Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] the [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It views the subject as a holistic entity , suggests that it encompasses consciousness as well as behaviour , and is interested in the interpersonal as well as the individual aspects of this consciousness . |
| 4 | In 1773 when raw silk was difficult to obtain , the owner of a throwing mill in Sherborne wrote : … having discharged many of my hands which are either starving , or are become burdensome to the town , others are incessantly crying for a little work and could they obtain but a morsel of Barley-bread they are happy , they very often go days with little or no nourishment … the continued cries of the poor people complaining for want of the necessaries of life as well for want of employment is shocking indeed … and what is worse the overseers are not so bountiful to the necessitous as I could wish . |
| 5 | In the first half of the seventeenth century the traditional Elizabethan style carried on , unabashed by fashion ; then again there was the purely classical Queen 's House at Greenwich , built by Inigo Jones , as radically different to the former as chalk is to cheese . |
| 6 | These chapters will be particularly interesting to the practising as well as to the trainee forensic scientist . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The branch obtained last year from Chirbury to Minsterley remains with its ground unbroken , and yet the directors of the Bishop 's Castle are not ashamed to appear in Parliament with a demand to use so much of the Cambrian as will permit the former to effect communication with the Mid-Wales , another abortion over which no one can be found to preside save Mr Whalley , and which has not yet ventured to publish a return of traffic , or to submit an account of its income and expenditure for public inspection . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | As the rats moved around the arena , the relative perceived positions of the landmarks in egocentric space would have been likely to change as much in the fixed as in the varied condition with , for example , L+ being seen as often to the left or right of L- both within and across trials . |
| 11 | Marjorie , a part-time student on the scheme , warms to this idea especially as the accent is as much on the aesthetic as the functional possibilities . |
| 12 | The one sets off and contrasts with the other , and a choir should give a lead as much to the spoken as to the sung parts . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Also the ways in which , as a result , the negro ‘ has been fixated in terms of the genital ’ ( pp. 157 , 165 ) , and the corresponding displacement on to the person of colour of inadequacies and fears intrinsic to the cultural as distinct from natural formation of European sexuality ( pp. 1 57 , 165 ) . |
| 15 | If a manufacturer wishes to give even more nutrition information , he must state all the nutrients in Group 2 and as many of the following as he chooses polyols ( such as sorbitol ) and starch , monounsaturates , polyunsaturates and cholesterol , minerals such as iron and calcium , any vitamin(s) . |
| 16 | In a report on the future of nursing Beardshaw and Robinson ( 1990 ) state that our ‘ established laissez-faire style of management will be even more inadequate in the 1990s as nursing management has to adapt to change and create an environment in which effectiveness , efficiency and acceptability of care can be evaluated ’ in accordance with the NHS reforms . |
| 17 | The old Gothic was felt to be as inadequate in the 1890s as the old meeting-house had been in the 1860s so plans were made for a new building worthy of their pastor whose fame was rapidly increasing . |
| 18 | The excitement of cattle stealing was thought by Charles Liesching to be ‘ as fascinating to the Sinhalese as to the Borderers of old ’ . |
| 19 | The histories of science and social science demonstrate that empiricism is not so easily applicable to the latter as to the former . |
| 20 | Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates said in a televised interview with CNBC-TV that he knows of no effort by the US Federal Trade Commission to force a restructuring of Microsoft , despite its ongoing probe : ‘ I certainly have n't heard any suggestion that they 're even considering something that would change the structure of our company , ’ Gates said ; he also warned on the Business Insiders programme that Microsoft Corp will not be as profitable in the long-term as it has in recent years — ‘ The kind of profit margin we 've had in the past will be very unlikely for us to achieve in the future ; we 've said after tax margins probably wo n't stay over 20% in the mid to long-term , and they could go quite a bit lower than that in the short-term , ’ the company 's chief executive declared . |
| 21 | The case of Mary Ann Titford , née Parkes , is fairly typical in this respect : her grandchildren , still alive in the 1980s as this story is being written , remember her well , though she had been born as long ago as 1849 . |
| 22 | Telecommunications policy became more controversial in the 1980S as it came to feature on the political agendas of each nation and of Europe , or Europes . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | They will want to be on committees and subcommittees where they can advance the interests of both their sponsors — those who have contributed to the costs of their , usually expensive , election campaigns and , it is hoped , will contribute to those of the next as well — and their constituents ; to some extent , these will be the same . |
| 26 | Rugby Union : Black knights move on the Welsh pawns : Steve Bale predicts more of the same as rugby union 's champions , New Zealand , arrive on their tour today |
| 27 | No doubt we 'll be hearing more of the same as the week goes on . |
| 28 | The survey was as concerned with the moral as well as the physical welfare of the subjects , and was particularly preoccupied with drink . |
| 29 | The grocer was talking ten to the dozen as he served his Mars bars , his detergent , his potatoes . |
| 30 | To emphasize the " poetic " style of the passage , let us also observe that the schematic patterning is extensive on the phonological as well as on the syntactic level , for example in the alliterations and assonances of " feet … follow " , " hands … hold " , " alphabet … arch … aisle " , " lift … fall " . |