Example sentences of "and [noun pl] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We need above all , however , to approach all old people with the recognition that as individuals they are varied in their strengths and weaknesses , values and attitudes as the rest of us . |
| 2 | On the opening night of a tour to support her new album Mir Mamma , there were first night nerves floating around on stage , but the performance did n't suffer and ranks as the best of the year . |
| 3 | It was about four feet wide and as carefully coated with sand and pebbles as the step . |
| 4 | The Horton budget was to be increased from £10 million to more than £13 million for upgradings and improvements as the gradual transfer of patients from Banstead took place . |
| 5 | The starting point of this philosophical discussion is a rejection of the theories , such as those of Hegel and the young Hegelians , which saw ideas and institutions as the source of history , as though these existed apart from the natural processes of human production and reproduction . |
| 6 | I trust that the benefits which will accrue during this central development will carry over into the future developments by individual colleges and institutions as the process of devolution of unit writing and assessment is established . |
| 7 | Parents see teachers and headteachers as the shapers of quality and effectiveness in any school . |
| 8 | He later recalled the days spent in the ‘ painting room ’ immersed in his father 's collection of books and pictures as the happiest of his life . |
| 9 | The literature , in fact , has left regulatory misconduct , deviant organizational behaviour and organizations as the objects of enforcement activity virtually untouched , with the celebrated exceptions of Sutherland ( 1940 ; 1949 ) , Clinard ( 1952 , 1979 ) and Geis ( 1967 , 1968 ) . |
| 10 | In return his father rages at him for his inability to become a ‘ real ’ man , and demands as the only acceptable proof that Lucio has regained his masculinity that he attack the very next man he sees and sexually assault the first woman ( iv . |
| 11 | He is revered locally , and especially by Mrs Joe , as a man of great sagacity and judiciousness but is , in fact , a pompous , self-satisfied fool , who bullies Pip as a child but fawns upon him when he becomes a young man of fortune , and postures as the ‘ founder of his fortunes ’ since he had been the means of introducing Pip to Miss Havisham 's . |
| 12 | Mr President Ladies and Gentlemen as the Chairman of South Cambridgeshire District Council it does give me great pleasure to welcome the Institute of Environmental Health Officers to Girton College here in South Cambridgeshire this morning . |
| 13 | Each week we have to listen to mystery hand drills and various bangs and hammerings as the Jamesons get increasingly excited about the whole thing . |
| 14 | Unlike normal fat which is smooth and functions as the body 's spare energy larder , cellulite has a granular texture and no known function . |
| 15 | About 240–230 B.C. Eratosthenes put together Carthaginians , Romans , Persians and Indians as the barbarian nations that came closest to the standards of Greek civilization and specified that Carthaginians and Romans were the best governed ( Strabo 1.4.9 , p. 66 ) . |
| 16 | In the past , in the past these children would be so severely mentally handicapped that they could n't lead a normal life , but if , if your able to control this disease and bring them up intellectually normal so that they 're like everybody else , they 're going to have the same life expectation and hopes and aspirations as the best , that 's the best of us , and what do women do when they get to the |
| 17 | It is then not so much the distinction between names and descriptions as the distinction between the function of naming and the function of describing that gives some indication as to what is involved in positing something as an ontological existent . |
| 18 | Yet in everyday terms most of us have little difficulty using a quite specific meaning of the term ‘ politics ’ seeing elections , party competition , parliamentary majorities and the composition and deliberations of cabinets and parliaments as the heart of British politics . |
| 19 | It was also chosen in 1921 by the rulers of the kingdom of Serbs , Croats and Slovenes as the day on which to promulgate the Vidovdan constitution , a fact which emphasised the primacy of the Serbs within the Triune Kingdom . |
| 20 | Spend hours , as we did , or days and weeks as the struggling relief workers do , and it is harrowing in a way not even the most graphic television pictures can show . |
| 21 | On the demand side , consumer sovereignty is not possible since the consumers are not as well-informed about their conditions and treatments as the supplier . |
| 22 | " Item whereas there is Sixscore pounds due unto mee by Roger Harper and Johnn Barrett Payable at Certen Dayes and tymes agreed uponn betweene us , My mynde and will ys That the Somme of Fortye pounds being a Thirdd parte of the sayd Sixscore pounds shall be and remayne to the augmentacion and increase of the wages of the Schoolemaster of Stockport for the tyme beinge , for ever , to be hadd and receaved at suche dayes and tymes as the same shall bee due , And further I do will and bequeath the sume of Tenn pounds for and towards the augmenting of the Schoolmasters wages afforesayd to make upp the sayd sume of Fortye pounds the Full sume of Fyftie pounds All the sayd Sume to be Imployed and used for the benefit of the Schoolemaster afforesayde by the Parsonn of Stockporte the Maior of Stockport and the most Auncyent Alderman thereof for the time being . |
| 23 | Some writing of Jennings , for example , seems more in tune with Pound 's sociological jurisprudence , which views social interests rather than legal rules and principles as the building blocks of the legal order . |
| 24 | Both schools of thought contain writers of diverse views , but to oversimplify , the former broadly can be characterized as writers who focus on the economic behaviour of members of households and families as the key to understanding family relationships and how they change . |
| 25 | In principle the tensors P1 and Q1 can be calculated for any shape but spheres and ellipsoids are the usual shapes used with cylinders and discs as the limiting cases . |
| 26 | Their work will require strict adherence by the dancers to a distinctive style of dance and gesture , which is designed to communicate thoughts , moods , emotions and actions as the plot , theme or dance unfolds . |
| 27 | And yet ( p. 16 ) the geography of Italy and Sicily did not , as it did in mainland Greece , impose these divisions — there was , for instance , no shortage of good land for corn and cattle as the ears-of-corn coinages of Metapontum and Siris in southern Italy , or the Thurii bull , remind us . |
| 28 | The ancient , weathered oak is the main motif , a theme as much used and loved by the Romantic poets and painters as the old willow tree . |
| 29 | Broad justifications for petitioning were as familiar to both politicians and abolitionists as the sectional interest justifications of the petitions on economic and commercial issues in the 1780s which Drescher stresses because of their contrast with the humanitarian and general interest grounds of the anti-slave trade petitions of 1788 . |
| 30 | Subtitled ‘ The Road to Maus ’ it follows on from the exhibition held by MoMA last spring of Spiegelman 's drawings for his two published volumes on the Holocaust , told in comic strip form with mice , cats and pigs as the protagonists ( see The Art Newspaper No. 16 , March 1992 , p.15 ) . |