Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] as a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over more than ten years there have been negotiations between Kent County Council ( which originally intended to retain West Malling as a general aviation aerodrome ) and the local planning authority that intended to build all over it . |
| 2 | Ironically enough , his main field experience occurred as a fortuitous consequence of the First World War . |
| 3 | The noise starts as a light tapping and builds up to a louder noise then stops suddenly . |
| 4 | An HLA-A2.1 alloreactive CTL clone included as a positive control strongly lysed all transfectants , including the parental T2 cells . |
| 5 | The Green Haven school was a modern building designed as a two-teacher school but presently containing only one teacher with about a dozen pupils . |
| 6 | The American and Australian national clearinghouses are dependent on librarians to feed them with information on a regular basis , and as each clearinghouse develops as a focal point for information exchange this is quite successful . |
| 7 | Vigorous exercise for 20 minutes three times a week will approximately halve your chances of coronary thrombosis , as will getting rid of your spare tyre , cooperating with treatment for your raised blood pressure , and giving up smoking — even if the experience counts as a major life stress ! |
| 8 | The University has as a major objective for the future the acquisition of the whole of the Radcliffe Infirmary site , if the Headington Strategy goes ahead , for use for university purposes . |
| 9 | One building stands as a lone design example in the middle of a prepared expensive living area . |
| 10 | First , implicature stands as a paradigmatic example of the nature and power of pragmatic explanations of linguistic phenomena . |
| 11 | But she was always adored by the British public , especially the people of Swindon , where a statue stands as a permanent memorial . |
| 12 | Where stock is taken in lieu of cash dividends it is in practice treated as a simple bonus issue and no Case V liability is considered to arise . |
| 13 | The alternative view that the intestinal lymphoma developed as a primary event two years before presentation seems possible in view of the indolent nature of the disease and subsequent findings . |
| 14 | Is the access for your car and your visitors ' cars adequate , or is the road and entrance treated as a public car park ? |
| 15 | This wag regarded as a great joke . |
| 16 | The voltage at the output of this switch alternates as a rectangular wave between the source level and zero , and this in turn is fed into an LC filter network consisting of inductor L1 and capacitor C2 , plus a ‘ flyback ’ diode D1 . |
| 17 | In effect , the concept implied a commitment on the part of the employee to work as a moral good in its own right , irrespective of wages , conditions , or personal ( selfish ) satisfaction . |
| 18 | Particularly beautiful is the lunette of Christ as the Good Shepherd depicted as a young man seated with His sheep around Him . |
| 19 | But the synopsis that he offers of his tale : is unmistakably that of a fabliau , and with the target figure appearing as a regular element within the fabliau it is understandable that the Reeve , a carpenter , should anticipate an attack upon himself : Fabliaux are thoroughly suitable textual weapons for the two churls , the Miller and the Reeve , to beat each other over the head with . |
| 20 | The semi-fixed search starts as a fixed search but then progresses to a more open mode . |
| 21 | In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries , the Shields-based Loyal Standard Association operated as a Friendly Society for sick , injured and elderly seamen under the patronage of a senior Royal Navy Officer of flag rank . |
| 22 | Such is the standard of junior sides in this competition that the game appeared to be no more than a formality for us , so our 4–1 defeat came as a complete surprise . |
| 23 | The use of investment limits as a central control mechanism of multi-divisional firms is widespread . |
| 24 | The hacienda came as a total surprise . |
| 25 | This result came as a complete surprise to me and everyone else , and it was greeted with general disbelief . |
| 26 | Such a shocking change in weather condition came as a rude awakening to people who thought the North-East had escaped the clutches of winter for another year . |
| 27 | The earlier tradition is that of Samuel Johnson , compiler of the 1755 Dictionary of the English Language , in which the lexicographer acts as a linguistic legislator or arbiter . |
| 28 | Religion acts as a restraining force on human nature , and er , raises people , as it were , to a higher , to a higher level , by for example giving them more proscriptions , like the ten commandments . |
| 29 | Religion acted as a powerful selection pressure on feline coloration . |
| 30 | The club acts as a convenient watering hole at lunch times and becomes the arena for some titanic battles with skittles or darts during the evenings . |