Example sentences of "the [det] [noun sg] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The National Assembly ( elected in July — see p. 38994 ) was to be inaugurated on the latter date as planned . |
| 2 | The environmental impact assessment prepared for the Bill is an example of the latter type as no reference has been made to the NRA or to the environmental health department of Cardiff city council . |
| 3 | The union really wanted women out of the trade , but in public statements like Mr Battersby 's after-dinner speech , said that they were prepared to settle for equal pay ; while the women regarded the latter call as unrealistic if not hypocritical , since they felt ( and were daily told ) that they were not doing the equivalent of a skilled man 's work ( though even they thought the differentials too high ) . |
| 4 | There were many good reasons for adopting the latter course as Claudius badly needed to be certain of the loyalty of his army , and there was no better opportunity for obtaining this than the prospect of a great victory . |
| 5 | Between 1983 and 1987 he served successively in the government whips ' office and at the Department of Health and Social Security , entering the Cabinet in the latter year as Chief Secretary to the Treasury [ see pp. 35271-72 ] ; after briefly holding the post of Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary in mid-1989 [ see p. 36819 ] , he became Chancellor of the Exchequer in October 1989 following the sudden resignation of Lawson [ see pp. 36982-83 ] . |
| 6 | What South American readers will make of his repeated references to the former enemy as ‘ Argies ’ or of the punchy foreword by Mrs Thatcher is hard to predict . |
| 7 | The company also agreed to provide a more adequate explanation of changes in accounting policy in future , and the Panel welcomed the directors ' intention ‘ to ensure that future notes will include reiteration of the former policy as well as a description of the new policy ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ What is remarkable about it is that in its own way and by its own route it struggles after the same message as Christ . ’ |
| 9 | Their message , 25 years ago , was the same message as today : ’ We wo n't be able to sell your goods unless you market them to us properly . ’ |
| 10 | He received the same message as Sir Ralph . |
| 11 | Growing in the same river as D. angustifolium , but in other places as well , is another rheophyte in the same family , Aglaia yzermannii , which may also be fish-dispersed . |
| 12 | The past by its nature is only indirectly available to us ; we can not enter it with the same immediacy as the present . |
| 13 | We generalise the quasi-Lorenz system by introducing an injected amplitude y with the same scaling as x , but assumed real and positive , while x and p are now complex , in general , because of the detuning is and the mistuning ( which we scale to I " ) . |
| 14 | It would be a serious game rifle with considerably more punch than a target toy , a guaranteed killer of the same gauge as the 7.62mm NATO standard issue Service weapons with which Forester was already familiar . |
| 15 | The sample from Wales came from the same locality as the short-eared owl and tawny owl pellet samples , and the kestrel was hunting over much the same area as these species . |
| 16 | Although the distribution of rural population is no longer synonymous with agricultural employment , most people live in the same locality as their place of employment , and so this chapter considers population and employment as contiguous rather than necessarily related phenomena . |
| 17 | His research had been conducted in exactly the same locality as Hsu 's but in the more peaceful conditions prevailing three years earlier . |
| 18 | They were offered the same curriculum as the rest of the unstreamed class , i.e. they were on course to fail the 11 plus . |
| 19 | I reach forward , the knife in one hand , the other glove touching then gathering and balling a fistful of duvet and then pulling it sharply , throwing it away behind me as I leap forward , seeing her pale nakedness in the same instant as I slap my hand over her mouth ; her eyes open wide and she starts trying to push up ; I force her back down into the bed , hand still over her mouth . |
| 20 | They arrived at the aircraft at the same instant as the factory fire crew . |
| 21 | Paul Davies is a guru of mathematical physics and his book covers the same territory as that of Hawking ( whom he cites often ) and Gribbin and is almost as impenetrable ; however , he makes every effort to take the layman along with him , so that by judicious and generous skipping you do gain something of value . |
| 22 | He allows his readers to infer that the position he attributes to Eadwine was little changed before the battle of Nechtanesmere ; Oswald ruled the same territory as Eadwine and Oswiu ‘ almost ’ the same ( HE 11 , 5 ) . |
| 23 | The H197Q mutant bound CP 96345 with the same affinity as the wild-type receptor ( Table 1 ) , indicating that the aromatic characteristics of His197 are not required for the interaction with the antagonist . |
| 24 | The mutated promoters all bound cAMP-CRP with the same affinity as the wt-promoter and the mobilities of the two retarded complexes was identical to that observed for the wt-promoter . |
| 25 | But do n't use the same wording as in the question and do n't translate " word for word " ; reformulation and reorganisation will force you to understand the question and show your examiner that you do . |
| 26 | A detachable lining which can be removed and washed separately need not use the same fullness as the outer curtain ; one and a half times the track length can be sufficient . |
| 27 | For example , the freesia buds are quite thick and , if they were placed in the same layer as the petals , they would prevent the thin flowers from receiving even pressure from the weight above . |
| 28 | By the time of the election , even those with poor or biased information sources had enough accurate information to form the same judgement as those with better information sources . |
| 29 | By the time of the election , even those with poor or biased information sources had enough accurate information to form the same judgement as those with better information sources . |
| 30 | The same medium as for E. brevipedicellatus should be used , dried clay granules or balls being an essential incorporation in the substratum for the development of strong , healthy plants . |