Example sentences of "[noun] as a [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Negotiations were carried on in secret and the results were presented to shareholders as a fait accompli . |
| 2 | And what he really meant to say was , you ca n't use money as a er a as a sort of parallel to energy , but paradigm does n't mean parallel , it means something , something different . |
| 3 | And then again if they pay me this money as an ex gratia payment . |
| 4 | What 's fifty seven minutes as a deci as a fraction of an hour ? |
| 5 | But the serrated gratings must have sufficiently broken the crust of the brick-broken mutilated plastimetal that covers a great deal of the world that is an eyeball , and little light yellow-green stubs poked through , cos the Sun was still up there , way up there , even though someone had devised a new kind of force of matter transference and was attempting to move the Sun to his laboratory-country where it would be used to grow humlants — in which the old human brain was to be stretched in durable fibrosity and connected inextricably to root and flower , making rings of energy that took their partners for a whaltz or a flexitrot and multiplied their species by being fried on a plasetal plate whose temperature was so great that they never actually touched it but skimmed over , coming off the other side as a more-than-when-they-started . |
| 6 | Let me ask you Rusty , Rusty the clown , now Rusty as a clo , Oi , can let me do the show , please . |
| 7 | Some people call it The Young Americans Tour , others call it the Black Show because it was David as an R&B singer . |
| 8 | Defeated in the 1922 general election for Dáil Éireann , she secured a seat in Dublin in the 1923 election but abstained from taking her seat as a Sinn Fein republican . |
| 9 | Right , members will recall from the last meeting , there was an issue of it at Shrewsbury College , because of the transfer of the screw and ribbon factory to the college , or the College 's claim to the transfer of the screw and ribbon factory to them , because of the er , the cre the vesting of the College as an in independent body under the Higher Education Act . |
| 10 | In his various schools in lower Egypt Nasser has a certain self-consciousness as a saidi and one of peasant background . |
| 11 | She was only half Indian , her mother being a Viennese woman who had come to England as an au pair and married a doctor from Darjeeling , a surgical registrar in a Bradford hospital . |
| 12 | The play functions as a mise en abyme of the novel as a whole . |
| 13 | Having shown Cade 's pointless destructiveness Shakespeare reins him in by confronting him with more speakers who exemplify the old definition of the orator as a vir bonus peritus dicendi . |
| 14 | Er he suffered a couple of wounds as a ma as a matter of fact . |
| 15 | This can be seen as a kind of intermediate position halfway between the child as a tabula rasa with no innate knowledge of the world and the child being able to speak at birth . |
| 16 | I bought the machine as a 486SX/25 with 8Mb of RAM and 120Mb hard drive . |
| 17 | In the summer before I go away to university I get a job as an au pair in London . |
| 18 | Here we use Saccharomyces cerevisiae as an in vivo model system to show that the Myc protein is a sequence-specific transcriptional activator whose DNA binding is strictly dependent on dimerization with Max . |
| 19 | Dragons of Flame is at best a weak beat-'em up , and could never cut the mustard as a bona fide roleplayer . |
| 20 | The liberals of the Cortes of Cadiz accepted this dissolution as a fait accompli and it was this that made the Orders the chief enemies of liberalism in Spain . |
| 21 | Figure 1.2 Excess of female population after the age of 45 years and males as a per cent of the total ( 1981 ) |
| 22 | In all my life there have been very few occasions when I badly wanted more money and that was one of them , because on my wage of three shillings a day as an AC2 I was unable to drape her with expensive clothes . |
| 23 | The coveted contract helps strengthen arguments proposing Tuxedo as a de facto standard . |
| 24 | Having devoted the greater part of this year and last to extending its near hegemony in the market for low-end and mid-range Unix-based imaging solutions , promoting the GL graphics library as a de facto standard , and continuing to digest the business of the former MIPS Computer Systems Inc , SGI has n't given much attention to its high-end . |
| 25 | Although GL is gaining ground as a de facto standard it does not support PEX , the Phigs extensions which allow developers to write distributed , three-dimensional graphics applications for X-Windows : ‘ because PHIGS is years behind the marketplace , ’ insists SGI . |
| 26 | on this , on this particular matter , I would like to add erm on C E G traffic manager as a tem as a temporarily lease because , I mean let's face it unless we plan ahead we are going to be in a hell of a muddle , in trouble . |
| 27 | Although Ice Cube 's role as an agent provocateur is unequivocal , his future as a bankable revolutionary must be open to doubt , despite his assertion on the liner notes of ‘ Predator ’ : ‘ I will become an African-American when America gives up the oppression of my people . ’ |
| 28 | — TORY MPs want the PM to ignore Cabinet opposition and appoint ex-Labour leader Neil Kinnock as a 108,000-a-year Euro Commissioner . |
| 29 | Kissinger erm who began life as a er er as professor of history . |
| 30 | Developed and designed by Austin , Texas-based Ross , under the watchful eyes of Sun Microsystems Inc engineers , the superscalar , superpipelined HyperSparc begins life as a 66.7MHz unit delivering 70 SPECmarks ( 55 SPECint , 64 SPECfp ) , 133 MIPS and 32 MFLOPS , compared to the 50 SPECmarks of Texas ' initial 40MHz Viking CPU . |