Example sentences of "as [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chapter 3 outlined the development of the impersonal capital as arguably the dominant mode of possession of the means of production in the contemporary British social formation . |
| 2 | Although drastic , this rebuilding was not a success , as presumably the main body structure was weak and the car was soon dumped in the back of Penge depôt ‘ out of service ’ . |
| 3 | He ushered in a new era in the study of religion and of theology ; he brought a new conception of what the disciplined and ordered study of both could be ; he underlined in epoch-making fashion the importance of the subjective aspect of religious awareness , pointing to what lies deeper than intellectual formulations , yet is not reducible to inchoate and diffuse ‘ feelings ’ ; he attempted to grasp and express in an original and modern way the abiding significance of Jesus , and to uncover the living and personal meaning of what were in danger of being dismissed as merely the fossilised accretions of doctrine . |
| 4 | The idea that older people live in the past , that they are always talking about the ‘ good old days ’ is common , and reminiscence has often been devalued as merely the aimless meanderings of an increasingly decrepit mind . |
| 5 | Perhaps archivists are used to seeing records as merely the physical residues of communicative acts in the past whilst librarians have a greater veneration of the Book as a sacred text . |
| 6 | The family will be regarded as basically the nuclear family — parents and children — with some recognition of the part played in its affairs by parents and siblings of the parents but excluding the wider implications of the extended family for many of our non-indigenous fellow countrymen . |
| 7 | Therefore , the DNA upstream of DH site II is critical , as only the Long transgenics show a strict site-independent integration and copy number-dependent expression of the Ea construct ( Figure 3 ) . |
| 8 | GAMTA sees the fifty per cent increase — ‘ horrendous though it is ’ — as only the thin end of a very thick wedge which could spell ruin for many small AOC operators in the UK , already suffering the effects of recession and higher regulatory charges than their European counterparts . |
| 9 | Hubert Molland had said as much the other day . |
| 10 | It is also interesting as perhaps the key example of a special system designed to minimize political influence at the local level , since local authority involvement is only indirect and slight . |
| 11 | The RMCs were seen as perhaps the major vehicle for such provision and it is encouraging that they are beginning to make a substantial contribution by developing a wide range of in-service short courses and workshops , which in some areas are showing signs of laying the foundation for longer qualification-based programmes . |
| 12 | However , Mr Hawkes should note the need for public relations guidance , as perhaps the local government officials mentioned have their financial hands tied by central Government which in turn accepts contributions to the Conservative Party , from Forte . |
| 13 | Micro Systems Maintenance , one of the country 's larger maintenance companies , says it will cover all your peripherals as well as just the bog-standard PC . |
| 14 | The personal effect of the Budget , cautiously welcomed by industry and the City as broadly the correct recipe without upsetting the fragile recovery , will be to make millions worse off . |
| 15 | Although the contact was more social than professional , the two inevitably talked shop when they met , and as Coleman zeroed in on al-Kassar as possibly the key player in the Middle East 's narco-terrorist game , he decided to visit Mayer in his office at the German Embassy one day to see if his friend could be persuaded to take a more generous view of international cooperation than Hurley 's . |
| 16 | As still the expected attack did not materialise — despite constant intelligence warnings of long columns of troop transports , of construction of the now familiar Stollen on the Left Bank — Petain was heard to remark , ‘ They do n't know their business . ’ |
| 17 | And it seemed to her that that broken line , I know not , oh , I know not " , expressed a level of passion as high as any the English language could achieve ; the interjection and the repetition and the archaic inversion were to her the exhaled breath of yearning . |
| 18 | That example shows as well as any the complicated relation between what is available in media , which bits people use , how much , what for , and with what satisfaction . |
| 19 | As always the Blue Note Jazz Band will provide an excellent night of music with Roger Bennett of Radio Bristol . |
| 20 | As always the major attractions were romantic landscapes and the monuments of culture , but by the 1860s the British ( pioneers as usual ) were exporting their passion for physical exercise on to the mountains of Switzerland , where they were later to found skiing as a winter sport . |
| 21 | ( My italics ) Nizan was only too willing to share Azana 's conviction that Republican Spain would ultimately be victorious , but as always the bottom line was collective security . |
| 22 | As always the human mind is uneasy in " balance " situations . |
| 23 | As always the supporting organisations have been ready to help and thankfully TRANSAID continues to exist because of the support . |
| 24 | Connection with the main lines is made entirely to the south , and a system of burrowing-junction lines gives access to the works sidings , as also the good yards , without fouling the standard running lines . |
| 25 | GM , in common with other Western car manufacturers , perversely views the Japanese automotive industry as both the great collaborator and the great threat in equal measure . |
| 26 | Yet with all this taken into account , as both the little letter to Philemon and the teaching found in Colossians and Ephesians show , Paul 's theology of work was highly radical . |
| 27 | On the evidence to date , however , there are grounds for judging unions in relation to management as slightly the lesser sinners . |
| 28 | Granted what we know of the history of the city it is clear that the vast majority , as probably the similar multiplicity in many other English towns , were built between the tenth and the twelfth centuries , and that the multiplication of parish churches was especially characteristic of the eleventh century . |
| 29 | Mention is made of how in the viewing of the mountains " … it is to be seen how the very naturall working of those flood falling from the height in winter stormes have broken down & worn such rifts & slitts in the rocks as hereby the dead leaders or mettall finnes or vaine have appeared unto us above ground which before were hid by the earth & stones formerly covring the rocks some 2 or 3 fathomes deep … " |
| 30 | Thomas Fuller , writing in 1655 , had the answer : ‘ Grant them drained , and so continuing ; as now the great fishes therein prey on the less , so the wealthy men would devour the poorer sort of people … and rich men , to make room for themselves , would jostle the poor people out of their commons . ’ |