Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Known in due course as the Deep , or Horse Level , it was the lowest tunnel which could conveniently be driven and still serve the new Bonsor Mill . |
| 2 | In it Rolfe rescripted his pathetic , seedy , and unrecognized struggle as the dream-fulfilling election of his protagonist to the papacy . |
| 3 | Sniffing greatness by association , in flocked the A & R men but with little luck as the bemused James turned their backs on record companies , turned down a chance to feature on the cover of NME ( this was rectified later ) and refused to supply photos in a strange but subtle disregard for the traditional career ladder . |
| 4 | It is known that the Lombard King Alboin brought his army and then his people on to the plain in 568 , and that they met with little resistance as the Goths had almost vacated the area by that time . |
| 5 | It was followed , after the ammunition pouches of the defenders had been emptied , by total slaughter as the last line on the summit of an open hill was breached . |
| 6 | We might even be justified as regarding the end of each sentence as the point at which the sender assesses the effect on a potential receiver , imagines a reply , and adjusts the next sentence accordingly . |
| 7 | This leaves the two bands , near 400 cm -1 for the dichloride and near 300 cm -1 for the dibromide , as the GeX stretches , and the lowest frequency band in each case as the deformation . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | For example , Slade J in Greig v Insole [ 1978 ] 3 All ER 449 charmingly described the public interest in that case as the " public pleasure " in watching cricket played by talented cricketers , and described the Football Association and the Football League in Eastham v Newcastle Football Club Ltd [ 1964 ] Ch 413 as being " custodians of the public interest " . |
| 10 | a very large-sample analysis of a firm 's previous good-and-bad-debt experience as the basis of any credit scoring system designed for that firm ; |
| 11 | Some foreign ministry officials ( like Briand 20 years before ) saw European unity as the only solution : France and Germany could join in European institutions as equals , with no need for special controls on Germany ; but at the same time German economic independence would be restricted and German resources would be used for the good of a greater whole . |
| 12 | Ergativity involves using the object of a transitive verb as the subject of an intransitive verb : cf. An explosion shook the room and The room shook ( with the explosion ) . |
| 13 | Secondly , the workforce undertaking the assessment has been expensively trained as professional providers ; not only is the role of assessor without being a provider an inherently unsatisfactory one for these people , but the emphasis upon dispassionate , creative professional judgement as the arbiter of resource allocation , resource creation , and resource co-ordination , is entirely removed from the scene . |
| 14 | Indeed , many sole practitioners clearly regarded the abolition of sole practice as the hidden agenda of the Council , and saw in the presentation of the issues in the background paper an attack upon the very concept of a single profession governed in accordance with single set of regulations . |
| 15 | I regard the form of political action as the most important connection between the state and civil society , and locate political engagement and organization as a component of civil society rather than the state . |
| 16 | I said we did n't need a strong fence as the one tree that could fall on it already had . |
| 17 | The results of the flow cytometry analysis showed similar changes in the rate of cellular proliferation as the BrdUrd method ( Table III ) but , these changs were of smaller magnitude indicating the lower sensitivity of this method . |
| 18 | Thus , whereas for Jakobson the " poetic function " co-exists in any given utterance with the " referential function " , de Man takes the poetic function as the sole function , not only of literature , but of language in general . |
| 19 | American-Soviet agreement on respective zones in Korea was attained through acceptance of the 38th parallel as the dividing line between the Soviet-controlled area to the north and the American-controlled area to the south . |
| 20 | Both saw English literature as the expression of a nation , and had little truck with foreign theorising . |
| 21 | There follows a passage in which the extended metaphor of free liberating and fertilizing flow situates English literature as the natural and unpolluted source for the most valid native experience and sense of identity : |
| 22 | It would be true to describe the discipline as having achieved an astounding success if such success is measured in terms of the establishment of English literature as the central arts subject at A level , and thus at the basis of the constant demand for undergraduate places . |
| 23 | Five out of six opinion polls yesterday showed Labour in the lead , pointing to a hung Parliament as the most likely outcome . |
| 24 | This will reduce the costs of arbitraging this index as the trading of odd lots of shares is never required . |
| 25 | Tomorrow he delivers a lecture Beyond the Rhetoric : a cool look at architectural judgement as the first in a series by new professors at Leeds Polytechnic . |
| 26 | Luke uses this story as the supreme example of his theme of universalism . |
| 27 | There is an element of humour in this story as the eleven-year-old girl , brought up by a cynical , unloving father to be arrogant and self-sufficient , is helped by the bracing company of Dick and his holiday companion Hugh Vallens to relax and enjoy a little fun . |
| 28 | I thought of this hyla as the nymph Echo , a dryad , an invisible sweet voice . |
| 29 | It is also usual practice to spray a bouquet with water from an atomiser to keep it fresh , but it should be avoided in this case as the water droplets can mark the flowers , as well as possibly make the bouquet damp when the time comes for you to press it . |
| 30 | THERE are some crucial games this afternoon as the promotion and relegation battles in the Courage Leagues hot up . |