Example sentences of "[noun prp] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After trials the General Electrolytic Alkali Co. was established in 1899 with Hargreaves as a director and production began at Cledford Bridge near Middlewich in 1901 . |
| 2 | Product and process technology investments made by Decorative Ceramics over the last two years have confirmed Johnson Matthey as a world leader in onglaze colour technology . |
| 3 | The agents of the Crown consequently became disillusioned about the New Forest as a Crown asset : it barely escaped the fate of the other royal forests . |
| 4 | This Act was unsuccessful also in its attempt to develop the New Forest as a source of timber by a ‘ rolling programme ’ of inclosure . |
| 5 | It is a fine building , an example of fifteenth-century Gothic , with a good sculpted figure of Hercules as a child under the last on the right of the four arches . |
| 6 | This plant , a relative of ivy and indigenous to the temperate mountains of the Far East , has been used continually for some 5000 years in the Orient as a tonic , restorative and preventive remedy . |
| 7 | What particularly incensed the good bishop was that Passelewe as a Forest judge had ordered the arrest and imprisonment of clerks as well as laymen , and had thus flouted clerical privileges . |
| 8 | Across from the Palazzo della Ragione the most impressive building is the Palazzo delle Scoule Palatine , the Pallatine School , built in 1645 by the architect Carlo Buzzi as a copy of the Palazzo dei Giureconsulti — proving perhaps that imitation is indeed the sincerest form of flattery . |
| 9 | Total chromosomal DNA from S.acidocaldarius ATCC33909 was cleaved with restriction enzymes ( Sac I , Xba I , Eco RI , Xho l , Eco RI- Xho I , XbaI-Xho I , Sac I- Xba I ) and the resulting restriction patterns were analyzed by Southern hybridization using 885 bp of the 16S rDNA fragment amplified by PCR as a probe . |
| 10 | In this text , as in others written by Nizan as a result of direct experience in Spain , coexist incisive social and political commentary , disturbing and explosive literary images and a sense of personal involvement , almost self-fulfilment . |
| 11 | Classical literature is systematically castigated by Nizan as a process of deception centred on myth-making , idealism and symbolism , and designed to defend the oppressive practices of a dying class . |
| 12 | Progressive literature is consistently upheld by Nizan as a process of disclosure centred on reality , Marxism and realism , and designed to advocate the justifiable demands of an aspiring class . |
| 13 | WAY THEY WERE : Arnold , Mona and Soraya as a toddler |
| 14 | In the early stages , however , Commodore believes that it needs to ensure a broad range of titles are available both to support the positioning of CDTV as a family leisure platform and to generate the initial installed base which will itself encourage the third party publishing on which the future of CDTV depends . |
| 15 | They also gave their backing to the reincorporation of Panama as a member of the Rio Group of Latin American states . |
| 16 | The June conference , meanwhile , had been called by the CPSU central committee in March as a forum for debate on the need for a Russian CP by the 2,744 delegates from the Russian Federation to the forthcoming CPSU congress . |
| 17 | April does n't have to be a month of trials and tribulations or agonising over career or professional matters , if you are prepared to make some snap decisions and take what transpires towards the very end of March as a signal to go even further out on a limb . |
| 18 | He loves Strach as a player and always mentions the fact that Strach is still the best right sided midfielder in the league . |
| 19 | welcoming the fact that the German … people have expressed their will to bring about the unity of Germany as a state so that they will be able to serve the peace of the world as an equal and sovereign partner in a united Europe ; |
| 20 | convinced that the unification of Germany as a state with definitive borders is a significant contribution to peace and stability in Europe ; … |
| 21 | This is the same as saying that reality can be altered by perception , and that the problem will go away if we cease to think of Germany as a country . |
| 22 | Germany as a country has n't really existed for very long , has it ? |
| 23 | In October , after conferences in London and Paris , the alliance was saved , ironically by an agreement to rearm Germany as a member of NATO , the very thing France had rejected in 1950 . |
| 24 | After a meeting on April 27 near Cologne between Eppelmann and Gerhard Stoltenberg , the West German Defence Minister , a joint statement declared : " Our goal is a united Germany as a member of the Atlantic Alliance without NATO 's military structures or equipment being extended on to the territory of East Germany . |
| 25 | The Chicago Police Department used Sunday 's US Cup game between USA and Germany as a trial run for next year 's games . |
| 26 | The four principal victors of 1945 retain responsibility for ‘ Berlin and Germany as a whole ’ . |
| 27 | If and when re-unification came about , the Four Powers would lift their hand from the city as they lifted it from ‘ Germany as a whole ’ . |
| 28 | The drowning of Barbarossa was a terrible blow to his immediate followers , and to Germany as a whole . |
| 29 | While Germany as a whole might well be described as a capitalist state with feudal trimmings , Pomerania and the long arm of East Prussia remained feudal with modest capitalist trimmings . |
| 30 | Saying that Germany as a whole has not yet bottomed out of recession and that recovery could come in 1994 at the earliest , the management board chairman of IBM Deutschland GmbH said that the government 's solidarity pact to help recovery in the depressed east of Germany had been over-valued — ‘ The pact received praise I do n't think it deserved ’ Hans-Olaf Henkel said . |