Example sentences of "[prep] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somehow working with a young cast in Dublin has brought out the best in Parker as a director to create the film that is already being talked about as the best rock movie in years . |
| 2 | I mean , that 's m my contribution as as a committed person to equal opportunities , but I 'd welcome an example |
| 3 | Which I 'll just pick up on as a as as a final point . |
| 4 | Cos I remember as as a little one , I had n't got a clue , and the whole meaning of it was lost completely . |
| 5 | As as a direct result of it erm without anything about it erm Mr in court just wanted to get in and out . |
| 6 | Er as as a basic starting point yes . |
| 7 | Erm it is our position that we would support and regard as as the best approach one based on past land take-up . |
| 8 | No , I mean I know that is is not exactly pertinent to the application that is er in , erm I my personal view is that that that bungalows are are practical , we have had it stated by one resident that a house and a bungalow would be acceptable , erm not that I am er anticipating any other planning develop er applications by these applicants but er would a house of a similar nature to one of these that they have proposed , plus a bungalow er , would we have as much opposition to this , to that as as the present ones , or you would prefer to defer until you saw it ? |
| 9 | So they 're just after a kind of random sample of Aston lecturers and as as the official random sample keep forgetting to put the er put the tape in the machine , or turn it on or whatever , it 's handed on to me so I 'm now wired up to an extraordinary degree . |
| 10 | I do yeah absolutely as as as the first few times we did it you know . |
| 11 | Erm , that report is not in the bundle of documents before your lordship at present because we were notified er er as as the sixteenth of November er that thetted , a unitary stat unitary authority and County Hall is |
| 12 | You see and that al old aunt that I told you about she always referred this road through as the new road . |
| 13 | However , that is what I am paid for as a full- time member of staff . |
| 14 | Or , and this was more likely , he found Beth too lovely , too desirable , too much like the women he had longed for as a young man , and never had the fortune to find . |
| 15 | Does it indicate that the meaning of an idiom can not be inferred from ( or , more precisely , can not be accounted for as a compositional function of ) the meanings the parts carry IN THAT EXPRESSION ? |
| 16 | The definition must be understood as stating that an idiom is an expression whose meaning can not be accounted for as a compositional function of the meanings its parts have when they are not parts of idioms . |
| 17 | They should be accounted for separately only if the instruments are capable of being cancelled or redeemed independently of each other ; otherwise they should be accounted for as a single instrument . |
| 18 | PW points out that had Perfect Information been accounted for as an associated undertaking , ‘ in our opinion up to £2m of the loss recognised this year would have been reflected in the year ended 31 March 1991 by elimination of profits arising on sales made to Perfect Information Ltd . |
| 19 | These dissonant days the best a player can hope for as an inspirational backdrop to his talent is an off-pitch dirge . |
| 20 | The sale will hit Bonar 's bottom line profits figure to the tune of £1.2 million , to be provided for as an exceptional item in the group 's results to 30 November . |
| 21 | But he felt as well something far greater — the sudden joy of life that he had pleaded for as the old eagle 's right , and in pleading for it then had begun at last to claim it as his own . |
| 22 | As often happens with highly endangered species , this dolphin has been much sought after as a rare specimen for overseas aquaria , and has been captured for display in the US and Switzerland . |
| 23 | He was , in the early Seventies , spoken of as a possible future Tory leader . |
| 24 | By 1701 he was serving as chairman of the influential elections committee , and was even talked of as a possible Speaker . |
| 25 | More generally , the fact that literary studies is sometimes thought of as a general training in thinking and writing means that you are expected to be able to control how you write — in particular , that you are able consistently to use a particular appropriate register . |
| 26 | The observed price of the object can then be decomposed and thought of as a weighted sum of the prices of each characteristic ; since one does not observe all the attributes , a part of the price of each drawing will remain unexplained , and contain the influence of time ( the trend , if any ) , as well as random elements ; this is the ‘ characteristic free ’ ( i.e. corrected for quality ) price of a drawing ; these prices can now be added and by taking annual averages , one obtains the ‘ average price of the year ’ . |
| 27 | Notice that the CDR can be thought of as a weighted mean of the age-specific rates , using age class population numbers as weights , i.e. CDR = |
| 28 | The former reference can be thought of as a private sector illustration of financial accountability . |
| 29 | They argued that scientific progress and understanding could not be conceived of as a static process ; with the advance of research into passive smoking , different conclusions might one day become apparent . |
| 30 | Party membership is often thought of as a static phenomenon . |