Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] as [vb pp] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Graham Hough develops this argument as applied to English studies by claiming that the Christian-humanist ideal is now worn and battered , with a resulting confusion within literary education . |
| 2 | Their new Social Democratic Party favoured multilateral disarmament as opposed to unilateral nuclear disarmament . |
| 3 | Much of the critical antipathy towards the Reeve derives from the ingestion of such prejudice as opposed to detached examination of it . |
| 4 | The ordinary world as known to common sense is full of things , events , people and happenings ; full of , for brief illustration , tables , chairs , friends , enemies , measles , drugs , books , cats , dogs , Golden Virginia , deceit , honesty , teachers , poor essay marks , good luck , all the infinitude of things that we , in our ordinary experience know about , talk about , ignore , are aware of , are not aware of , and so forth . |
| 5 | Such an approach ignores the magnificent efforts of many of our schools to create a vibrant learning environment encapsulating the need for technological sophistication and real understanding as opposed to mere accumulation of facts unrelated to their present and future worlds . |
| 6 | The authors discuss neither Simpson nor the important paper by John Cronin et al in 1981 ( Nature , vol 292 , p 113 ) which summarises the mass of morphological and molecular data which contradict the punctuational argument as applied to human evolution . |
| 7 | The cheapness of a photographic reproduction as opposed to traditional litho-printing techniques also helped the party budgets . |
| 8 | I have had my glassfish about 18 months , and have never had any trouble in getting them to take dried food as opposed to live . |
| 9 | If the attitudinist can make sense of deductive reasoning as applied to ethical statements , it seems that he can make sense of the embedding of ethical sentences in complex sentences where the attitude they would express on their own is , so to speak , held in reserve . |
| 10 | In 1847 the Congregational Union Year Book included a thirteen-page section , ‘ Remarks on Ecclesiastical Architecture as Applied to Nonconformist Chapels ’ . |
| 11 | Broadly speaking , elite analysis directs the researcher 's attention towards socio-political determination as opposed to economic determination . |
| 12 | Of the 92 cases resolved during the year , only three had to go to informal arbitration as opposed to agreed settlement . |
| 13 | They stand for modern , improved , and mechanised farming as opposed to indigenous and backward farming , and so on . |
| 14 | How many are coming from conversions , how many are coming from green field as opposed to brown field sites . |
| 15 | Even then it took time for those in Washington who favoured direct American military involvement as opposed to military aid or some loose Atlantic security system , to gain the ascendancy . |
| 16 | What the outside world sees as a minister promoting a particular project is probably the end of a long process in which different groups of civil servants within the department have argued about the case for that venture as opposed to other ventures . |
| 17 | I think they go for more sorts of jobs , it 's difficult to list them , but a lot are going into computing and electronics today , but we have people — we had one student who 's gone into accountancy , Royal Navy , weapons research , gas board , chemical side as opposed to physical side , video discs , hospital physics , where I would have thought the chemical aspects would be of use to them as well as the physics . |
| 18 | His three criteria for identifying the modifications as chemical erosion as opposed to physical abrasion were that the damage was localized and not evenly spread over the whole surface of the bones , there was greater erosion of the tips of the teeth with some teeth not damaged at all , and discoloration spread into the re-entrant angles of the vole teeth . |
| 19 | There was a general acceptance of the need for further and continuing training with greater emphasis on efficient production as opposed to increased production . |
| 20 | Some of those courts have seized upon the use of the word ‘ send ’ in Article 10(a) , as opposed to ‘ serve ’ ; although this distinction could be explained by reference to civil law ideas of formal service as opposed to informal delivery , these courts have concluded that Article 10(a) does not allow effective ‘ service ’ in Japan . |
| 21 | Members of staff have research interests in the following fields — Medieval : Modern literary theory as applied to medieval texts ; mythology and fantasy ; oral literature ; questions of transmission and textual criticism . |
| 22 | Again , there was a high percentage of part-time farmers ( in Bavaria something like 48% ) but most of them had urban employment as opposed to rural off-farm employment , as found in the other countries . |