Example sentences of "[noun] as [adj] [coord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can not bear emotion in public , and we look at grief as pathological or a sign of emotional instability . |
| 2 | The old British patent laws prohibited applications for perpetual motion machines as unworkable and a waste of Patent Office time . |
| 3 | He described the drastic measures to move to a market economy as Utopian and a kind of " neo-Bolshevism . " |
| 4 | The new hero may start out in life as untenured or a drifter — seldom as a wage-earner — but he settles down . |
| 5 | Data were compared by statistical procedures as appropriate and a p value of <0.05 was considered significant . |
| 6 | There is a decrease with age in the percentage describing their health as good and a rise in the percentage reporting poor health ( Figure 6.1 ) . |
| 7 | In the early 1970s this led Weiskrantz and Warrington ( see Parkin 1987 ) to argue that the human deficit was not a failure of memory as such but a deficit in retrieval brought about by undue interference from incorrect items at the time of recall . |
| 8 | However , in M v. Home Office the Court of Appeal held that although neither the Crown as such nor a government department could be held liable for contempt as a result of disobeying a court order ( including an order of prohibition or mandamus ) because they are not ‘ legal persons ’ , Ministers and civil servants could be personally guilty of contempt for failing to comply with an order directed to a Minister in his or her official capacity . |
| 9 | Daniel Halpin : ‘ My last hat was a flowery one , the same shape as this but a bit more girlie . ’ |
| 10 | The Oxfordshire Club has been described by some experts as unique and a course for the twenty first century … what makes it so special is a mixture of three styles … of classic English with trees … of links with sand dunes … and of American type holes landscaped by lakes … it 's been designed by Rees Jones |
| 11 | Welcomed by women of almost all ages as comfortable and a declaration of female sexuality , the short skirt suit with power dressing shoulder-padded jacket was simply the best for oozing confidence at the office . |
| 12 | Welcomed by women of almost all ages as comfortable and a declaration of female sexuality , the short skirt suit with power dressing shoulder-padded jacket was simply the best for oozing confidence at the office . |
| 13 | For Oakeshott the ‘ rationalist ’ error is the equation of reason which technique , and thus the problem is not the use of reason in politics as such but a misidentification of what constitutes reason . |