Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] as [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shadows and sunlight race about inside the confined cockpit while reflections of white and blue chase one another across the mirror-shiny canopy as we describe the laziest of barrel rolls . |
| 2 | Accepting shareholders will be attracted by an offer of preference shares which are convertible into ordinary shares in due course as they will be able to receive current fixed income while at the same time having the prospect of a capital gain in due course . |
| 3 | Where directorate systems work well , there seems to be an increase in staff morale and greater co-operation between professional groups as they cohere around an integrated programme of patient care . |
| 4 | Etched into Kinder Scout 's northern flanks , the clough provides pleasant rock-hopping as it twists and turns upwards until you enter a fine , hidden amphitheatre which gives good scrambling up rocky steps . |
| 5 | Robyn enquired with as much derisive sarcasm as she could muster , deliberately blocking out the memory of how wonderful it had felt with Luke and how sordid and somehow dirty it had felt when Callum had touched her . |
| 6 | He goes on to explain that this change was fundamental to the development of Combined Operations as he was then able to order the ships and craft , and requisition bases among the other resources controlled by the Minister of Defence ( Winston Churchill ) . |
| 7 | In civil defence terms the Scud attacks , directed as they were at civilian populations , posed a dilemma for the Israeli authorities as it was not known in advance whether the missiles would carry conventional or chemical warheads . |
| 8 | He was dissecting a gland-like mushroom as he spoke , clearly in order to illustrate his telepathy . |
| 9 | He opened the boomgate and Whitlock gave him a friendly wave as he drove past on his way to the visitors ' car park . |
| 10 | We continue by laying course upon course of reed using our legget ( bat-shaped tool ) to dress each course as we go . |
| 11 | Most ( although not all ! ) horses do become less worried about strange objects as they get older , but some old horses are just plain silly about some things , but it is mostly a bit of a game to them and if ignored , they soon settle down ! |
| 12 | Based on the indications of interest , the shareholders , with the assistance of [ selling agent ] will , at their sole and absolute discretion , select a preferred party or parties who will be invited to perform such limited due diligence as they deem necessary in order to be able to make a binding offer . |
| 13 | Furthermore , it was plain that the provision contemplated deduction from each instalment as it was paid . |
| 14 | And with it such social and political change as they shall not understand . |
| 15 | M0 is sometimes called the wide monetary base as it includes those assets that are , or could be , used as cash reserves by the banking system . |
| 16 | As soon as he confessed what he knew , fumbling the hideous admission as they came out of a rather good film about love that he had hardly been able to stand , she managed to make it seem that it was he , not she , who was the disturber of their lives . |
| 17 | The electronic collection of Alexander Hamilton 's works will hold out as much interest to the linguist , philosopher , and the political scientist as it does to the historian . |
| 18 | Two fingers I had waved at that driver as he thundered past me , cursing me through the open cab window and fighting the wheel , and those two fingers I now regretted having on my hand . |
| 19 | in keeping with , it allows that opportunity as you know |
| 20 | A long quarter swell built up and for four days and nights the carrack raced along , slipping backwards down each wave as it overtook her , wallowing heavily as the next one came up astern , and making a dazzling white wake that trailed astern like a huge , ragged scar across the aquamarine ocean . |
| 21 | But Randolph did n't mind one little bit as it was the best day of his life . |
| 22 | Things were a bit easier at Binbrook in that direction as we could sleep between midnight and 6am , but I must admit that most nights I had considerably less sleep than that . |
| 23 | ‘ I think , ’ Nathan 's voice had an odd rasp as he pulled out a wad of papers and dropped them on the table , ‘ you 'd better get some sleep . |
| 24 | He was a dry , spinsterish man whom Paul disliked , and who could voice his narrow opinions as he chose , having means of his own . |
| 25 | There were rainbow clumps of raw colour which sizzled and suddenly coiled into snakelike forms as she approached and lifted serpentine heads to hiss at her ; there were pouring cascades of things that had appeared to be silk or velvet , but which were molten gold when she got nearer and made her remember Fael-Inis and the cascading River and the salamanders . |
| 26 | I must be brave for Perdita 's sake , said Daisy through chattering teeth as she pressed the door bell . |
| 27 | I was an emotional morsel as we headed back . |
| 28 | Since nearly all High Court judges are appointed when they are between about 45 and 57 it is likely that they will have shed such political enthusiasms as they may have had when young and have formed firm views about how the country should be run . |
| 29 | This presupposes a homogeneity of units which can not always be supported in fact , but the individual investigator must take decisions on this problem in each case as it arises . |
| 30 | It was the only way of contesting that ‘ bourgeois reason ’ which , for him , was as much a feature of left-wing political programmes as it was of traditional colonial domination . |