Example sentences of "to the [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Charles who , by barring Cumberland 's way forward , really dictated the site , a stretch of open moorland about 500 feet [ 150 m ] above sea level , between the Moray Firth and the River Nairn , five miles [ 8 km ] east of Inverness , known to the Scots as Drummossie Moor . |
| 2 | The one sets off and contrasts with the other , and a choir should give a lead as much to the spoken as to the sung parts . |
| 3 | More impressive yet is the fact that upright basses would present little problem to the 715 as its voicing filter can be moved to any desired ‘ notch ’ between 120 and 800 Hz , assisting with the elimination of intrusive resonant frequencies which would promote feedback . |
| 4 | The pastime , which appeals to the Taiwanese as well as British , American and Australian expats , is rich in traditions and customs . |
| 5 | However , air that is very damp can cause rot in the roofing timbers if it is evacuated in this way , so it is best to use ducting to the outside as well . |
| 6 | The reader develops an ability to respond to the visual as well as the literary . |
| 7 | With video we have the opportunity , if we want to take it , of paying attention to the visual as well . |
| 8 | The histories of science and social science demonstrate that empiricism is not so easily applicable to the latter as to the former . |
| 9 | So it was that in 1972 the knowledge that consistency paid off , that concentration was necessary , that racing went to the prudent as well as to the bold began to pay off for Emerson . |
| 10 | These chapters will be particularly interesting to the practising as well as to the trainee forensic scientist . |
| 11 | First , the patient 's failure to take care of himself in the knowledge that death will result sooner rather than otherwise — and this would apply to the aged as well as to the terminally ill — may be treated as suicide , despite what has been said . |
| 12 | It comes with equal challenge to the religious as to the irreligious . |
| 13 | Sometimes the phrase " celebration of diversity " is used to point to the affective as well as cognitive impact which this approach would like to see in pupils . |
| 14 | Aldfrith , known to the Irish as Flann ( AU s.a. 703 : AT p. 219 : CA p. 148 ) , was an illegitimate son of King Oswiu by Fín , daughter , according to genealogical tradition , of the northern Uí Néill king in Ireland , Colmán Rímid , who died c . |
| 15 | Does he agree that it is time we had a real clampdown on the possession of firearms throughout society , remembering that the problem will not be cured unless the Home Office takes strenuous action in relation to the legal as well as the illegal holding of firearms ? |
| 16 | The year in lights on the hillside changes to the new as the ships sound their sirens and launch their pink flares . |
| 17 | The excitement of cattle stealing was thought by Charles Liesching to be ‘ as fascinating to the Sinhalese as to the Borderers of old ’ . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , another option became available to the poor as they joined the growing number of emigrants to the New World . |
| 19 | In the first half of the seventeenth century the traditional Elizabethan style carried on , unabashed by fashion ; then again there was the purely classical Queen 's House at Greenwich , built by Inigo Jones , as radically different to the former as chalk is to cheese . |
| 20 | We might refer to the former as ‘ classroom-oriented research ’ ( see Seliger and Long 1983 ) and the latter as ‘ classroom-centred research ’ ( see Allwright 1983 ) . |
| 21 | The amount of cortex given over to the central as opposed to the peripheral visual field can differ , as can the size of receptive fields of cells within the area . |
| 22 | In some languages , such as Arabic , gender distinctions apply to the second- as well as third-person pronouns . |
| 23 | The following comment could be just as easily applied to the 1980s as to earlier this century . |
| 24 | Then , calling for his ‘ Orangeand ’ , known to the faithful as orange and tequila , Botham raced ahead . |
| 25 | Thus the Church offered opportunities to the ambitious as well as to the devout , although it would be a mistake to regard it as an egalitarian institution . |
| 26 | Thus the soignee appearance of Cresson and other French women politicians blazes a torch and tells others that , while everyone is mortal and while women may have many cards stacked against them , it is possible to face up to the worst as well as the best . |
| 27 | Also the ways in which , as a result , the negro ‘ has been fixated in terms of the genital ’ ( pp. 157 , 165 ) , and the corresponding displacement on to the person of colour of inadequacies and fears intrinsic to the cultural as distinct from natural formation of European sexuality ( pp. 1 57 , 165 ) . |
| 28 | Their business now is to provide banking and financial services to the corporate as opposed to personal sectors . |
| 29 | Yet he is included quite correctly on the Bayeux memorial to the missing as belonging to the S.A.S. By some error , however , his name is omitted altogether from the Edinburgh University war memorial under the arches of the Old Quad , where daily we used to meet . |
| 30 | Sol Wagner , an American sexologist , lecturing in Britain in 1977 , referred to the British as " obsessed " with sex ; and to some extent this is true , due as he pointed out to the double-thinking of those of us who retain inhibitions and hang-ups born of earlier years and the mixture of fascination and revulsion connected with sex which lies so deep in many of us . |