Example sentences of "of [pos pn] [noun] [verb] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Necessity being the mother of invention ( and ingenuity ) , the foam mat from the back of my rucksack served as a seat for sliding down the snow , protected from behind by a rope and with an ice-axe to help control . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | As Packer ( 1968 ) has pointed out , the criminality of their enterprise acts as a kind of ‘ tariff ’ that protects them from the competition of ‘ legitimate ’ entrepreneurs unwilling to take the risks of illegal enterprise , and provides them with customers who have no legal redress against the most excessive forms of exploitation . |
| 4 | In this vein , Swans are astonishing , the ruthlessly dehumanized mechanism of their rock functioning as a perfect analogue of their argument — that social life is enslavement . |
| 5 | She had put her hair up so as to look older than her sixteen years but even so she straightened her music and her shoulders with such self-consciousness that the maturity of her voice came as a shock to him just as it always did . |
| 6 | Abdullah 's wife , Norjan and two daughters , were allowed to leave Iraq last month after the family was taken hostage while on a pilg pilgrimage ; she says the news of his release came as a great shock . |
| 7 | He was freed in 1983 and now having custody of his children works as a full-time father . |
| 8 | The irony of his failure to act as a hero is as severe as anything in Conrad . |
| 9 | ‘ The key to recognising an addiction is when it starts to have power and control over you and the rest of your life suffers as a consequence . ’ |
| 10 | He said it would be a mistake , ‘ a mistake in sentiment ; for it could only mean that we were embalming the corpse of something that is n't really dead and need n't die at all — an aesthetic mistake — because we do n't really want to have the taste of our schooldays established as a boundary for our whole lives ’ . |
| 11 | Throughout our recent evolutionary history , particularly since the rise of a hunting way of life , there must have been extreme selective pressures in favour of our ability to co-operate as a group : organized food gathering and hunts are successful only if each member of the band knows his task and joins in with the activity of his fellows ; a good deal of restraint on natural impulses during the stalk and capture of the prey is likewise essential . |