Example sentences of "as [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Catholicism is present in everyday life through state law , as well as through authoritative statements by clergy and through the national — popular consciousness . |
| 2 | And then my mind shimmers in the great heat and all things appear to me as through coloured veils . |
| 3 | The Delivery Team will be responsible for ensuring that information about the Compact permeates the whole community through regular newsletters and press releases , as well as through public meetings . |
| 4 | As between civil occupations , there was a massive shift of workers into war-related jobs . |
| 5 | Priority , as between successive mortgagees of shares , is determined by the date at which the mortgages were effected , as a company is under no obligation to accept notices by mortgagees . |
| 6 | For instance , forecasts for the total sales of bread , cakes and other bakery products in the UK can be calculated for any particular segment on the basis of trade and census data on the number of people in different socioeconomic classes ( see later chapters ) , their per capita consumption of bakery products , and trends in the consumption pattern as between standard lines , such as wrapped white bread , and value added lines such as wholemeal bread , cream cakes , crispbread etc . |
| 7 | An inquiry into the referral and suspension of Afro-Caribbean pupils from Birmingham schools recorded that they were almost four times more likely to be suspended from secondary schools as white pupils ; even when the main reason for expulsion was common to both white and black pupils , the latter were more likely to be suspended and the inquiry alluded to a considerable level of hostility , mistrust and ‘ cultural misunderstanding ’ as between black pupils and white teachers ( CRE , 1985 ; see also Driver , 1979 ) . |
| 8 | He notes the erroneous conclusions which have been drawn from comparing the functioning of the Kenyan Industrial Court with apparently functionally similar wage-regulating institutions in New Zealand and Australia , in the absence of any consideration of the vast differences in the nature and basis of trade union power as between African countries and industrialised economies . |
| 9 | For , besides the materialist qualities , the spiritual quality of commitment and feeling is as present between homosexual as between heterosexual partners . |
| 10 | ‘ If intercourse under the circumstances now in question constitute an assault on the part of the man , it must constitute rape , unless indeed , as between married persons rape is impossible , a proposition to which I certainly am not prepared to assent , and for which there seems to me to he no sufficient authority … |
| 11 | The factors which permit public bureaucracies to engage in politics are variable in their significance as between political systems . |
| 12 | Lending policies vary widely between different banks as well as between individual branches . |
| 13 | There is a tax difference as between private investors buying such gilts direct and buying via a fund , such as ours , in that the former strategy is exempt from capital gains tax . |
| 14 | The Common Law rule was partly destroyed by the Companies Acts , and , under the Corporate Bodies ’ Contracts Act 1960 , contracts can now be made on behalf of all corporations in the same way as between private persons . |
| 15 | On top of that there was ‘ a public interest in upholding confidentiality as such even as between private individuals ’ . |
| 16 | The only " properties " that numbers can have are " relational properties " , and are moreover such as presuppose a basic parity in logical status as between related terms ( which distinguishes them , among others , from the so-called " mental " relations ) . |
| 17 | Political , economic and social priorities can vary enormously between central government and local authorities , as well as between local authorities themselves , and over time . |
| 18 | It is , however , grouped for other purposes such as local government and it may well be administratively convenient that a town or city , already thus organised , should form one or more parliamentary constituencies , even though some disparities in size as between different constituencies result . |
| 19 | Such ratios may differ as between different types of banks , and deposits will be ranked according to their maturity . |
| 20 | Rather than " identical concepts " , all that is available , and can be significantly referred to , are ( in Wittgenstein 's famous phrase ) " family resemblances " as between different uses of concept-words . |
| 21 | Although left critics do not agree among themselves as to how to explain this bias towards the interests of the propertied class , they are unanimous in rejecting the pluralist assumption that the British state is " neutral " as between different classes . |
| 22 | If an expert were employed to certify , make a valuation or appraisal or settle compensation as between opposing interests , this did not , of itself , put him in the position of an arbitrator . |
| 23 | But the essential conflicts within the Council were not so much between the unevenly matched Assembly and the Committee of Ministers as between national perceptions of the desired shape of Europe . |
| 24 | He kept his head turned towards Mary , though , as between parted lips they licked the tips of each other 's tongues . |
| 25 | Treaty , is concerned with differences of treatment as between natural persons who are nationals of member states and as between companies which are treated in the same way as such persons by virtue of article 58 . |
| 26 | Thistle-seed was blown in large quantities by the wind from the defendant 's land to that of the plaintiff ; it was held that ‘ there can be no duty as between adjoining occupiers to cut the thistles , which are the natural growth of the soil , ’ and that the defendant was not liable . |
| 27 | It is not obvious how the neural control of speech differs as between well-lateralised individuals and those with bilateral speech representation . |
| 28 | It appears that logical inconsistency as between ethical beliefs ( which , according to the attitudinist , are really attitudes ) can not be condemned on these grounds , since there is no truth ( in the deep sense in which truth is a genuine thing to be pursued ) in the offing . |
| 29 | At one time the question was much debated whether meta-ethics can or ought to be neutral as between ethical theories , or indeed whether the two should be distinguished at all . |
| 30 | Derrida himself writes with as much ease and penetration about literary texts as about philosophical ones . |