Example sentences of "[noun] as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Basavaiah Rachaiah replaced Sarup Singh as Governor of Kerala in December 1990 [ see p. 37915 ] . |
| 2 | Markandey Singh replaced Arjan Singh as Lt.-Governor of Delhi in December 1990 [ see p. 37915 ] . |
| 3 | Miss Miller was answering a plea for advice by Steve Reese , 28 , who moved to Bristol after his home in Newcastle upon Tyne was repossessed — and then saw his photographic business collapse as interest rates ‘ went daft ’ . |
| 4 | Such a religion as Christianity is a symbolic distortion of the relationships which I would have . |
| 5 | A full-scale evacuation operation swung into action as panic swept through Saturday morning shoppers . |
| 6 | This places an additional responsibility on an Area Director in deciding whether an applicant for legal aid has reasonable grounds for bringing an action as plaintiff — the Director may be protecting unassisted defendants as well as the public purse . |
| 7 | Business circles condemned Hess 's action as treachery against Führer and people , and regarded press and radio reports — which were universally scorned — as a ‘ Party swindle ’ . |
| 8 | It was provincial workers who exploded into action as trade revived . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | These trends are potentially very important because the number of people in a household and the composition of the households — in terms of such characteristics as sex , age and relationships to each other — both have a strong influence on the preferred type and location of housing accommodation . |
| 11 | Rights can not be based upon such characteristics as rationality , language or self awareness without excluding some humans as possessors of them . |
| 12 | These scales included such characteristics as frequency of panic attacks , generalized anxiety , avoidance behaviour , psychiatric history , worry about anxiety , interest in the approach , use of anxiolytic medication , and recent life stresses . |
| 13 | Clegg refers ( 1976 : ch. 8 ) to the role of the state and the strategy of employers ; Derber to such all-embracing national characteristics as size , GNP , politics , economic history and cultural values . |
| 14 | Many markets which exhibit some of the same characteristics as health care — uncertainty , risk and imperfect information — are characterised by long-term relationships between buyers and sellers , which are based on trust , track record and a reputation for quality of service and reliability . |
| 15 | Now that we 're into the Nineties , the agencies have changed tack , and such Eighties ' characteristics as greed , selfishness and sad Paisley ties have become passé . |
| 16 | The criteria most commonly used to establish how many people we should have in a sample are such characteristics as age , gender , marital status and socio-economic status , although various other criteria may be used as appropriate . |
| 17 | Such characteristics as initiative , purposefulness , persistence and self-control are developed through sport and , while I am not sold on the idea of sport as a builder of ‘ character ’ , I do believe that these capacities serve important functions in self-actualization , that tendency of all human beings to develop their full potentialities . |
| 18 | Skipper Thomas , out of action for a month with knee trouble , watched from the stands as Palace , once labelled Team of the Eighties under Terry Venables , found a new generation of Selhurst Park kids to heroically outwit Anfield 's all-stars on Wednesday night . |
| 19 | Consequently , at this year 's International Council Meeting , it was decided that the quest for sponsorship should follow the same guidelines as fundraising in its pursuit of funds . |
| 20 | The committee was set up to endorse the introduction of the college 's guidelines as district policy and to oversee the collection , analysis , and monitoring of referral data from the district 's radiology departments . |
| 21 | Although it has recently become fashionable to subject judges to ( usually ill-informed ) public criticism , even in Parliament , and although it is no longer unknown for demands for the removal of judges to be voiced in the House of Commons ( as when Sir John Donaldson incurred opprobrium as President of the National Industrial Relations Court for applying the law which Parliament itself had passed ) Parliament has still , in modern times , to remove a judge in this manner . |
| 22 | Guides were marching , pow-wowing , flag-waving and singing stirring songs as Dancer showed the twins over a totally transformed Eldercombe Manor . |
| 23 | For which they were as glad of his comyng As fowel is fayn whan that the sonne up riseth . |
| 24 | Film had always played an important part in the admiral 's career ( he had founded the Royal Naval Film Corporation ) , and rather than write his autobiography , he had recorded , with John Terraine as questioner , some seven hours of reflection on his life and personal relationships , and had left instructions that none of it was to be shown publicly until after his death . |
| 25 | Claims by Mr Major and others that a Labour administration would be heavily influenced if not controlled by the unions appeared to fall on deaf ears as union leaders kept a low profile . |
| 26 | The cool bright room spun and there was a fearful pounding in Ruth 's ears as blood rushed to her head . |
| 27 | He did not keep his solemn word , renewed at Speyer just before his coronation in 1209 , when as a condition of his coronation as emperor he promised to restore Church properties retained by his predecessors . |
| 28 | Dealers return to buy for stock as confidence creeps back again |
| 29 | Oh yes Dan used to stand outside calling er get your nice steak or get your nice egg bun and all this , they mostly had barkers , and it was competition you see between the , there was er Smiths the pork butchers , erm Cliffs the pork butchers , that was nearly by McMillans that were I forget and there used to be Olivers shoe shop round there and a Mr used to erm I do n't know whether you 've heard of Percy , no , and erm his father used to manage it and erm behind the Angel Alley you know the Angel Alley , well that was down shop there , and then there were several maid shops and there was the erm grocers , that 's er before you turn o that 's on the same side as Street , it , is it , is it Moors in Street , there 's a hardware shop on the corner now straight in the market place ? |
| 30 | WHAT A JOKE Leeds midfielder Gary McAllister described Joe Kinnear 's attack on his side as rubbish and wo n't lose any sleep over his comments . |