Example sentences of "[noun sg] as a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can use the Alexander Technique as a preventative measure : after all , prevention is better than cure . |
| 2 | The book is written specifically for engineers and engineering undergraduates to present this computational technique as a practical tool in engineering , keeping the mathematical content to a minimum . |
| 3 | Such opposition is backed by appeals to protect the small retailer as a unique feature of Japanese culture against an alien Western transplant . |
| 4 | " He used to travel in prahus as a young man , then a guru told him that one day he would die by water . |
| 5 | A man of action all his life , David went into the Army in the RAMC as a young man and later trained as a State Registered Nurse in a civilian hospital . |
| 6 | This defence of housework is all the more necessary because housework passes unmentioned in the predominant stereotype of the housewife as a leisured homemaker . |
| 7 | ‘ While you provide the contrast as a proper femme fatale . ’ |
| 8 | Even if the typical criminal sanction holds out little hope as a general deterrent , does it act as a specific deterrent ? |
| 9 | A study in COLOMBIA found that an integrated service with proper medical back-up cost four times as much per person-year of protection as a straight female sterilisation drive and led to a wide-ranging cost-cutting exercise . |
| 10 | In international law generally the duty to exhaust domestic remedies is to protect the interests of States but , in the context of the protection of human rights , also because the institutions in Strasbourg regard the development of effective domestic mechanisms for their protection as a necessary concomitant of the international procedures : individuals are required to make use of what the national systems provide before invoking the international jurisdiction . |
| 11 | Corbett vaguely recalled the building as a pleasant two-storeyed affair : the fire must have caught the sun-dried timbers and turned it into this blackened mess . |
| 12 | We owe another debt to the local English citizens who have restored and revitalized this building as a tangible memorial to those men . |
| 13 | The idea is to re-create the building as a 12-bed extension for the neighbouring and packed Stockton mission for the single homeless without losing its historical railway look . |
| 14 | I see the move into the people stage in building as a particular manifestation of the post — industrial culture , into which Western European societies will increasingly move . |
| 15 | Reflecting the great care taken by the architects to conserve and enhance the qualities of this former industrial building as a significant element in the metropolitan riverside scene , the project has received several awards , including a Doe Housing Design Award and a Civic Trust Award , both of which were presented in 1985 . |
| 16 | Blundell foresees equivalent advantages in transgenic plants for foods , fibres , energy products , pharmaceuticals , organic chemicals and construction materials — in short a return to agriculture as a major source of raw materials . |
| 17 | The NFU survey shows the devastating loss of a total of £6 million to our agriculture as a direct result of the MacSharry proposals . |
| 18 | I think that for once we need feel no qualms in taking Diodorus as a faithful epitomizer of what must have been a compact and careful section of Posidonius on the slave war in Sicily . |
| 19 | Where MacLeay saw this unity as a circular system of relationships , Owen began to argue that the unity of type within each group displayed the rational activity of the Creator . |
| 20 | Markovic reiterated that the Alliance 's programme would be based around the successful programme of his federal government , and would aim at preserving Yugoslavia 's unity as a pluralist community of equal nations and nationalities . |
| 21 | Like many British politicians , he had accepted European unity as a valuable ideal . |
| 22 | A particular concern of the investigation will be to examine the definition of politicization used by the US and to examine the effectiveness of using threats of resignation as a credible technique for managing the activities of those agencies which are the world 's primary multi-lateral forums for the negotiation of global issues . |
| 23 | AT a time when many people contemplate slowing down , 49-year-old Eric Saunders has stepped on the gas , enjoying life in the fast lane as a hot rod racer . |
| 24 | All other forms of reference should be cited in the text as a personal communication , manuscript submitted or in preparation . |
| 25 | We shall use text as a technical term , to refer to the verbal record of a communicative act . |
| 26 | In speaking of the literary text as a functional structure , the Prague School stressed its effect as a totality , through the interaction of all its constituent parts including the subject-matter . |
| 27 | Analysts suggested that Celli 's announcement was intended to counter the May 11 claim by opposition deputies and AD dissidents that they had collected more than 100 signatures from congressmen in favour of reducing the current term of President Carlos Andres Pérez and that of the legislature by one year ( to four years ) , and also in favour of the use of the referendum as a permanent formula to guarantee the public 's participation in political affairs . |
| 28 | There 's some justification for having Green Link as a separate publication but even that is is under question in the coming twelve months because our circulation just does n't warrant all of these publications . |
| 29 | I kept my head down and the heavy bag well to the fore as a protective shield . |
| 30 | The man who had offered the seat had seen Ianthe as a tall fragile-looking woman in a pretty blue hat that matched her eyes . |