Example sentences of "[noun pl] as [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As with so many poisonous animals , the tarantula prefers to keep its venom for feeding time and only employs it against enemies as a last resort . |
| 2 | This procedure is seen by most family health services authorities as a last resort , after practices deemed to be prescribing inappropriately have been offered information and help to lower their prescribing rates and costs . |
| 3 | It is described by wildlife experts as the first animal to benefit from the collapse of communism . |
| 4 | But looked at in its full historical perspective , Karajan 's career from 1929 to 1949 was as subject to trauma , disruption , and the vagaries of the times as the next man 's . |
| 5 | With a smothered curse he pulled her into his arms and began to kiss her , using a more powerful argument than words as the first touch of his mouth on hers sent everything out of Leonora 's head other than the fact that she loved and wanted this man to the point where she was almost ready to believe that she 'd been mistaken . |
| 6 | October 27th , 1984 , was ringed around on my calendars as the FIRST Hampshire Rally . |
| 7 | The Tories entered the record books as the first party to secure a fourth term in power since the early 19th century and caused a further surprise by regaining seats in Scotland — confounding predictions of a Conservative collapse north of the border . |
| 8 | Percy Pilcher , a naval architect at Glasgow University was experimenting with a powered glider and , but for the tragic accident that ended his life , would have entered the history books as the first man to fly an engine-driven aircraft . |
| 9 | This gives a grand total of 30 out of 36 errors which could be corrected , by using simple algorithms as a first attempt before going into more complicated algorithms which may be impractical . |
| 10 | It follows that my calculations make allowance for two carers , either both being paid workers , or alternatively a combination of one worker and the joint efforts of the parents as a second , as a second worker . |
| 11 | Equally remarkable were the ambition and determination that pushed to completion her final novel , which is also her masterpiece , South Riding ( published posthumously in 1936 and awarded the James Tait Black memorial prize ) : a rich regional study of social change and local government , it drew to some extent on her mother 's experiences as the first woman alderman in the East Riding of Yorkshire . |
| 12 | cAMP functions as a second messenger after binding of histamine to the histamine 2 receptor . |
| 13 | This beautiful hotel , situated across a busy road from the fine shingle beach , retains the atmosphere and style of its origins as a 17th century summer residence . |
| 14 | The company sees campus-wide backbones as the first wide-scale implementation of the technology , followed by Asynchronous Transfer Mode to the desktop . |
| 15 | Mr Cordle was applauded as he demanded the abolition of standing charges for pensioners on gas , electricity and telephone bills as a first step towards helping them . |
| 16 | Let us clear the alternatives out of the way ; while they are often brought into discussions on the best methods of sharing knowledge with undergraduates , they have but limited scope , and there is no doubt that you must learn to handle lectures as the first step towards a fruitful co-operation with the staff at your college . |
| 17 | PITS which British Coal can no longer operate profitably in a competitive energy market will be offered for sale to other companies as a first step towards full-scale privatisation given impetus by yesterday 's white paper reviewing the industry 's future . |
| 18 | Levitt considers many Japanese companies as the first truly global marketers and contrasts their practices strongly with the approach taken by Hoover in marketing automatic washing machines in Europe . |
| 19 | Presumably , his testing years as the first black in major league baseball affected his perceptions ; he was abused verbally and physically , was sent threatening notes , was boycotted by many teams and at one stage , came to the brink of a nervous breakdown ( Henderson , 1970 , p.71 ) . |
| 20 | In or after 1147 Andrew returned to England for a few troubled years as the first abbot of Wigmore , a daughter house of St Victor in Herefordshire . |
| 21 | He was appointed CBE in 1951 , the year in which he began twelve years as the first president of the SSI . |
| 22 | Matthau played Horace Vandergelder , the wealthy ‘ hay and feed ’ merchant from Yonkers on whom Dolly sets her sights as a second husband . |
| 23 | AFTER 112 pioneering days as the first man to live with a permanent artificial heart , Barney Mark , the Seattle dentist died last week , after a viral infection attacked his weakened body . |
| 24 | The late Raymond Lewenthal is perhaps best known these days as the first performer in modern times to have revived the music of Alkan , a collection of whose music he also published two years after he made these Gershwin recordings ( in Walthamstow Town Hall , of all places ) . |
| 25 | The action was called after a row between ambulance staff and Mrs Virginia Bottomley , the Health Minister of State , at her South-west Surrey constituency last Friday over her refusal to recognise ambulance workers as the third arm of the emergency services giving them a pay formula automatically tied to the police and fire fighters . |
| 26 | The HRT team — owned by Tom Walkinshaw and managed by Percy — became national heroes as the first to win Bathurst in an Australian car since 1987 , when Peter Brock was awarded victory after the first and second-placed Texaco Sierras were excluded . |
| 27 | United have shown signs of nerves in the last few weeks as the First Division title race approaches its climax . |
| 28 | Here Hitler spent his final weeks as the Third Reich collapsed . |
| 29 | TREATY : An agreement signed by Europe 's governments as the next step towards political and economic unity . |
| 30 | A caesarean section is the ultimate answer to many calving problems but according to Mr Barwise-Munro : ‘ It 's still regarded by farmers as a last resort and very often by the time the vet is called , the cow has been left too long with the result that she has to be culled . |