Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am taking this matter up with the DoE Roads Service as a matter of urgency , ’ said Alderman Hugh Smyth . |
| 2 | ‘ If I close my eyes , I can still feel the g build as the world smoothly revolves and that bright red tip-tank carves its silent arc across the azure of my mind 's eye ’ . |
| 3 | But when I close my eyes , strain my stomach and clench my fist I can still feel the g build as the world smoothly revolves and I see that bright red tip tank carve its silent arc across the azure of my mind 's sky and remember . |
| 4 | Swindon say as a player he is worth a million pounds , and they should be compensated accordingly . |
| 5 | The bows of Central Asia use horse hide as the bowstring . |
| 6 | Moving the smaller oval into place is much easier than you might expect because of the way guidelines appear as the point that you have picked up come into alignment with important features on other object . |
| 7 | Other proposals under consideration include revoking permission for peat extraction ( often operated under old " interim development orders " obtained before the current system of planning permission came into effect ) , and imposing a carbon tax on peat production ( reflecting the fact that undeveloped peat bogs act as a carbon sink ) . |
| 8 | The association between the daughter 's rejection and the mother 's disability appears to afford at least circumstantial evidence that relationships deteriorate as a consequence of the burdens of tending . |
| 9 | In La Route des Flandres , for example , there is ample evidence that many of the fictional sequences emerge as a result of an exploration of the properties of certain words : the inherently fertile nature of language can be shown to have generated the subsequent text , and , through the use of metaphor and metonymy , the associations of both memory and language work together in the production of the text . |
| 10 | It 's up to you , he 's saying , to satisfy the hunger which the letter to Katkov and the Crime and Punishment notebooks rationalize as the criminal 's moral demand . |
| 11 | This position was also felt to have been influenced by the controversial decision taken by the Arab League Council in September to speed up the transfer of the Arab League headquarters from Tunis to the Egyptian capital Cairo , a decision first taken in March [ see pp. 37334 ; 37726 ] , and by the lack of large-scale Western aid to support domestic economic reforms and to compensate for serious economic losses forecast as a result of the Gulf crisis . |
| 12 | A lease was granted for a period of five years in which the tenant agreed to pay the landlord a sum equivalent to two months rent as a security deposit . |
| 13 | Secondly the immense mob of idlers , male and female , young and old to whom art schools serve as a kind of day nursery , well in the limelight , with a prospect of promotion to the Café Royal . ’ |
| 14 | For this purpose , we need to show that the roles serve as a focus for patterns of social relationships and for a framework enabling social development . |
| 15 | ‘ He thinks you do n't want to sleep with him , so you keep the kids awake as an excuse ? ’ |
| 16 | The effects of explosion blast waves scale as the ratio of blast energy to atmospheric density . |
| 17 | I regard the existence of flourishing humanities research as an index to the civilisation of our society ; Labour , however , has committed itself prematurely to the establishment of a humanities research council . |
| 18 | It is not clear whether this motivation arises from a pragmatic desire to influence other people in order to achieve common objectives , or whether social interactions act as a catalyst for the child 's intrinsic curiosity about language as a system for communicating with other people . |
| 19 | It should be remembered that in meetings of this type the minutes act as the authority for implementing the decisions . |
| 20 | The requirements for new skills , changing roles and management styles , the erosion of traditional functional boundaries and the needs for training and staff development will give rise to conflict and accordingly focus attention on the role of the personnel function as a mediator . |
| 21 | Similarly , there are no restrictions on referrals to secondary care , although long waiting times act as a limitation in practice . |
| 22 | Because when I was thinking about trying to talking to you today , I thought although we 've worked quite a lot with people along this group , you might be sitting here and thinking well you do n't seem to be doing any specific work for and with old people erm , well I think your quite independent and can work out your right that , but one of the things this front line review erm it erm , it 's considering Council front line services under various headings , one of which is Retired Services that the Council provide as a group , now the leader of the Council wants to erm , get public views on how we look at these services , so , and that 's , that 's individuals and groups and one of the things that you might like to think about and I 'm that we as a local government unit who are servicing this review can help you with , is to consider how you might want to fee in for that review , erm and , and consider this , that the re-services for retired people , that the Council provides that you use and basically whether you use that , or service , we want to hear that , the Council would need to know that cos were gon na be making decisions about whether or not they should continue in this front line review erm , and erm , you know , or what things you would , what , what are your questions on about those services , what other things you would like to see provided , things like that and I thing this group could quite easily make a collective representation , a collective submission to that process then you could do it as individual 's as well , so that , that exercise it , it should be over by the eleventh of October it starts on the sixth of September . |
| 23 | therefore carried out a study to examine the possibility that this factor was crucial in determining whether lateral eye movements vary as a function of the type of question asked . |
| 24 | A checker that did not have wether in its lexicon would flag wether as an error ( correctly or not ) , but one with a comprehensive dictionary would fail to do so . |
| 25 | ( e ) If , as is normal , the regulations merely give the directors power to refuse to register , as opposed to making their passing of transfers a condition precedent to registration , the transferee is entitled to be registered unless the directors resolve as a board to reject . |
| 26 | When newspapers start to report falls in Labour 's opinion-poll lead to 15% as a setback and Conservatives claim as a triumph Labour 's best-ever local-government result , we can safely conclude that the political landscape in Britain has changed . |
| 27 | In 1954 , Armitage and Doll proposed that common cancers arise as a result of the accumulation of as many as seven events . |
| 28 | By the mid-1960s rock as a whole was hardly monolithic ; but progressive rock was a particularly heterogeneous genre ( compared to , say , rock 'n' roll , which is fairly tightly defined ) . |
| 29 | In other cases the senses fail as a result of old age — so the number of deaf and blind is on the increase as more people lie longer . |
| 30 | The Prime Minister believes his overwhelming need in the last week is to overcome scepticism about the government 's ability to deliver recovery , restore growth , and resume the increase in living standards that 20th-century electorates regard as a right . |