Example sentences of "[det] as the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first Christians to claim this as the heart of their faith was a scandal of the first order . |
| 2 | I wish to rewire it , but I 'm not sure how to do this as the wiring is in a bit of a mess , with earth wires all over the place , some not joined to anywhere . |
| 3 | Some of the following may be repetitive to some extent , and the reader is asked to excuse this as the writer finds it difficult to avoid repeating some of his thoughts in a subject so fraught with difficulties of explanation , and covering such a wide field . |
| 4 | That she is a steady worker ( much emphasis must not be placed on this as the contrary is also alleged[ ! ] ) and nimble at mechanical processes such as folding and collecting sheets . |
| 5 | You should be as devious and cunning about this as the book is itself . |
| 6 | Land Rover themselves seem to realise this as the Defender is now fitted with the 200 Tdi unit which seems a good engine . |
| 7 | Knowing this as the Empire player means that you can position your volley guns to block obvious enemy lines of advance . |
| 8 | I think probably the implications and a lot of people have er picked up on this as the policy has developed , is that er well they 're they 're concerned that the policy is in fact too flexible now because of how it is being interpreted by other people . |
| 9 | One vast hall of columns gave on to another as the temple rose in long slow ramps towards the inner sanctuaries : seven chapels dedicated to seven gods . |
| 10 | Last week , NASA 's engineers in Florida replaced the $30 million leaking engine with another as the shuttle stood on the launch pad . |
| 11 | Unlike the traditional software markets where a number of players grew alongside one another as the market expanded , in desktop publishing we have had many fewer successful products and those have tended to totally dominate the market . |
| 12 | Unlike their warm-blooded cousins they are quiet and clean , they also tend not to scare the faint-hearted as much as the sight of a full QWERTY keyboard ! |
| 13 | It was the implications of his presence as much as the sight of him that heated her skin and caused her heart to thunder as her mind leapt treacherously forward to the night that lay ahead of them . |
| 14 | km , will probably cost around $3000 , five times as much as the price for data From the scanner . |
| 15 | In my letter I mentioned the particular case of the Times Motoring correspondent who found that the return Brighton — Birmingham rail fare would cost him four times as much as the price of petrol for a car journey , despite driving a not especially economical car . |
| 16 | Willingness to help the unemployed varied locally as much as the incidence of unemployment itself . |
| 17 | It is not that such a fuel can not be produced , so much as the scale of production required . |
| 18 | Comfort met some rebuffs from people she had counted as her friends , who resented their allies ' safety from occupation almost as much as the damage they had inflicted on France as they pushed the Germans back after D-Day . |
| 19 | You have to understand as much as the driver about what is happening , and remember you 've no controls other than your body weight . |
| 20 | This is the prelude to disaster in which soil , crops , and ( particularly ) livestock can suffer as much as the farmer . |
| 21 | According to Motability , adaptations to enable severely handicapped people to travel by car in their wheelchairs often cost as much as the vehicle itself . |
| 22 | The general election of 1945 was in some ways only a consequential recognition of the revolution which took place under , and inside , the Coalition Government at the height of World War II , and was announced to the outside world by a cloud of White Papers — on planning , social insurance , employment , a national health service — much as the election of a new Pope is first evinced by the smoke from the burning ballot papers . |
| 23 | But Mr Waigel now fears the deficit as much as the recession that is widening it . |
| 24 | Headbutting was a proud part of punk and I 'm glad it 's returned to the scene : it usually hurts the butter as much as the buttee . |
| 25 | By this I do n't mean the need for physical help and practical advice so much as the longing for emotional reconciliation , a bonding with her . ’ |
| 26 | The first time I bought a soft drink at a roadside stall and began cycling away , I roused a despairing cry : the bottle was worth almost as much as the fizz inside it . |
| 27 | Though I hope young Pamela would not be in danger from her master who owes all his servants protection as much as the king does to his subjects . |
| 28 | His yielding to the edicts of Number 10 on financial policy eventually enabled the main thrust of Thatcherite innovation to show itself here , even though it was often the moderation as much as the radicalism which was to impress observers . |
| 29 | While the magnificence of the result could justify the fact that The Red Shoes cost twice as much as The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp , there were many cases where the extravagance worked against the final result , and Michael Powell has recalled that he became ‘ impatient at the complacency of my associates about the mounting costs of our films . ’ |
| 30 | At the same time , and as we have already seen , ‘ homophobia ’ is an inadequate term to describe all this since what is at issue is not personal phobia so much as the recurrence in mutated form of structures integral to cultural identity and social formation . |