Example sentences of "[adj] of [pron] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given that the men in our sample spend an average of more than 43 hours a week at work ( ie half their waking life ) , it 's hardly surprising that job satisfaction is the one factor mentioned by more than half of them as the most important thing in their lives ( see table , opposite page ) . |
| 2 | We have already seen that depressive or manic responses may be shown to be related to the problem of the son 's relation to the mother and his contradictory desire to be devoted to her as the ideal mother of hunter-gatherer prehistory and yet to be free of her as the phallic , dominant mother of primal agriculture . |
| 3 | But although it was Tip 's and Arnold 's maiden success , it does not rate as highly with either of them as the victory at Troon the following year . |
| 4 | And the men of Northern Nigeria , conscious of themselves as the most refined products of a now self-consciously imperial civilization , were distinctly more inclined than their predecessors in the Punjab to ruminate on what they regarded , rather surprisingly in the circumstances , as the subtleties of their craft . |
| 5 | ‘ Marxism ’ , on the other hand , Sartre claims , ‘ is History itself becoming conscious of itself ’ ( I , 40 ) : as for Lukács , it is by becoming conscious of itself as the subject of history that the working class will understand history 's meaning — and so recognize itself as the meaning of history . |
| 6 | They know that he is playing a part ; they are amused by his attempts to amuse them ; and grow fond of him ; and thereby demonstrate their own tolerance to themselves ; and grow even fonder of him as the occasion of the demonstration . |
| 7 | She wished she felt as sure of herself as the man so casually lounging opposite her . |
| 8 | The Conservative Party is as short of it as the Exchequer or the rest of us . |
| 9 | He and his brother Jonna got on better now that Jonna had grown up , but George knew that his brother would always be jealous of him as the elder . |
| 10 | The gardens of the Manor Road houses went through to one side of Fair View Road and my cousin pointed out a Nissen Hut in one of them as the garage rented by Mr. Rogers where the fateful taxi had been kept . |
| 11 | In fact , the four cooking apples should have been five , but our continuing cashflow problems meant I had to disguise one of them as the reserve match ball . |
| 12 | Equally , it is not uncommon to find such introductions or extensions of temporary working labelled by those who are critical of them as the introduction or extension of " casualisation " ( see , for instance , the report of a motion passed at the 1986 conference of the engineering workers union ( AUEW ) which " attacked the greater use of casual workers by employers " in Financial Times , 23/4/86 ) . |