Example sentences of "as a [noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Innocent asserted his paternal protection of Frederick and the position of Sicily as a fief of the papacy . |
| 2 | possibly Count Raymond offered to do homage to Henry and to hold Toulouse as a fief of the duchy of Aquitaine . |
| 3 | As a spokesman for the US State Department declared at an American chiefs of mission meeting in London in September 1957 : " The United States — United Kingdom relationship is at the core of the NATO alliance and is an important element in SEATO and the Baghdad Pact . " |
| 4 | As a spokesman for the UK surfing community , Chris Hines is increasingly well-informed , so much so that he is now a worthy opposition in the corridors of power . |
| 5 | Mr Kewley is acting as a spokesman for the family . |
| 6 | As a member of the Territorial Army Reserve he held the rank of Lt Colonel and served a period as a co of the OTC . |
| 7 | For such conditioning to occur , the animal must learn to respond to a mild stimulus which would not normally cause the withdrawal in the same way as if it were a strong one , such as a shock to the tail , which does cause withdrawal . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , with repeated French insinuations that they had neither the means nor the intention of reconquering Vietnam , it obviously came as a shock to the US to discover that this was exactly what France seemed to have in mind . |
| 9 | Our first trek , up Gunung Mulu , was the hardest of the whole expedition and came as a shock to the system . |
| 10 | The demand for subject access may have come as a shock to the library profession but , more importantly , it raised a very fundamental issue : that is , the role of the catalogue in providing access to the library collection . |
| 11 | Even earlier , as a diplomat in Beijing and at the United Nations in New York in the 1950s , then as a high-flyer at the elbow of two heads of the Foreign Office , he was marked for big things . |
| 12 | Unlike a probation order , which was not regarded as a sentence of the Court , a suspended sentence ranked not merely as a sentence , but as a sentence of imprisonment , with a condition attached which activated the element of custodial confinement only if another offence was committed within a stated period of not less than one year nor more than two ( originally three ) years . |
| 13 | It is possible to take a stretch of language which someone has used in communication and treat it as a sentence for a translation exercise , or an object for grammatical analysis . |
| 14 | The sentence A beaver hit the log and knocked the turtle into the water was falsely identified as a sentence from the passage . |
| 15 | 19ff ) ; one of the earliest attested acts of faith centred upon the near sacrifice of a human being ( Isaac , son of Abraham ) , replaced at the last moment by a substitute ram which was given as a burnt-offering ( Gen. 22 ) ; and the first redemption of the embryonic nation Israel involved the smearing of the blood of the Passover lamb on the doorposts and lintels of the Hebrews ' homes in Egypt as a sign to the Angel of Death to leave them in safety ( Exod. |
| 16 | I find it very useful as a sign of the differences between recreational and competitive paddlers . |
| 17 | Besides attempting to say what it was about a sensation which served as a sign of the location of whatever had given rise to it , adherents of the local sign theory had also to say in what way the reference to a part of the body was made — whether in the form of visual imagery , or of a judgement , or of something else . |
| 18 | Instead of furthering a process of " national understanding " as Collor had hoped , the presentation of the new package served to deepen the rift between himself and the majority of the Congress who interpreted it as a sign of the government 's weakness . |
| 19 | Saris are seen as a sign of the wearer being progressive . |
| 20 | At the time , I took this decay merely as a sign of the times ; I was comfortable with decay . |
| 21 | It is difficult not to notice that the ‘ bundle of sticks ’ is reminiscent of the Roman fasces , the bundle of rods with a protruding axe-head , carried before Roman consuls as a sign of the state authority of Rome , and adopted by Mussolini as a symbol of the movement he led to power in 1922 , whence the word ‘ fascist ’ . |
| 22 | People point to the success of the German Bundesbank as a sign of the strength of the German economy . |
| 23 | The abrupt decision in June 1991 to ban all casinos , despite the involvement of erstwhile Premadasa associates in the rapidly expanding gambling industry , was seen by many observers as a sign of the President 's confidence in his own authority , and thus as a contributory factor in precipitating the unsuccessful attempt , launched in August , to impeach him [ see pp. 38440 ; 38534 ] . |
| 24 | As a sign of the future , Ernest Bevin , Minister of Labour , and one of the senior Labour Party ministers , said his party had rather different views on the matter , but would accept the general proposals for the time being . |
| 25 | His appointment ( subject to Senate approval ) was widely interpreted as a sign of the Bush administration 's determination to secure still further improvements in US-Soviet relations . |
| 26 | She takes their practice of representing a feminine gendered component of meaning as [ -male ] as a sign of the fact that women in language are relegated to ‘ negative semantic space ’ . |
| 27 | A lifestyle involving hard work , charity , abstinence from drink , strict morality , and thrift was deemed absolutely essential , as it was not only insisted on in the Bible , but was also seen as a sign of an individual 's elect status . |
| 28 | ‘ Publication ’ is increasingly important , not just to secure advancement in an individual academic 's career , but as a sign of an institution 's status . |
| 29 | Thirty years later , I can still recall particular images — Alan Breck 's silver button set on a wooden cross and placed as a sign in the window of a but and ben ; redcoats prodding the heather with their bayonets while Breck and David Balfour sweltered out the day on the top of a huge granite boulder ; Breck lowering his belt so that Balfour could scramble up ; a chieftain 's hide-out somehow built using the trees . |
| 30 | In these new discursive wars , feminism as well as anti-feminism sacrificed the idea of women as inherently passionate ; sexual pleasure as a sign in the flesh of reproductive capacity fell victim to political exigencies . |