Example sentences of "[noun] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These start off usually with a thin , gentle slithering sound of sliding boulders on the scree slope , which abruptly gives way to a much louder , roaring collapse as the main mass of rock falls away and hurtles downhill , and then afterwards minor falls continue intermittently for long periods . |
| 2 | As a result he held that ‘ the abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is required for their real happiness ’ . |
| 3 | The water from the upper source is emitted at the same speed as the main flow ; there is thus no shear and no turbulence generation . |
| 4 | A kite on a line generates lift from the wind streaming past it ; but if released it soon reaches the same speed as the surrounding air and loses it all . |
| 5 | Society has changed since the days of the cart and horse , or since men with red flags walked in front of cars at the same speed as the Orange Walk . |
| 6 | So the opposition have not quite as long for their inquests and recuperative action as the bleak dawn of last Friday may have made them think . |
| 7 | This can be a critically important action as the human memory is notoriously selective , and loose-leaf and logbook notes are prone to be separated from the project plan . |
| 8 | Furthermore , the proteolytic pou[c] fragment showed the same binding characteristics as the complete GST-pou[c] fusion protein ( data not shown ) . |
| 9 | In small and incomplete orchestras , however , such combinations as the following are often to be found : |
| 10 | I shouted thanks and crossed over , though I was on the same side as every local runner . |
| 11 | ‘ It was a pleasure to play in the same side as a true football genius . |
| 12 | Although there were from time to time reports of " crossed aphasia " , in which the lesion is on the same side as the preferred hand ( Bramwell , 1899 ) , these were initially regarded as no more than occasional exceptions of the " contralateral rule " . |
| 13 | That was lucky for the Manchester side as the Danish official turned down no less than four strident claims for penalties . |
| 14 | The arm of the same side as the leading leg is held to the front in a punch position . |
| 15 | The weather was the worst for many years , and the news from the Continent as the advancing armies uncovered first one and then another of the German concentration camps was almost unbelievable and quite horrific . |
| 16 | First , the European Parliament can never be as accountable to the electorate as the national parliaments . |
| 17 | Such considerations as the following are widely thought to favour preference over the older hedonistic utilitarianism . |
| 18 | Due to problems in vote counting , the final results were not confirmed until three weeks after the election , but there was no change in control , which remained in the hands of the same five-party coalition as the national government . |
| 19 | In a decree issued by King Hussein on Jan. 1 , a leading Palestinian politician , Taher al-Masri , replaced Marwan al-Qasem as the Jordanian Foreign Affairs Minister , and members of the Moslem Brotherhood were appointed to the Religious Affairs , Health , Education , Justice and Social Development ministries . |
| 20 | But with his placement of Modernism in the lineage of Nietzsche , and as such at odds with Marx and Freud as the real motors of that ‘ true radicalisation of the Enlightenment ’ ( p. 120 ) which is the only way ahead , something more serious is at stake . |
| 21 | She remembered Abdu as the little Nubian boy sent out to fetch the morning editions of the European newspapers . |
| 22 | Courtney , who had denied all charges , showed no sign of emotion as the guilty verdicts were announced to a packed courtroom . |
| 23 | By the time of her seventieth birthday she had served on the Board of Governors of the BBC , the Corporation 's General Advisory Council , the Arts Council and the British Council and their respective literary committees , to say nothing of her work with such organizations as the Royal Society of Literature . |
| 24 | Here are ranged such organizations as the National Association of Language in Education Centres ( NALEC , 1985 ) on the one hand , whose membership commands direct access through professional development teachers and initial training lectures to classroom teachers and who take the predominantly phenomenological approach to language of ‘ reading through real books ’ . |
| 25 | Christopher did n't reply , sensibly enough , thought Alan , and he listened to the clink of china and cutlery as the two women cleared the coffee cups and last few lunch things . |
| 26 | This is a level which the directors believe is sustainable and which will allow room for growth in the future as the underlying profitability of the Group recovers . |
| 27 | Socks that are too tight can cause as much harm as an inadequate pair of shoes during childhood . |
| 28 | Ramadan , ’ he would say and close his eyes as the hot air dried him in seconds and I retreated even further under the wilting greenery . |
| 29 | One may truly get the sense of the Reeve 's Tale being played by the same company with the same costumes on the same stage as the Miller 's Tale : Absolon 's red hose for the " " halyday " " ( 3319 – 40 ) re-appear early on ( 3952 – 5 ) , and the daughter has the same grey eyes as the delicate Absolon ( 3317 , 3974 ) . |
| 30 | It is as foreign to , to your eyes as the Russian script would be . |