Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] as the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women had either been ignored or treated as the deviant half of humanity . |
| 2 | Hopes for a ‘ green lung ’ in the heart of the city are fading , particularly since the announcement that Mercedes Benz is to build a huge service centre on Potsdamer Platz , dashing hopes that it might be left as a park or rebuilt as the commercial hub of the city it was before the war . |
| 3 | When comparing fractions some pupils may compare numerators only or select as the largest fraction the one which has the largest numerator and largest denominator . |
| 4 | For one thing , Kant himself had developed the thought that the kingdom of God is to be identified or interpreted as the ethical organisation of human society . |
| 5 | There were to be no less than 2,000 uniformed Blackshirts , marching and parading as the advance guard of revolution . |
| 6 | The relationship of marriage was becoming impregnated by the ideals of mutual affection and respect , and considered as the exclusive area for the partners ' sexual activities . |
| 7 | The crowd , jubilant at President Fidel Ramos ' decision to allow the body 's return , pushed and shouted as the 727 jet , which bore an image of Marcos and the words ‘ I am a Filipino , ’ taxied to the terminal . |
| 8 | Fuel wood is extremely expensive , and the destruction of habitat has replaced hunting and poaching as the major threat to the animal . |
| 9 | Switzerland will remain outside the EC and will be the financial centre and act as the neutral protector of money ; |
| 10 | In fact , however , its function ‘ was not to represent the workers ’ interests , but to prepare for the seizure of power and to serve as the organizational prototype of a new form of state power . ’ |
| 11 | The committee shared these sentiments and adopted as the major focus for its library proposal the theme " The Challenge of Change " . |
| 12 | Norman v. Bennett was in fact concerned with an inaccurate odometer reading where there was a written disclaimer which was , however , not as bold , precise and compelling as the odometer reading . |
| 13 | It was imperative , in her view , that education meet the physical , intellectual , and moral needs of the child , that the child be respected and seen as the active agent in his own education . |
| 14 | The sample is a low pressure gas excited thermally , electrically or by a microwave or radio-frequency discharge , and acts as the light source . |
| 15 | Donaldson 's for instance became a German prisoner-of-war camp ; the Royal School for Deaf Children at Margate was taken over by the Corporation of Margate and used as the Civil Defence Headquarters , Food & Fuel Office , W.V.S. Headquarters , Emergency Police station , among a number of other wartime departments . |
| 16 | A Georgian mansion , as near to Tara Hill as possible , could be restored and used as the Royal palace . |
| 17 | On Feb. 3 the 70-year old Italian Communist Party ( PCI ) was formally dissolved by the 1,500 delegates to its congress in Rimini , and reconstituted as the Democratic Party of the Left ( Partito Democratico della Sinistra — PDS ) . |
| 18 | There were plenty of thrills and spills as the first round of the East Senior knockout cup got underway . |
| 19 | This was rebuilt and served as the German Embassy during the Nazi occupation of Prague . |
| 20 | Some of them held the Koran over the Shah head , to give him its customary protection on his journey , and wailed as the royal party left by helicopter for the airport . |
| 21 | Forman , now a priest and known as the punching preacher says he 's better now than he ever was , and he 's confident of beating opponent Terry Anderson . |
| 22 | In a typical wing-bearing segment of most insects there is a single apodeme on either side formed by infolding along the pleural sulcus and known as the pleural ridge . |
| 23 | One of my favourite presidents , Theodore Roosevelt , president from the early part of the twentieth century and known as the damned cowboy erm you might be interested to know how people become president erm Theodore Roosevelt was an arch imperialist and got very excited about the er war with Spain er America had a s little brief war with Spain at the end of the nineteenth century erm over the possession of Cuba , and erm in eighteen ninety eight , and this aroused great patriotic feelings in all red blooded Americans and especially in Theodore Roosevelt and er er Roosevelt formed his own company of cavalry called the Rough Riders and erm Roosevelt wore glasses and was asthmatic but he had this group called the Rough Riders , sort of early kind of Clint Eastwood stuff , and erm anyway he g he was engaged in the war with Spain er and there was one wonderful moment in the war Spain in which the Spaniards were at the top of a hill called the San Juan hill er and er Teddy , as he was known , of course he gave his name to the teddy bear , did you know that did you ? |
| 24 | In climatology the system has been adopted as providing a suitable framework and appears as the introductory foundation for Causes of Climate ( Lockwood , 1979a ) , where it is argued that the application of systems theory and mathematics has completely changed the subject of climatology . |
| 25 | Objective investigation of phenomena formed only one aspect of a far wider approach , the greatest emphasis being centred consciousness and mind as the underlying reality . |
| 26 | ‘ Beautiful Pigeon ’ is backed with two exclusive new tracks , ‘ Beeside ’ and ‘ Home Survival Kit ’ , and serves as the first taster from their forthcoming ‘ Eva Luna ’ LP due on October 24 . |
| 27 | In this founding era , de Gaulle gradually gathered soldiers and civilians to his standard , transformed his improvised organization into an alternative state , with its own bureaucracy and armed forces , headed off efforts to replace him as Free France 's leader , and emerged as the symbolic head of all French resisters , inside as well as outside France . |
| 28 | The Hindu-revivalist Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) gained well over one-fifth of the Lok Sabha seats and emerged as the main opposition party . |
| 29 | Model bile solutions of identical lipid concentration were prepared using phosphatidylcholine , phosphatidylserine , and phosphatidylethanolamine as the only phospholipid . |
| 30 | There should be a branch recruitment strategy ( broadly the same for each branch ) which is agreed upon and taken as the personal responsibility of a nominated Branch Recruitment Secretary . |