Example sentences of "by the [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | They also deal with persecution — by the religious as well as of the religious . |
| 2 | But he was elusive , and she could only fill the long minutes with a pretence of animation as she was absorbed into a group of Heather 's relations , something inside her dying by the second as time passed and Luke kept his distance . |
| 3 | In Spain , the paradox of Europe is that it is both the whip to modernise Spain by destroying structures of corporatism , grandeur and clericalism that held back the country for centuries , and , at the same time , it demands enormous sacrifices paid by the poor as Solchaga and Gonzáles seek to achieve a capitalism and productivity equal to levels set in northern Europe . |
| 4 | The excise laws were widely regarded by the Irish as unnecessarily strict , and they certainly resulted in harsh repressive measures being taken by excise officers , often in conjunction with military forces , although there is ample evidence that both sides resorted to violence at times . |
| 5 | And even if their mother tongues are unrelated , the problems faced by the native English speaker will not necessarily by the same as those faced by the native French speaker , for instance . |
| 6 | And then we get a conservative central government , er , cutting the er , funding for the most sparsely pos populated county in the country , not by the same as the rest of the country , but by thirty-one per cent . |
| 7 | Cahervillahow ran no race in the Gold Cup but he might be turned on by the National as was the case with Attitude Adjuster who was also trained by Mouse Morris . |
| 8 | The disease is , however , attended by secondary symptoms , the well known purging and vomiting which , because they are so dramatic , have frequently been taken by the inept as indicating the primary seat of the infection … |
| 9 | Indeed , incense-clocks appear to have been as extensively used by the Chinese as sundials and clepsydrae . |