Example sentences of "the [adj] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was their talk on the cliff-top as the sun had gone down that had changed it all . |
| 2 | Also the latter sfumato technique that Ramsay favoured , in which smokily smooth and imperceptible transitions are effected between areas of colour , did not lay emphasis on the linear as the early style had . |
| 3 | The old Gothic was felt to be as inadequate in the 1890s as the old meeting-house had been in the 1860s so plans were made for a new building worthy of their pastor whose fame was rapidly increasing . |
| 4 | The guerrillas duly launched the missile north across the bay of Beirut at Jounieh , the first stage of the projectile falling into the Mediterranean as the warhead sped off towards the sleepy Christian harbour and its unsuspecting inhabitants . |
| 5 | It was extended in the 1760s as the Russians had advanced slightly , to become 457 versts long . |
| 6 | And it works the better as the fingers slide and touch and play while you close your eyes and empty your head of every other sensation being fed into it . |
| 7 | In some areas the birth of a child might add a shilling or more a week to the wage , leading to some pessimistic projections of runaway demographic increase , notably by followers of Thomas Malthus whose " Essay on Population " of 1798 was the most important ideological underpinning for the views of those who were beginning to urge a much harsher attitude towards the poor as the cost of their relief surged . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The showery activity and strong winds eased during the 12th-14th as the offending depression drifted away northwards and a slight thaw was sufficient to help life return to normal on low ground . |
| 10 | The seaside photographer who promises ‘ Memories to treasure ’ with every happy snap might have been present at every major golfing occasion in the Eighties as the players of the age showed their capacity for repeating and exceeding the highwater marks of the very recent past . |
| 11 | Marjorie , a part-time student on the scheme , warms to this idea especially as the accent is as much on the aesthetic as the functional possibilities . |
| 12 | Product wages probably accelerated only about half as much in the largest firms as in the smallest , thus facilitating the expansion of the former as the latter were knocked out . |
| 13 | The difficulty here is the same as the one already encountered with the attempt to relate evoked potentials to conscious events . |
| 14 | In fact what he has been using are exactly the same as the cheap mass-produced lasers used in CD machines . |
| 15 | Latterday Marxist interpreters of Shakespeare are doing much the same as the conservative proponents of the Elizabethan World Picture did thirty or forty years ago , though with a different conceptual model . |
| 16 | The plaintiffs contended that the commissioner was not a court of competent jurisdiction , and that the issue before him of whether the entries in the register were validly made was not the same as the issue in the action , which was whether the road verges formed part of the highway . |
| 17 | That would mean a cut of £5bn , Mr King said — roughly the same as the annual cost of the Royal Navy . |
| 18 | There are cooperatives in which the manager gets the same as the band members and the manager 's office expenses are treated as a band cost , along with the trucks , boats and recording . |
| 19 | Or , as it is sometimes switched round in homophobic ( or just careless ) thought : the victim is somehow the same as the aggressor and hence in some vague sense complicit with the aggression . |
| 20 | On the other hand , if Marx , like most of the anthropologists of his time , saw the study of human society as the continuation of biological evolution , he did not , as they did , believe that human historical processes were the same as the processes of natural selection . |
| 21 | The origin of the family is therefore the same as the origin of private property , and the origin of the family is the same as the origin of the subordination and exploitation of women . |
| 22 | The origin of the family is therefore the same as the origin of private property , and the origin of the family is the same as the origin of the subordination and exploitation of women . |
| 23 | ‘ The dividing line , ’ writes Ann Dummett in British Nationality Law , a Briefing paper on the Government 's Green Paper , ‘ between the two is to be almost exactly the same as the line which under the 1971 Immigration Act separates UK and colonies citizens with a right of entry to the UK ( patrials ) from those citizens who are subject to immigration control ( non-patrials ) . ’ |
| 24 | VW has yet to finalise specification and prices for the Polos , but it has said they will cost much the same as the models they replace . |
| 25 | In an effort to increase Coupe sales , this traditionally more expensive bodyshape will now cost the same as the hatchback . |
| 26 | Details of how it works can be found in the technical focus , but suffice to say the overall gearing remains the same as the four-speed ‘ box , with direct drive on fourth . |
| 27 | Having spent a night in accommodation which is the same as the recruits ' and having had the opportunity to talk to some of the recruits in the Sandes Coffee Shop last night , they have an excellent idea about their future career . |
| 28 | Of course he was n't always there because frequently there were notes from his mother to say that he had earache or something , but later on I realized , of course , that those notes had been faked , the same as the notes that I had sent to school from my mother several generations before that . |
| 29 | He projects a fiscal surplus for 1990–91 of £7 billion , the same as the outturn he now expects for 1989–90 . |
| 30 | The Aristotelian talk of definitions ‘ does not reveal nature to us , but only does the same as the man who promised to discover a treasure and then says ‘ look where it is hidden and you will find it . ’ |