Example sentences of "as [art] minor [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All students take French as the major language and choose either Spanish or German as the minor language . |
| 2 | This could be taken as a minor concession to advertising , except that the explicit statement at the beginning of the book seems related to an exclusion from the first volume of almost all the poems embodying Leapor 's sharpest social criticism . |
| 3 | The case was heard as a minor offence before a low-level court , the tribunal correctionel in Tours , at which three judges ruled that , although the article exculpated the mayor , the advertisement did smear him , and the newspaper was ordered to pay him Fr10,000 ( £1,000 approx ) . |
| 4 | It started as a minor incident involving a petrol tanker , but then other vehicles travelling too fast for the foggy conditions found they counld n't stop in time and crashed as well . |
| 5 | In general we are our own worst enemies when it comes to enlarging and reinforcing our fears , so that what may have begun as a minor apprehension can escalate into a problem of mammoth proportions . |
| 6 | Why are we so ready to treat as a minor operation an alteration which involves a major transformation in the cat 's lifestyle and personality ? |
| 7 | Twenty six ( 46% ) of the 56 respondents described their pain as a minor nuisance , 23 ( 41% ) as moderately severe , and six ( 11% ) as interfering with their activities . |
| 8 | With firm reassurance and explanation the pain either disappears ( usually within three months ) or the patient learns to live with it as a minor nuisance . |
| 9 | We regarded this as a minor success , for it is a step in the right direction , an interim success . |
| 10 | By politicizing his text in this way Sukenick runs the risk of linking authorial production with political manipulation , but he regularly plays down the privilege of composition by including himself as a minor character within his narratives . |
| 11 | She has been discovered by the feminists , who have rescued her from being seen as a minor pastoralist ; but in certain cases , they have also subject her to psycho-symbolic sexual analysis which she would have loathed , or blamed her for not having cared more for sexual politics or stood out for lesbian sexuality . |
| 12 | Students taking French or German as a minor subject with European Studies are expected to spend from four to six weeks abroad , normally at the end of the second year . |
| 13 | Students taking French as a minor subject are expected to spend four to six weeks in a French-speaking country , normally in their second year . |
| 14 | The course is of three years ' duration if French is taken as a minor subject and of four years ' duration if taken as a major or joint subject . |
| 15 | German may be combined as a minor subject with : Asian Studies , English , European Studies , French , Geography , History , Irish , Media Studies , Philosophy or Theatre Studies . |
| 16 | ( The Companies House penalties were regarded as a minor inconvenience by the directors . ) |
| 17 | For students taking English as a minor option , there are no compulsory units . |
| 18 | This Progressive influence lingered on as a minor theme in the cinema of the 1920s and was an obvious outlet for the continental directors who were drawn in by the glamour and potential of Hollywood . |
| 19 | Over the next few centuries it shifted from one to the other of the latter two until , with the establishment in the tenth and eleventh centuries of an ‘ English ’ monarchy , it served only as a minor shire , more quoted in tax returns than in high politics before the advent of the Normans . |
| 20 | This is often regarded as a minor energy consumer , but it may in fact represent a significant proportion of the total electrical load in a laboratory . |
| 21 | That could be seen as a minor complaint when the Forestry Commission 's marketing efforts in the past 20 years have attracted investment of more than £1 billion in wood processing . |
| 22 | The labour camps , temperatures of 50 degrees below zero , a lifetime condemned to stare out over thousands of miles of the bleak , barren permafrost , where blindness eventually came as a minor blessing . |
| 23 | Michael Heseltine said on Tuesday that Nigel Lawson was wrong to dismiss the deficit as a minor matter — something which he said smacked of ‘ socialist naivety ’ . |
| 24 | The simple demand for the vote , the be-all and end-all of most suffragettes , was truly seen by McAllister as a minor step compared with relieving poor women 's social and economic disabilities , a measure which had little to do with suffrage . |