Example sentences of "[noun sg] as an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will he join me and civic and religious leaders in the Dundee area in condemning such management action as an affront to natural justice ? |
| 2 | And she left him with a quick glance from her eyes , dark as an otter 's pelt , and a smile that was like a gift . |
| 3 | Fruit squashes and many of the more popular carbonated drinks are not only high in caffeine but a large number of them also contain colouring and artificial preservatives ; so too many or these will produce the same effect as an overdose of tea or coffee . |
| 4 | ( g ) Indemnities An indemnity clause may be used to achieve the same effect as an exclusion clause . |
| 5 | Thus , formal procedures are not so much an alternative as an adjunct to the informal collaboration which is such an important feature of the best primary schools ; and the part played by the head in securing the most productive mix of formal procedure and informal consultation/collaboration remains central . |
| 6 | To modify the standard where D is very young ( Camplin was 15 ) is understandable : it is not fair to expect a youth to show the same level of self-restraint as an adult . |
| 7 | They have the same force as an order of the court although they are not peremptory . |
| 8 | ‘ The offence of man against man can not arouse the same indignation as an offence of man against God . |
| 9 | ‘ that , on general principles , an injury transmitted from the actor to a person through his own organic substance , or through his mother , before he became a person , stands on the same footing as an injury transmitted to an existing person through other intervening substances outside him … |
| 10 | I agree with Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. that the effect of section 8 is to make it clear that a child of 16 or 17 years of age has the same capacity as an adult to consent to surgical medical or dental treatment which would otherwise constitute a trespass . |
| 11 | Lanier sees such a meeting as an extension of the telephone and the Californian telephone company , Pacific Bell , appear to agree , having financed some of VPL 's research . |
| 12 | A writ will not normally be renewed so as to deprive the defendant of the accrued benefit of a limitation period , and the court does not deal with the question of whether to renew a writ after expiry of the limitation period on the same basis as an application to disapply the limitation period under s33 of the Limitation Act 1980 ( see para 1.37 above ) ( Waddon v Whitecroft-Scovill Ltd [ 1988 ] 1 WLR 309 ) . |
| 13 | On the substantive application W. , who had attained the age of 16 , exercised her right to separate representation and resisted the application on the ground that section 8 of the Family Law Reform Act 1969conferred on her the same right as an adult to refuse medical treatment so that the court could not override her decision . |
| 14 | It 's the same job as an editor of a publication has to get writers to go along without it all sounding like he wrote it or she wrote it , and the , but a good editor can figure out how to do that and a good writer likes it because it means erm they 'll go together or work better and readers will like it , understand it . |
| 15 | It may mean that the mentally handicapped adult will not be able to engage in as productive a job as an adult with a higher level of intelligence . |
| 16 | It was decided to build a huge central market , the construction of which was entrusted to Baltard , a man who was as much an engineer as an architect , on a site which had existed since the reign of Napoleon I. Succeeding regimes had neither had the will nor the drive to carry out the project as originally planned , but the Emperor was determined that this new market should be one of the earliest major building projects of his reign . |
| 17 | John was also active during the same period as an assize and gaol delivery justice and managed to find time to act as one of the trusted servants of Edward 's wife , Queen Eleanor . |
| 18 | He offers not so much an impersonation as an impression of the man . |
| 19 | Where a court is considering whether a provision does or does not cover X the rule will not admit the parliamentary history of the provision to demonstrate that at no stage in the parliamentary proceedings was there any suggestion that the provision covered X. It remains to be seen how long judges in the United Kingdom will be able to require negative evidence from parliamentary material to establish that an admissible statement is an expression of parliamentary intention , but exclude such evidence as an aid to construction . |
| 20 | Her condition is irreversible and she writes , ‘ this is not so much news as an appeal to Somervillians who might bring the existence of these neuropathies to the attention of the public , some of whom are probably in the early stages . ’ |
| 21 | It 's as much use as an ashtray on a motorbike ! |
| 22 | By the end of the century some might still moan that ‘ it would shock many to suggest that a plain dissenting preacher might be as great a man as an Archbishop ’ but this was simply twaddle . |
| 23 | Never before , in all the years of his work upon the project , has Christo been championed by the Bundestag 's president , but , paradoxically , Dr Suessmuth 's position of authority may be as much a hindrance as an advantage to his cause . |
| 24 | The scope of this work is different from that for an audit under the Companies Act and , for that reason , it does not provide the same level of assurance as an audit . |
| 25 | At first glance the association between fishing and computing may be hard to see , but the sport is as much a science as an art , even if the number of factors involved in the success rate is close to infinite . |
| 26 | Only surrounded by certain normal manifestations of life , is there such a thing as an expression of pain . |
| 27 | In his appendix to the History of Edinburgh Arnot states that in 1763 there was no such thing as an umbrella known or used in Edinburgh . |
| 28 | It simply was n't the same thing as an investment proposal from a friend . |
| 29 | Yet that something not so much a thing as an eye . |
| 30 | And by the same token , there is no such thing as an author , that is to say , one who originates a work of fiction ab nihilo . |