Example sentences of "as [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He speaks in the life situation as well as through the sacred page . |
| 2 | ‘ Candidates will be required to show that they have looked at marketing in the real world as well as through the limiting perspective of the texts . |
| 3 | The valley was her , she moved in it as through the natural expression of her mind and feelings . |
| 4 | The first shape is a stack of diminishing wooden ovals , and one looks into it as through the wrong end of an extended telescope . |
| 5 | The Joker was used as as the top card and the subject discarded this on the ‘ go ’ signal . |
| 6 | In my day we had the As as the top stream ; the Bs and Cs were the mid-range ; the Es were ESN and the Ds were the dustbin men who roamed the yard after break and lunch times collecting empty milk bottles and rubbish . |
| 7 | And though Zurich could never be described as off the beaten track of tourism , there are plenty of quiet corners close to the city centre which are off the beaten track of Zurich itself . |
| 8 | First one has to ask whether as between the alleged wrongdoer and the person who has suffered damage there is a sufficient relationship of proximity or neighbourhood such that , in the reasonable contemplation of the former , carelessness on his part may be likely to cause damage to the latter , in which case a prima facie duty of care arises . |
| 9 | The lease had been assigned and the relationship as between the original lessee and the assignee was also discussed , though it did not play a very prominent part in the case . |
| 10 | A positive correlation was found between the endoscopic grading of inflammation in the sigmoid colon and the absorption of PEGs 458–810 ( r s 0.58–0.77 , p<0.01–0.001 ) as well as between the histological grading of inflammation in biopsy specimens from the sigmoid colon and absorption of PEGs 502–810 ( r s 0.55–0.63 , p<0.01–0.001 ) . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , as between the old order and " the peoples " , he sided in sentiment and active commitment with the latter : |
| 12 | Property prices and psychoanalysis were mentioned shyly , rather as Rachel might mention sex , but once in the air everyone turned out to be immensely knowledgeable about both , as well as about the contemporary cinema , the wickedness of Thatcher 's government and the perils of current educational reforms . |
| 13 | The paper is not so much about bats as about the philosophical problem of imagining what it is " like " to be anything that we are not . |
| 14 | The writer is aware that first-rate players can produce a beautifully pure pianissimo up to ( written note ) , but such players do not grow on every bush , and may be taken as about the upward limit for safety in solo work . |
| 15 | The Yorkshire wool trade gave rise to a good deal of flamboyant building , which says something about the nature of Yorkshiremen as well as about the immense wealth of the industry . |
| 16 | As for the second weakness , there is a direct link with the first . |
| 17 | As for the second factor , the January 1959 revolution in Cuba irreversibly changed the perceptions of Soviet policy-makers concerning the opportunities available to them in Latin America . |
| 18 | As for the second part of my hon. Friend 's supplementary question , I can not anticipate entirely what will happen , but the reduction in mortgage interest rates will obviously have a beneficial effect . |
| 19 | As for the second type of case , something that Kant had to say may again be relevant . |
| 20 | As for the second charge , that democracy , perhaps like British liberty in the nineteenth century , was parasitic upon empire , A.H.M. Jones points out that it continued to operate in the fourth century , after the loss of empire , and , indeed , was if anything more expensive then than before , since it was then that payment for attendance at the assembly was added to payment for other public duties . |
| 21 | The dullness she had felt in her exhaustion became a kind of sickness now , as for the second time that day she once again flew from her own body and split into two . |
| 22 | Any new planting was designed to be phased in over a period of years , planting schemes having to take account of the need to create a distinctive landscape for the immediate future as well as for the long term . |
| 23 | As for the political importance of such a capability , this appeared to be of relevance in the short term mainly with respect to the possibility of American adventurism as long as the USSR could not strike effectively against the United States itself . |
| 24 | In exactly the same way as for the primary disease . |
| 25 | As for the Communist Party , the Executive repeated its belief in the complete inadvisability of associating it with the Labour Party in the public eye . |
| 26 | As for the bare infinitive , its use will be explained in terms of the absence of a before/after sequence between the event denoted by the full verb and that denoted by the infinitive . |
| 27 | As for the bare infinitive , a significant generalization concerning its meaning has been arrived at — the notion of coincidence in time between the infinitive and the verb to which it is incident , with the latter being inconceivable as a before-position with respect to the infinitive 's event . |
| 28 | As for the bare infinitive , it can be shown that in all of its uses it implies — as it does in exclamations — that the extra-verbal support 's place in time can not be conceived as a before-position with respect to the infinitive 's event . |
| 29 | As for the marital rape exemption itself , there was little in the way of judicial comment on the matter until Clarence in 1888 . |
| 30 | As for the golden-fleeced ram , it escaped up the mountain , who knows where . |