Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun pl] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was dangerous on the roads for bairns as usually the horses with running with the carts . |
| 2 | So they had been theoretically rehabilitated , set at liberty — some mere shells after interrogations as fearful as one 's most perverted imaginings might devise — only to be pulled in again just as their taut nerves had said , yes , they were free of the cord . |
| 3 | It seems to me that it ought to be our policy that we ought to try and locate people who go into these sorts of residencies as close to the people who will be concerned for their welfare as possible erm and that therefore there would be a strong case for making that sort of exception in those cases . |
| 4 | Secondly , what would happen to the profitability of Britain 's least successful credit operators if it reacted to the credit demand signals of customers as rapidly as it responds to their credit risk signals ? |
| 5 | To be successful , future education for headship will need to pay greater attention to the prime importance of the development and growth of heads as persons ; it must therefore embrace consideration of their values and assumptions , their feelings and their intentions , and their relationships with others as much as their professional knowledge and teaching skills . |
| 6 | GIVEN THAT Jacob 's Mouse have been involved in this rock ‘ n ’ roll malarkey in some form or another from an age when your hack still believed a bosom was Captain Birdseye 's right hand man on the SS Fishfinger , you would , perhaps — just like the kids of Bury St Edmunds — expect Sam , Jebb and Hugo to be precocious little shits with heads as big as Frank Sidebottom 's . |
| 7 | Eleven papers were given — which dealt with aspects of the history of popular culture from the 16th through to the 20th centuries in areas as diverse as early modern Germany , 19th century Russia and 20th century Mexico and India . |
| 8 | These newly industrialized countries have , in turn , sharply changed the degree of competition in world trade faced by UK manufacturers in sectors as varied as clothing and shipbuilding . |
| 9 | NatWest Leasing has tied up several major deals in the past 12 months with clients in industries as varied as motor manufacturing and power stations . |
| 10 | But thanks to drivers as indomitable as their machines , Timbuctu could become the Le Mans of the desert . |
| 11 | Counterintuitive though this may seem , AI might help us understand the perceptual experiences of kingfishers as well as kings . |
| 12 | The financial markets may be in retreat and the pound may be on a slippery slope , but it 's not just the insolvency practitioners and bailiffs that are doing well ; some companies in sectors as diverse as retailing , restaurants and medical equipment are also doing more than just make ends meet . |
| 13 | There are two possibilities : either to exploit the existing key order — if that is possible — or to completely destroy that order , and to allocate keys to addresses as randomly as possible . |
| 14 | Not many years ago , with income tax ranging up to 98% , and death duties on legacies as much as 75% a testator 's family was allowed to retain only 0.5% of the fruits of his labour . |
| 15 | We are very much aware that initiatives involving major revisions of the curriculum have significant resource implications for institutions as well as for SCOTVEC and , for this reason , we have decided that a phased introduction would be appropriate for the revision of advanced courses . |
| 16 | It would seem more apposite for the Authority to concentrate on identifying the goals and aspirations of the service , on raising teachers ' educational sights and their expectations of children as high as possible , and on providing the opportunities and facilities for teachers to explore , debate and develop their own ways of achieving such goals , aspirations and expectations . |
| 17 | Mark Warner Travel offers holidays to destinations throughout the Mediterranean ‘ club ’ type packages including elements as diverse as accommodation , food and the cost of participating in organised sports . |
| 18 | Frenchmen in the late eleventh century were not the first people to experience romantic passion ; the emotion found expression in earlier poems in places as far apart as ancient Egypt and tenth-century Germany . |
| 19 | Retailers in markets as diverse as Chile and Australia have now used the programme to plan re-merchandising projects to great effect . |
| 20 | is perhaps the most personal selection of Raymond Williams 's work , including his picture of Cambridge University from the viewpoint of a Welsh , working-class student before the war ; his vivid cameo of F R Leavis ; reflections on his contemporaries , and on writers who were important to him — among them Solzhenitsyn , Lukacs and Brecht ; and his sharp judgements on subjects as varied as Monty Python , the Falklands War and classical Latin . |
| 21 | The idea was born from the success of the Central Scotland Association , which generated increasing interest as it took on health boards over matters as diverse as single-sex lavatories in an Edinburgh hospital to provision of extra female doctors in the village of Auchterarder . |
| 22 | Already many grass-roots activists in the US are attacking the biggest banks on issues as diverse as their continued business with South Africa , their indirect exploitation of the Third World 's people and environment , their systematic refusal to grant home loans in inner-city neighborhoods and their close ties to union-busting corporations . |
| 23 | So far this has been confined to states with lifetimes longer than about one millisecond ( ’ isomeric ’ states ) but experiments are under way to study excited slates in nuclei with lifetimes as short as microseconds . |
| 24 | As the DOH has become more confident , however , limits on size have been progressively relaxed ( from practices with 11,000 down to 7,000 and now experimentally with consortia of practices as small as 3,000 ) . |
| 25 | OVER the past few weeks I have been attempting to assess the relative marketing merits of companies as diverse as theatre companies , electrical retailers and peat producers . |
| 26 | Finding a publisher is hard for all writers and we know from the letters and diaries of writers as important as Gerard Manley Hopkins , Joseph Conrad and Hermann Melville how painful it is when the writing will not come . |
| 27 | The system does not permit the aggregation of bundles from different units of work ( i.e. the original ranges of entries as stored as tables in the archive ) . |
| 28 | Regulators have tightened the limits of toxicity allowed in waste , as chemists improve methods of spotting toxic substances in proportions as low as one part per billion — as good as spotting one Chinese among all his fellow-citizens of China . |
| 29 | This creates a very personal album of immense interest , with location paintings from places as varied as Windsor and Wensleydale , Balmoral and Botswana . |
| 30 | The RIC offered a model of colonial policing and in fact many officers from forces as far afield as Kenya , Jamaica and Canada were trained at its headquarters in Dublin . |