Example sentences of "as of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The disregard of minorities , combined with what Hugo Young has called ‘ the politics of admissible ethnic sneering or loathing ’ , is of special concern to the Muslim community — the main victim of traditional racists as well as of the unresolved antagonism of the intelligentsia in the wake of the Rushdie affair . |
| 2 | We have shown that the objectives of the youth movement , the juvenile labour exchanges and the proposed continuation schools were not so much the creation of conformist youth as of the adaptable , efficient citizen , motivated by service , mediated by humanism , and morally conscious . |
| 3 | I must append an account of the subsequent policy of the conquerors and their method of universal rule , as well as of the various opinions and appreciations of their rulers entertained by the rest " ( 3.4.4–6 ) . |
| 4 | A cost-benefit analysis of the proposed parking spaces in new developments should count the costs of environmental degradation as well as of the actual construction , and the alternative of no parking provision might then appear reasonable . |
| 5 | It is a condemnation of the strong state as well as of the centralized Marxist vanguard party , and move towards the implicit embrace of anarchist doctrines . |
| 6 | Well , I , I think I will ask the director of education to comment on that paragraph , because to a large degree , the , the district auditor 's report that he refers to there , in his section , matters previously raised , his report entitled rationalizing primary school education was published in December nineteen ninety- one , and it is being addressed through a , a working party of the education committee which involves representatives from the church as well as of the political groups . |
| 7 | They also acquired the railways and many of them became as proud of their state systems as of the other perquisites of the British connection . |
| 8 | Russians , the ‘ elder brother ’ of the Slavic as well as of the other Soviet peoples , were not just the most numerous but also the dominant national grouping in the USSR as a whole . |
| 9 | Out in the Weald , it is probable that wood rather than stone was still used , not so much because of local backwardness as of the easy availability of building materials . |
| 10 | The Martians were , if we may venture a fanciful interpretation of their character from the gantries , the dry vats , oubliettes and occluded vaults , the forthright aspect of their stairways , gutters and conduits , as of the famous canals themselves , a serious and resolute people , thorough in their undertakings , not given to digression or frivolity . |
| 11 | The sculptor Benvenuto Cellini , creator of the large Perseus statue at Florence as well as of the famous salt made for Francis I of France , learned his trade from the chief jeweller to the Medici . |
| 12 | They also deal with persecution — by the religious as well as of the religious . |
| 13 | Elizabeth Woodville , informed of the arrest of her brother and of her son by a former marriage , as well as of the young king 's faithful chamberlain , was beside herself with anger and anxiety . |
| 14 | The love of liberty might be somewhat hampered in its expression , but was as characteristic of the northern cities as of the southern . |
| 15 | I regard arms races as of the utmost importance because it is largely arms races that have injected such ‘ progressiveness ’ as there is in evolution . |
| 16 | Hygiene and safety take priority on the sunbeds while personal supervision is regarded as of the utmost importance on the toning tables . |
| 17 | So gone is that staple of the detective story and its heirs as well as of the private-eye story , the loner . |
| 18 | It was the fault not so much of the railways as of the suburban landowners who deliberately kept land prices beyond the pockets of the working class and thus preserved social exclusivity . |
| 19 | This is the pattern of the squid and octopus eye as well as of the artificial mechanical one built by man , the camera . |
| 20 | This is as true of volcanoes and meteoric craters as of the functional orifices of animals . |
| 21 | It was widely believed , at the time of the rising , that General Sanjurjo had intended to assume the leadership of the Traditionalist Communion as well as of the military rising . |
| 22 | After mature deliberation your Committee venture to propose to you to entrust them with powers to digest a scheme for the medical department , to receive claims , and investigate the merits of the different candidates who may propose themselves to fill the different situations in this line , as well as of the subordinate attendants of the house , and to report to you at your next general meeting the names of such persons as to them appear most proper , for your final approbation . ’ |
| 23 | They had no idea , as yet , that the coming of modern translations , and the making of English into an international language , would destroy the commonness of a single text of the Bible which was the property of the simple as of the sophisticated . |
| 24 | The initial débâcle was as much a comment on the inability of society — as of the Red Army — to withstand the blow directed against it . |
| 25 | All these , as well as of the British Council , contributed substantially to the Workshop . |