Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This also develops technical skills as the pupils learn to use the microcomputer while carrying out the project . |
| 2 | Trying times as the rugby season closes |
| 3 | Shell , one of the League 's top offensive tackles for 15 years , made the Pro Bowl eight times as a Raider . |
| 4 | Sceptics may baulk at such an idea , but given the attested presence of such equally implausible-sounding objects as a block of portable eighteenth-century soup ( ex Captain Cook ) , Inuit seal-gut underwear , African cobweb hats and other equally exotic objects , the concept of dressed fleas may seem more acceptable . |
| 5 | In certain contexts , the word apple may arouse the same mouth-watering reactions as the sight of the fruit itself . |
| 6 | Of course , this apparatus would not be valid for use in normal subjects as the corpus collosum would allow the transfer of information from one hemisphere to the other . |
| 7 | Of course , this apparatus would not be valid for use in normal subjects as the corpus collosum would allow the transfer of information from one hemisphere to the other . |
| 8 | Gerald has been known to coin such memorable one-liners as the following : ‘ If the joy of the Lord is our strength , it 's little wonder that the church in Britain has been so weak and ineffective ’ ; ‘ There 's no virtue in being ten or twenty years behind the times ’ ; ‘ Most Christians are nicer than God himself ’ ; ‘ It is the unshared areas of our lives where Jesus is not Lord ’ ; ‘ One of the reasons the church in Britain has failed to grow is quite simply because it is full of people who are extremely rude ’ ; ‘ Putting the life of God into institutional Christianity is rather like putting the life of a human being into a kangaroo … . ’ 'You are only a leader if someone 's following you' ( Gerald Quotes ) . |
| 9 | People see advertisements out of the corner of their eye as they drive along a road or look through a newspaper or magazine ; they catch a glimpse of half a TV commercial round their wives ' or husbands ' broad backsides as the biscuits are brought in during a commercial break . |
| 10 | This means you can re-use soapy water for fresh loads as the ‘ cleaning ’ happens in the rinse . |
| 11 | ‘ It has lent credence to such manifest absurdities as the equality of the sexes and the equality of races . |
| 12 | British record holder and Commonwealth champion Kirsty Wade joined the region 's top coaches as the children learned how to steeplechase , race walk , run middle distance events and enjoyed a cross-country run in Albert Park . |
| 13 | This episode followed a period in which the Thatcher government had shown reluctance to maintain such meagre defences as the Falkland islanders possessed . |
| 14 | Three particularly objective masters of choreography are de Valois in Job and The Rake 's Progress , Massine with such different ballets as The Good - Humoured Ladies and The Three-Cornered Hat and MacMillan with Mayerling and Requiem . |
| 15 | The knights engaged in close combat but the jousting was cancelled after the first few contests as the horses were unsure of their footing in the mud and consequently the inept efforts of the knights produced only laughter from the spectators . |
| 16 | It is the unique experience of rail travellers on the Gotthard to glimpse the same , unmistakable baroque-domed village church three times in a few minutes as the train passes it at different levels above and below . |
| 17 | The parade dispersed , the Commandos returning to their respective units , and soon the village green was quiet , except for the murmur of French voices as the civilians read the newsheet pinned to a tree . |
| 18 | Fox set up New World Pictures to make British films , and Columbia Pictures engaged Irving Asher , who had been making quickies for Warners , to initiate a production programme that led to such interesting pictures as The Spy in Black ( 1938 , U-Boat 29 in US ) and Q Planes ( 1939 , Clouds Over Europe in US ) , both of which tapped into contemporary anxieties about the prospect of war . |
| 19 | The focus on the child-rearing implications of women 's employment has led to such detailed considerations as the relation between the employment status of mothers and their children 's health , and the possibility of an association between employment and the nutritional adequacy of pre-school children 's diets . |
| 20 | Kelly and Sear predict that things should actually improve over the next few months as the northern hemisphere continues to recover from the 0.5°C cooling that actually happened in June last year . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , hostels face a bleak few months as the assessment system grinds into action . |
| 22 | the collapse of geographical and social hierarchies as the community becomes more outward looking and the squirearchy is replaced by a class-based structure polarized around housing segregation . |
| 23 | Under that scheme , owners who face being made homeless due to mortgage arrears are allowed to stay in their homes as tenants for 12 months as the council takes up a head lease . |
| 24 | DANGER might be lurking in freshwater lakes as the country basked in sweltering temperatures , scientists warned yesterday . |
| 25 | This was a time of very rapid warming at the end of a little ice age and if we can understand how the climate changed at this time , we 're much better able to predict future climatic perturbations as the earth warms up due to the addition of greenhouse gases . |
| 26 | In the latter she wasted little space on such theoretical concerns as the position of monarchy in modern society , concentrating instead on the more trivial aspects of palace life . |
| 27 | Lilly is the man responsible for such scientific breakthroughs as the invention of the isolation tank and communication between human beings and dolphins . |
| 28 | At the opposite end of the scale from the fundamentalists , we have such interesting hypotheses as the one put forward recently drawing attention to the close positive correlation between the susceptibility of groups to extinction and the oxygen consumption level of their modem representatives . |
| 29 | ‘ . Vocal music should be monodic , as simple as such popular tunes as the ‘ Romanesca ’ ( see p. 237 ) or those of laudi and villanelle , with an accompaniment too simple to distract the listener . |
| 30 | The arrows point in different directions as the field of information is enlarged at all parts of its boundary . |