Example sentences of "and [verb] [pron] [noun] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That voice is ever changing as we learn and develop our technique as a group . |
| 2 | This may only serve to aggravate matters further and undermine your role as a neutral . |
| 3 | We have analysed the influence of a combined index ( the Newcastle prescribing index ) , which is based on patient age and sex , on the prescribing of general practitioners in two family health services authorities and evaluated its usefulness as a notional indicator of costs and items . |
| 4 | It would be an important step towards APR taking its place as a familiar comparative yardstick of credit costliness for the general run of consumers , and proving its value as a useful warning signal for high-cost credit deals . |
| 5 | A strong force behind her husband 's career , she was the first woman chairman of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations in 1926 , a member of the Church Assembly 's house of laity from 1925 and of the archbishop 's commission on church and state ( 1930–5 ) , and succeeded her husband as a BBC governor . |
| 6 | Police believe Gary may have been caught up in the world of drugs and met his death as a result . |
| 7 | Then , grasping the shoe and using its heel as a club , smite the biscuit tin lid with such force that it flies across the room and the egg plops into the glass , unbroken . |
| 8 | Ironically , by writing the novel Christine Brooke-Rose pursued the opposite route and made her début as a ‘ lady novelist ’ . |
| 9 | In 1906 , having worked as a foreman on Merseyside , he became general organizer of the National Union of Dock Labourers under ( Sir ) James Sexton [ q.v. ] , and made his mark as a strike leader and socialist propagandist in Belfast during 1907 . |
| 10 | Hislop trained with Bratt and made his début as a principal singer at the Royal Swedish Opera , Stockholm , as Faust in C. F. Gounod 's opera on 12 September 1914 . |
| 11 | NSE 's name , and livery , was chosen to give a new character and significance to the rail system in the south east , and to emphasise its unity as a system , no longer a series of independent lines owning loyalty not to London as a whole but to long-abolished independent railway companies . |
| 12 | For all those years Adolph Brückner had guarded his bloody loot and built his reputation as an art lover around it . |
| 13 | He serrated the air with his sword and used his shield as a wall and a battering-ram . |
| 14 | The assumption , which the project sets out to test , is that the State is increasingly withdrawing from the business of providing services but strengthening and widening its role as the regulator of services produced by others in the private and voluntary sectors . |
| 15 | In the aftermath of Suez , Britain had no other option but to try to repair the damage done to her trans-Atlantic anchor cables and to accept her position as an offshore island of the United States . |
| 16 | The work of Askew and Ross ( 1982 ) stresses the ever-present fantasy images of the tough , macho heroes and challenges its appropriateness as a sole model of manhood . |
| 17 | When the Green party was formed 20 years ago , many treated it as a political joke and dismissed its members as a bunch of idealistic hippies . |
| 18 | Repealers were particularly intolerant of unreformed and unrepentant women , adopting a punitive attitude towards them and explaining their resistance as a product of the demoralizing effects of forced medical inspection . |
| 19 | With Labour now likely to bury their tax madness in their charge to the right , the Tories have to stay well ahead of them and consolidate their position as the party committed to cutting public waste and bringing down tax rates . |
| 20 | By 692 the king felt politically strong enough to countenance the seizure of some of the estates of the church of Ripon and project its restoration as a bishopric . |
| 21 | ‘ I must go and do my duty as a host for what 's left of the night . ’ |
| 22 | But we know that people disagree to some extent about the right principles of behaviour , so we distinguish that requirement from the different ( and weaker ) requirement that they act in important matters with integrity , that is , according to convictions that inform and shape their lives as a whole , rather than capriciously or whimsically . |
| 23 | He ought not to have died , and if I had gone with my mother to the doctor and done my part as a son , I feel as if he need not have done . ’ |
| 24 | They were respectable ; they and their like inherit and sustain their respectability as the aristocracy guard the family silver — an ultimate resource . |
| 25 | By now Labour was fully committed " to maintain such armed forces as are necessary to defend our country and to fulfil our obligations as a member of the British Commonwealth and of the League of Nations " . |
| 26 | One of them , Gerard Cochran , boasted that he personally ‘ would kill Joseph and scalp him and wear his scalp as a bridle ’ . |
| 27 | The enlightened Baptist minister Robert Robinson in Cambridge denounced the trade as an encroachment on natural rights and envisaged its end as the result of a general offensive , congenial to Rational Dissenters , making ‘ the natural connection between civil and religious liberty ’ . |
| 28 | The auditor should ascertain the audited body 's system of recording and processing transactions and assess its adequacy as a basis for the preparation of financial statements . |
| 29 | At the conclusion of the Sudan wars , shortly before , the victorious British general , Kitchener , had smashed the tomb of the defeated enemy and claimed his skull as a souvenir . |
| 30 | A JUDGE at the Old Bailey in London yesterday reprimanded the former wife of the Earl of Cassillis for ‘ unacceptable ’ behaviour in court after she pulled faces , made noises and shook her head as a witness gave evidence . |