Example sentences of "[noun] as [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason why many ethologists would now prefer to explain ritualization as an arms race is that they have increasingly come to realize that selfish competition among individuals is the rule in the animal world . |
| 2 | Lee turned slightly towards the sound — and immediately heard the double click as the hammers on the shotgun were pulled back . |
| 3 | A Scottish lord told King James that Andrewes ‘ did play with his text as a jackanapes does , who takes up a thing and tosses and plays with it and then takes up another and plays with it . |
| 4 | I reach that conclusion , I hope , having properly considered the pros and cons of the situation ; the fact that he has this particular advantage as a police officer in marshalling evidence ; considering the issues . |
| 5 | I reach that conclusion , I hope , having properly considered the pros and cons of the situation : the fact that he has this particular advantage as a police officer in marshalling evidence ; considering the issues . |
| 6 | Management at Digital wanted employees to change jobs and develop skills as the products and the production process developed . |
| 7 | Was he outgrowing his strength , she 'd wondered , as her other children had done , her vague fears of wasting fevers and rickety limbs vanishing to be replaced by incredulous horror as the soldiers on their tall horses had begun to charge . |
| 8 | Knowing that half of Scotland had left their cars sitting in the middle of roads to make sure that they could get to the gig is not so much my horror story as the police 's , she chuckled . |
| 9 | The problem of retaining independence will become more acute as voluntary bodies are drawn increasingly into service provision as the agents of local authorities , as Caring for People suggests . |
| 10 | Er , group one seedings , just to let you know , United States who 're in that seeding group as hosts anyway , Germany as the holders , and then former winners , Argentina , Italy , Brazil , and Belgium and it 's all , all based on their , their results of the last three competitions . |
| 11 | Other powers are given by such acts as the Firearms Act 1968 ( persons , vehicles in any public place can be searched for firearms ) ; Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 ( permits the police to stop and search for controlled drugs anywhere ) ; Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 and various Wildlife Conservation Acts . |
| 12 | Although he often uses occupation and length of time in educational institutions as the axes for his displays and charts , in the text he attempts to encompass a far greater range of differences based on gender , age and expectation . |
| 13 | Over the period , spokesmen for industry identified government and the major educational institutions as the villains ; and the business and professional careers of many leading politicians lend credence by example to such charges . |
| 14 | One of a great flurry of plans being prepared in the Pentagon as the politicians on Capitol Hill sharpen their knives to carve the ‘ peace dividend ’ from the budget , the plan will arouse great controversy , since it invades the functional territory of the US Marine Corps . |
| 15 | His arrogance , his pompous manner , and the way he trades on his friendship with Major has offended colleagues perhaps jealous of his natural talents as a Commons and Whitehall performer . |
| 16 | In themselves they 're historic , but it was Ponting 's expertise as a stills cameraman that has given the world a stunning pictorial account of a legendary expedition . |
| 17 | His expertise as a children 's bookseller was highly valued by his colleagues , and he made a great contribution over a number of years to the work of the BA 's Children 's Executive , as a member and , more recently , as a vice-chairman . |
| 18 | Although Noverre did not specifically name them he described these dancers ' particular characteristics as having similar physiques and technical expertise as the danseurs classiques but they were not always so well-proportioned and usually possessed a natural sense of comedy . |
| 19 | preferences for more focused or salient entities as the referents of pronouns and other anaphors ( e.g. Sidner 1979a ; Alshawi 1987 ) . |
| 20 | Both hulls were flooded , the water driving backwards and forwards across the saloon deck as the waves lifted first one hull , then the other . |
| 21 | Depending upon the date of the interview we could predict quite well whether people would name defence as the Conservatives ' main campaign theme , but it was the date of the interview rather than the personal characteristics of the interviewee that mattered . |
| 22 | Whether people named defence as the Conservatives ' main campaign theme depended a great deal upon the date of the interview and rather less upon their personal characteristics or even their pattern of media use . |
| 23 | No distinction is made for the Metropolitan Police , much the largest force in the country , where the Home Secretary has formal responsibility as the police authority . |
| 24 | Trobriand islanders use the tug-of-war , cricket , the collection of yams and great and freely expressed sexual enthusiasm as the planks of their complicated beliefs . |
| 25 | For somewhat like Althusser , Foucault defends a ‘ discursive determinism ’ which looks to a wide range of institutions and academic disciplines as the determinants of conceptions of agency . |
| 26 | The Italian capital was experiencing , even by its own standards , a heatwave , and the two hotels that were provided by the authorities as the Athletes ' Village were of a mediocre calibre . |
| 27 | The Court of Appeal held that there was no ground for disturbing the award as the arbitrators and the umpire were all " experts " and it was evidently the intention of the parties that they should settle the value and not act as formal arbitrators . |
| 28 | Almost the first experiments I had made with the passive avoidance model after completing the work with Marie , and even before we had located IMHV and LPO as the sites of change , looked at the effects of training on protein synthesis in general , using the precursor techniques that have already been described in earlier chapters . |
| 29 | The argument in support of this interpretation is that section 309 changes the definition of ‘ the interests of the company ’ — it adds the employees to the shareholders as the persons whose interests the directors are required to serve . |
| 30 | Another defeat , another low score for captain Graham Gooch , and another pasting for their bowlers as Australia romped home by six wickets left England with more worry as the Ashes series countdown continues . |