Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] [noun] as [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The construction of the black man as rapist has a long racist history .
2 The Party has gone out of its way to foster the image of the Armed Forces as guardian of the motherland , school of patriotism and the expression of those qualities that the Party seeks to promote in homo Sovieticus .
3 They have been too ready to use one or other of the clashing theses as occasion served , without troubling to bring them into intelligible relation .
4 Christina arranged dinner with Celia , then picked some mimosa and bright-lavender periwinkle flowers for the dining-table , which she was arranging when Stephen appeared at the french windows of the dining-room , looming out of the lengthening shadows as dusk turned quickly into night .
5 Danger of the growing gap as money rolls in at top
6 He wrote a preface to David Jones 's In Parenthesis in which he noted the fact that Jones was of the same generation as Pound and himself ; he also wrote a preface to Lewis 's One-Way Song and described him as one of those who had been falsely labelled by " the Messenmensch " as a fascist but nevertheless chose " to walk alone " .
7 In the context of employment , where the Act refers to dismissal ‘ or other detriment ’ , it has been held that the phrase in quotation marks refers to an act of the same type as dismissal .
8 Accordingly , futures contracts will not be investments of the same kind as debt securities or even contracts for differences , although SFA may perhaps agree that they are of the same kind as contracts for differences for this purpose ; in practice , however , any dealer who normally deals in futures contracts is usually likely to deal in contracts for differences in any event .
9 Partisans of these philosophies , in other words , as well as those who prefer to speak in the language of compassion or human responsibility or animal protection , share some of the same goals as animal rightists .
10 First , the effective management of development — and perhaps basic research as well — has many of the same goals as manufacturing : faster throughput time , reduction of inventory , better upstream-downstream communication , continuous improvement , subtle balances between discipline and creativity , quick problem solving , etc .
11 There are also still about a hundred racing dinghies of the same class as Port and Starboard 's Flash : Yare and Bure one-designs which are always called after butterflies .
12 Many markets which exhibit some of the same characteristics as health care — uncertainty , risk and imperfect information — are characterised by long-term relationships between buyers and sellers , which are based on trust , track record and a reputation for quality of service and reliability .
13 Hollyhocks are a member of the same family as marshmallow , which has the same large , open saucer-shaped flowers without stems .
14 Public-sector spending and employment were themselves heavily and deliberately constrained by the Conservative policy of ‘ rolling back the frontiers of the state ’ , which to many trade-unionists was part of the same process as de-industrialization .
15 Figure 3 is another picture of the same graph as Figure 1 .
16 Hitherto , youth , unlike children , had been largely ignored but the events and trends that so characterized the decades circa 1880 and 1920 brought young workers firmly within the investigative framework of the social sciences as report after report vividly illustrated their significance in most areas of society .
17 To my mind , the position of the local authority as relator can not be decisive of the present case .
18 Flares lit up parts of the sprawling capital as tracer bullets criss-crossed the night sky .
19 It is possible that we will see a further slowing of the ageing process as time goes on so that in the next century the experience of being in one 's eighties is more like the experience of being in one 's seventies at the moment .
20 Some continuity of personnel between the new and the old is often welcomed as the most effective means of preserving the loyalty of the clients and maybe the appointment of the sole practitioner or the senior partner of the acquired business as consultant to the new firm for a limited time will be considered .
21 ANYONE who has tried to sight a ball coming out of a dark background as dusk falls will quickly agree that sightscreens are a very important part of any cricket ground .
22 It has been suggested that pressure of a moral obligation as justification is the basis of Brimelow v. Casson , though the case has been said to stand alone and there are conflicting dicta on moral obligation .
23 The principal counter-argument has been that Essex has enjoyed the benefit of a former tutor-organiser as Federation chairman and that , in the absence of an equivalent person to give a lead elsewhere , tutor-organisers have continued to be essential .
24 Melcarek , Cernohlavek and Brown described a solid-state measuring device consisting of a sensitive photo-diode as sensor , coupled to an operational amplifier .
25 In many cases we speak of a given condition as cause and it is the one action or piece of behaviour involved , something to which responsibility attaches .
26 On the hearing of the petition , the court may : ( i ) make a bankruptcy order ; or ( ii ) make a bankruptcy order and issue a certificate for the summary administration of the bankrupt 's estate ( where the total debts do not exceed the " small bankruptcies level " , currently £20,000 , and the bankrupt has not been adjudicated bankrupt before in the last five years nor has he entered into any composition with his creditors or scheme of arrangement ) ( s 275 ) ; ( iii ) make a bankruptcy order and appoint the former supervisor of a voluntary arrangement as trustee provided that notice of the supervisor 's intention to seek appointment as a trustee was given in the petition and to the creditors ; ( iv ) appoint an insolvency practitioner to prepare a report under s 273 .
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