Example sentences of "as [noun pl] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For them as clergymen the obvious solution was to take on other duties to supplement the £10 , but administratively it was clearly better that they should be paid , adequately , for their work without being forced to divert their energies in other directions . |
| 2 | In such highly evolved animals as insects the primitive segmentation , in so far as it affects the internal anatomy , has undergone profound modifications ; the segmental repetition of parts is nevertheless retained to some extent in the central nervous system , the heart , tracheal system and in the body musculature . |
| 3 | Originally they had come from the Dartmoor Pony Sale as weanlings the previous autumn and had spent the winter in a large stable . |
| 4 | As juniors the two American teenagers were mentioned in the same breath as Andre Agassi and Michael Chang as singles players , but neither has made quite the same impact as yet . |
| 5 | As juniors the two American teenagers were mentioned in the same breath as Andre Agassi and Michael Chang , but neither has made the same impact as yet . |
| 6 | Thus flighted , I sent them shooting out over the mud and the water towards their suffocating ends ; then I buried them , using as coffins the big matchboxes we always kept by the stove , and which I had been saving for years and using as toy-soldier containers , model houses and so on . |