Example sentences of "[verb] as [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I depressed his chest with my palms every three seconds In the old-fashioned way , willing the dog to breathe as the eyes still stared at nothing . |
| 2 | I had to see as the wagons in the coals as it shifting , not falling off you see . |
| 3 | There is evidence from which it appears that the United Nations Organisation considers that there are persons whom it may treat as the representatives of the Republic of Somalia . |
| 4 | Footsteps on a wood floor ; then silence as the feet stepped on to a rug . |
| 5 | Here in the open grass he broke into a headlong run , lurching and recovering as the tussocks turned under him . |
| 6 | You 'd have thought modems would be quicker on the parallel port , but no ; the serial port was originally developed as a telecommunications device . |
| 7 | Commonly , rectal distensibility is determined as rectal compliance and calculated as the changes of volume and intrarectal pressure ( ) . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , among the middle class , there were few institutions so revered as the schools , and their influence in clubs was held to be of great consequence as reformers regularly called for public-school men to come forward to work in the clubs . |
| 9 | A brand of religion peculiar to the country and its people , where saints and miracles were part of everyday life and idiots were revered as the children of God . |
| 10 | In this project we shall examine what preconceptions teenagers have about driving and how these preconceptions change as a functions of age and first-hand experience of driving . |
| 11 | The Rottweiler was recognized as a police dog , and though it came fourth behind three other breeds , it was a start , a start to a new career and one the breed took to with relish . |
| 12 | Ancient sites have traditionally been recognized as the haunts of beings or entities from worlds other than the everyday . |
| 13 | They are likely to be revised as the circumstances of mothers ' lives change through the 1990s . |
| 14 | In fact , all Wulfstan 's Enham mater-ial , including the Old English V and VI Æthelred , seems to be a record of his preaching , agreed by those present , and later publicised as the decrees of the meeting . |
| 15 | Given the sensitive functions of the librarium which doubled as the communications centre , naturally entry to that chamber was restricted . |
| 16 | It is sufficient here to treat as a futures or option contract any contract whose terms contemplate future performance and which is made on or under the rules of a market cleared by a clearing house . |
| 17 | Doug Lawson , principal officer for children 's services at Cheshire County Council says Appleton House is considered too large and too institutional to continue as a children 's home . |
| 18 | Since the QT Meeting on the 7th has indicated that she is feeling a little better and for the time being is willing to continue as the Teachers ' Representative , however , it is possible that in the future she may require assistance to carry out her duties . |
| 19 | In the centre loomed a squat Tower of brown stone up which the shade steadily crept as the shadows on the ground reached out into nothing and were lost . |
| 20 | Like Cobbett , many suffragettes would have said that it was not so much the vote for its own sake that they sought as the improvements in the status and conditions of women which they believe would be achieved as the result of women 's enfranchisement . |
| 21 | Disputes arose as to what should be done with the cargo and the shipowners issued an originating summons on 12 March 1991 in this court naming as the defendants the charterers of the vessel . |
| 22 | Such designations may be comprehensive in that the key villages are usually designated as the loci for growth in employment , services and housing . |
| 23 | And the scene of the burning of the books , seen on film by her many times , was as vivid as an actual memory : Hitler 's jack-booted thugs in their brown shirts , swastikas on their arms , heaving the books from the Library and heaping the heritage of the world on to a pyre , dancing and gloating as the flames consumed book after book , volume after volume : Heine , Schiller , Brecht , Thomas Mann , Einstein , Freud , Marx : history , poetry , novels , science , the works of philosophers , psychologists — men and women who had dedicated their lives for the betterment of the brutes who burned their books ; brutes living in utter ignorance , leading lives as dull and limited as the beasts of the fields , inspired only by resentment , vile prejudice , and blind hatred of what they could not understand , and , it was true , victims themselves of poverty and ignorance seeking victims in their turn — and finding them . |
| 24 | He laughs as the figures , unable to resist , are subjected to the torments they most fear . |
| 25 | So I graduated from watcher to player and clapped as the sons and the Omani drummers played and sang . |
| 26 | ‘ The Dallae ’ referred to the identical Dallas twins who were consulted as the oracles of the Decoding Room School . |
| 27 | The themes of illness , remorse , personal degeneration and death were dismissed as the signs of an outmoded naturalism . |
| 28 | It is also regarded as a men 's club and its members all possess comfortable rooms . |
| 29 | Obviously , the case was stronger than the one actually provided for , so it could be regarded as a fortiori . |
| 30 | The most economically prosperous parts of the UK at the present time are widely regarded as the towns and cities located on a broad axis extending from Cambridgeshire to Dorset and Avon . |