Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] as [art] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore the clergy extracted as a quid pro quo some deceptively reassuring royal answers to their grievances , the answers known as the Articuli Cleri or ‘ Articles of the Clergy ’ . |
| 2 | It therefore looks as though Swegen wintered in England , and in the following spring perhaps went plundering in the Irish Sea , for one of the versions of the Welsh chronicle known as the Annales Cambriæ records the harrying of the Isle of Man by a Swegen son of Harald in a year which is likely to be 995 . |
| 3 | Five of the eight appear on the royal books for 1661 as members of the ensemble known as the Hautbois et musettes de Poitou . |
| 4 | When a famous warrior died he was commemorated by a monument known as a das in front of which upright stones indicated the number of his victims . |
| 5 | She had a soirée known as the Cercle Republicain . |
| 6 | Alix spent three months working as an au pair girl — working very hard , for no pay — in a suburb of Paris , bored out of her mind most of the time , but strangely , surprisingly consoled by the youngest member of the large family , a baby , which , unlike its larger siblings , seemed to like her . |
| 7 | for example , ICI does n't have a chief executive and operates on a consensus basis with the chairman acting as a primus inter pares . |
| 8 | From it you can walk to Itxassou 's other half , which is clustered round the church , about a kilometre away and within sight of the defile known as the Pas de Roland , an opening in the rock said to have been made by the hoofs of this luckless paladin 's horse ( but more of Roland in the appropriate place , when we come to Roncevaux ) . |
| 9 | The new X25 connection service enables NETBuilder to act as an X25 gateway , providing packet assembly and disassembly capabilities for Ethernet local network-attached terminals or hosts to talk via X25 to an X29 host or terminal . |
| 10 | A PRIEST gave a blessing and a pipe band played as the 125,000-tonne hull glided down the slipway . |
| 11 | As she is impervious to his suggestions , he is determined to revive the old custom known as the droit du seigneur ( one of the most hated abuses of the Ancien Régime ) , whereby the lord of a manor was entitled to deflower his female servants before their weddings . |
| 12 | A body known as the G10 Commission had the authority to decide , either ex officio or on application by a person believing himself or herself to be under surveillance , ‘ on both the legality of and the necessity for the [ surveillance ] measures ’ . |
| 13 | I I asked the er the minister earlier about this question and I appreciate his difficulties being a home office minister rather than a foreign office minister and I quite understand his reluctance to er stray too far from his departmental portfolio but the reality is that the British government agreed that the European parliament should continue to meet in Strasbourg but we 've heard nothing from the minister as to where the money should come from er in order to make that commitment a reality because I 'm sure that every member opposite would say that the uncertainty about the present boundaries is not the er responsibility of the British government , that it 's a matter for the French government to sort out which boundaries er will be in place in the United Kingdom by June the ninth , the date of the European elections , but the reality is that the British government have gone along with the arrangement for having Strasbourg recognised as a er seat for the European parliament . |
| 14 | The figures come as a 33,000-signature petition is sent to the Home Office by Carole Whittingham of Rastrick , whose 27-year-old son Stephen was killed by a stolen car . |
| 15 | Work on this aircraft had been prompted by the success earlier of an experimental lightweight hull used in a converted Supermarine Southampton known as the A.14 . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , in London , motorists fumed as the M4 the main artery to Heathrow and the West was shut when concrete joints buckled in the heat . |
| 17 | The reason I 'm in it is that document , as the officer says , sets out the information given as the offer as the officer put it . |
| 18 | COULD something good emerge from the multi-billion-dollar disaster known as the S&L bail-out ? |
| 19 | Yiddish yiddish served as a lingua franca for Jews . |
| 20 | A group of Teleuts , in tsarist documents known as the vyezzhye belye Kalmyki , moved into Russian-held territory and settled there out of reach of the Teleut princes . |
| 21 | However , the issue is a lively one today , since some contemporary utilitarians adopt a highly rigorist outlook ( arguing , for example , that not to have done all one personally might to feed the starving in far off places is as bad as murder ) which other moral philosophers see as the reductio ad absurdum of utilitarianism . |
| 22 | A tank known as the A.14 Model was designed in conjunction with the War Office and facilities were provided at Crewe Locomotive Works for the erection of a pilot model , completed in July 1939 . |