Example sentences of "as [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pressures of wedded bliss excluded Sadie as effectively from the life of her former friend as if they had been on different continents . |
| 2 | For front projection , the projector is still threaded up reversing left and right , as in rear projection ( it is put in the ‘ wrong ’ way round in order to come out correct in the final composite ) ; but instead of being behind a translucent screen it s in front of , and to one side of , a glass beaded screen which reflects nearly 100 per cent of the light falling on it but on y in the direction from which it came Though the projector is at 90° to the camera-screen axis and its beam is therefore initially parallel to the plane of the screen , passing in front of the actors in the foreground this beam is deflected by a half-silvered mirror at an angle of 45° to the beam This semi-transparent mirror is coated at the front ( unlike normal mirrors , coated behind the glass ) with a very thin layer of aluminium — silver tarnishes too easily Alternatively , the layer of aluminium may be spattered on , so that tiny reflective spots of metal are interspersed with tiny transparent gaps So , although it reflects the beam , the camera can photograph both the action and the reflection from the screen through the mirror Though the mirror reflects the still or moving image from the projector on to the actors and any foreground props or sets as well as on to the screen , the level of illumination of the image is much less than that on the actors , so the camera records only that part of the image reflected from the screen . |
| 3 | The Conservatives did not do as badly in the South East as elsewhere ( average swing to Labour , 4.7% ) , whereas Labour performed much better in another traditional area of weakness , the South West , with the Conservative vote dropping substantially in Bristol ( -6.7% ) , Exeter ( -8.8% ) , Penwith ( -11.6% ) , and Torbay ( -17.4% ) . |
| 4 | On both spring and autumn passage the species frequently appears at inland waters as well as right along the coast . |
| 5 | Im not quite as down on the performance as others seem to be . |
| 6 | Thus , as down in the laboratory annexe Ari struggled and swam with a new sensation , above her head , Tammuz Malamute plundered the willing body of Zambia Crevecoeur , causing the building to reverberate with sexual emissions of several different types . |
| 7 | Kevin Fagan 's Excess XS presents the ultimate dramatic ( as in on the stage , not tabloid-style blind sensationalism ) look at Ecstasy and the North-west dance scene . |
| 8 | The general weather system of the Pacific is determined by the emptiness and uninterrupted smoothness of the Ocean — of the area above which , as all over the planet , air pressures build and wind patterns develop . |
| 9 | In fact , the Empire was dissolved after the First World War into several new nations , though this was probably due as much to the policies of the victorious nation states as to the strength of indigenous nationalist movements . |
| 10 | Or , as much to the point but slightly differently , I want to be a father . |
| 11 | During the last 30 years , CFCs have contributed only one third as much to the Earth 's heat budget as carbon dioxide . |
| 12 | It is a conditional influence , the bounds of which are dependent as much on the ability to mobilise and win popular support ( which it clearly did not do immediately after Vietnam , when expenditure on the military fell ) as it is on manufacturing an unholy alliance between numerous competing bureaucratic , industrial and military institutions . |
| 13 | Such variation reflects as much on the Authority 's style and the quality of its thinking as it does on the heads , and there is a clear need for much greater dialogue between the two levels . |
| 14 | It 's quite well known that Little Richard was one of David 's idols , but there 's a lot of other American people who interested David , as much from the image point of view as the music . ’ |
| 15 | A child 's piping question about the next ‘ act ’ — a professional juggler currently on the variety bill in a nearby town — was hurriedly hushed , as much by the Colonel 's glare as its mother 's whisper . |
| 16 | Stafford Cripps continued to stress that such an alliance was made inevitable as much by the policy of the Labour Party as by the growing danger from Nazi Germany . |
| 17 | At what point did they cease to represent family groups and turn into a coherent social group , a local bourgeoisie , or even ( as perhaps in the case of Protestant and Jewish bankers ) a more widespread network , of which family alliances form merely one aspect ? |
| 18 | Perhaps some wore jackets this time and perhaps some restaurants pampered their customers with radiant ceiling heating slanting down on their open galleries , but the Tivoli lights still swung as gently in the trees , the musicians played as sweetly , and the Pantominteatret still stood in all its glory , its magnificent ‘ curtain' of a peacock with fan-shaped tail unfurled waiting dramatically against a sky of indigo velvet for the second performance of the evening . |
| 19 | 17.63 Assessment in the primary school should incorporate internal assessment as above from the outset . |
| 20 | It 's probably one that picks up conversations in the room as well as just on the phone but I can show it to the boys at — ’ |
| 21 | In 1992 , we responded with enthusiasm to the theme of the Earth Summit : that our way of life here in Wales , as elsewhere across the World , must change if it is to become genuinely environmentally sustainable . |
| 22 | In Poplar , as elsewhere in the winter of 1902–03 , and in the still more severe distress of 1903–04 , public funds were opened for the ‘ relief of distress ’ , often sponsored by newspapers . |
| 23 | I would respectfully agree with his description , in relation to dishonest actions , of appropriation as involving an act by way of adverse interference with or usurpation of the owner 's rights , but I believe that the less aggressive definition of appropriation which I have put forward fits the word as used in an honest sense in section 2(1) as well as elsewhere in the Act . |
| 24 | In the mid-705 , in the Federal republic as elsewhere in the West , the oil crisis gave economic planners a jolt and the bonanza in education spending was over . |
| 25 | At Berkeley , as elsewhere in the US , there was ingrained hostility to continental drift , and these early proposals were not taken seriously . |
| 26 | Otherwise , mud continues to denote low status as elsewhere in the world . |
| 27 | As elsewhere in the book these suggestions are not intended to be prescriptive but , rather , a stimulus for ideas . |
| 28 | That I am amused by such lines as " Noah/ good place to eat " ; " Doughnut/ask me silly questions " or " Theresa/fly in my soup " ( Wales , 1990 ) raises the important question , of course , here as elsewhere in the book , and equally evaded by Chiaro as by Nash , of whether a joke is still a joke if the listener fails to appreciate it , or if there is no reader- response ; is the perlocutionary effect , in other words , part of its definition ? |
| 29 | There had , of course , been Christians here , as elsewhere in the Empire , since the middle of the third century , but it was by Clovis 's example — in fulfilment of a vow made in battle — that the heathen Frankish warriors accepted baptism from Remigius . |
| 30 | And yet it is a paradox of the period that change came into country life as often as not through the women . |