Example sentences of "as the [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is these teenage girls who more often fall pregnant , rather than those having more casual relationships , as the mothers in this book illustrate . |
| 2 | These will enable you to assess for yourself what your strengths and weaknesses are , as well as the areas in which you might like to consider working in the future . |
| 3 | When a swarm of bees leave to found a new colony , they tend to build combs with the same orientation , say east-west , as the combs in their parent hive . |
| 4 | Kermode sees this change — which is at the heart of what I am writing about — as having radical implications for letters , comparable to such things as the advent , first of printing and then of cheap paper ; the bourgeoisie 's greater leisure for private reading ; and the abandonment by circulating libraries of the three-volume novel , which had been the favoured vehicle for fiction during much of the nineteenth century : Kermode exaggerates a little , I think ; nothing in the establishment of university English is as important as the innovations in culture and technology which established the book in its modern form . |
| 5 | The fish affected continued to grow as well as the others in the shoal . |
| 6 | The pictures Sir Oliver has so meticulously measured and recorded may not be the most distinguished in the Royal Collection , but this volume is every bit as informative as the others in the series . |
| 7 | Maybe Wilko did nt think he needed as much match fitness as the others in the squad ? ? |
| 8 | An example of the pervasiveness of domestic thoughts , as far as the women in the book are concerned , is Mrs McGill 's conversation during an early air raid ; a time of acute danger : |
| 9 | The forearm downward block , the inner forearm outward block and the rising block all have the same basic application as the blocks in karate , the only difference being that they are executed with much more force . |
| 10 | Antall declared that " after decades of dictatorship the political reflexes of the Hungarian people have not changed " , since the centrist alliance of the HDF , the Christian Democratic People 's Party and the Independent Smallholders ' Party had together " achieved the same result as the Smallholders in 1945 " ( which had then won 57 per cent of the vote ) . |
| 11 | Ivan Cooper called on the people of Derry to fight for their rights , ‘ as the Blacks in America were fighting ’ . |
| 12 | A judge who aimed at consistency in principle would indeed worry , as the judges in our sample cases did , about the principles that should be understood to justify past statutes and precedents . |
| 13 | A pragmatist judge has no direct reason for worrying , as the judges in Elmer 's case worried , about the intentions of the legislators who first adopted the New York statute of wills . |
| 14 | ‘ Thirdly it is true , as the judgments in the Court of Appeal point out , that ex parte applications are frequently made to the courts and granted without hearing the party affected : but merely to say this overlooks that procedure invariably exists , and is where necessary invoked , for enabling the party affected rapidly to seek annulment or amendment of the order made against him . |
| 15 | Part of its roots are to be found in the building trade co-operatives of the mid-19th century , which produced such developments as the Colonies in Stockbridge with entrances for different floors on opposite sides of the block . |
| 16 | The hon. Gentleman is entirely wrong and his views are opposed by the farmers unions of every part of the United Kingdom , including such ’ big ’ farmers as the crofters in Scotland . |
| 17 | The clinical features of the two groups as well as the subgroups in group A — that is , those who had calculi at the time sclerosing cholangitis was diagnosed and those who developed calculi after sclerosing cholangitis was diagnosed , are shown in Table I. Because of the similarities between the two subgroups in group A , they are hereafter referred to as one group . |
| 18 | The curtain rose to the usual restless flutter of the audience , the last coughs — audiences were as predictable as the performers in their reactions and the chorus began their opening song . |
| 19 | The exact fraction of G + C in these regions may have taxonomic importance , as the values in birds , mammals and cold-blooded vertebrates are distinct . |
| 20 | ‘ We 'd be as happy as the birds in spring , ’ sighed Blake . |
| 21 | Within a few weeks of his arrival , we had shown that , half an hour after training ( that is , about the same time as the changes in membrane phosphorylation ) , there is a dramatic increase in the expression of c-fos and c-jun proteins in cells of the IMHV . |
| 22 | The historical reasons underlying the emergence of these principles , as explained by Dixon J. in Yerkey v. Jones , 63 C.L.R. 649 , may explain why cases , in which there had been no disposition of property by the surety wife but merely the acceptance by her of a contractual obligation to pay her husband 's debts , did not attract the same approach as the cases in which security over property had been given . |
| 23 | It is to be hoped that they do n't face the same fate as the prisoners in the 42nd Police Precinct of Sao Paulo City . |
| 24 | In the same week as the verdicts in the Guinness trial the Department of Trade and Industry published a report into the Lloyds ' insurance market which suggested that big frauds were almost impossible to prevent : |
| 25 | In much the same way , one presumes , as the crowds in this country once gathered to cheer public executions . |
| 26 | Sharp rises in the national export statistics in both 1523–4 and 152 rule out any general depression ; any unemployment can only have been temporary and localised , as the disorders in the eastern counties were not repeated on the same scale anywhere . |
| 27 | It is unlikely , but it does not seem to be ‘ wrong ’ in quite the same way as the sentences in Task 3 . |
| 28 | I also like it because it does n't offer any false promises of amazing results ; instead , what it has to offer is a reasonably priced , workable upgrade from four tracks to eight with a more than creditable end result ( as long as the guidelines in the manual and certain obvious rules are observed ) . |
| 29 | Sometimes what we expect to hear is predetermined by cultural influences as well as the ways in which facts have previously been presented to us . |
| 30 | But the ways people can best deal with their own stress are as varied as the ways in which they express it . |