Example sentences of "['s] [noun] [vb -s] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blyth 's decision comes as a surprise because of their opposition to the pyramid during the Eighties , while Northallerton 's letter is indicative of their ambition to progress beyond the Northern League . |
| 2 | The general 's cuirass appears as a support beside his left leg . |
| 3 | The detention of COWAN 's president serves as a lesson especially because we had similar experiences with Brooklyn Village in Acornhoek , between 1989 and 1990 . |
| 4 | If Foucault 's Pendulum fails as a novel , does it work as an intellectual game ? |
| 5 | The falsification of Einstein 's theory remains as a challenge for modern physicists . |
| 6 | The Miller 's tale concludes as a fabliau , not only with appropriate , marked fabliau language : but also with a general and amiable benediction : The more recent moral — allegorical readings of the Miller 's Tale have seen John , Nicholas and Absolon as type figures , representing the sins of Avarice , Lechery and Pride respectively , all of whom come to judgement and punishment in their discomfiture . |
| 7 | Lederer ( 1978 ) describes a similar study for spoken language interpreters , where a 3 — 6 seconds ' lag occurs as a base level but with a great deal of interpreting occurring much further behind the speaker 's words . |