Example sentences of "be [art] [adj] [noun] as a " in BNC.

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1 It appears to me as though Captain Diobble has been laid out for the race and although there are no such things as a certainty in a National , I feel he may be the right one .
2 He said that a solid body moving through a fluid medium such as air was in fact propelled by the air , which was cleft by the moving body and then rejoined behind it to provide the forward drive , for there could be no such thing as a vacuum , that is , mere nothingness .
3 The extension of the YTS into a two year scheme and making it compulsory for those not in education through removing entitlements to other benefits , means that in future there may be no such thing as a ‘ young worker ’ or a ‘ young unemployed ’ under the age of eighteen .
4 ALDERSON B. : If this agreement were good , there could be no such thing as a nudum pactum .
5 Normally punch lace is shown knitted with a cotton thread that is the same colour as a main yarn .
6 Well it 's the same thing as a travel agent
7 We may , following Hirsch , accept that there is no such thing as a poetic or aesthetic essence ; but we can say that such texts are rewarding when approached in aesthetic terms , or , in Lewis 's words , are read in literary ways .
8 For the five contracts dealt with in this article , there is no such thing as a ‘ standard ’ agreement .
9 As with recording advances , there is no such thing as a typical figure , but for a non-performing writer , enough money to live on should be sought .
10 Above all , remember that there is no such thing as a safe bet .
11 If any among the new reality seekers had a slightly tougher memory , they would recall that there is no such thing as a happy family .
12 The problem for the US troops , as in the bombing attacks aimed at Colonel Gadafy 's Libyan regime , is that there is no such thing as a surgical military strike against targets surrounded by civilians , many of them in this case US citizens .
13 Of course there is no such thing as a forgery-proof identity card .
14 In examining some of the questions posed , we have to accept that within the UK , and for that matter in most of the rest of the world , there is no such thing as a natural environment .
15 To me there is no such thing as a holy relic or place .
16 ‘ There is no such thing as a bloodless insurrection . ’
17 Lashley finally concluded that there is no such thing as a localised engram .
18 ‘ Nowadays , there is no such thing as a bad job .
19 There is no such thing as a bargain either .
20 And manager Graham confessed : ‘ In football , there is no such thing as a job for life .
21 That may be a ‘ price worth paying ’ to relieve recession , but if economics tells us anything it is that there is no such thing as a free lunch .
22 There is no such thing as a worthless book , though there are some far worse than worthless ; no book which is not worth preserving , if its existence may be tolerated ; as there are some men whom it may be proper to hang , but none who should be suffered to starve .
23 In a way , mentally , there is no such thing as a ‘ natural ’ driver .
24 Less comforting , though , is the realization that this concept implies that there is no such thing as a fixed reality — which is exactly what we observe on the subatomic scale .
25 But in spite of what is often claimed , there is no such thing as a dead marriage .
26 Another designer , this time a man , told me there is no such thing as a really new design , only a bit taken from here and something else added from there .
27 They argue that if the Greeks can demonstrate with exhibitions such as this that there is no such thing as a Macedonian culture in the former Yugoslavia , Serbian claims to cultural domination of the region are strengthened and Macedonia is more likely to suffer the kind of atrocities that Croatia and Bosnia have endured .
28 In isolation , there is no such thing as a price that is ‘ too high ’ .
29 If history is a process , Althusser remarks , ‘ there is no such thing as a process except in relations [ sous des rapports ] ’ .
30 Looked at this way , there is no such thing as a special kind of behaviour called ‘ political ’ ; there is only a political dimension to behaviour … ’
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