Example sentences of "[noun pl] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | By and large there were almost as many buffaloes as black cattle throughout Kandyan districts , but in the Low Country black cattle outnumbered buffaloes by at least two to one and in some districts by as much as ten to one . |
| 2 | Paul understood his own sufferings as being a signal to unbelievers of the power of the crucified Jesus over suffering and death . |
| 3 | Clearly , parents generally must welcome the news that cuddling is not only nice but necessary ; perhaps , however , we should spare a compassionate thought once more for the intellectual mothers of the thirties , whose sufferings as they tried to be ‘ good ’ mothers are now repeated in the knowledge that all their efforts only led them to be ‘ bad ’ mothers : as one of our correspondents added , ‘ Here is Bowlby , still out to make us feel guilty — about our rejection of the children we loved but were not allowed to love . ’ |
| 4 | Delacroix 's journal is articulate , concerned with other arts as well as painting , besides containing much comment on contemporary life . |
| 5 | Some are veritable campuses where students can learn about logarithms as well as lobs , fine arts as well a s fitness training . |
| 6 | For in our national tradition , in the arts as until recently in sports , it is the amateur who is most admired ; and Auden 's charming joker by the Christmas hearth is only a particular version of the amateur . |
| 7 | John Deverall ( 1979 ) , in a fascinating but as yet unpublished dissertation on the ‘ Public Medium/Private Process ’ dichotomy , draws our attention to authors such as Richard Sennett ( 1974 ) and Iris Murdoch ( 1970 ) , the former deploring the cult of the individual in modern society and the latter arguing fiercely for the arts as ‘ unselfing ’ . |
| 8 | It is not only those who dismiss the arts as self-indulgent who lay themselves open to such a charge . |
| 9 | Charles and his leading ecclesiastical adviser , William Laud , agreed with Roman Catholics about the efficacy of the visual arts as aids to devotion , and thus made the revival of what they called ‘ the beauty of holiness ’ one of their chief religious priorities . |
| 10 | Another appointee might have seen the ideological struggle about money for the arts as politics-as-usual . |
| 11 | Do you see that as the difference between the way that Americans view philanthropy in the arts as opposed to the way the English view it ? |
| 12 | Hudson 's schoolboys saw science as masculine and the arts as feminine . |
| 13 | However , by this , Hudson does not mean that they see the arts as being practised by women ; rather , they see them as being practised by ‘ effeminate ’ men . |
| 14 | Dr G 's emphasis on the creative potential of physics leads him to see it as an ‘ arts subject ’ ; Dr L , on the other hand , sees the differences between the sciences and the arts as ‘ enormous ’ . |
| 15 | When learning is viewed in this way , students often regard science as progressive , and the arts as static ; science as infinite and the arts as finite . |
| 16 | When learning is viewed in this way , students often regard science as progressive , and the arts as static ; science as infinite and the arts as finite . |
| 17 | The arts as social forms |
| 18 | The very limited opportunities for disabled people to take part in all forms of the arts as spectators , creators or participants raises questions about whether or not we are an oppressed and marginalised subgroup and what we might be trying to do about this . |
| 19 | Most of these art centres were quickly colonised by the theatre and theatre-based activities leaving all the other arts as poor relatives , certainly not equal partners within the art centre . |
| 20 | Trained at the Royal College of Art , Paris studios , and in Italy , Havell joined the Madras School of Arts as principal in 1884 , a post he held until 1892 , when he returned to England . |
| 21 | Before all these developments it was widely accepted that knowledge was something that was ‘ transmitted by words and absorbed by words ’ , and suddenly when faced with ‘ establishing the criteria for the arts as higher education subjects … we were forced to look at these subjects … and at what way they contributed to the role of higher education … |
| 22 | My master deepened my unease with a story about the stark , square building 's previous owners , the Templars ; the monks of war who , two centuries previously , had been brutally crushed by the papacy and the French crown because of their alleged involvement in witchcraft , dabbling in the Black Arts as well as such unnatural vices as sodomy and the worship of a huge black cat . |
| 23 | Fast flows experience of the Tees towards cultural exchanges in art VISUAL arts officer Mr Steve Chettle wants to see Cleveland taken seriously as a place to visit and admire its arts as well as being an area of historic interest because of its heavy industries . |
| 24 | The organisation would be unable to respond positively to as many requests for financial help for the arts as it would have liked . |
| 25 | Although not every member of the Essex Federation Executive shared these views , Brown 's successors as tutor-organiser for the county understandably found the context a difficult one to work in . |
| 26 | This important oath not only bound Barbarossa never to recognise Alexander as pope , but also bound imperial successors as well as the bishops and princes . |
| 27 | Among his successors as Duke of Aquitaine only Richard is known to have written verse and certainly neither of the two surviving poems attributed to him is of this quality . |
| 28 | ( c ) Parliament could not bind its successors as to the content , manner and form of subsequent legislation . |
| 29 | In addition there is no indication in the Ecclesiastical History that Bede thought of Eadwine 's successors as failing to maintain Eadwine 's overlordship of all the Britons . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , while Khrushchev , Brezhnev and their successors as general secretary of the Communist Party remained the most prominent figures in the Soviet political process , clearly they did not dominate the Politburo as Stalin did — they had to carry their colleagues with them . |