Example sentences of "[noun sg] as [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So Akhenaten founded this intolerant monotheistic er religion as with kind of Ayatollah and er suppressed the th the , the traditional polytheistic . |
| 2 | In religion as in so much else the daily life of the South Saxons was conducted over several centuries by word of mouth and the group memory rather than by letter and record . |
| 3 | Conversely , in owner-occupied housing 42 per cent of those in classes V and VI had a Tory self-image as against 28 per cent in council housing ( Butler and Stokes , 1974 , p. 109 ) . |
| 4 | In National Provincial Bank of England v. Games ( 1886 ) 31 Ch.D. 582 an issue arose in a foreclosure action as to the sum to be paid by the mortgagor in order to avoid foreclosure . |
| 5 | By comparison the PIRA may view its action as of little consequence — a perverted act of war in a vicious campaign — but they would be wrong for , by this act on top of so many others , they have turned the Ireland of hope and dreams into a nightmare of guilt , shame , resentment , remorse , anger and grief . |
| 6 | All his life , MacDonald had fought against a class view of politics and for the primacy of political action as against industrial ; for him the logical corollary was that the party must be prepared , when necessary , to subordinate the sectional claims of the unions to its conception of the national interest . |
| 7 | Cross-denominational association of this sort in particular localities was not uncommon and could be reinforced through collaborative reformist and philanthropic action as in the common efforts for moral and civic improvement of such Quaker and Unitarian families in Birmingham as the Cadburys , Lloyds , Kenricks and others . |
| 8 | On appeal by the defendants , the Court of Appeal allowed the appeal and discharged the injunction , holding that as a matter of domestic law there was no justification for extending to local authorities bringing proceedings under section 222 of the Act of 1972 to enforce the criminal law the privilege enjoyed by the Crown alone of being granted an interlocutory injunction without giving a cross-undertaking as to damages ; and that since it had not been established that the defendants had no defence under article 30 of the E.E.C . |
| 9 | Treaty a cross-undertaking as to damages should have been given . |
| 10 | Cley himself had a sheen as of metal about him . |
| 11 | Perhaps the film caused someone in MI6 to do a little thinking as to whether drugs were not the only thing that crossed the zonal boundaries . |
| 12 | In the female the white ovaries are coiled round the red intestine as in Haemonchus spp . |
| 13 | These figures suggest that M tuberculosis DNA is detected as readily in patients with sarcoidosis as in patients with frankly tuberculous tissues and imply that M tuberculosis may be linked to the cause of sarcoidosis . |
| 14 | It depends upon the problem of each horse as to whether a Chambon or side-reins are used . |
| 15 | Table 3.5 shows the main categories of holders of government stock as at end-March 1991 . |
| 16 | We also have a a budgeting process er for the er for the firm 's year and we 're right in the throes of that right now for next year for ninety four , ninety five but it wo n't be any surprise to you that the recession er hit the office like any other business or the businesses that you go and see , er quite significantly , er the businesses that we 've been looking after , they 've stopped investing , they 've stopped looking at I T issues and have become very cautious and they 've basically taken stock as to where their position is . |
| 17 | There was some argument on the English side as to the best way of crossing the river and finishing the whole business as swiftly as possible . |
| 18 | One last piece of unrelated news … on teletext ( no hint of Rocky/stewart swaps BTW ) , the team news suggests that we will be starting with the same side as vs Oldham , ie beeney and Wetherall still in . |
| 19 | Pin and tack the pleats on the right side from top of valance to bottom of stiffening , by bringing the solid lines together on the wrong side as with pinch pleats ( fig. 33 ) . |
| 20 | I 'd as lief have him on my side as against me . ’ |
| 21 | One can , for instance , easily imagine circumstances in which oral utterances including recollections from different times and places are , as it were , placed side by side as in a debating chamber and where the listeners could then recognise contradictions and employ their ‘ critical ’ faculties . |
| 22 | The tentacle scales may be distinct from the oral papillae being either separated by a gap or placed at a higher level as viewed from the ventral side as in the genera Ophiotoma and Ophioblenn . |
| 23 | Members of an enterprise association are joined in seeking a common substantive satisfaction , whether it be profit maximization as in the case of a company or a change in human behaviour as in the case of the Anti-Bloodsports League . |
| 24 | Notations are made on the card as to the reasons for blacklisting , and any instructions such as ‘ refer to manager ’ , ‘ do not accept ’ or ‘ undesirable ’ should be carefully adhered to by the staff . |
| 25 | In this experiment as in the other loan choice questions , people must have gathered that both APR and total credit cost mattered because of the way they were being questioned about them . |
| 26 | However , if a full inverted-U is observed in a single experiment as in some of the early experiments on task performance and arousal , the evidence appears to be particularly clear . |
| 27 | … courts have not been so strict in denying the validity of consideration where a moral duty was performed , as they have in holding agreements invalid as against public policy where they contemplated a violation of the same duty . |
| 28 | She would publicly don her religious habit and walk into the cell as into her grave , while the presiding bishop sprinkled ashes in her wake . |
| 29 | ( 4 ) Branchial openings arranged in a slanting line ( suggesting a separation of pharynx from oesophagus as in modern lampreys ) . |
| 30 | In this aspect of the Ring as in others Tolkien is totally consistent . |