Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] as [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The lines on his face and the slope of his eyes varied as the pictures changed .
2 The mounting violence came as the parents of Tim Parry , the 12-year-old victim of the IRA 's Warrington bombing , made the agonising decision to switch off his life support machine .
3 The aim of this chapter is to examine what Marxists envisaged as the elements of non-bureaucratic administration in the communist system .
4 Sadly the situation did deteriorate during the seven-year war and lots of schools closed as the troubles increased .
5 The Soil Association exists as a standards body for much of the organically produced food in the UK .
6 Cumberland was on record as believing that a battle without a cannonade was like a dance without music and Culloden began as a gunners ’ battle .
7 He swiftly integrated the 300,000 or so men of the Resistance army ( the FFI ) into the ranks of the regular army and disbanded a Resistance-run paramilitary force known as the milices patriotiques .
8 Of these 500 , we 'll pick out six readers to act as the stars of the project .
9 The disclosure came as the parents of Matthew Guest , the boy who underwent unnecessary chemotherapy , called for a full and speedy inquiry .
10 So , it 's stuck with defending this form of public housing in the face of mass dissidence within the working class itself , not so much with the principle of council housing as the tenants ' lack of control over design and management .
11 Sensitive to criticism from abroad , it was endeavouring to create a more favourable impression with investors , following what this group regarded as the upheavals of the Arusha Declaration .
12 The critical point is not so much the adequacy of the safety plans as the perceptions and beliefs that people hold about them ’ .
13 Now that two of you are married and a couple of you are starting families , does the band work as a lads ' escape ?
14 As Percivall noted in 1843 ‘ One of the Professor 's projects was crowned with signal success ; and for this his name must be handed to posterity with no ordinary eclat — I mean his introduction of Ventilation into stables and other places used as the habitations of horses and cattle .
15 He had lined up assorted members of the crack US Navy team known as the Seals , a 100-horsepower Zodiac boat , a helicopter , and an oxygen back-pack with six minutes of air .
16 MAGIC ITEMS : The Mad Lord of Averland carries one magic item , one of the ancient swords known as the Runefangs .
17 They are cells derived from animals of the group known as the coelenterates , which includes the sea anemones and jellyfish .
18 The ichthyostegids in turn came from a group known as the rhipidistias , and radiated ( migrated outwards ) across the Paleozoic land masses in the moist coal forests with club mosses and giant seed ferns .
19 The permanent swimmers belong to four main groups : the squids ( which are cephalopods — molluscs — related to the octopuses ) ; the bony fish , most of which belong to the group known as the teleosts ; the sharks — which are quite different from the teleosts , though they are also commonly referred to as fish ; and the cetaceans , which are the whales , dolphins and porpoises and are , of course , mammals .
20 It is possible from the village , without too much effort , to survey the great wilderness of Fisherfield Forest from the east by taking the private road to the little huddle of buildings known as the Heights of Kinlochewe and thence following a rising track to the left until the vast amphitheatre is revealed in a surround of formidable mountains of which Slioch and Mullach Coire Mhic Fhearchair are now the most prominent .
21 Laing converted this try , and two penalty tries awarded as the Instonians scrum got on top .
22 All manner of possibilities exist as the examples in Figure 5.5 show .
23 Dark-I swear as the faces of the two White Mountain boys .
24 Disputes arose as to what should be done with the cargo and the shipowners issued an originating summons on 12 March 1991 in this court naming as the defendants the charterers of the vessel .
25 Publicity accelerated as the Times Beach residents scattered , and government technicians moved in late last year .
26 Continuing in the same direction , Long Drop Cave may be seen at the base of a low cliff , and this is succeeded by a series of minor potholes known as the Eyeholes which seem almost friendly by comparison .
27 A very similar hormone , adrenaline , can also be generated by a pair of glands known as the adrenals that sit above the kidneys .
28 What Jeffery ( and Matza , who quotes Jeffery in support of his own position ) are pointing to here is that whatever positivists chose as the causes of crime , even when they were ‘ external ’ such as ‘ social and group ’ factors , they always excluded the nature and operation of the criminal law from consideration ; such things were simply not taken to be implicated in the process of causing criminal behaviour .
29 Nor did it necessarily require the Great Powers to act as the guarantors of the regime established .
30 Bearing in mind the importance of the conclusion of the Uruguay round of the GATT to many industries in Britain and to third-world economies , what does my right hon. Friend see as the prospects for overcoming the obstructionism of the socialist Government of France to a successful outcome ?
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