Example sentences of "in the [adj] as " in BNC.

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1 The failure of the Royal Commission 's own research to support their advocacy of large-scale units of local government led to scepticism in the 1970s as opinion swung away from a belief in bigness as a correlate of efficiency and progress .
2 Further innovation began in the 1970s as banks came to regard their foreign branches as profit centres in their own right , not just as overseas service counters for domestic clients with overseas interests .
3 Though the production function approach was subjected to a great deal of criticism from the start , this criticism increased very substantially in the 1970s as the economies of the world began to stagnate .
4 vol 96. p 41 8 ) has now turned up in the normal as well as the tumour tissues of a bladder cancer patient .
5 Nevertheless , it can be claimed that such exploration will be discussing a theistic structure found in the Eastern as well as the Western traditions .
6 Mithra 's other form , found in the Eastern as well as the Western world , is as a lion-headed monster around whose body a serpent is coiled .
7 It estimated the minke population in the Antarctic as around 750,000 , and suggested that up to 100,000 could be taken from the area over the next decade .
8 At the start only 14 per cent of our panel reported Labour stressing these issues , but the figure rose to 20 per cent in the fourth week and 32 per cent in the fifth as Labour sought to divert attention away from defence and to move on from unemployment , which directly affected only a small minority , to education and especially the National Health Service , which directly affected the vast majority of the electorate .
9 Finally , Stamford put itself forward in the 1960s as one of the sites for the new generation of universities , citing the town 's ‘ university history ’ in support of its case .
10 BASHIR Makhoul 's paintings at the Bluecoat are superficially in the style known in the 1960s as Hard Edge strongly patterned abstracts in flat areas of contrasting colours .
11 Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates said in a televised interview with CNBC-TV that he knows of no effort by the US Federal Trade Commission to force a restructuring of Microsoft , despite its ongoing probe : ‘ I certainly have n't heard any suggestion that they 're even considering something that would change the structure of our company , ’ Gates said ; he also warned on the Business Insiders programme that Microsoft Corp will not be as profitable in the long-term as it has in recent years — ‘ The kind of profit margin we 've had in the past will be very unlikely for us to achieve in the future ; we 've said after tax margins probably wo n't stay over 20% in the mid to long-term , and they could go quite a bit lower than that in the short-term , ’ the company 's chief executive declared .
12 Their enthusiasm remains as infectious in the 90s as it was over a decade ago and we proudly welcome them to the Guinness Spot for their first and keenly anticipated visit to Belfast .
13 The training provided in the socio-educational as well as in methodology and didactic areas , enables qualified teachers to deal with individuals and groups in a sensible and up-to-date way .
14 The Buid resent the use of the term and the attempt to place them in the moral as well as material debt of the lowlanders .
15 Coupled with this language went a growing stress on the state to enact feminist demands , in the moral as well as the political arena .
16 Purity feminists viewed the state as the tool to circumscribe male power in the moral as well as in the political sphere .
17 It was extended in the 1760s as the Russians had advanced slightly , to become 457 versts long .
18 In recognition of this fact , there has been a significant entrance of women into mainstream media — much more in western than in Third World countries , but to a noticeable extent in the latter as well .
19 This means that there will be brain systems present in both rats and humans that can be just as easily studied in the former as in the latter .
20 He sees considerable scope for the firm widening its client base in the '90s as people inherit houses from their parents and money is available for investment .
21 The 1981 Census reports list 295 179 persons born in the Caribbean as being normally resident in Great Britain , or 0.55 per cent of the total population of 53 556 911 .
22 As the rats moved around the arena , the relative perceived positions of the landmarks in egocentric space would have been likely to change as much in the fixed as in the varied condition with , for example , L+ being seen as often to the left or right of L- both within and across trials .
23 It views the subject as a holistic entity , suggests that it encompasses consciousness as well as behaviour , and is interested in the interpersonal as well as the individual aspects of this consciousness .
24 The predictive value of the Child 's classification at the time of variceal bleeding in terms of predicting survival seems to be as accurate in the elderly as in younger cirrhotic patient .
25 ‘ Discounting will be the name of the game in the 1990s as people become increasingly cost-conscious as well as fashion-conscious .
26 In a report on the future of nursing Beardshaw and Robinson ( 1990 ) state that our ‘ established laissez-faire style of management will be even more inadequate in the 1990s as nursing management has to adapt to change and create an environment in which effectiveness , efficiency and acceptability of care can be evaluated ’ in accordance with the NHS reforms .
27 These groups will be particularly concerned with the technical issues that arise in the integration and analysis of spatial data in the environmental as well as the socio-economic field .
28 In the first as he stood at the mouth of the cave , a typhoon burst on the mountainside , bringing rocks crashing down .
29 However , as is widely attested , irrespective of minimum wages , women do tend to earn less than men in the First as well as the Third World .
30 During the oral phases , extending over the first year or so of life , his main concerns involve activities like sucking , swallowing and biting ; and the nature of his oral experiences during this period will have considerable repercussions in the long as well as the short term .
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