Example sentences of "[noun sg] as [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is virtually an obvious consequence of the accounting formulation used with investment as both the numerator of investment intensity and denominator of ROI , while profit in the numerator of ROI is possibly a fairly stable proportion of sales in the denominator of investment intensity . |
| 2 | His song continued , echoing through the monastery as once the chanting of the monks must have done . |
| 3 | At the same time he pressed the labour theory of value to far more radical ends than David Ricardo [ q.v. ] , seeing skilled labour as both the measure and producer of all value . |
| 4 | In Spain , a competitive framework that formally favoured rail was systematically infringed in practice as even the pro-deregulation 1962 World Bank report conceded ( IBRD 1963 : 173 ; El País , 18 September 1983 , 10 October 1983 ) . |
| 5 | He was joined by a young Londoner , Jonathan Goodchild , who rapidly moved from being Sharp 's assistant to art director in his own right , leaving Sharp a clear run as perhaps the underground 's most innovative illustrator . |
| 6 | As we have seen , for some Foucault can apparently be dismissed with ease as merely the philosopher of discontinuity , a description which is hardly adequate ; for others , criticism takes the form that he simply relativizes history , but this is really no better , for history is itself a mode of demonstrating the relativity , temporariness , and temporality of phenomena . |
| 7 | The neighbourhood effect apart , contemporary urban sociology ( especially that deriving from Marxism ) envisages local variations in politics and forms of state intervention as straightforwardly the product of the particular balance of class relations constituting a particular locality . |
| 8 | The long tradition that regards consent as either the foundation or a foundation of legitimate authority displays two separate strands of thought . |
| 9 | Similarly Marxism is wrong in seeing the problems of modernity as exclusively the result of the capitalist system and attempting to account for the behaviour of a Stalin or a Khruschev , or a Mao Tse-tung or a Hoxha in terms of the cult of personality while at the same time ignoring the lack of moral constraints on the exercise of power in modern Marxist states . |
| 10 | Thinking of education as simply the transfer of knowledge from teacher to student , pouring from one vessel into another , is no longer possible . |
| 11 | On these grounds he had as good a claim as either the king of Wessex or of León to call himself an emperor ; and his great prestige may well have had something to do with it . |
| 12 | This was a gambler 's reward , because the chance of war might leave a man as either the recipient or the payer of a large sum . |
| 13 | Hume 's moral philosophy is mainly a development , on an effectively non-theistic basis , of Hutcheson 's and Hutcheson had already advocated a kind of utilitarianism , for in identifying moral goodness with benevolence , he had seen the goodness of a man as essentially the amount of happiness he produced divided by his opportunities . |
| 14 | He showed his ability to adapt his performance as either the whim took him or as he was taken by circumstances . |
| 15 | But if a reader of your first novel ‘ The Barracks ’ strips away all these fictional devices and sees the book as fundamentally the story of your mother who , like Elizabeth Reegan , died of cancer — is that inaccurate ? |
| 16 | I had explained the open abuse of patients in the charity format as largely the product of the doctor 's belief in the idleness , immorality and stupidity of her patients ; she was white , her patients black and poor . |
| 17 | Hardraw is a good starting point for Shunner Fell and Lovely Seat , the two hills that flank the famous Butter Tubs Pass , and is known to many who have walked the Pennine Way as either the end or the beginning of the day that takes you from Tan Hill to Hawes or vice versa , depending on which direction you are walking . |
| 18 | This runs freely at the end of the lyric composition as finally the speaker explicitly asserts his capacity to sing for love . |
| 19 | The fiction/concession theory saw the company as entirely the creature of the state and therefore potentially accorded to the state the power to regulate and control the company as it saw fit . |
| 20 | But it would be wrong , at least at the secondary level , to see the fragmentation as somehow the fault of narrow , self-interested teachers . |
| 21 | The ‘ Chicago ’ human capital approach ( e.g. Becker 1971 ; also see Mincer 1980 ) perhaps goes overboard the other way , seeing observed inequality as simply the reflection of current investments in human capital and returns to past investments . |
| 22 | It never crossed her mind — that was the bad part of the mistake — that for the prince as well the marriage could not be an end in itself . |
| 23 | It is not necessary , however , to see this change as predominantly the result of changes in the organisation of their manufacture . |
| 24 | How much is the shirt as well the shirt ? |
| 25 | The managing director , Roger Spence , said : ‘ It has been a different sort of recession as traditionally the view is that theatre and leisure areas do better than others , but that has not been the case . |
| 26 | We 've given them no bother as far the union is concerned — they 've had a free hand and we feel severely let down |
| 27 | The antithetical models of design 's significance that we possess today , all of which contain implicitly or explicitly a view of " design-and-society " relations ( for example the view that sees design as merely the activity of commodity shaping , or the view that sees design as the activity which alone allows us to organise consciously the meeting of material human needs — which " involve things or usable products " — in forms consonant with and conducive to particular kinds of social relations or ways of life … ) contain also , naturally , a view of what design is . |