Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun sg] as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we make ourselves the bar , if we suggest that self-determination is the right of every people on earth but the Germans , we risk creating resentments in Germany which could be quite as destabilising to the European order as reunification . |
| 2 | As secularists , they saw the Islamic resurgence as retrograde , leading away from the kind of society they hoped to create . |
| 3 | These changes also had a significant impact at the political level as government sought to introduce reforms to accommodate these changes . |
| 4 | Arsenal finished the 1925–6 season as League runners-up with 52 points , five behind hat-trick champions Huddersfield , in the highest position ever reached by a London club ( Arsenal 's previous best was sixth in 1909 ) . |
| 5 | It accelerated in the nineteenth century as industrialisation took place , and increased even more rapidly in the twentieth century under the impact of advanced technology and science . |
| 6 | This was more so in the nineteenth century as Nonconformity grew stronger and more involved in the mainstream of national life , but it had always been the case . |
| 7 | Motif edges do have to be bound with the main yarn in the usual way as work progresses . |
| 8 | Duncan , the son presented to the English king as hostage some twenty years earlier , now appealed for William II 's help in return for a promise of fealty . |
| 9 | Together with moves towards greater urbanization ; more complex economic systems ; shifts in societal and familial structure ( in particular the movement away from the earlier extended family unit to the nucleated one ) , there developed the situation whereby the woman 's role was placed firmly and almost exclusively in the private sphere of activity as wife , mother and homemaker ( a removal encouraged by the purity laws ) , whilst that of the man was located in the public sphere as worker and family supporter , and active participant in social , political and religious affairs ( see , for example , Prov. |
| 10 | There is of course no reason to expect the same person to be the median voter as policy changes ; the identity of the median voter may alter . |
| 11 | Gifts and visitors came from all over the English-speaking world as television stations overseas , alerted by all the publicity , snapped up transmission rights . |
| 12 | There were long faces among the British contingent as study of the replay showed Carroll House deviating from a straight line . |
| 13 | It is possible that we will see a further slowing of the ageing process as time goes on so that in the next century the experience of being in one 's eighties is more like the experience of being in one 's seventies at the moment . |
| 14 | The authorised person as principal controls its appointed representatives who are exempted persons within section 3 of the Act of 1986 by virtue of them being representatives whose authorisation may be terminated . |
| 15 | Shaw settled in Antwerp before the civil war as factor to the great Somerset clothier , John Ashe of Freshford , whose daughter he married . |
| 16 | In the case of extended trade , the reproducible image as currency ( often stamped on material of intrinsic value ) became quite decisive in the reproduction of trading relationships , and was also a leading factor in the production of new kinds of trade . |
| 17 | However as in the sentry the message of hope is a false one and the soldiers died anyway , while the snow in the phrase ‘ until this morning and this snow ’ is assuredly a description of the same it would also appear to be in contrast to the warm sun as death is the contrast to life and the day the soldier is brought out the sun fails to wake him and there is snow . |
| 18 | The pattern of decisions in any period differs from the pattern in the preceding period as market participants become aware of new opportunities . |
| 19 | Being a violently-educated eighteen-year-old , I was familiar with Marx 's elaboration of Hegel : history repeats itself , the first time as tragedy , the second time as farce . |
| 20 | ( And does history repeat itself , the first time as tragedy , the second time as farce ? |
| 21 | ‘ LET'S run some old nuclear power station footage , with the Pastoral Symphony as backing ’ |
| 22 | ( v ) The official receiver as chairman of the meeting can decide to reject a proof for voting purposes but that decision is subject to appeal ( r 6.94 ) . |
| 23 | The official receiver as convener of the meeting can require the bankrupt to attend the meeting ( r 6.84 ) and so it must be presumed that matters regarding the bankrupt 's activities can be raised by either the official receiver or those present . |
| 24 | and Christopher Butler for the Official Solicitor as guardian ad litem for T. |
| 25 | Here someone is changing a wheel on the hard shoulder as traffic speeds by . |
| 26 | Stone buildings abound in much of France , especially Normandy , also in England , the German Rhineland and southern Italy ; in Sicily and central France volcanic materials are much in evidence ; along the whole Baltic coastal plain , brick is the predominant material as building knowledge developed , and elsewhere timber was in prime use . |
| 27 | The human egg as centre of fertility is at the heart of Sweeney Agonistes and of the rites on which it is patterned . |
| 28 | Well , it would take a little more than that to faze someone as familiar with the human anatomy as Charity . |
| 29 | He sat in the 1835–7 Parliament as member for Harwich and assistant whip , losing his seat at the next general election . |
| 30 | The construction of the black man as rapist has a long racist history . |