Example sentences of "[noun sg] as a [adj] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AT a time when many people contemplate slowing down , 49-year-old Eric Saunders has stepped on the gas , enjoying life in the fast lane as a hot rod racer . |
| 2 | If it was n't , and he came back and caught me , then I 'd have to fall back on my story as an over-enthusiastic games player . |
| 3 | ( b ) Surveyors and management can have easy and direct access to analysed monthly costs recorded in a cost ledger as a single line entry for each contract every month . |
| 4 | The bad debt problem had its roots in a complicity of fatalistic acceptance and in viewing the debtors ' ledger as a single balance sheet entity which needed to be financed , rather than a composite of unsecured risks of many colours . |
| 5 | However , much publicised defections from the 88000 camp have thrown the future of the part as a mainstream CPU product into doubt , and observers are wondering whether NeXT might not just hotfoot it straight to the IBM-Apple-Motorola PowerPC . |
| 6 | For years , the lonely box had played its part as an essential signal post on the busy main line without anything untoward disturbing its peaceful operation . |
| 7 | An Indonesian-registered freighter , the Perintis , carrying 32 containers of toxic pesticide , sank on March 15 , 1989 , in an area of the English Channel described by the UK Ministry of Defence as a conventional explosives dumping ground . |
| 8 | Thus it is possible that a clause that did not make sufficient disclosure to preclude an action for breach of duty on the grounds of informed consent , might provide a defence as an effective exclusion clause . |
| 9 | Many workers in the private sector receive some payment as a fixed fee independent of the value of their marginal product . |
| 10 | Ferguson brushed aside what he called ‘ innuendo and criticism ’ and made it clear he regarded the acquisition of the French striker as a huge stepping stone towards winning the title . |
| 11 | In both the Whitehall and Hawaiian Studies ( Fuller et al , 1980 ; Yano et al , 1982 ) , increasing serum cholesterol levels carried a higher coronary disease mortality but multivariate analysis did not demonstrate serum cholesterol as an independent risk factor in either report . |
| 12 | The move follows the party 's constant refusal to let him stand for re-election as a Labour county councillor for Harwich , a decision which led to Mr Knight 's resignation from public life . |
| 13 | The HCIMA 's Education and Development Committee established new procedures for the accreditation of degrees , following the demise of the Council for National Academic Award as a major quality control mechanism for hospitality degrees . |
| 14 | On 26 July , Johnson Matthey Weighing Technology Department at Brimsdown was presented with the prestigious accreditation certificate award as a National Measurement Accreditation Service ( NAMAS ) approved Test House for the calibration of weighing equipment . |
| 15 | The solution adopted in converting several two-aisled church interiors into dwellings has been to regard this low-level central strip as a spinal access corridor serving all , or most of the flats — a sort of internal ‘ street ’ . |
| 16 | Using acid phosphatase as a lysosomal marker enzyme , values for latency and supernatant enzyme ( calculated as a per cent of control values and expressed as means ( SEM ) ) were as follows : latency — 143.6 ( 38.7 ) % ; supernatant enzyme — 96.4 ( 2.8 ) % ( four experiments ) . |
| 17 | Part of the problem lies with po-faced attitudes to the PC as a serious business tool . |
| 18 | The strategy which envisages the computer as a sophisticated delivery system for information similar in fundamental respects to the library , is ideal for undergraduates . |
| 19 | The original dairy , with copper and other traditional fittings , is now their kitchen , releasing the farm kitchen as a delightful breakfast room complete with roaring fire and well-worn pamments on the floor . |
| 20 | For these reasons , ‘ the task of the left , in relation to the ‘ regional question ’ , should be to demonstrate the class nature of regional problems and state policy and institutions , and expose the use of spatial ideology as a dominant class strategy to split the labour movement . ’ |
| 21 | When a country surrenders its right to issue its own coinage , and does so irrevocably , it loses its sovereignty and thus the basis of its existence as a separate nation state . |
| 22 | Despite denials that efforts to block challenges to Bush were being co-ordinated from either the White House or the Republican Party 's national leadership , Duke threatened to contest the presidential election as a third party candidate if he was prevented from campaigning for the Republican nomination . |
| 23 | The commission dismissed charges of forgery of private and public documents , and in addition applied a December 1989 amnesty for offences committed before June 1989 against rules governing party political financing , in connection with allegations that Nucci had used funds to further his own election as a National Assembly deputy . |
| 24 | Allan 's experience as a primary school teacher is another rich source of ideas . |
| 25 | Some couples see their wedding photography as an eleventh hour item , or an area in which economies can be made , but poor blurred photographs or the wrong shots can prove a constant disappointment so it is wise to invest time and effort to ensure your photos remain a source of pleasure and joy . |
| 26 | He spent a year as senior anaesthetic house officer at the Westminster Hospital and did his National Service in the RAF medical branch as a junior anaesthetic specialist . |
| 27 | In accordance with the terms of the contract , you can choose to retire at any time after the age of 60 , when the policy will buy you a regular pension plus the option of taking part of the money as a tax-tree lump sum . |
| 28 | But I have this nagging suspicion that my luck as a first-timer tour group leader can not hold . |
| 29 | Salt — again buy a large bag and use as a pond additive at 1½oz per-gallon as a stress removing antiseptic , or 5oz per gallon as a short term bath . |
| 30 | A new American–based organisation the American Friends of the Warburg Institute has been set up to raise funds that will allow research to continue through the enhancement of the collections ( for instance by the purchase of scholarly databases ) and the promotion of its function as a international research centre . |