Example sentences of "[noun] [det] as [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other two-syllable words such as adverbs and prepositions seem to behave like verbs and adjectives . |
| 2 | Thus , words such as articles ( a/the ) , conjunctions ( and/but/because ) , demonstratives ( this/that ) , pronouns ( he/she/it ) , auxiliary verbs , many adverbs and prepositions ( up/down/behind/ between/in , etc. ) fall into the closed class . |
| 3 | They apply only to major categories of lexical words ( nouns , verbs and adjectives in this chapter ) , not to function words such as articles and prepositions . |
| 4 | On the other hand all mammals have a good sense of smell and those with big moveable ears such as rabbits and deer have excellent hearing . |
| 5 | Emerging would be computer superstores and a mix of alternative channels such as book-stores , large format entertainment stores , rental outlets , direct marketing and electronic distribution . |
| 6 | The on-costs on labour such as employers ' national insurance contributions , CITB levy , holidays with pay scheme and other more indirect on-costs such as allowances for severance pay and legislation affecting employment , sick pay , allowance for employer 's liability and third party insurance , will be processed through both the cost and financial accounts . |
| 7 | The ‘ optimum ’ hole size is around 3 sq mm , say the Australians , because ‘ with smaller hole sizes some consumers attempted to make the hole larger with sharp implements such as forks ’ . |
| 8 | Such divine imagery was confined to extravagant and luxury items such as ornate scabbards and cameos , which were intended for members of the imperial court , and does not appear on objects of mass circulation such as coins , on which representations of Augustus were always human after 27 BC . |
| 9 | For those at the lower and middle grades , job security and risk-minimisation in decision-making may be their most important considerations in the execution of their duties , since government employment in many lesser developed countries is relatively secure ( compared with other jobs available ) , with special privileges such as pensions , health services , government schooling and housing . |
| 10 | Chemical reactions are commonly carried out in open vessels such as beakers and test-tubes . |
| 11 | The concept of the Inmarsat marine communications facility , designed for commercial ship use , has now been extended to embrace smaller vessels such as yachts . |
| 12 | It also becomes quite understandable why people tend to become ‘ ill ’ when there are a lot of stresses going on in their lives and especially at times of life crises such as griefs , changes in work and divorce . |
| 13 | Where there are labour shortages ( or sudden crises such as wars ) one may find upward substitution — people working above the level they were trained for . |
| 14 | External aspects of religion such as temples , statues , reliefs and paintings of the many gods and goddesses , sacred object , writings and burial customs survive as a unique testimony to that religious experience but its inner meaning and significance are far more intangible . |
| 15 | Organizations such as Students for a Democratic Society contributed to the development of the ‘ New Left ’ whose main aim was to ensure that professionals , managers and students were not reduced to being the mere tools of the ruling class . |
| 16 | An important feature to explain is why a hierarchical system is invariably found in organizations such as firms . |
| 17 | Their provision thus requires collective organizations such as states . |
| 18 | Thus the model of bureaucratic central state organizations such as ministries is unsuitable . |
| 19 | Despite the bias of SSAPs towards private sector profit-making organizations , this should not preclude their applicability , when appropriate , to the public sector , or for that matter , to private sector not-for-profit organizations such as charities . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , ambiguity of terminology does arise , fuelled by the fact that evaluation theory contains so many concepts that are interrelated , but which have very different implications , particularly for non-profit making organizations such as libraries . |
| 21 | Surgeons , however , have used metallic implants such as clips and automatic sutures for a long time without any such complication reported . |
| 22 | The story can , of course , be extended to include ligatures — they are the double letter combinations such as fi , ff , fl , etc but as most PostScript fonts only support fi ( Option Shift 5 ) and fl ( Option Shift 6 ) this may be a little picky . |
| 23 | One can think of laying a graph of words over a graph of lower-level units such as phonemes . |
| 24 | In addition , the information required to identify perceptual units such as phonemes overlaps in time with information about preceding and following phonemes . |
| 25 | Pattern books and display units such as tombolas branded with the Lyle Carpets logo have increased . |
| 26 | It should be noted , however , that the problems discussed above with reference to phoneme recognition apply to other units such as syllables as well . |
| 27 | Each genre established you as ‘ commander ’ at a particular level — for example as total military supremo controlling grand strategy , or at regimental level in charge of smaller units such as squads or platoons , or at the lowest level actually controlling individual tanks or airplanes . |
| 28 | Choropleth maps are maps which show the distribution of the magnitude of a variable such as population density for each of a set of areal units such as counties or enumeration districts . |
| 29 | Next come large enemy monsters or small powerful units such as knights . |
| 30 | In general the gap between lip-reading with fingerspelling , and lip-reading alone is greatest for comprehension of larger units such as sentences , and least for single words . |