Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Small cabins were dotted about at the side of fields , mostly ruined or used as farm sheds , but in some cases inhabited . |
| 2 | Many of these problems centred on the way schools deployed their PNP coordinators ( see pp. 102–8 ) , but Scale 1/MPG staff could also find themselves marginalized or used as supply teachers or even ancillaries in the very way the Authority had warned against . |
| 3 | Inefficient recovery practices have left metal-rich waste dumps which have often been levelled or used as roadstone . |
| 4 | In the fluidity of contemporary values we do indeed sink into a relativism for which your opinion is worth as much or little as mine whenever we lose faith in awareness itself , and surrender to irrationalism . |
| 5 | You can choose cotton that 's blissfully warm , or crisp and cool ; hard wearing and tough , or soft as velvet . |
| 6 | A tall , turbulent white steam column rolls upwards above the vent , often becoming grey or black as ash is blasted upwards . |
| 7 | Obviously it 's nowhere near as deep or complicated as Bard 's Tale , but it 's still a force to be reckoned with — especially now you get the expansion set thrown in too . |
| 8 | The pixel data may be in 8-bit binary words , but it is common for them to be 7-bit binary words , to preserve the capability of 7-bit transmission or coded as ascii hex characters , ie. , 0–9 and a-f , thus also preserving printability . |
| 9 | In its usage of the real or referent as signifier , surrealism eminently illustrated de-differentiated signification . |
| 10 | In summary , Tunguska was probably a fairly strong , dense , asteroid-like object , but probably not as strong or dense as iron . |
| 11 | Frosts can occur well into the summer , while snow may fall in spring , and autumn days can be as balmy as summer or bitter as winter . |
| 12 | His lips were smiling lovingly , but his eyes were hard and unfeeling as jet . |
| 13 | When I was anorexic I had only dim feelings of resentment as to how my body was destined to be used , and the thought of anything as positive and specific as penetration never entered my mind . |
| 14 | A savage place ! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover ! |
| 15 | Daisy Chainsaw try to shock and scare and upset as art terrorists detonating nailbombs in the nursery , subverting our notions of how a little girly and her backing bullies should behave , and fail dismally . |
| 16 | As a boy I was always taught to use a sod of turf as a foundation , so that the eggs would remain slightly damp , and to build a snug nest of hay on top of it - and the barn wall was knobbly , draughty and dry as dust . |
| 17 | In the heart of the great metropolitan areas of America the inner cities became as desolate and hopeless as shanty towns . |
| 18 | Her back so hot , and slick as ice . |
| 19 | The fact that most of them already had criminal records was widely publicised and used as evidence of their guilt in the Chai Qing Feng case . |
| 20 | and used as evidence of provocative atrocities that would justify invading Poland . |
| 21 | The extract thus achieved ( α antigen ) was diluted in carbonate-bicarbonate buffer pH 9.5 and used as substrate for ELISA . |
| 22 | Many bacteria can also be isolated from insects and may be important in the natural control of insect populations , but the only bacteria which have been extensively studied and used as pest control agents are Bacillus spp . |
| 23 | Accurate and comprehensive claims are prepared from data retained and used as management information and estimating source information . |
| 24 | Title was acquired by terrestrial airline and used as inflight reading under editorship of William Davies . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , some wooded areas were more intensively settled and used as time went on . |
| 26 | As has been normal for most organized communities that are not based on a money economy , African society was based on slavery ( in the sense of the life-long ownership of human beings who could be traded ) , which sometimes involved plantation work or even being used as a human sacrifice : there is no calculus to compare the disadvantages of local slavery with those of being taken across the Atlantic and used as plantation or mining labour . |
| 27 | The antibody to pepsinogen A showed no cross reactivity with pepsinogen C , whereas the antibody to pepsinogen C did not cross react with pepsinogen A. Purified human pepsinogen A and pepsinogen C were coupled to 1 2 5 I by the chloramine T method and used as label in the assays . |
| 28 | The really gigantic spiders are sometimes captured and used as barter , but mostly these enormous creatures are avoided because they are too dangerous . |
| 29 | The water had been picked up in the Humber estuary and used as ballast . |
| 30 | And they had also made guesses as to what might be possible if the deuterium and oxygen gases that were bubbling off from the cell could be recombined and their latent energy recovered and used as heat . |