Example sentences of "as the [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we got some of that pressure off right away , and I think it proved very important as far as the way the tournament went from then on . |
| 2 | Relations between Lang and Salmond are not good at the best of times but , given that the SNP had been in the same lobby as the Government the night before , it might have been expected that Lang would have been at least polite . |
| 3 | Wheal Jane has used flotation since it started up in 1971 , as the deposits the mine works contain a lot of very fine cassiterite particles . |
| 4 | The reviewer summed up : ‘ For those who will not hear a word spoken against Churchill in 1940 this will be an infuriating book , as the watch the sharp , black-white chiaroscuro of Chamberlain v Churchill watered down to what the latter would call ‘ a sludgy amalgam ’ . |
| 5 | As well as the noise the couple would have to put up with a landfill site within a few yards of their garden . |
| 6 | He dictated to her many of the hymns that are still in use by the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist — many of whose tunes are exactly the same — bar one or two notes — as the ones the real John Wesley cobbled together in the eighteenth century . |
| 7 | Development is not viewed simply as the product of the child-rearing regime adopted by parents ; it is an interactive process , where the child influences the mother 's behaviour as much as the mother the child . |
| 8 | In the area of restrictive trades practices , the problem is not so much the absence of rules , as the form the rules take . |
| 9 | Consequently if some process , such as cracking or ‘ erosion ’ by mantle plumes , punctures the continental lithosphere as far as the crust the relatively dense mantle layer of the lithosphere could become detached and sink ( Fig. 4.8 ) . |
| 10 | In the event of another company acquiring control of the Company through a takeover or reconstruction , then ( as an alternative to exercising his option as described in paragraph 6 ) a participant may , if the acquiring company so agrees , release his existing option in return for the grant of an option over shares in the acquiring company ( or a parent thereof ) having the same aggregate option prices and the same aggregate market value as the shares the subject of the options released , the new options being generally exercisable on the same terms as the old . |
| 11 | For Greece 's hopes of joining the modern world , this would be as big a catastrophe as the humiliation the Greek army suffered in Anatolia 70 years ago . |
| 12 | Thus the ILP advanced at the same time as the Comintern the necessity of the " United Front against Fascism " . |
| 13 | The best-known lepton is the electron , but as well as the neutrinos the lepton family also includes the muon and the tau , both of which are like the electron but are respectively 210 and 3500 times heavier . |