Example sentences of "as [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They thus explain the rise of feudalism in Europe and the corresponding absence of city states as due to the fact that ‘ the different starting point was determined by the sparseness of the population at that time ’ [ p. 45 ] . |
| 2 | Already in The German Ideology , and even more in Capital , Marx saw the forward movement of history as due to the conflict between private property and communal property . |
| 3 | She excused his silence as due to the pressure of his royal duties . |
| 4 | A different approach diagnoses Henry 's failing in the Gettier case as due to the fact that his reasons were less than conclusive . |
| 5 | Our metabolic differences were once explained to us by a Dyak companion in Borneo as due to the fact that I belong to the tribe of gibbons , whereas Lorne belongs more to that of the orangutan . |
| 6 | ‘ … shall not be treated as due to the fault of the person suffering it by reason only that he could have prevented it by fencing ; but [ the defendant ] is not liable … where it is proved that the straying of the livestock on to the land would not have occurred but for a breach by any other person , being a person having an interest in the land , of a duty to fence . ’ |
| 7 | It has been claimed by some writers that distinctive feature analysis is not irrelevant to the study of language learning , and that pronunciation difficulties experienced by learners are better seen as due to the need to learn a particular feature or combination of features than as the absence of particular phonemes . |
| 8 | In some sense this mental exploration can be seen as coextensive with the work of the other " social explorers " who , continuing a tradition from Victorian times sought to investigate the " dark continent " or " jungles " of working-class life . |
| 9 | This of course , was quite ridiculous , as neither of the officers ’ truncheons had been drawn from their cases . |
| 10 | If you are silly enough to categorize all your faults for the interviewer you will surely already have shown yourself as unsuitable for the job in many other ways . |
| 11 | Her clothes could not be described as unsuitable for the country , but they were not the sort of thing a country woman would wear . |
| 12 | However , PCR is expensive and time consuming , and is generally regarded as unsuitable for the mass screening of clinical samples . |
| 13 | In the rat this method can be regarded as specific for the enterochromaffin like cells , because the mast cells are few in the mucosa and restricted to the superficial layer . |
| 14 | The most telling one , from the point of view of this study , was found only as recently as 1893 in the Brestimont Collection . |
| 15 | She has never been cited as tactless in the way that Princess Michael has . |
| 16 | Langbaurgh council says there will not be as many entertainments as usual during the final gala day on Sunday August 16 . |
| 17 | The hens that roosted on the rafters would scavenge as usual along the shore , and hunt for dropped oats in the straw and bracken Luch had been gathering from the moor all summer . |
| 18 | The little knots of people that formed as usual outside the church after Mass was over and the bells were tumbling out their soft dismissal song had plenty to discuss . |
| 19 | As usual with the Druze , there were no prisoners . |
| 20 | All his favourite soloists appeared , many fronting his best troupes ; Amy Knott with the Forget-me-nots , Bessie as usual with the Troubadours and Maggie Rimmer and the new Rainbow troupe who slipped off during the run to do a couple of weeks at the London Pavilion and the Oxford , then returned to complete the season . |
| 21 | On this particular afternoon Willie sat as usual with the prompt book resting on his knees , his forehead frowned into a tense concentration . |
| 22 | As usual with the UK system , Topsy-like historical growth has led to many variations and anomalies . |
| 23 | Maman sat , her back to the light , lovely as usual with the morning sun in her piled-up yellow hair . |
| 24 | The March 4 meeting at The Coachman Hotel started as usual with the club business and the regular draw for a cash prize of £100 . |
| 25 | Guillaume had already bought some drawings of Modigliani 's , but one afternoon at the Rotonde Max Jacob and Modi were sitting together on the terrace with Modi sketching as usual on the Rotonde 's thin paper napkins when Paul Guillaume sat down at their table and asked Modigliani whether he ever painted . |
| 26 | It was service as usual on the final Cambrian Limited run last Sunday . |
| 27 | Anne was chopping mint at the kitchen table and the sound of the Salvation Army band playing as usual on the corner of the street drifted through the open window . |
| 28 | As usual on the Friday night several poles became mysteriously untied , all in the same area . |
| 29 | It was business as usual at the beginning of August 1987 for world-famous medium Doris Stokes — two months after her death ! |
| 30 | Finally , the lead pickup alone is placed as usual at the end of the track , so you can still clobber the switch hard right and get back to the classic , hard-edged Telecaster tone . |