Example sentences of "[noun] as [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conversely , a German anthropologist , Georg Elwert , reminds us that the concept of the Volksdeutsche , the ethnic German who , by the constitution of the Federal Republic , has a ‘ right of return ’ to his homeland as Jews have in Israel , is an ideological construct . |
| 2 | Also useful was the continuous shooting mode ensuring that I did n't miss any of the action as surfers sped past me . |
| 3 | King of the Slums manage as much social comment in a dozen songs as others do in a decade but they belong among bands that eschew political persuasion in favour of chronicling the lives of the despairing or dispossessed , the people for whom political solutions have failed . |
| 4 | I stopped and listened , straining my ears for any sound above the crashing of the soldiers or the muttered curses as men slipped on the icy ground underfoot . |
| 5 | ’ Fantastic ’ cut in waiting lists as doctors do weekend operations |
| 6 | More English wines are beginning to appear on wine lists as growers become increasingly professional about their production and marketing . |
| 7 | It would probably unleash another burst of investment as firms took advantage of opportunities which had hitherto been regarded as too risky . |
| 8 | And the accumulation of capital has been internationalized by the internationalization of production : it has generated flows of direct investment as multinationals expand their enterprises in different countries and it has also indirectly generated flows of portfolio investment as the multinationals ' cash and financing needs have been channelled through the financial markets of the City , New York and Tokyo . |
| 9 | Though much attention has been focused on critical ‘ breakthroughs ’ in such areas as micro-electronics , biotechnology and new materials where the potential for creating dramatic changes is obvious , change can also be created in small steps as firms find new ways of upgrading efficiencies . |
| 10 | GRIM TOLL AS FIRMS GO BUST |
| 11 | The parents paraded with placards outside the Forest of Dean District Council offices as members turned up for a planning meeting . |
| 12 | Ethane decolourises bromine water with the formation of 1,2-dibromoethane.This is a test for alkenes as alkanes do not decolourise bromine water . |
| 13 | DARLINGTON boss Ray Hankin dropped England cap Nick Pickering , but his reshaped defence still leaked goals as Quakers sank to their fifth successive defeat at Feethams . |
| 14 | DARLINGTON boss Ray Hankin dropped England cap Nick Pickering , but his reshaped defence still leaked goals as Quakers sank to their fifth successive defeat at Feethams . |
| 15 | Tony Walsh scored six goals as Peppers won 12-2 at bottom-placed Palatine ( Chris Sherry , Peter Middleman ) , with Paul McGuinness ( 3 ) , Paul McGuire ( 2 ) and Steve Carroll also netting for the winners . |
| 16 | One man is understood to have been arrested in the raid operation , but two leading UDA figures were able to evade arrest — one man slipped from a local club as police arrived to arrest him . |
| 17 | WPC Susan Larkin , 24 , said she had taken cover in the footwell of her police car as bullets hit the vehicle . |
| 18 | GUNMEN wounded three Roman Catholic taxi drivers in the centre of Belfast yesterday then sped off in a car as police gave chase . |
| 19 | This sometimes led to productive and satisfactory change ; but in some classrooms it resulted in confusion as procedures became separated from their underlying objectives , and as teachers strove to balance the conflicting demands of a mixture of well-tried and untried practices , of a wide variety of grouping strategies , and of many different activities going on simultaneously in their classrooms . |
| 20 | Moreover , the very existence of the two heads of control has , in itself , exacerbated the confusion as judges strive to find a function for each of the terms . |
| 21 | A police marksman shot Pringle through the neck as fears grew for Leanne , 21 , the mother of his two children . |
| 22 | Once through the gate to the drive he would walk fast , but not too fast since the power that ruled the night could smell out fear as dogs smell out terror . |
| 23 | This is useful for both parties as problems experienced by returners can be anticipated and dealt with for the benefit of new course members . |
| 24 | Though the parties as parties received roughly equal treatment , the government received additional coverage as a government for activities that were ostensibly unconnected with the election campaign . |
| 25 | In a tragic start to the Christmas week , major roads across the Midlands and North of England resembled battlefields as police struggled to cope . |
| 26 | This must be the end of civilisation as Americans know it . |
| 27 | Moreover , the war intensified factional disputes as socialists divided between ‘ defencists ’ who were prepared to support the war effort and ‘ internationalists ’ , among whom Lenin was most uncompromising , who condemned it . |
| 28 | Seesaws and swingboats both lead to estimation of weight as children look for a comfortable partner . |
| 29 | More significantly , it is not always possible to transfer these increased costs onto the consumers , the newspaper-buying public : newspapers are competitive products and one newspaper 's increase in costs can often lead to another newspaper putting on circulation as readers switch titles . |
| 30 | Our interpretation is that gas-phase HNO 3 has by that time been sequestered in the condensed phase by heterogeneous reactions on polar stratospheric cloud surfaces , forming nitric acid trihydrate as temperatures fell below 196K in winter It is probable that a substantial fraction of nitric acid has not only been lost from the gas phase , but also removed from the stratosphere by the growth and subsequent sedimentation of aerosol particles . |