Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [noun] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The numbers given in the boxes are not the numbers of leukaemia deaths as the presentation suggests — they are nearer to the total of all causes of death . |
| 2 | I turned off the road when I drew level with the Brigadier and his Officers , and placed myself on the right of Mills Roberts as the Brigade swept past to the tune Highland Laddie . |
| 3 | There is , admittedly , a long tradition both in linguistics and in literary studies of analysing the works of individual writers , particularly literary writers , but relatively little work has been done on such areas of text studies as the conventions of non-literary writing within a community or the preferred patterns of organization in different types of discourse . |
| 4 | The use of majority voting as the explanation of redistribution has been suggested by Downs ( 1957 ) and Meltzer and Richard ( 1981 ) . |
| 5 | The image of Neil Young as the wayward eccentric does n't tell the whole story , not by a long way . |
| 6 | If a patient is requested to hold up one arm and to count aloud during injection of the drug , the arm on the side contralateral to the side of injection collapses as the drug takes effect . |
| 7 | It is anticipated that the relationships between parents and their young sons and daughters will be modified according to changes in the balance of household contributions as the children move towards adult responsibilities . |
| 8 | Most of the members of the IRB know that even in 1992 the rejection of South Africa as the host country would be a King Canute job and that by 1995 it would look just plain silly . |
| 9 | An RAF Nimrod aircraft , eight lifeboats and local fishing vessels were making a massive sweep of almost 1,000 square miles of Cardigan Bay as the search resumed this morning . |
| 10 | Consequence : Boost to production and idealism : idealism counterbalanced by fear and threatened by worsening privation as attacks on ‘ corruption ’ begin to bite ; growth partially nullified by a worsening of distribution problems as the second economy is rolled back . |
| 11 | Often , she had felt for him as they both stood in front of Mr Browning as the money order was made . |
| 12 | The validity of product measures as the sole form of evaluation can be considered at a number of levels . |
| 13 | Er but there have been a lot of issues and we 've done well in that field but of course it does n't produce the same kind of fee income as the M and A activity . |
| 14 | Shareholders were to get shares in the new company and a series of cash pay-outs as the various properties were sold off . |
| 15 | The dancers arrived , singly or together , wearing jeans and thick sweaters and high-heeled leather boots , and they hung up their fun furs on the backs of dressing-room doors as the showtape was being wound onto the reel-to-reel in the stage manager 's control room somewhere above . |
| 16 | The market for conveyancing services provided to commercial firms will also be studied to establish whether it requires the same degree of self regulation as the market for domestic conveyancing . |
| 17 | A person without the use of his sense of sight would certainly not be in a position to make the same use of colour words as the rest of us . |
| 18 | Lilley stated that there was a clear shift in the balance between state provision and self provision and that it was right to shift this balance towards self provision as the wealth of the nation increased . |
| 19 | This is because the recognition of sign language as the natural language of deaf people would mean that they would become aligned with members of other cultural minorities who are isolated from special needs legislation because their ‘ home language ’ is different from that which is the language of instruction used in schools ( Section 1(2) , Education Act 1981 ) . |
| 20 | CHRIS LILLYWHITE of the British professional Banana team recovered from a crash to regain the yellow jersey of race leader as the Milk Race ended its longest stage of 125 miles from Birmingham to Llandudno yesterday . |
| 21 | This partial closure should still allow the same amount of carbon dioxide to enter , as the carbon dioxide gradient would be greater in a higher carbon dioxide environment , but should reduce the loss of water vapour as the humidity gradient will be little altered . |
| 22 | The trouble for the Tory whips , and for such organisers of backbench opinion as the Chairman of the 1922 Committee , Cranley Onslow , was that far too many Conservative contenders appeared : Peter Brooke , the former Ulster Secretary ; Terence Higgins , a minister as long ago as Ted Heath 's government , and chairman of the Treasury Select Committee ; Sir Giles Shaw , another officer of the '22 ; Paul Channon , another former cabinet minister ; Dame Janet Fookes , some Tories ' hope as the first woman Speaker . |
| 23 | The canal passes under the eastern spur of the M5 and then leaves the noise and traffic behind as it dives into a deep wooded cutting from where there is little evidence that the canal is passing between the housing estates of Grove Vale as the atmosphere is so pleasantly rural . |
| 24 | issued in 1604 : it happens to use the same fount of music type as the Select Songs in the Fairy Queen , and it occupies two and a half pages : it could not have been squeezed onto two . |
| 25 | The roar of the traffic was almost drowned by a furious burst of camera shutters as the assembled Press took their first opportunity of photographing Hannah in an urban situation . |
| 26 | The role of Bank Rate as the pivotal interest rate was reduced . |
| 27 | We begin by classifying the valence-shell atomic orbitals ( AOs ) of the constituent atoms , in the symmetry of the molecule , as the set of molecular orbitals ( MOs ) has the same distribution of symmetry species as the set of contributing atomic orbitals . |
| 28 | The importance of landscape survey as the primary source of archaeological evidence was eclipsed by excavation at the end of the 18th century , and never fully recovered . |
| 29 | These results suggest that the use of spot volatility as the proxy reveals a clearer maturity effect than when volume is used as the proxy . |
| 30 | I have found that it is not as tolerant of tank conditions as the more readily available Guppies , Platys or Mollys . |