Example sentences of "as a [noun sg] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overall , within the culture of antislavery economic boycott and free-produce activities worked much less significantly as a way of drawing in support than as a mark which some abolitionists chose to display of their antislavery identity . |
| 2 | What gives a name as a name its special status is that it represents the transcendence " of the object relative to any particular description that might be given of that object . |
| 3 | And as a child his own household included not only his father 's father but his mother 's grandmother , who spent most of her days hidden away ‘ in her own cabin ’ , but who would emerge on Sundays , always knitting a long stocking . |
| 4 | Griffith had come to the movies quite late in life and he came as a man whose varied experiences and whose accumulated opinions , myths , and prejudices had given him a sense of America and of himself as having a place in it . |
| 5 | Here , for example , is an initial organisation of an essay on the Scottish novelist Josephine Tey : introduction career as a London playwright recent critical appraisal powers of description humour education church the divided self the divided self — most of all as a woman her final novel — The Singing Sands . |
| 6 | She appears , somehow , just as a woman whose main desire is to satisfy the wants of the one who gazes at her . |
| 7 | As a result her handsome husband shrank into a shrivelled old man until he was so deformed the gods took pity on him and turned him into a cicada — one of the first creatures to excitedly greet the dawn on a warm summer 's day . |
| 8 | As a result his own kingdom was divided among his brothers . |
| 9 | Ireland is presented as a place whose feminine nature makes the country require a more powerful masculine presence to keep it from the savagery of the giant who is unmistakably a Roman Catholic monster . |
| 10 | The Catechism was conceived as a model which local bishops ' conferences around the world could look to when preparing their own Catechisms , and is described by the Pope as ‘ a secure point of reference in the elaboration of national and diocesan Catechisms ’ . |
| 11 | It also noted comments by Gorbachev , quoted in the newspaper Sovietskaya Rossiya , that he was retaining as an adviser his former CPSU politburo ally Aleksandr Yakovlev . |