Example sentences of "in [adj] as [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two innermost trees were cut down in 1771 as they were considered to be impoverishing the soil and shading the flowers in the Garden , but the others stood guard by the watergate for another hundred years and no doubt caused interested comment from river travellers . |
| 2 | Even without tolls , country roads are likely to be three times as busy in 2025 as they are today . |
| 3 | I watched him jog off , the head held high for the first twenty yards , to promote oxygenation , then tucked in low as he measured out the rhythm of his pace . |
| 4 | The logic of this is defensible enough where there are members of the public to be terrified , but it was subsequently held that the offence need not take place in public , on the grounds that bystanders might become just as terrified in private as they would in public . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , Cooper could be just as difficult in private as he was in public , and Richardson moved out in 1960 . |
| 6 | After the series in Australia , Mike Brearley announced that he would not be able to tour in 1980–1 as he wanted to continue his studies in psychoanalysis , and the England selectors decided to appoint a new captain for the start of the 1980 rubber . |
| 7 | I of course has to invent this ceremony and I did it in Latin as they do at Oxford |
| 8 | Would she hit him in public as she did at home ? |
| 9 | ‘ I know exactly how you feel , because I 'm as innocent in this as you are . |
| 10 | It might help you to know that I have been writing down my dreams on waking , an accepted practice , I believe , in some circles , and perhaps of more use in my case than in some as I am by profession a writer . |
| 11 | If we work as well together in 1993 as we did in ‘ 92 Pest Control and the people in it will continue to prosper and this coming year will be another success story . |
| 12 | Of course people do not become frenzied quite as readily in 1993 as they did in 1919 , but with the assistance of one of Edinburgh 's premiere restaurants , The Witchery , The Scotsman and the House of Sandeman have devised an evening which should enthuse even the most jaded citizen . |
| 13 | Quate would like to see the SAM used to watch polymer chains in rubber as they stretch and bounce back . |
| 14 | IF CORPORATE governance and the virtues or vices of free financial markets had been agonised over as much in 1985 as they are now , continental Europe would have ruined many of the most popular and simplistic conclusions . |
| 15 | But whether his artistic life was , as a few think , exemplary , or , as rather more think , a fearsomely cautionary fable , it is at all events a matter of some solemnity , and the amused weariness of we-have-heard-it-all-before will not serve in 1985 as it did in 1920 or 1940 or even , scandalously , as late as fifteen years ago . |
| 16 | After finishing second in the World Championship in 1983 and 1984 , Alain Prost lose the " nearly man " tag in 1985 as he became the first Frenchman to win the title . |
| 17 | Without the ERM , countries could competitively devalue their currencies : that would prove as inflationary in future as it has in the past , and it would give rise to the sort of trade frictions that plague the relationship between America and Japan , or worse . |
| 18 | I hope that the hon. Gentleman had the opportunity to tell the gentleman that he might well see me in future as I shall be returning to the town in which I was born . |
| 19 | If we compare our rates with the best , they were double those of the Netherlands in 1979 as we have seen , and by 1985 had worsened to two and one half times the Dutch rates . |
| 20 | To ask the Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food if he will make a statement about the United Kingdom trade deficit in 1991 as it applies to food and drink . |
| 21 | Banks ended charges for people in credit in 1984 as they faced competition from building societies . |
| 22 | From Table 4.1 we can see that the ‘ total working and available for work ’ in Northern Tyne side was roughly the same in 1984 as it had been in 1972 , i.e. under 300 000 . |
| 23 | But was redcurrant jam the same colour in Normandy in 1853 as it is now ? |
| 24 | The birth control methods most commonly used by working class families were as readily available in 1870 as they were in 1950 . |
| 25 | Opposition to Home Rule was put on ice for the duration with the Bill , but opposition was as genuine in 1918 as it had been in 1914 . |
| 26 | He hugged himself in self-pity as we took in this alien race dressed with an abandonment and originality we 'd never imagined possible . |
| 27 | Our recruitment numbers were lower in 1992 as we have insisted on excellence before appointments are confirmed . |
| 28 | This was quite as true when Tabitha Jute met Marco Metz in Schiaparelli as it had been in the days of the Big Step , years before she was born . |
| 29 | Their final work , a book on the geology of Scotland , though never completed in their lifetimes , was published in 1930 as it stood at the time of their deaths . |
| 30 | ‘ Never has an art form been subject to such control , ’ argued Pare Lorentz in 1930 as he pointed out how the whole industry was ‘ ruled by fear ’ and was ‘ the victim of moral racketeering ’ . |