating meat and salt together . |
| 20 | Yanto , the last of the four as they marched into the cage , was desperately trying to control his fear . |
| 21 | In the process , he illuminates the loneliness of Los Angeleans of the 90s as they try to find love and comfort in an essentially hostile environment . |
| 22 | Trading down from fillet steak to mince or sausages , from Cooper 's Oxford marmalade to supermarket own brand or from real coffee to soft-focus Gold Blend is as much a symbol of the 90s as lengthening dole queues and expanding cardboard box- dwelling communities . |
| 23 | At times , of course , we know that the rate of subsidence ( and the rate of uplift ) has influenced the type of sedimentation , so the two are connected , but my general thesis remains that for the preservation of the bulk of the continental stratigraphical record we must think of the two as separate and independent phenomena . |
| 24 | Burlatsky , a people 's deputy as well as scholar and journalist , argued in favour of a decentralised , self-managing socialism which drew upon the experience of the New Economic Policy of the 1920s as well as the socialist tradition in other countries . |
| 25 | Although Charles 's own personal inclination was to refound a wide , comprehensive church able to encompass as many of the various denominations of the 1650s as possible , it was soon clear that the king would have to bow to pressure from the bishops , the conservative landowners , and their representatives in the Cavalier Parliament , who wished to see a more narrow restoration . |
| 26 | At home many Americans feared a return to the depression conditions of the 1930s as war production slowed down . |
| 27 | Whereas Duke 's challenge was reminiscent of the four presidential bids between 1964 and 1976 by the racist Alabama governor George Wallace , Buchanan 's campaign contained older resonances of the isolationist movement of the 1930s as championed by Charles Lindbergh . |
| 28 | Modern relevant and as successful in recruitment of the workforce of the nineties as we used to be in recruiting the workforce of the sixties and seventies . |
| 29 | Love him or loathe him , Adrian Mole and his secret diary were as much a part of the 1980s as portable phones and rich estate agents . |
| 30 | He , like Alavi , notes the parallel between contemporary politics in the post-colonial state and politics in the France of the 1850s as described by Marx in The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte . |