Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Small cabins were dotted about at the side of fields , mostly ruined or used as farm sheds , but in some cases inhabited . |
| 2 | Many of these problems centred on the way schools deployed their PNP coordinators ( see pp. 102–8 ) , but Scale 1/MPG staff could also find themselves marginalized or used as supply teachers or even ancillaries in the very way the Authority had warned against . |
| 3 | Inefficient recovery practices have left metal-rich waste dumps which have often been levelled or used as roadstone . |
| 4 | In the fluidity of contemporary values we do indeed sink into a relativism for which your opinion is worth as much or little as mine whenever we lose faith in awareness itself , and surrender to irrationalism . |
| 5 | You can choose cotton that 's blissfully warm , or crisp and cool ; hard wearing and tough , or soft as velvet . |
| 6 | A tall , turbulent white steam column rolls upwards above the vent , often becoming grey or black as ash is blasted upwards . |
| 7 | Obviously it 's nowhere near as deep or complicated as Bard 's Tale , but it 's still a force to be reckoned with — especially now you get the expansion set thrown in too . |
| 8 | The pixel data may be in 8-bit binary words , but it is common for them to be 7-bit binary words , to preserve the capability of 7-bit transmission or coded as ascii hex characters , ie. , 0–9 and a-f , thus also preserving printability . |
| 9 | In its usage of the real or referent as signifier , surrealism eminently illustrated de-differentiated signification . |
| 10 | In summary , Tunguska was probably a fairly strong , dense , asteroid-like object , but probably not as strong or dense as iron . |
| 11 | Frosts can occur well into the summer , while snow may fall in spring , and autumn days can be as balmy as summer or bitter as winter . |
| 12 | Pump housings can be covered with slabs that double as stepping stones , or stands for Bonsai , while the decking over a gravity-fed filter chamber can be painted in the traditional red and black of a tea-house balcony or simple bridge . |
| 13 | His lips were smiling lovingly , but his eyes were hard and unfeeling as jet . |
| 14 | When I was anorexic I had only dim feelings of resentment as to how my body was destined to be used , and the thought of anything as positive and specific as penetration never entered my mind . |
| 15 | A savage place ! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover ! |
| 16 | Daisy Chainsaw try to shock and scare and upset as art terrorists detonating nailbombs in the nursery , subverting our notions of how a little girly and her backing bullies should behave , and fail dismally . |
| 17 | As a boy I was always taught to use a sod of turf as a foundation , so that the eggs would remain slightly damp , and to build a snug nest of hay on top of it - and the barn wall was knobbly , draughty and dry as dust . |
| 18 | In the heart of the great metropolitan areas of America the inner cities became as desolate and hopeless as shanty towns . |
| 19 | Her back so hot , and slick as ice . |
| 20 | The fact that most of them already had criminal records was widely publicised and used as evidence of their guilt in the Chai Qing Feng case . |
| 21 | and used as evidence of provocative atrocities that would justify invading Poland . |
| 22 | The extract thus achieved ( α antigen ) was diluted in carbonate-bicarbonate buffer pH 9.5 and used as substrate for ELISA . |
| 23 | Many bacteria can also be isolated from insects and may be important in the natural control of insect populations , but the only bacteria which have been extensively studied and used as pest control agents are Bacillus spp . |
| 24 | Accurate and comprehensive claims are prepared from data retained and used as management information and estimating source information . |
| 25 | Title was acquired by terrestrial airline and used as inflight reading under editorship of William Davies . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , some wooded areas were more intensively settled and used as time went on . |
| 27 | As has been normal for most organized communities that are not based on a money economy , African society was based on slavery ( in the sense of the life-long ownership of human beings who could be traded ) , which sometimes involved plantation work or even being used as a human sacrifice : there is no calculus to compare the disadvantages of local slavery with those of being taken across the Atlantic and used as plantation or mining labour . |
| 28 | The antibody to pepsinogen A showed no cross reactivity with pepsinogen C , whereas the antibody to pepsinogen C did not cross react with pepsinogen A. Purified human pepsinogen A and pepsinogen C were coupled to 1 2 5 I by the chloramine T method and used as label in the assays . |
| 29 | The really gigantic spiders are sometimes captured and used as barter , but mostly these enormous creatures are avoided because they are too dangerous . |
| 30 | The water had been picked up in the Humber estuary and used as ballast . |