Example sentences of "as [noun prp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shown in human form from the First and Second Dynasties like a primitive statue , he was as Tatenen the earth rising out of infinity and thus in this sense inherent in nature . |
| 2 | The bloodless Norman conquest initiated by David I in Scotland was almost as effective as William the Conqueror 's had been in England 60 years earlier . |
| 3 | The few passengers on the train were thrown from their seats as Walt the driver braked hard . |
| 4 | If Jesus numbered such figures as Simon the Zealot and Judas the Sicarius among his followers , those followers can hardly have been as placid and peaceable as later tradition maintains . |
| 5 | Pictures by ALLAN MILLIGAN Chust sublime : Para Handy at the wheel of the Vital Spark with Macphail the engineer All aboard : from left , Sean Scanlon as Dougie the Mate , Rikki Fulton as Macphail , Gregor Fisher as Para Handy and Andrew Fairlie as Sunny Jim |
| 6 | Haim Maccoby addressed himself to the historical Jesus in Revolution in Judea , as did Geza Vermes in such works as Jesus the Jew . |
| 7 | There is still one question we have to ask , Will the magnetic flux density inside the material B0 be the same as Br the value before the gap was cut ? |
| 8 | Young Guns II has an ageing brat pack — Emilio Estevez in the lead as Billy the Kid looks in need of a work-out — acting out endless shooting scenes and pulling pained faces when their buddies are killed . |
| 9 | In a country as large as Australia the need for transportation fuels is paramount and even to keep growth down to this level will mean continuing efforts at economy by use of smaller cars and the replacement of oil-fired by coal-fired power stations . |
| 10 | The capacitor now charges via R but when the output is low the forward-biased diode D allows a discharge current to pass through Rd as well as R. The discharge time ( output low ) is , therefore , much shorter . |
| 11 | With his teachings and observances they could sing and dance , laugh and exult before God — as David did of old , as other psalmists did , as Miriam the prophetess and Moses himself did in his own Victory Song over the Egyptians . |
| 12 | best on the nineteenth money , finance has become a little shaky as Saturn the planet of restriction approaches to Venus on the twenty sixth , this is not a time for speculation . |
| 13 | They go back as far as George the second 's reign in 1755 . |
| 14 | Then we may write unc and D has the same degeneracy as C. The matrix unc will in general be fully populated ; if it is appropriately partitioned , we may write ( 18 ) as unc To be conformable with the first and last matrices in the triple product , unc must have — p rows and n — q columns . |
| 15 | Just as Paul the apostle had once written of being ‘ transported into the third heaven ’ in a mystical experience of God , so mother and son were united in their desire for God . |
| 16 | This chapter looks at how our personalities can experience ‘ more than we can ask or think ’ , as Paul the apostle once expressed it . |
| 17 | ‘ And there were German Shepherds abiding in the fields , ’ said Seb , keeping a close hold on Decorum , his bull terrier , as Twinkie the security guard prowled past with an Alsatian . |
| 18 | Cod and ‘ ticks ' for Tony Gray as Gandolph the cat looks on . |
| 19 | And just as Koestler the man seemed devoid of small talk , so too all the writings that followed were pertinent and direct , never trivial or sloppy . |
| 20 | The ape that Alison makes of Absolon , the excluded potential lover ( 3389 ) , re-emerges as John the clerk after Alayn has jumped into bed with Malyne ( 4202 ) , while throughout the night the miller , with his skull " " piled as an ape " " ( 3935 ) is left in the same position . |