Example sentences of "as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has been a fall out with the grass court tournaments as the better juniors are now seeking matches on cement to prepare them for the nationals at Nottingham . |
| 2 | Techniques for decreasing the opportunities for crime include such things as the better protection of property , which have been the usual focus of police crime-prevention programmes . |
| 3 | As the better council housing is sold off , those that are dependent on the public sector for their housing will be increasingly relegated to the worst estates . |
| 4 | If , however , people receive income and do not declare it in tax returns , it will not appear on the income side , though expenditure will increase as the unrecorded income is spent on goods and services . |
| 5 | We can never get it as good as the black people do , 'cause it 's their music . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Next day I tried to warn my brother , and it was as the black artist had said . |
| 7 | His shooting uniform of olive greens and tweeds as tribal as the black Sunday outfits of the Lewis churchgoers . |
| 8 | Perhaps a plague as virulent as the black death . |
| 9 | Distant walls disappear in a fog of dust as dense to the eye as the black fogs of old London . |
| 10 | For the period before 1984 our analyses rely on much the same evidence as the Black report , though more complete registration data are now available . |
| 11 | The Court declared such practice unconstitutional as the black schools were invariable inferior . |
| 12 | Ruth heard the trees moan as the black flood swelled , sweeping her away till . |
| 13 | Just as the Black Power and civil rights movements in the USA during the 1960s focused on where African Americans were allowed to be , either by legislation or through convention , so too a crucial aspect of feminist thought is concerned with whether women are allowed to have a proportionate and equitable bodily presence in ‘ our ’ parliament , council buildings , unions , in the media as journalists , and throughout the hierarchies of all workplaces and organisations — including , of course , in the galleries and the pages of art magazines . |
| 14 | Life , as far as the black novelist is concerned , if found paradoxically and exclusively in a police body bag . |
| 15 | As the black chauffeur-driven Jaguar pulled up outside , Coy came into the reception area to wait for his guest . |
| 16 | ‘ What the hell are you doing ? ’ she screamed to the unseen driver as the black vehicle came hurtling towards her once more , this time clipping her offside light . |
| 17 | His face burnt like a brand As the black cascade of perfume came tumbling over his breast ; And he kissed its waves in the moonlight , |
| 18 | Apart from the obvious problems that they cause , certain species , like flowering cherries and plums , are the overwintering hosts of the troublesome waterlily aphid , a menace that is as devastating to succulent aquatic plants as the black bean aphid is to broad beans . |
| 19 | As the black hole loses mass , the area of its event horizon gets smaller , but this decrease in the entropy of the black hole is more than compensated for by the entropy of the emitted radiation , so the second law is never violated . |
| 20 | So as the black hole loses mass , its temperature and rate of emission increase , so it loses mass more quickly . |
| 21 | Any material in this intermediate region , which is known as the ergosphere , will rotate in the same sense as the black hole . |
| 22 | As the black lines creep back through the newly faced walls |
| 23 | Is the hon. Member for Brecon and Radnor ( Mr. Livsey ) aware of the statistics from the United States , where a national minimum wage was introduced in about 1947 when unemployment among the unskilled black people was lower that among white people , as the black people worked for less ? |
| 24 | Rex watched in horror as the black claw tore Bill 's left arm from its socket and flung it far up the street . |
| 25 | Starting off from the old town hall in the middle of the High Street he made his way slowly down the road as far as the Black Bull pub , accompanied by Mr Tim Devlin , who holds the Stockton South with a slender 774 majority , and his wife Carol . |
| 26 | By contrast , Hveragerđ3i — ‘ Hurdy Gurdy Land' to Tony and I , as the real pronunciation is a jawbreaker — is an upper-class thermal area . |
| 27 | But with his placement of Modernism in the lineage of Nietzsche , and as such at odds with Marx and Freud as the real motors of that ‘ true radicalisation of the Enlightenment ’ ( p. 120 ) which is the only way ahead , something more serious is at stake . |
| 28 | In the middle of the long teak dining table lay Lilian Hatton 's wedding hat , an elaborate confection of satin leaves and tulle as green and fresh as the real leaves he could see through the picture window in the Kingsbrook meadows . |
| 29 | Computer models show that the best way of coming up with an inflationary universe that shows the same degree of clumpiness as the real one is to use dark matter that is ‘ cold ’ . |
| 30 | Mr Abdul Halim Arshat , the secretary-general of Malaysia 's leading Islamic political party , has claimed that ‘ support for Iraq is necessary as the real motive of the US is to kill off the Muslims in Baghdad and to destroy the city . ’ |