Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it was , an irrelevant image kept popping up in the comer of his eye , dragging his attention away : the image of an old man Iying slumped in the mud against a wall of concrete blocks , turned away , as though death were an act as shameful as intercourse or defecation , which he had sought to conceal as far as possible , even in the bleakly exposed place where it had come to him . |
| 2 | Leipzig church calls for calm as unity movement gathers strength . |
| 3 | Since that day of Dirac 's discovery the dual nature of light as wave and particle has been free of paradox for those in the know . |
| 4 | The choice of Montini as pope was an enormous encouragement to those working for change in and through the Council . |
| 5 | In the weeks leading up to the elections , there had been numerous scenes of near-anarchy as food was looted from factories and warehouses and robbers held up cars on country roads . |
| 6 | part of the process of universal involvement in recognition of Artai as Lord of the Earth now necessitated the removal of the Dragon Throne — a solid piece of carving of the weight of seven thousand diram — with its occupant from the top of the plinth down to the concourse from whence it was destined to be borne on a processional route on the shoulders of teams of men of every degree in the Khanate , most of whom had been selected by lot , although there were a few who had paid out considerable sums in gold koban for the privilege of inclusion . |
| 7 | Dummett , architect of anti-realism as successor to verificationism , offers the most introductory account I know in Dummett ( 1978 , ch. 10 ) but if you are new to this area you would do better to wait until you have read ch. 9 of the present book before attempting it . |
| 8 | December : appointment of al-Jaburi as Defence Minister [ see p. 37927 ] and Gen. Abdel-Jabber Khalil al-Shanshal as Minister of State for Military Affairs . |
| 9 | ‘ Let me remind you , Brother , that your own superiors have recognised the Count of Mortain as King . |
| 10 | This desire should govern every aspect of living as desire for health dominates a sick man — it is the very mainspring of action , " rote of al wirkynge " ( 47.558 ) . |
| 11 | But what does matter is that relegation of drama to the same order of non-seriousness as game , revellings and disportings , permitted an ‘ it 's only a game ’ attitude — both dismissive and tolerant — to creep in . |
| 12 | Take the centre of mass as origin and the orbit to lie in the xOy plane with the masses along the x axis at time zero . |
| 13 | The sky was turning several shades of blue as night gave way to day . |
| 14 | Entwined with the question of politics and of film-making as self-expression — a matter of class privilege ( Diaz-Abaya ) or cultural struggle ( Dhanraj ) — -was the issue of women 's sexual objectification . |
| 15 | Howell ( this volume ) takes up some of these issues in her paper where she argues against the interpretation of ritual as catharsis among the Chewong . |
| 16 | If one is still searching for ways to explain this absence , believing with most ethologists , socio-biologists , and even some social anthropologists that aggression is part of human nature , then the obvious place to look is for some form of ritual as catharsis , or try to identify some other culturally constructed behaviour pattern which allows the individual Chewong to shed negatively valued arousal states , like anger , which according to such theories would build up and erupt in uncontrolled violent behaviour . |
| 17 | Appointment of Berri as Speaker — Appointment of Hariri as Prime Minister — New government |
| 18 | In the West African slave trade , a pidgin form of English ( i.e. a pidgin with English as lexifier ) was used for communication between the English slavers and their African counterparts , as well as among those Africans involved in the trade who did not have any other language in common . |
| 19 | The word was brought west by Xenophon , who introduced it into Greek when describing the fabulous garden built by the Persian Emperor Cyrus at Sardis ; from the Greek paradeisoi it passed into Latin as paradisum ; and hence into Middle English as paradis . |
| 20 | These objective conditions are interiorized through habitus as desire expressed in taste . |
| 21 | Jayne Fitzgerald , product line manager for Interspan high speed data services , says that demand is coming as much from commercial as research organisations for the high speed services . |
| 22 | This type of revision , arising via a matching exercise , will be a feature of National Certificate in future as Lead Bodies continue to generate standards . |
| 23 | But for one zany week in March , the place sheds its stay-at-home Cinderella rags , paints its face and gets itself up in motley as Clown Town . |
| 24 | The rulers of Thessaly , then , resembled the Macedonians in considered as Greek was racially no worse than Macedon 's ; Simonides had performed there before Pindar , and in 460 Thessaly was to produce an Olympic victor called Agias . |
| 25 | Well , its a busy time for her dad as well , what with those extra services — and a lamentable feature of this day and age is the amount of toerags that roll in bold as brass to the Watchnight Service reeking of drink . |
| 26 | Gradually the technique develops its own style , moving away from red-figure as red-figure had early freed itself from the black figure tradition ; only white-ground long remains no more than a sideline of red-figure painters . |
| 27 | He is often concerned with the structure of social relationships , the principles underlying organizations and the manifestation of social institutions in general as evidence at a particular time , rather than being concerned with the flow of events which attracts the historian . |
| 28 | There are several fascinating castles and abbeys in the vicinity including : Richmond Castle , 6 miles away , which was built in 107– as protection against the Saxons , and Bolton Castle , 12 miles away , where Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned , and the ruins of the once magnificent Abbeys of Easby , Jervaulx and Coverham . |
| 29 | William Wegman usually appears in books on the art of the last two decades in his role as a pioneer Conceptual artist — and in particular as author of a piece called " Family Combinations " ( 1972 ) . |
| 30 | Its 13 main business lines , each large enough to be a Fortune-500 company , have about as much in common as ice cream and cement . |