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 | The difficulty in determining the motive for Baldwin 's decision is that he was himself as contradictory about this as lie was clear about where and how he took it . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , public opinion is steadily turning against one form of cruelty after another as bear baiting , cock fighting , big game hunting , badger baiting and dog fights have in turn been outlawed or become distasteful . |
| 5 | However , these surpluses or PSDR ( Public Sector Debt Repayment ) shrank rapidly after 1989 as government revenue suffered in the wake of the most protracted period of recession since the Inter-War years . |
| 6 | In Sheffield there had been an attempt to rank grammar schools , and W. P. Alexander , the education officer , had argued then , and after 1945 as secretary of the AEC , for selection of 5% at the top , not 20%. 83 In practice , local authorities were constrained in the crucial years 1944–50 by existing buildings , shortage of funds for new ones and by existing teaching staff from making substantial innovations in their arrangements at all . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The choice of Montini as pope was an enormous encouragement to those working for change in and through the Council . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ Let me remind you , Brother , that your own superiors have recognised the Count of Mortain as King . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | After an education in France , Wharton briefly sat as an MP in the Parliament of 1680 as member for East Grinstead , before a hotheaded pro-Exclusionist speech forced him to lie low . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The sky was turning several shades of blue as night gave way to day . |
| 19 | £444 Cost of two weeks in Majorca for a family of four as holiday firms slash their prices for summer '93 |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The view across the Longdendale Valley in the summer of 1988 as No. 47102 waits to return to Manchester whilst in charge of the demolition train . |
| 24 | Pressure on sterling continued into the first quarter of 1990 as inflation and interest rates increased , and on March 19 sterling hit a record low against the West German mark at DM2.71 . |
| 25 | Appointment of Berri as Speaker — Appointment of Hariri as Prime Minister — New government |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He had served twenty-four years in the US House of Representatives , including nine as Minority Leader of the Republicans , and it was Ford 's popularity on both sides of the aisle that had brought him to the presidency . |
| 29 | These objective conditions are interiorized through habitus as desire expressed in taste . |
| 30 | She will probably be awake before that as alcohol disrupts sleep as well as causing dehydration , causing partygoers to wake up with a raging thirst and pounding headache . |