Example sentences of "as the [adj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet no election campaign has been as unctuously hostile to wealth as the Labour one of 1992 in justifying its policies about the poll tax , the health service , education , and national and local taxation ; and nothing in the public packaging operation left any reason to suppose the Labour Party had abandoned the assumptions of the 1960s . |
| 2 | But , more importantly , I have learnt not to see any stage of my life as the final one . |
| 3 | The younger policeman shuffled in embarrassment under my glassy gaze as the elder one continued to recite the report from a notebook in his mind . |
| 4 | As the latter they counsel students about their programmes , confirm their specific choices , and take a direct interest in each student 's personal and academic progress ( see Chapter 4 ) . |
| 5 | In order to learn to master this sort of mismatch , simple context drills must be prepared such as the following one , in order to become accustomed to the way the word is used in German : N.B. ( to me ) indicates that it is implied in the English sentence , but not usually stated ; if stated , it would be followed by the preposition " in " , as in " Bring the books to me in the library " . |
| 6 | As the eldest he had inherited the estate on the death of his father , but he had relinquished it to his brother Julian , the second elder . |
| 7 | A new campaign team headed by John Wakeham , the Secretary of State for Energy and a close political associate , was appointed to replace what had generally been regarded as the ineffective one used in the first ballot . |
| 8 | A full 12 years after ditching his civil service day job , TV 's Mr Sardonic is a ubiquitous face — having served his time on springboard improv workshop Whose Line Is It Anyway ? as The Other One ( or John Sessions ' bit of rough ) and co-written Julian Clary 's Sticky Moments , Merton soon reached the dizzy but inevitable heights of his own Channel 4 series . |
| 9 | time as the other one . |
| 10 | Symposia such as the Panofsky one could also be held there , the famous elliptical reading room would be an ideal venue . |
| 11 | They are more plausible when taken as responses to a question about dependent conditionals which in fact has more claim to be regarded as the principal one . |
| 12 | As the posthumous My Father and Myself records , and everything else he wrote hints at , he had a low opinion of himself . |
| 13 | And for , our children when they grow up cos I had three children nearly every one that had come into the town had little ones so you see we were trying to build a town for our children to benefit which I do n't know whether you think that it 's a town worth living in but I think that we have done very well and it 's a town that is caring for such as the elderly they really do care ! |
| 14 | Nevertheless , the 45-year-old Willingham , co-writer on Stanley Kubrick 's Paths of Glory , who made his name with his 1947 novel End as a Man ( filmed as The Strange One ) , was later asked to do the screenplay of Little Big Man . |
| 15 | On performance though , good as the new one is , I remain firmly attached to the TER , which is more romantically conceived , and captures much better the work 's operetta style . |
| 16 | It was like having this image of yourself being heated up and being sold as the new you or something . |
| 17 | As the first one had managed to flutter down , it seemed that the rest should be able to do the same , but I judged it safer to load them into a cardboard box and lower them gently . |
| 18 | Also known as The First One and The Master of Time ; El was the father of gods and men amongst ancient Syrians and Canaanites . |
| 19 | This contribution to the accumulating ‘ goodness ’ may be regarded as the first which is not due to the ruthless survival laws which belong to the second period of this book . |
| 20 | He is delighted and yesterday said : ‘ This is extremely good news because it is imperative that the cathedral has the ability to maintain its justifiably high standard of music , and a new organ is badly needed as the existing one is now beyond repair . ’ |
| 21 | While Liza usually seemed vague and non-co-operative , there were times , such as the present one , when she appeared , miraculously , to pull herself together . |
| 22 | Equally , Mrs Smith argued , the common law would have had no difficulty in affording a right of action to parents in a case such as the present one . |
| 23 | Promoter Andy Norman is hailing the line-up at the National Indoor Arena as the finest he has assembled in 20 years — and the best anywhere in the world this winter . |
| 24 | For really I think that the poorest he that is in England hath a life to live , as the greatest he ; and therefore truly , sir , I think it 's clear , that every man that is to live under a government ought first by his own consent to put himself under that government ; and I do think that the poorest man in England is not at all bound in a strict sense to that government that he hath not had a voice to put himself under ; … ( p. 53 ) |
| 25 | He is there as the only one who fully understands the problems of both Elgar and his Wife , but plays no part in the other activities . |
| 26 | The personal elation and achievement experienced when a deaf child learns to speak recognisable words is great indeed , and has been so persuasive that many educators have perceived this experience as the only one which could possibly satisfy the deaf child as well as his teacher . |
| 27 | France had been the major supporter of Euratom ; as the only one of the Six already possessing a nuclear programme , it obviously hoped to benefit most from the joint funding of the Community and to establish a domination of the nascent industry . |
| 28 | I would n't want this version of the Etudes as the only one on my shelves , but it earns a place alongside other ( note , too , that these discs are available separately ) . |
| 29 | Of our three countries , Kenya stands out as the only one which has tried to manage economic development and contain inflation by selective price controls on individual items . |
| 30 | We want our outlook to be confirmed as the right one . |