Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] [noun] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Martin and Roberts ( 1984 ) survey found all manner of weird and wonderful reasons given by husbands as to why they thought women could not do their jobs . |
| 2 | The deadlock was broken when a government-appointed conciliator persuaded the Peugeot chairman to agree to talks as soon as a 19-day sit-in at the Mulhouse plant was ended . |
| 3 | Messrs Fiddle and Perks have indicated their willingness to continue in office as auditors and a resolution to re-appoint them will be proposed at the forthcoming annual general meeting . |
| 4 | Ernst & Young have expressed their willingness to continue in office as auditors and resolutions proposing their reappointment , and authorising the directors to fix their remuneration , will be submitted at the Annual General Meeting . |
| 5 | BLIND cancer victim Nicholas Killen beamed with joy as he ran his hands over the Christmas tree at Westminster Abbey yesterday . |
| 6 | At 8.45 I arrived at school my heart filled with delight as I stood amongst pupils in school uniform while I stood in my usual scruffy manner . |
| 7 | Immediately a whirlwind of change ripped through Althorp as the new mistress endeavoured to turn the family home into a paying proposition so that the awesome debts the new Earl had taken on could be paid off . |
| 8 | Spurs remain in turmoil as Venables loses ally |
| 9 | We may be meant to think that time is simultaneous , in a way that may owe something to the simultaneity propounded , ‘ perhaps ’ , in Eliot 's Four Quartets , where ‘ History is now and England ’ ; or that it is cyclical , a turning wheel , with human depravity paling into insignificance as the wheel turns into modern times . |
| 10 | This fiction has various names : ‘ private eye fiction ’ , ‘ hardboiled fiction ’ which is a way of describing its style , and erm I have been interested in this for some time , partly trying to assess the reasons why such fiction occurred in America as a complete breakaway from the old kind of detective fiction which we all know about , the country house murder , why erm the figure of the private detective becomes so important in this kind of fiction between the wars , and what the relationship of this sort of fiction is to not merely other kinds of American fiction during that period but to more abiding American themes , particularly erm themes of individualism and toughness . |
| 11 | Oliver 's heart beat with excitement as they stopped outside . |
| 12 | Fights erupted outside supermarkets as shoppers battled for parking spaces in desperate efforts to stock up with canned goods . |
| 13 | This is expected to be the first of many similar cases to come to light as local councils draw up registers of contaminated land under the Environmental Protection Act . |
| 14 | In 1959 , TANU had tried to launch its own National Times press with Nyerere as chairman , the ambitious plan being to publish a Swahili daily , an English daily and a Gujerati weekly . |
| 15 | Jews allowed to keep pets ; budgies and puppies , etc. , doled out at police stations ; Jews weeping with gratitude as they take their new playmates home . |
| 16 | Marianne surveyed her reflection in the mirror , her eyes gleaming in satisfaction as they swept over her own generous curves , clearly outlined by the skin-tight material . |
| 17 | His green eyes gleamed with pleasure as they started towards her . |
| 18 | Rune 's eyes gleamed with pleasure as she detected an added warmth in the timbre of his voice . |
| 19 | The sharp black eyes gleamed with interest as they took in the situation at once . |
| 20 | But what about ‘ that girl , Marissa ’ … ? ’ she added with a sudden bitterness , her blue eyes flashing with anger as she remembered her treatment at the hands of his beautiful personal assistant . |
| 21 | If parties remain in dispute as to whether the risk exists , then settlement of the action is , in our opinion , impossible . |
| 22 | His eyes filled with tears as he turned towards Madge . |
| 23 | Dawn 's eyes filled with hatred as she glared at Sophie , and she was about to say more when Helen said quietly , ‘ Come into the office . |
| 24 | Firstly , it is inadvisable to take remedies consisting of mixtures as no homoeopathic provings have been done on mixtures and it is not known whether the effects of these are different from the effects of their individual components . |
| 25 | It took an advance in political maturity for Germanic peoples to cope with failure as positively God-given . |
| 26 | Ophiopristis differs from Ophioprium as follows the oral tentacle scales are not markedly different from the oral papillae — those of Ophioprium are much more elongate and slightly separated ; the tentacle pores are smaller and armed with 1–2 large tentacle scales whereas the pores in Ophioprium are open and armed with small thin tentacle scales . |
| 27 | Nurse bodkin winked in delight as she waltzed past . |
| 28 | Disgust rose in Theda as she made her way along the gallery . |
| 29 | It was a mistake ; her gown fell open , and he went very still , his eyes leaping with fire as he devoured the slender form in front of him . |
| 30 | His disgust mixed with despair as the Germans drove towards him , and the emotions drugged his tired brain . |