Example sentences of "[vb -s] as [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 WIDNES allrounder Richard Hignett plays as a batsman when Cheshire open their Minor Counties championship programme against Cornwall at Stalybridge today .
2 Brazil 's faith in debt/equity swaps as a means of easing the burden has been shared by many .
3 As a membership incentive and to mark our 35th year as a Society everyone who enrols as a member in 1987 will receive a free gift .
4 As a membership incentive and to mark our 35th year as a Society everyone who enrols as a member in 1987 will receive a free gift .
5 He is plagued by demons which go back to his childhood and his torment intensifies as a train hurtles him away from or maybe towards a crime .
6 ‘ I can not believe it , I have already had so many job offers as a result of taking part in .
7 The neck joint is similar to Ibanez and Heartfield 's ‘ all access ’ variety which does away with the usual bulky metal plate and offers as an alternative four recessed bolts and a sloping , shaped heel , which really does feel good under the hand .
8 ‘ Business seemed like an attractive idea and I wanted to learn about finance first , ’ he offers as an explanation .
9 This case raised the question of whether an assignee of a reversion on a lease could enforce the payment of rent against someone who had entered into surety covenants as a guarantee of the tenant 's obligations in the lease .
10 The right hon. and learned Gentleman sits in court and passes sentence himself , so he has seen the issue both from these Benches and from the Bench he adorns when he sits as a recorder .
11 As well as being a Cabinet Minister and Speaker of the House of Lords he sits as a judge , presiding over the Law Lords in the Appellate Committee when time allows .
12 He sits as a judge in the House of Lords , where he also acts as Speaker ; he is a cabinet minister and advises on constitutional issues ; and his department , established in 1885 , is our nearest approach to a Ministry of Justice and has responsibility for many aspects of the legal system .
13 The Divisional Court of the Queen 's Bench Division , which exercises a supervisory capacity over the inferior courts and sits as a court to which an appeal ‘ by way of case stated ’ may be made from the Magistrates ' Court , is bound by the House of Lords , the Court of Appeal and its own previous decisions .
14 According to North , the company ‘ sits as a buffer ’ between both parties .
15 A tankard on the compartment table sits as a reminder of the glories of Soviet technology — sputniks and rockets spin out of a world inhabited by the Spassky Tower and an olive branch — and , as if to demonstrate that the mundane is as attainable as the sublime , not a spoon rattles , not a single drop of sweet Georgian tea is spilt , as the carriage is smoothly elevated and the task of fitting a Chinese-gauge undercarriage is taken in hand .
16 Mr Tapie is by no means a doctrinaire socialist and sits as an independent in the National Assembly .
17 The rebels believe that Mr Major 's credibility is in tatters after a series of defeats and retreats as the Maastricht Bill lumbers through Parliament .
18 In the event , as we have seen , the Layfield Report was published at the high point of the importance of government grants as a proportion of local income .
19 He pointed to House Renovation Grants as a solution .
20 The closure of the Talbot works in Linwood in Scotland , announced in February 1981 , with its resulting localised mass unemployment , is a pointed reminded of the limitations of cheap loans or grants as a means of maintaining the allegiance of capitalist enterprises to given investment projects .
21 In securing huge government land grants as an inducement to build , the railways became the prime engine of migration , transporting the migrants , acting as land agents , supplying their machinery , building materials , and seed , and later shipping ( a word which developed land-bound connotations ) their produce .
22 At bottom , interests theories define the scope of loss redistribution which the law imposes as a tax upon economic relations .
23 Figure 5.2 shows for the Earth , Venus and Mars the abundances of the inert gas isotopes as the number of atoms in the atmosphere per kilogramme of the whole planet .
24 And as it 's open-ended , that series — the thing that Pool represents as a wall — will eventually fill up every spare molecule of memory that Pool has .
25 Applying the usual procedure to obtain this in another frame we obtain so that transforms as a rank 2 tensor .
26 May be needed when the swelling subsides as the result of a chill and worse ensues , such as the breast , ovaries or testicles becoming affected .
27 When swelling subsides as the result of a chill and worse ensues , like Phytolacca , when it affects the breasts , ovaries or testes .
28 A limited example of this is the recognition that whether a text is published in quarto or folio or whether it circulates as a manuscript will help to create the conditions in which the text 's meaning is understood within a given culture at a particular historical instant .
29 According to the Suda , Simonides of Magnesia sang of a victory by Antiochus III over the Gauls , about which we know nothing — unless it is to be identified with the episode to which II Maccabees refers as a success by eight thousand Babylonian Jews and four thousand Macedonians against Galatian raiders ( 8.20 ) .
30 Where the plaintiff sues as an assignee the action shall be commenced only in a court in which the assignor might , under the above rule , have commenced the action but for the assignment ( Ord 4 , r 2(2) ) .
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