Example sentences of "[noun prp] as a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In form it is an application at the suit of C.N.L. as a third party for the court to release the appellant from his implied undertaking pursuant to which discovery of the P.C.A. documents was given under the court 's order of 9 July 1991 — released that is to the extent of permitting him to disclose the documents to C.N.L. , they for their part undertaking to the court to hold them for the strictly limited purpose of defending the libel proceedings brought against them by Woodley and Clifford . |
| 2 | ‘ START 2 is not going anywhere until START 1 is ratified by everyone and everyone joins the NPT as a non-nuclear state , ’ laments an American official . |
| 3 | But also Swindon as an ex-railway town , that is looking to the future . |
| 4 | A government report on the future of Britain 's National Parks has resulted in the designation of the New Forest as a National Park . |
| 5 | Here is the Orient as an apolitical picturesque environment . |
| 6 | It is in fact the reading contract , the explicit relationship between writer and reader that is at the heart of the technical problems experienced by Nizan as a revolutionary novelist . |
| 7 | The polite , complacent literature of fully integrated bourgeois writers such as Andre Maurois , Jacques de Lacretelle and Julien Green is unceremoniously attacked , as is the work of Jean Giono classified by Nizan as a naive form of utopian escapism in the face of modern industrial society Equally , Nizan is extremely hostile to the sentimental , colonial and populist literature produced by the bourgeoisie for the mystification of the proletariat . |
| 8 | Austria functioned as a semi-democracy , only Czechoslovakia as a real one , until Hitler crushed them . |
| 9 | The UN General Assembly last night adopted a resolution deploring the US military intervention in Panama as a flagrant violation of international law . |
| 10 | What do you reckon of Strach as a future Leeds manager ? |
| 11 | Paasio also stated that " the reference to Germany as a possible aggressor contained in the [ 1948 ] Treaty of Friendship , Co-operation and Mutual Assistance between Finland and the Soviet Union [ see p. 9228 ] reflects values … which no longer prevail " , although the essential content of the treaty " retains its significance " . |
| 12 | When addressing the problem of Germany 's pre-eminent economic power , he either just says it is good for Europe or he says , ‘ I think our neighbours should overcome the tendency to think in terms of nation-states ’ , while the same thought is expressed by one academic : ‘ in many ways , it no longer makes sense to talk about Germany as a distinct national unit ’ . |
| 13 | Sir Derek 's preference is to bring in some friendly Continental company such as Daimler-Benz of West Germany as a substantial minority shareholder , leaving Ferranti with a share quote and at least a semblance of independence . |
| 14 | Closer co-operation with Western Europe was ideally suited to Adenauer 's policy of distancing himself from the Eastern bloc after September 1955 , when Moscow upset him by recognising East Germany as a sovereign state . |
| 15 | He may have had in mind the possible loss of East Germany as a military base area . |
| 16 | Playing down Russia 's reparations demands , he offered to create a centralised , united Germany as an independent force on the world stage . |
| 17 | American and British policy makers saw western Germany as an important bastion against Soviet Communism , a country which , being in the front line against the Red Army , must be tied securely to the West . |
| 18 | British Rail has said it will reinstate Newton as a double-track junction . |
| 19 | Manager Ian Porterfield certainly sees Newton as an important part of Chelsea 's future , insisting : ‘ Eddie 's got authority , and that makes him very , very promising . ’ |
| 20 | Up to now the possibility had seemed so remote as not to need consideration — an order given by Hardy as a matter of course , accepted by Denis as a standard instruction in an operation of this nature . |
| 21 | Overseeing the whole process would be a Scottish Deer Commission , replacing the RDC as a credible and contemporary wildlife management agency , with wide responsibilities , adequate resources and meaningful powers . |
| 22 | The communiqué also called for a reconvening of the international Paris peace conference which had met in mid-1989 [ see pp. 36848-49 ] and for the designation of Angkor Wat as a non-hostility area . |
| 23 | In one scene of this comedy about university revue artists meeting in acrimony ten years later and which also features comedienne Rita Rudner , Branagh as a once-promising writer reduced to penning an American TV sitcom for his wife had to become drunk at a New Year 's Party . |
| 24 | He described Chelsea as a little village a couple of miles from London where the Thames ran between nurseries and market gardens , ‘ of which there are a frightful number ’ . |
| 25 | Using the Temple as a short cut was also forbidden by Jewish Law and yet the priests turned a blind eye to it because it brought more trade into the Temple . |
| 26 | We remember the Spiros as a warm and loving family . ’ |
| 27 | I also like to give credit where it is due , and would , therefore , like to thank members of the Great Central Railway who were very helpful and friendly when I made a recent visit to Rothley and Loughborough as an ordinary visitor . |
| 28 | Western philosophy , with Plato as an exemplary first instance , has generally acted on the presupposition that language is subservient to some idea , intention or referent that lies outside it . |
| 29 | ‘ No matter what the fans and the media may think about him , I regard Taylor as a true professional and he has to get his priorities right . |
| 30 | The 1949 Constitution established Costa Rica as a democratic state with an executive President directly elected for a four-year term . |