Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That night the wind and rain tore ferociously at the tent as the force 8 hit us ; it was a luxurious feeling to be snug , warm and safe in our sleeping bags . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've never actually analysed this before , ’ he says , ‘ but I suppose I think of the guitar as the medium which makes the voice work , and so my guitar parts are always written around the vocal . |
| 3 | But one can not overlook the point that all other known medieval European versions of this tale , written in or translated from Latin prose , present it as a moral example ; it can be allegorized , with the housewife as the Christian soul , the absent husband Christ , the lover worldly vanity , the procuress the Devil . |
| 4 | In returning to the old imagery of the prince as the bearer of the sword , the reformers had in fact triggered off an important set of associations . |
| 5 | The Serpent and the Swastika are siblings ; the Serpent as the energizing creative force of the Universe , the Swastika as that force in motion . |
| 6 | Falati had been employed as a housekeeper at the Mandela 's old home in Soweto , the house which featured in the trial as the place to which the youths were taken . |
| 7 | But you see the important thing about this scene is not what is taking place there it 's not really that Pilate is standing in , in the trial as the judge of Jesus , it 's not that Pilate has i , within his hands the power of life and death for Jesus , that 's not the important issue , that 's not the real significance of this incident , the real significance is that every one of us at some time or other stand in the same place that Pilate stood . |
| 8 | The Court of Appeal held that there was no ground for disturbing the award as the arbitrators and the umpire were all " experts " and it was evidently the intention of the parties that they should settle the value and not act as formal arbitrators . |
| 9 | These must follow the example of the hands and move back down the board as the wind increases . |
| 10 | Television augmented and soon overtook the cinema as the masses ' most popular form of entertainment . |
| 11 | That would knock the bottom out of his own defence of the cinema as the clean , healthy family entertainment . |
| 12 | The panel of judges was selected from leading retailers , briefed to select the winner as the range of carpets which had the most originality and innovation with outstanding sales potential . |
| 13 | If we think of linguistic analysis as usually being linked to the sentence as the maximum unit of grammar , then the study of discourse attempts to look at the larger contexts in which sentences occur . |
| 14 | In syntactic theory it is usual to regard the verb as the head , and the subject as dependent ; but the purely semantic evidence suggests that the subject has certain of the characteristics of a head . |
| 15 | It was only in the mid twelfth century that the growing concentration of mercantile wealth led to the recognition of the oligarchy as the permanent government , which ruled Venice throughout the later centuries of her glory and her decline . |
| 16 | Production was severely disrupted in all departments during the afternoon as the shop stewards spread the message . |
| 17 | If there really was a conspiracy against Gloucester , his subsequent actions can be seen as a matter of self-defence , culminating in his seizure of the throne as the only way of achieving long-term security from Woodville recriminations . |
| 18 | If there really was a conspiracy against Gloucester , his subsequent actions can be seen as a matter of self-defence , culminating in his seizure of the throne as the only way of achieving long-term security from Woodville recriminations . |
| 19 | Each subscriber on the network , we might represent the primary as the server on the left and the other two server as subscribers . |
| 20 | Many of them are acting as interpreters and trying to put a semblance of order into the chaos as the world 's press converges on ministries with fresh tenants and uncertain programmes . |
| 21 | One of Franco 's most fervent supporters , Luis Galinsoga , editor of the Barcelona daily , La Vanguardia , lauded the Generalísimo as the " sentry of the west " and the " guardian of the European spiritual fortress " — a description which undoubtedly fitted perfectly Franco 's own image of himself and his role in Spanish and world politics . |
| 22 | That may turn out to be the case as the likes of Ferrari , Williams-Renault and Benetton-Ford get into their stride later in the season , but on the streets of Phoenix , Senna had no trouble in scoring his 27th win . |
| 23 | This ceased to be the case as the middle-class , finding vaults overcrowded , erected miniature fortresses in the new necropolises and encased their dead in double , and even triple , coffins against the depredations of body-snatchers . |
| 24 | This is not yet the case as the Sterling exchange rates can still fluctuate considerably against other E.R.M. currencies whilst it is in the wide band and exporters should cover or hedge currency exposures as heretofore . |
| 25 | Thus each days ' dosage remains homœopathic to the case as the slight increase in the health of the vital force is matched with the slight increase in potency caused by the five or six shakes of the bottle . |
| 26 | He assured her that the end was in sight and a friend has since described the case as the pinnacle of his career . |
| 27 | This was not the case as the amount of agricultural production qualifying for EAGGF ( Guarantee ) expenditure was relatively small . |
| 28 | It is at least arguable that this is not the case as the consideration for the allotment of the shares ( which are expressed to be credited as fully paid ) must be the transfer of the shares in the target , because that is the only consideration which the offeror receives under the arrangement ( apart from the merchant bank 's commitment to pay cash to accepting shareholders , but that is cancelled by the offeror 's commensurate obligation to procure accepting shareholders to authorise the offeror to allot the consideration shares to the merchant bank or as it directs , and so no net benefit flows to the offeror ) . |
| 29 | This is particularly the case as the IMF has been open to criticism that it ignores the social impact of its prescriptions , which create hardship and the potential for popular unrest as its free-market measures begin to bite . |
| 30 | From the content of the text the analyst can , in principle , determine what aspects of the context are explicitly reflected in the text as the formal record of the utterance . |