Example sentences of "[noun] [det] as [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can not express to you the charm that hangs about a mountain like Ben Each as the mists swathe its rocky sides ; they rise , they fall , they whirl , they soar as on wings of light , they cast shadows , they give grand mystery , and anon reveal some hidden dell , some great bare precipice , or perhaps display a glowing patch of verdure . |
| 2 | In speech we frequently use reference words such as the demonstratives this and that or the personal pronouns , he , she , it to point to persons or objects present and therefore known to the participants . |
| 3 | These are newspapers which have a national circulation such as The Times , The Guardian and The Daily Mail . |
| 4 | Although external organs such as the police networks were used to enforce control , much of it was exercised through existing social institutions , for example , the family and the company , and through official organizations such as the reservists , youth leagues and women 's groups , of which membership , where appropriate , eventually became compulsory . |
| 5 | Over the years a physical and emotional connection had been reinforced by the institution of army-sponsored organizations such as the reservists , through which the army established considerable control over village life . |
| 6 | The National Joint Council of the Labour party , the parliamentary Labour party and the Trades Union Congress , in a deputation to the Home Secretary , argued that unless the government took action against the BUF the Labour movement would be unable to control the justified anger of extremists who were already forming anti-fascist organizations such as the Greyshirts . |
| 7 | The importance of the family unit is most evident amongst the scythesmiths , with local dynasties such as the Rayboulds of Lower Gornal , the Waldrons of Clent , the Hill and Lea families of Bloomers End , Cradley , the Badgers of Kingswinford and others whose names constantly recur in local records . |
| 8 | An anti-state force such as the provisionals , who do not recognize the statehood of the twenty-six county state , can not achieve support in the South for this essential policy . |
| 9 | A visit to the annual conferences of the two major parties should convince any observer of the deep contrasts , and this is as evident in the case of the minority parties such as the Liberals and Social Democrats , and the Scottish and Welsh Nationalists . |
| 10 | The new obsessions , which were already making their mark in national politics abroad with parties such as the Greens in Germany , would take over . |
| 11 | Although early progress in study of environmental perception often related to socioeconomic geography such as the attitudes of farmers to the drought hazard on the Great Plains ( Saarinen , 1966 ) , later research concentrated more upon the physical environment and the fascinating evaluation of myth and reality in the context of a volcanic eruption in Papua New Guinea ( Blong , 1982 ) has already been referred to . |
| 12 | We are entering an exciting phase in which links are being forged between transduction events at the plasma membrane and the cell cycle proteins such as the cyclins and cyclin-dependent kinases which contribute to the DNA-synthesis and maturation-promoting factors which operate at G1/S and G2/M respectively . |
| 13 | Great trading nations such as the Phoenicians and the Etruscans produced almost no coins . |
| 14 | Clinton issued a statement that he was ‘ opposed to the creation of an independent Palestinian state ’ and added that ‘ the US President should not be taking positions on subjects such as the settlements ’ . |
| 15 | Visitor attractions such as the dungeons and marinas will only form one leg of what Nick Irens and David Hudd plan to be a three-pronged business . |
| 16 | The BBFC aimed to ensure that British films were as bloodless as possible , contained no criticism of any foreign power and no attack on any established British institution such as the clergy or the judiciary , avoided all political , religious and social controversy , and did nothing that would risk causing offence or inflaming public opinion . |
| 17 | Furthermore , the political implication of becoming an observing participant in an institution such as the police is immense , both for the group studied and for the ethnographer . |
| 18 | The cultural baggage which any social group , tribe , or institution such as the police acquires over time can thus be translated to reveal just what sustains it , and furthermore reveal what the society itself may not even have understood . |
| 19 | Secondly , even though static analysis of the sort featured in Figures 5.3 and 5.4 may point to the stimulating effect of price reductions , dynamic considerations such as the effects of bankruptcy and default during the process of price deflation may serve to tighten the grip of recession rather than loosen it . |
| 20 | His books such as The Man-eaters of Rudraprayag have become minor classics . |
| 21 | Now expected late next month , the pen-driven handheld computer is said to be able to organise data such as an appointments diary and can communicate with other machines by dialling phone numbers and sending facsimile messages . |
| 22 | More usually street gangs such as the Nachos , Montañeros and Calvos are hired by drug barons for a ‘ kill ’ for between £1,000 and £5,000 , depending on the importance of the victim and the risks of being caught . |
| 23 | Close encounters with those instruments of torture such as the forceps , and probe ( used in the early days for extracting root ) . |
| 24 | This highly simplistic view omits many other influences such as the stages in an interaction , familiarity and the individuals ' perceptions . |
| 25 | We can date the clearance of stable upland environments such as the chalklands of Wessex and Yorkshire and the Jurassic limestones of the Cotswolds and elsewhere to this period . |
| 26 | Singh proposed that industrial licences be abolished except in certain strategic sectors such as the arms industry , atomic energy and strategic minerals . |
| 27 | The use of more persistent and less volatile compounds such as the chloramines has posed a serious problem for many fishkeepers . |
| 28 | Here , no vertebrates at all could be found , the fossils consisting only of invertebrates such as the trilobites . |
| 29 | The reason for such anomalies may be because flavonoids are also potent lipoxygenase products such as the leukotrienes are powerful inflammatory agents . |
| 30 | Older trading institutions such as the Fairs which had served Europe since the Middle Ages , were disappearing , at least in their old forms . |