Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb base] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bows of Central Asia use horse hide as the bowstring . |
| 2 | Even marginal victory had never entered her mind save as an impossible dream . |
| 3 | Higher up the size scale , larger structural elements also present similarities so that likeness and analogy operate as a focal principle at all levels whether we are aware of it or not . |
| 4 | Because when I was thinking about trying to talking to you today , I thought although we 've worked quite a lot with people along this group , you might be sitting here and thinking well you do n't seem to be doing any specific work for and with old people erm , well I think your quite independent and can work out your right that , but one of the things this front line review erm it erm , it 's considering Council front line services under various headings , one of which is Retired Services that the Council provide as a group , now the leader of the Council wants to erm , get public views on how we look at these services , so , and that 's , that 's individuals and groups and one of the things that you might like to think about and I 'm that we as a local government unit who are servicing this review can help you with , is to consider how you might want to fee in for that review , erm and , and consider this , that the re-services for retired people , that the Council provides that you use and basically whether you use that , or service , we want to hear that , the Council would need to know that cos were gon na be making decisions about whether or not they should continue in this front line review erm , and erm , you know , or what things you would , what , what are your questions on about those services , what other things you would like to see provided , things like that and I thing this group could quite easily make a collective representation , a collective submission to that process then you could do it as individual 's as well , so that , that exercise it , it should be over by the eleventh of October it starts on the sixth of September . |
| 5 | A checker that did not have wether in its lexicon would flag wether as an error ( correctly or not ) , but one with a comprehensive dictionary would fail to do so . |
| 6 | Does the first relationship established by the child serve as a prototype for all subsequent relationships ? |
| 7 | He then joins the ranks of the novel 's other characters as a victim , falling casualty to his own search when he uncovers documentary evidence that he was sold to a big business combine as a child . |
| 8 | From the conference of Berchtesgaden in November 1937 to the Anschluss of Austria in March 1938 , from the increasingly threatening noises over Czechoslovakia in March 1938 to the abdication of Munich in September 1938 , from the last-ditch , desperate attempts to cobble together a tripartite agreement in May 1939 to the signing of the Nazi-Soviet pact in August 1939 , there was a sense of deathly inevitability compared to which Nizan 's repeated calls for collective security appear as no more than the efforts of a man crying in the wilderness . |
| 9 | ‘ During the whole of her illness , prayer was made without ceasing by the whole Church on her behalf , and I felt persuaded that the Lord would yet hear us and for His name 's sake appear as the one prayer-hearing God — for the heathen around knew what was done , and would say , ‘ Where is now your God ? '' ’ |
| 10 | Gazzer felt his tired body relax as the heat unknotted tense and aching muscles . |
| 11 | Before his eyes , the person he 'd known did a slow dissolve into the person she 'd become : the face sharper and sterner , the hair short and severe , the body lean as a toothpick on salads and work-outs . |
| 12 | Dark-I swear as the faces of the two White Mountain boys . |
| 13 | This cell binding site serve as a ligand for RGD dependent integrin class receptors ( 8,9 ) . |
| 14 | Banks ' daily holdings of cash fluctuate as a result of transactions between the government and the public ; bank cash held by the discount houses is used to smooth out these fluctuations . |
| 15 | Rohan moved swiftly , restively , his lean body tense as a coiled spring . |
| 16 | Though parts were altered in the seventeenth century , the Tudor Great Hall , entrance court and river façade remain as a tribute to Cardinal Wolsey 's foresight and taste . |
| 17 | This sum will be doubled up to £80,000 , if both husband and wife die as a result of the same accident . |
| 18 | To provide an even higher level of protection for our customers we will double the amount payable on death after an accident , if both husband and wife die as the result of the same accident . |
| 19 | With some horses , animation that is not a response to anxiety or fear , becomes a thing of the past ; but with others , especially Arabians , cheerfulness and animation continue as a consistent part of their personality . |
| 20 | Bearing in mind the importance of the conclusion of the Uruguay round of the GATT to many industries in Britain and to third-world economies , what does my right hon. Friend see as the prospects for overcoming the obstructionism of the socialist Government of France to a successful outcome ? |
| 21 | Listening and writing predominate as the major pupil activities , there being little opportunity for pupils to contribute to , or take responsibility for , their own learning , to develop self-confidence , independence and similar personal qualities . |
| 22 | The single pronuclear haploid eggs produced by activation serve as a starting point for parthenogenetic studies in mammals(2) . |
| 23 | FIG. 2 Frequency shift as a function of atomic density as measured by Gibble and Chu : green line , with all sublevels ; red line , with most sublevels removed ( see text ) . |
| 24 | Although changes in performance arise as a result of supply side factors , they manifest themselves as shifts in demand curve . |
| 25 | It has shaped those fashions , sounds and images young people around the world perceive as the essence of being British . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , the future of her career was a constant background worry as the days and weeks of her appointment at Rummidge ticked away like a taxi meter . |
| 27 | Making them responsible for keeping each other awake at this stage restored a sense of group cohesion and of common purpose , although from this point on some serious changes in behaviour seem to have occurred , marked by emotional outbursts , grossly impolite eating habits and what the authors of the report describe as an " infantilization of personal habits … including toilet and bathing activities " . |
| 28 | The procedure involves the purchasing party to a proposed qualifying merger completing a prescribed form know as a " Merger Notice " and submitting it to the OFT . |
| 29 | The main economic and social themes which have already been considered in many of the chapters of this book reappear as the dominant themes in any discussion on housing policy . |
| 30 | But half a century on and the most basic Jeep will , according to UK importers TKM , be as much as an impulse , fashion buy as a Harley-Davidson motorcycle or , though on a slightly less grand scale , a pair of Ray-Ban Aviator sunglasses . |