Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] as a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even proteins formed as a random sequence of amino acids have some slight catalytic activity . |
| 2 | Helplessly she gazed at him , seeing how his pupils dilated as awareness flared , her own eyes darkening as a shivering sigh escaped her . |
| 3 | He commences upon the dismantling of assumptions of where the texts are funny or obscene based on modern suppositions of what constitutes obscenity et al. , and puts forward a theory that picks up a suggestion of Nykrog 's concerning the relationship of fabliau and romance : that the fabliaux flourished as a conservative reaction to new notions of gentility and decency in behaviour and especially in language ; new notions that are found most clearly in the literary cult of fin amour . |
| 4 | Her eyes narrowed as a sudden dart of suspicion struck home . |
| 5 | In the other camp were the advocates , who characterised arts funding as a fundamental department of any civilised nation , and pointed out with some embarrassment that most Western countries devote ten times the per capita budget supported represented by the NEA 's $175 million ( £100 million ) budget . |
| 6 | These regional ministries operate as a normal part of the Whitehall machine except that they are located in Scotland and Wales , and they have the normal right to membership of any Cabinet committees dealing with matters for which they take responsibility in their areas . |
| 7 | Hybridization of these same probes to lung sections from untransfected animals served as a negative control against nonspecific hybridization ; neither the human CFTR probe ( g-i ) nor the hisD probe ( j-l ) hybridized to any mRNAs in the lungs of untransfected mice . |
| 8 | Very generous pupil — teacher ratios is a feature that prep schools use as a strong selling point to parents . |
| 9 | Its rigorous application of the acquis communautaire and the finalité politique to new members will in all probability lead to a Europe too full of contradictions to survive as a unitary bloc . |
| 10 | The Billy Graham organisation used to estimate that only ten per cent of their crowds came as a direct result of advertising and , generally speaking , I find that by itself it is the least cost-effective way of marketing events ; the most effective being personal invitation . |
| 11 | In contrast H. isolonche in game birds occurs as a clinical entity . |
| 12 | This led into a couple of summers acting as a professional lifesaver during summer vacations from Sheffield University . |
| 13 | In the early 1980s detectors were becoming even more sophisticated and versatile , particularly in their ability to cut out ferrous metal and locate small coins ; the increase in the finding of Celtic silver minims and medieval hammered farthings stands as a good testimony to that . |
| 14 | Moore 's verbal recollections of the mines are much more evocative than the drawings themselves , in which the miners appear as a frozen statuary . |
| 15 | The Echo 's CD-Rom covers most item which appear in The Northern Echo , national and international articles aswell as a comprehensive coverage of the region . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , ’ said Charles , in what stage directions describe as a self-deprecating manner . |
| 17 | In the former , each character was cast on demand and the composed page was built up either from lines of individual characters ( Monotype 's method ) or from complete lines cast as a single element ( Linotype 's approach ) . |
| 18 | It is quite clear that in the 17th and 18th centuries and , indeed , up to the enactment of the Judicature Act 1873 the courts , and in particular the Court of King 's Bench , consistently declined to exercise any jurisdiction over any matters in which a right of appeal lay from the benchers of an Inn to the judges sitting as a domestic tribunal . |
| 19 | The enrichment of forms and surfaces acts as a social catalyst . |
| 20 | Whatever some observers regarded as a blundering approach was a skilful way of navigating the dilemmas confronting him . |
| 21 | The links between politics and patronage can not have been beneficial to the efficiency of the customs service as a revenue-collecting agency , for all too often strong political interests could secure an important post for a man with little or no experience who was placed over the head of men far better qualified than himself , and presumably resentful of their own failure to secure advancement . |
| 22 | the accounts give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Corporation at March 30 , 1991 and , in respect of the Corporation and their subsidiary undertakings regarded as a single entity , of the state of affairs at March 30 , 1991 , and the results and statement of cash flows for the year then ended , and have been properly prepared in accordance with the direction of the Secretary of State for Energy … , and |
| 23 | The filters act as a small sewage treatment plant for breaking down the toxic fish urine , which is in the form of ammonia . |
| 24 | RUFs can take two forms : either a single bank acts as a placing agent and arranges for a group of banks to underwrite an issue on a revolving basis ; or a group of banks act as a tender panel for the placement of the notes . |
| 25 | There 's growing support for a campaign to get cartoons accepted as a serious form of art . |
| 26 | There he met Mohandas K. Gandhi , and spent much of the next 20 years acting as a conciliatory intermediary between Gandhi 's Congress Party and the British Government , latterly as a member of Gandhi 's entourage . |
| 27 | The instruction to evacuate the buildings came as a complete surprise . |
| 28 | The first and fourth tries came as a direct result of poor USA passes . |
| 29 | Dusts acts as a thermal insulator which prevents efficient cooling of the components and results ultimately in failure due to overheating . |
| 30 | Though for years denounced as a cheap copy of Springsteen , Mellencamp sounds remarkably human on both his new CD , Whenever We Wanted , and in an astonishingly open interview with the American edition of Esquire magazine . |