Example sentences of "as [adv] the [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Hubert Molland had said as much the other day . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | As always the Blue Note Jazz Band will provide an excellent night of music with Roger Bennett of Radio Bristol . |
| 16 | ( 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 . |
| 17 | As always the human mind is uneasy in " balance " situations . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Child psychiatrists have a special interest in information about the child 's family , as often the whole family will attend for assessment . |
| 22 | However , the question is designed to raise problems in terms of the wealth at the end of the period as here the historic cost of the beds is £100 per bed , the replacement cost is £l20 and the net realizable value is £130 . |
| 23 | Not surprisingly , realization of ( o ) is much more variable than this very idealized representation implies , although ( as even the small amount of data in table 6.4 suggests ) it is certainly constrained by the factors specified . |
| 24 | We might perhaps hope that one species lingered on , like the brachiopod Lingla , in some inaccessible part of the sea , but as even the deep sea faunas become well-known this possibility is fading . |
| 25 | Now that inflation and interest rates are coming down , the economy is moving into an upturn and prospects are getting better , as even the Labour party 's former adviser has agreed and written repeatedly in the newspapers . |
| 26 | If one believes the prediction of the inflationary cosmology , that the total density of the Universe must be very close to the critical value above which it recollapses , then there must also be unclustered dark matter as even the dark matter in galaxies and clusters has too small a density to account for this . |
| 27 | Analysis to this level was not undertaken for all sub-systems , only those where some significant change was implied , as even the secondary expansion was extensive and time-consuming . |
| 28 | Mm Dave Allen 's on that as well the only bit , I think I 've set it for the Beast Master ai n't I ? |
| 29 | Very probably at least some of these patinated bronzes should be regarded as legitimate copies rather than as fakes , rather as today the British Museum produces and sells resin copies of some of the more famous antiquities . |
| 30 | It is presented as virtually the defining case for the argument that there is a crucial distinction between literate and non-literate societies and that this difference relates to differences in cognitive processes and the development of ‘ logic ’ . |