Example sentences of "as [adj] to the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nick Gaselee , for whom this famous victory was such a welcome change of luck , rode 90 winners as an amateur before learning his trade in five years as assistant to the great Fulke Walwyn . |
| 2 | The turning-point in what became a distinguished career came on 22 February 1897 , when he started work in the drawing office of the Metropolitan Railway Company at Neasden works , where he pursued both mechanics and architecture , being ultimately appointed as assistant to the chief surveyor and architect . |
| 3 | During that time he worked with wool blending as Teasing Foreman and latterly as assistant to the Raw Materials ' Manager in the Warehouse office . |
| 4 | Yet , while such cuts are seen as preferable to the personal hardships of redundancy , less obvious cuts in the information system would also have personal repercussions — advice workers are entirely dependent on it for serving clients and would be unable to function as efficiently without it . |
| 5 | Whatever its faults , Israel Radio is seen by many as preferable to the wooden programmes broadcast from Arab capitals . |
| 6 | We obtained directions and drove as rapidly as possible to the rival meeting . |
| 7 | The aim was to get as close as possible to the real time setting while falling short of the search itself . |
| 8 | The form should be completed and returned as soon as possible to the North-Eastern Education and Library Board . |
| 9 | All mature students intending to apply are recommended to write as early as possible to the appropriate faculty for guidance , giving full details of their educational background and their experience in employment . |
| 10 | The standard pattern is used , adjusting the final pattern so as to be at the holding point as near as possible to the onward clearance time . |
| 11 | Bend the other leg , placing the foot as close as possible to the inner thigh of the other leg . |
| 12 | give as much assistance as possible to the individual artist ; |
| 13 | The report suggested that all the powers relevant to school government should be formally vested in the LEA , but that it should delegate these as far as possible to the governing body of each school , who should in turn allow as much discretion as possible to the head . |
| 14 | In fact we had the two boys pulling we had th it just as near as possible to the proper thing . |
| 15 | As Cooper implied , a tutor-organiser 's success in encouraging rather than destroying the voluntary movement is largely , matter of degree — of knowing how much to do to advance the WEA here and there , while leaving as much as possible to the voluntary members . |
| 16 | Bins should be sited as conveniently as possible to the main source of material , it being assumed that it will be carried by wheelbarrow . |
| 17 | Any charges for luncheons , afternoon teas and dinners should be posted as far as possible to the tabular ledger and the guests ' bills . |
| 18 | Blues is defined , without qualification as based on a pentatonic , inflectional musical language , hence as antithetical to the functional-tonal language of bourgeois tradition . |
| 19 | Earlier Gillard J. had described as apposite to the present discussion a passage in the speech of Lord Denning in Watson v. Fram Reinforced Concrete Co . ( Scotland ) Ltd . , 1960 S.C . 92 , 115 . |
| 20 | We can think of the adult as analogous to the ephemeral winged seed of a plant like a sycamore , and the larva as analogous to the main plant , the difference being that sycamores make many seeds and shed them over many successive years , while a mayfly larva gives rise to only one adult right at the end of its own life . |
| 21 | In their villages of origin the women had been regarded as contributing less to the economic position of the family than the men , but they had at least been recognised as crucial to the economic life of the community . |
| 22 | In the correspondence in our columns which has followed the report on the decline of village life by the Conference of Rural Community Councils , one factor has increasingly been identified as crucial to the ultimate survival of the village as a community . |
| 23 | ( b ) Profits and losses The partnership agreement will , as appropriate to the particular circumstances of the firm , typically contain the following provisions : 1 . |
| 24 | Benjamin 's pivotal notion of ‘ allegory ’ can be understood as similar to the neo-Kantian sociologization of Kant 's categories in , for example , Weber 's types of social action or Durkheim and Mauss 's primitive classifications . |
| 25 | Clearly , there are also people ready to take these jobs at the going rate , and not too discontented as long as they are not the breadwinner in their family , and are thus able to regard their wage as additional to the basic family income . |
| 26 | Genuine blasphemy … as impossible to the complete atheist as to the perfect Christian … is a way of affirming belief . ’ |
| 27 | Between the sessions , Pope Paul had called for restraint on this topic , and on 28 October Cardinal Agagianian announced that some matters would not be brought to the Council floor in a move widely interpreted as favourable to the conservative forces in the curia . |
| 28 | They and their closest American collaborators asserted the superiority economically as well as morally of free labour systems as central to the international emancipation campaign and sought to purify slaveholding societies by purifying Protestant denominations and missionary enterprise of slaveholders . |
| 29 | Given the amount of time that Karsten Schubert has been in business and given the new wave of gallery/dealers , this year is going to be the year to break with a much more open policy towards new art , are being seen as central to the contemporary art scene . |
| 30 | Such changes are likely to have fundamental effects upon the way companies operate , and so consideration must be given to the impact of developments upon product-costing , cost control and investment appraisal — concepts already discussed as central to the corporate resource-allocation process . |