Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] as the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 These procedures are the responsibility of a user designated as the Offline Operator , who does not , however , require any knowledge of LIFESPAN in order to fulfil the requirements of the Offline System .
2 It should be read by the LIFESPAN Manager and a user designated as the Hard Copy Manager .
3 The bridge was complete , the air blowers on each rig whined as the remaining air bags were inflated for additional buoyancy , and footwalk posts and ropes were installed .
4 Such a deceptively simple greeting acts as the perfect foil for the vast , sumptuous feast laid out between the covers : an array of images that encompasses all aspects of the extraordinary and multifaceted career of a man who achieved mastery of not one but three genres — portraiture , fashion and still life .
5 Such a deceptively simple greeting acts as the perfect foil for the vast , sumptuous feast laid out between the covers : an array of images that encompasses all aspects of the extraordinary and multifaceted career of a man who achieved mastery of not one but three genres — portraiture , fashion and still life .
6 Beyond this point you 'll notice that the ‘ mackie lines ’ and frantic neg./pos. effect increases as the post-flash exposure increases .
7 ( In the UK electricity generation used to be a nationalized industry known as the Central Electricity Generating Board ( CEGB ) .
8 It is one of the several enzymes involved in the central process of a cell 's metabolism known as the citric acid or Krebs cycle .
9 The core of the system is the boiler and the hot water storage cylinder , linked by flow and return pipework known as the primary circuit .
10 A United States bill prolonging the provisions of the US aid and development programme known as the Caribbean Basin Initiative ( CBI ) which had been given legislative expression in the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act of 1983 [ see pp. 31565-71 ; 32622 ; 33849-50 ] was passed by President Bush on Aug. 20 , 1990 .
11 Her crew were all rescued , but it was discovered that the Delima was not , in fact , a water-carrier , as had originally been claimed , but a support ship for a massive fleet of between 60 and 130 Taiwanese drift-net vessels , fishing for albacore tuna along an area of oceanic upwelling known as the Subtropical Convergence Zone , stretching across the South Pacific in a narrow 300-km ( 200-mile ) band from south of the Cook Islands to south of French Polynesia .
12 A quantitative measure of the damping is provided by the logarithmic decrement defined as the logarithmic decrease in amplitude per cycle .
13 According to a book by Sunday Times journalists , an SAS soldier posed as the ex-UDR man after security forces learned he was on the IRA 's hit list .
14 Although Mr Headroom was actually flesh and blood posing as the unreal thing , there are plenty of computer animation specialists who think he had the right idea .
15 In terms of the dominant concepts of the age , feudalism appeared as the natural order of things .
16 The hotel itself is divided into a main building and a cottage wing , with a typically African style thatched building serving as the excellent restaurant .
17 Its hull wailed and its engine whined as the upper atmosphere of Karkason roughly and frustratedly caressed this plasteel intruder which was penetrating it .
18 When the rear subdivision is absent , it is usually assumed , on very little evidence , that an upper storey acted as the domestic residence or , alternatively , as storage space .
19 On the subject of telephone links as the supporting network for the dissemination of these messages , records managers must also be aware that we are entering ( some are already in ) an even more demanding environment where the raw data of a communication , without the man-readable ‘ envelope ’ will be routinely sent down telephone lines to form the record of an activity .
20 The committee acts as the driving body of the user group , keeping records and membership , steering user group meetings and providing minutes of all meetings and all correspondence .
21 ( A ) Any large central motif used as the focal point of a design .
22 Under a provision of US fishing law known as the Pelly Amendment , the President can now impose trade sanctions against Norway for its defiance of the IWC moratorium on whaling .
23 This document revealed that ever since her father 's death , Miss Honey had in fact been the rightful owner of a property on the edge of the village known as The Red House , which until recently had been occupied by a Miss Agatha Trunchbull .
24 In general terms , any group of people wishing to carry on business under English law has to make a choice between three distinct legal forms of organisation , the company , the partnership and a hybrid known as the limited partnership .
25 Immediately , for the adrenalin freaks , are the Twisted Tongue , a technically difficult Grade IV+ ( vertical drop 5 ft – 7 ft depending on water levels ) and its Grade III+ chicken run known as the Jacuzzi Slot with entrances only 4 ft apart .
26 Etroplus suratensis known as the Green Chromide is a species of cichlid not so commonly kept in the hobby .
27 It was the House of Commons , and the Cabinet and the Prime Minister that came from the Commons , that Bagehot saw as the efficient working parts of the Constitution as these got on with the job of actually running the show .
28 This type of valve is fitted where the water is at mains pressure , so is the type fitted as the main stopcock in the rising main .
29 Another was that , while Recommendations 7 and 8 had proposed higher payments to tutors , the Report had seen 75% of teaching costs as the maximum grant available , leaving the prospect of a widening gap to be filled from voluntary sources — 25% of a salary of ( say ) £700 being greater than 25% of one of £600 .
30 What a visiting Londoner sees as the soaring grandeur of New York , a fed-up New Yorker sees as sunlight deprivation .
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