Example sentences of "[adj] as the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Given the great public importance attached to these two matters it was inevitable that they should receive priority over the Barclays ( Asia ) and West L.B. allegations , serious as the latter undoubtedly were . |
| 3 | Camcorders on the other hand have to be given a little help to cope with different kinds of lighting by adjustment of their internal white balance settings to enable them to ‘ see ’ white as the same neutral colour regardless of the conditions . |
| 4 | BATTERED AND BRUISED IRISH Mick Galwey holds firm as the All Black pack — with no.8 Arran Pene to the fore here — fails to click in Dunedin during the First Test . |
| 5 | In the face of the social catastrophe now making itself felt , it will be critical to confront a stark question : What do the rich nations of the world owe the poor as the latter confront the issues of prevention and treatment ? |
| 6 | The flock are unlikely to have been as completely innocent as the latter suggests , and their guilt may well have had a secular aspect , for it might be doubted whether Cnut would have become involved with spiritual shortcomings . |
| 7 | Though Mustakimzade asserts that Fahreddin Acemi studied under al-Taftazani , this seems unlikely as the latter died in 792/1389–90 , and one suspects that his statement derives either from a misreading of the genealogy or from a faulty genealogy . |
| 8 | Yeah , sorry … to be honest I do regard you Irish as the same as me ( whatever that is ! ) . |
| 9 | Lévi-Strauss accepted the traditional role of anthropology to ‘ explain' the differences of alien cultures in ways that make them recognisable as the same ‘ underneath ’ . |
| 10 | I have got to alter myself so completely that at the end I should hardly be recognisable as the same person . |
| 11 | This argument was rejected and the patent was held to be valid as the many unsuccessful attempts by inventors to find a solution coupled with the immediate commercial success of the present invention denied the possibility of a finding of obviousness . |