Example sentences of "as the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the better council housing is sold off , those that are dependent on the public sector for their housing will be increasingly relegated to the worst estates . |
| 2 | Techniques for decreasing the opportunities for crime include such things as the better protection of property , which have been the usual focus of police crime-prevention programmes . |
| 3 | If , however , people receive income and do not declare it in tax returns , it will not appear on the income side , though expenditure will increase as the unrecorded income is spent on goods and services . |
| 4 | ‘ Next day I tried to warn my brother , and it was as the black artist had said . |
| 5 | His face burnt like a brand As the black cascade of perfume came tumbling over his breast ; And he kissed its waves in the moonlight , |
| 6 | Apart from the obvious problems that they cause , certain species , like flowering cherries and plums , are the overwintering hosts of the troublesome waterlily aphid , a menace that is as devastating to succulent aquatic plants as the black bean aphid is to broad beans . |
| 7 | ‘ What the hell are you doing ? ’ she screamed to the unseen driver as the black vehicle came hurtling towards her once more , this time clipping her offside light . |
| 8 | Rex watched in horror as the black claw tore Bill 's left arm from its socket and flung it far up the street . |
| 9 | As the black hole loses mass , the area of its event horizon gets smaller , but this decrease in the entropy of the black hole is more than compensated for by the entropy of the emitted radiation , so the second law is never violated . |
| 10 | So as the black hole loses mass , its temperature and rate of emission increase , so it loses mass more quickly . |
| 11 | Any material in this intermediate region , which is known as the ergosphere , will rotate in the same sense as the black hole . |
| 12 | Starting off from the old town hall in the middle of the High Street he made his way slowly down the road as far as the Black Bull pub , accompanied by Mr Tim Devlin , who holds the Stockton South with a slender 774 majority , and his wife Carol . |
| 13 | Perhaps a plague as virulent as the black death . |
| 14 | For the period before 1984 our analyses rely on much the same evidence as the Black report , though more complete registration data are now available . |
| 15 | Just as the Black Power and civil rights movements in the USA during the 1960s focused on where African Americans were allowed to be , either by legislation or through convention , so too a crucial aspect of feminist thought is concerned with whether women are allowed to have a proportionate and equitable bodily presence in ‘ our ’ parliament , council buildings , unions , in the media as journalists , and throughout the hierarchies of all workplaces and organisations — including , of course , in the galleries and the pages of art magazines . |
| 16 | Life , as far as the black novelist is concerned , if found paradoxically and exclusively in a police body bag . |
| 17 | Ruth heard the trees moan as the black flood swelled , sweeping her away till . |
| 18 | For a moment she was bewildered , as the real Finn and the dream Finn co-existed . |
| 19 | And it 's not as good as the real story . |
| 20 | After the war he disappeared into the closed world of post-war intelligence with MI5 until 1956 before moving to MI6 as the real life ‘ M ’ made famous in fiction by James Bond creator Ian Fleming . |
| 21 | And then there is how you behave , which may not be the same thing as the real self . |
| 22 | The relator , as the real complainant is called , conducts the proceedings and bears their cost but the Attorney-General is the nominal plaintiff . |
| 23 | In the neo-classical system , this excess supply would cause a lower wage and price level to be established and this deflation in turn would shift the IS curve back to the right ( because of the real balance effect ) and the LM curve to the right ( as the real money supply rises ) until the full employment level of income were restored . |
| 24 | The increase in the real cost of mortgage interest tax relief over the period — £2.4 billion at 1986/7 prices — was the same size as the real fall in net public capital spending on housing . |
| 25 | each code should have the same number of letters as the real name to avoid tabbing difficulties later ; |
| 26 | By contrast , Hveragerđ3i — ‘ Hurdy Gurdy Land' to Tony and I , as the real pronunciation is a jawbreaker — is an upper-class thermal area . |
| 27 | Mr Abdul Halim Arshat , the secretary-general of Malaysia 's leading Islamic political party , has claimed that ‘ support for Iraq is necessary as the real motive of the US is to kill off the Muslims in Baghdad and to destroy the city . ’ |
| 28 | Admittedly , he says , some behaviour is regarded as externally caused in as far as the real explanation is not the intentional one . |
| 29 | Such securities have been issued by the British government since 1981 and enable investors to maintain the value of their investment as well as the real rate of return . |
| 30 | They are just as tasty as the real thing ! |