Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] [adv] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our subsequent participation has been conditional upon our acceptance of the inevitable — a curriculum constructed historically as a reflection of men 's ideas , assumptions and priorities , presented as objective truth : and a view of women informed by a range of ideologies collectively based upon notions of male supremacy . |
| 2 | Critical analysis , one student journal proclaimed , ‘ generally produces results more significant than the best creative work now being written , ’ a judgement offered not as a complaint but as a boast : |
| 3 | And yet Raskolnikov 's greater enormity is that having forgotten to bolt the door after killing the money-lender he is surprised by her half-sister , the woman who mends linen and has mended his in her time , apparently always pregnant , through simplicity , not waywardness , meek-eyed though ‘ she looks like a soldier dressed up as a woman ’ ( who but Dostoevsky ! ) and Raskolnikov kills Lizaveta too . |
| 4 | Then the horn , and a hound yelped briefly as a whip cracked . |
| 5 | They believe that the operating system of a nome starts off as a goose . |
| 6 | Assuming that we know how the phonemes of a particular word would be realised when the word was pronounced in isolation , when we find a phoneme realised differently as a result of being near some other phoneme belonging to a neighbouring word we call this an instance of assimilation . |
| 7 | David Holmes of Dorling Kindersley fielded the accusation of ‘ unfair play ’ : ‘ The DK Family Library is a business set up as a networking operation , along the lines of Tupperware , ’ he said . |
| 8 | This is not a departure from random methods since these are used within the strata ; it is simply a job done beforehand as a precaution against freak random results if the distribution of the special factors in the population is accurately known beforehand . |
| 9 | What makes The Rape so durably haunting is not its ( rather banal ) conceit of a woman viewed literally as a sex object , but the fact that it is that woman with that neck and that terrifying and terrified hair . |
| 10 | The competition brief called for a tower to act primarily as a landmark . |
| 11 | Unashamed nostalgia makes Radio Days ( RCA / Columbia , PG ) a gem to wallow in as a family of Jewish misfits huddle round their wireless at the start of the Second World War . |
| 12 | Well the new edition 's just come out and it 's in the shops shortly , it 's priced sixty five pounds , and as usual they 've let Radio Oxford have a copy to give away as a prize . |
| 13 | What often starts as a trickle finishes up as a torrent of new ideas . |