Example sentences of "as [art] [noun sg] and a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the psychoanalytic theory of paranoia enables us to see that these two equally-well-attested interpretations are not in any way in conflict with one another because in the latent content of paranoia we find both a tendency to symbolize the father as the sun and a delusion of persecution concerning him which in a typically paranoid way denies the homosexual factor by saying I do not love him , he hates me . |
| 2 | That is one view of the matter , the view of " Englishing " as a tribute and a service to the original work . |
| 3 | As a foreigner and a teacher , I was the object of general interest and respect . |
| 4 | Renoir began in the inter-war years as a realist and a humanist like Tavernier . |
| 5 | D. Stirling ( 30 000 people ) is a place which long ago was chosen as a position and a site for a town . |
| 6 | Distinguished Romanian emigres began to speak of their erstwhile leader as a dictator and a clown . |
| 7 | As a result of this he was labelled as a diehard and a bigot , when he actually distrusted the diehards and was himself distrusted by the bigots . |
| 8 | He serrated the air with his sword and used his shield as a wall and a battering-ram . |
| 9 | The fact that there are parts of Britain which have clambered out of real poverty , and primitive housing , within the lifetime of my own generation they see as a hope and a challenge . |
| 10 | She had longed to be invited to a party , a longing which presented itself to her as a weakness and a wickedness , as well as an impossibility . |
| 11 | On the distribution of moneys , can the right hon. Gentleman assure me that resources for the health service will not be skewed towards the new NHS trusts as a bribe and a reward to those who took the bids ? |
| 12 | Major Kirkwood is depicted in the book as a nobleman and a gentleman in the best sense of both words . |
| 13 | Morrissey , of course , prefers arch playfulness and that is his prerogative as a person and a songwriter . |
| 14 | By the mid-1980s , this became increasingly the accepted view of what the Thatcher years had meant for Britain as a society and a polity . |
| 15 | However unattractive King James was as a man and a monarch , he did leave a few noble monuments to grace his reign . |
| 16 | Dalgliesh had a respect for Morgan as a man and a detective but was grateful that either duty , tact or a mixture of both had taken him away . |
| 17 | As Worrell 's career came at the same period , the stature he acquired both as a man and a leader gave added impetus and credibility to the black independence movement , especially as cricket is such an important part of Caribbean life . |
| 18 | The truth is that as painters and as a man and a woman , they were engaged , during these years , in the same adventure which turned out to be more fatal than either of them realised at the time . |
| 19 | But I liken it to an opposition party in a parliament , or a critical press ; acting as a consclence and a brake , but not in power and unlikely to assume it . |
| 20 | Since she represented the Emperor and the government , her task was to serve as a sheet-anchor and a symbol around which could rally the national will to resist the enemy . |
| 21 | It was inevitable that the RCM commitment to accepting help from wherever it was offered would be seen by orthodox Jews as a betrayal and a challenge . |
| 22 | Both as a writer and a man , his genius lay in his ability to resist the subversive tendencies of his personality by fashioning them into something larger than himself . |
| 23 | He wrote six plays , contributed episodes to many series and serials ( both as a writer and a Story Editor ) , all of which went into production , including a successful series about a pilot-adventurer called Garry Halliday : a mixture somewhere between Biggles and Bulldog Drummond . |
| 24 | Surprisingly , I find that all my reasons for postponing giving birth still apply : I do n't particularly like children ; I value my independence , the freedom to come and go , the open doors ; I want to write , and literary history tells me that my chances of succeeding as a writer and a mother are pitiful ; I hate and fear the nuclear family , the stifling atmosphere , the exploited wife and mother , the generation gap . |
| 25 | As a composer and a soloist Bach did much to champion the pianoforte , an instrument then being developed in London by German immigrant craftsmen : the sonatas Op. 5 are apparently the first works published in England to include the piano on the title-page , and Bach is credited with performing the first solo on the instrument in public in London in 1768 . |
| 26 | He watched them rushing through Calais on their way to pay court to Napoleon ( Sonnet : ‘ Is it a reed that 's shaken by the wind ’ ) , and decided , since he regarded the French leader as a despot and a menace to free institutions , that the only course open was to support that party in England which wanted to continue the war , namely the Tories . |
| 27 | On the whole this is a matter of the teacher exercising her professional judgement both as a nurse and a teacher , but there are a variety of ideas available to help her in devising objectives . |
| 28 | In dealing with Rome , the Papal State and the emperors , Innocent appears as a restorer and a continuator , but an extremely aggressive restorer , it must be said . |
| 29 | I , even as a friend and a colleague of the staff notice it strongly in little points of racism , all the time constantly there , it gets beyond a joke , I 've lost friends in the school or I do n't associate with certain members of staff purely because of the constant jibing which eventually gets beyond a joke . |
| 30 | , Paul ( d. 1666 ) , Particular Baptist and preacher , variously described as a tailor and a surgeon , first appears in the early 1640s as a member of the London separatist congregation of John Spencer and John Green . |