Example sentences of "[noun] as [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same irony is enriched and plangently deepened in another fine poem by Tate of the same year , in which once again the many Virgilian echoes point to a deeper affinity — with the fable of the Aeneid as making more sense than he can find anywhere else , for the historical predicament that the American Southerner has inherited and must make sense of . |
| 2 | I do not read the decision in Effer v. Kantner as having that effect which would be contrary to the form in which the question posed was answered in that decision . |
| 3 | ‘ But where the delivery has been delayed through the fault of either buyer or seller the goods are at the risk of the party at fault as regards any loss which might not have occurred but for such fault . ’ |
| 4 | Gerald Vaughan , the health minister , simply reiterated in October 1981 that there is no clear evidence to link unemployment and ill health , and summarised the results of a DHSS study as showing that unemployment has different effects on different families ( to the chagrin of the researcher involved , who argued that his findings showed that the unemployed were more likely to suffer from physical , and psychological , ill health , unless they worked in hazardous occupations . |
| 5 | 3 Deliver the script as typescript , double-spaced on one side of A4 paper , but should the Author ask the Publisher to prepare the script as required such costs shall be borne by the Author . |
| 6 | ( 5 ) A licence under this Part of this Act may , in a case where it is proposed to construct or convert premises for a seamen 's canteen , be a provisional licence to be made final after the proposal has been carried out ; and Part II of the said Schedule 2 shall have effect as respects such licences . |
| 7 | The family was not recognised by the common law as having any rights in the land … |
| 8 | If he had won , he would certainly not have snubbed the Oscar-night celebrations as did that year 's recipient of the Best Actor Award , George C. Scott , for Patton . |
| 9 | The following passage from the judgment of Atkin L.J. , at p. 887 , was relied upon by Mr. Gardiner as showing that recoverability was not dependent upon any measure of compulsion : |
| 10 | Certainly he did not regard large-scale state intervention as having any effect except in the very long term , since the causal conditions are located ultimately in cultural attitudes , not in the factors on which state intervention operates . |
| 11 | The person whom we regard from our earliest years as wielding such power , the first person we realise as affecting our lives from outside us is the parent . |
| 12 | They may feel responsible for the racial injustice which other white people have inflicted on blacks , and see these injustices as entailing all manner of pathology for the black community , with its strengths and survival denied or not recognised . |
| 13 | The marketing expert in the company is likely to be the key person as regards any advertising because his influence and , sometimes , his authority , extends over the sales department , research department , promotion , advertising and public relations . |
| 14 | Exercise is just as important a part of slimming as eating less food . |
| 15 | For the expressive value is confirmed when people in good faith try to treat one another in a way appropriate to common membership in a community governed by political integrity and to see each other as making this attempt , even when they disagree about exactly what integrity requires in particular circumstances . |
| 16 | in such a condition , there is no place for industry ; because the fruit thereof is uncertain : and consequently no culture of the earth ; no navigation , nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea ; no commodious buildings ; no instruments of moving , and removing , such things as require much force ; no knowledge of the face of the earth ; no account of time ; no arts ; no letters ; no society ; and which is worst of all , continual fear , and danger of violent death ; and the life of man , solitary , poor , nasty , brutish , and short . |
| 17 | Are we to understand that all work , when not alienated , is to provide the same freedom for the creative development of mind and feeling as do those pursuits we may choose to follow when our time is our own ? |
| 18 | Don Juan did not recognize Franco as having any authority over him and openly challenged the Generalísimo 's public and self-image of omnipotence . |
| 19 | Given its origins , the NUR saw itself as an industrial union ; originally it organized most groups of BR workers , and it continues to be recognized by BR as representing all grades of staff other than management . |
| 20 | Hayek , however , constructs his theory in such a manner as to render such criticisms difficult to sustain . |
| 21 | You can regard each setting Sk as depicting some fact . |
| 22 | It will also challenge clubs like Nottingham — and perhaps even Cardiff — to become as effective as Saracens have been , not only in finding and developing new young talent , but in building such good relations with the junior clubs in their area as to make this process acceptable to both sides . |
| 23 | I also saw poor people as having more sense of community and warmth — as altogether nicer and more ideologically sound ! |
| 24 | As with Lacan 's own work , these readings see femininity and masculinity as defining each other . |
| 25 | The old bleed — overseer called me Jess after his dog as died that day . |
| 26 | Although all but 20 library authorities noted at least some courses offered by central units , not all of these libraries perceived central training staff as having any responsibility for their staff . |
| 27 | In the same breath as admitting that Lightning , the high-end , super-pipelined Sparc chip that it was developing in conjunction with LSI Logic Corp and Hyundai Electronics , was n't going to strike after all , Metaflow Technology also began to talk about a next-generation effort in design that would follow ( UX No 273 ) . |
| 28 | Between 1900 and the late 1970s … we are asked to strike comparisons between such different styles of law enforcement as to make little sense . |
| 29 | The Scots claim that Malcolm offered homage only in respect of his holdings in Cumbria and the largely anglicized Lothian ; William and his successors chose to interpret the acknowledgement as embracing all Scotland . |
| 30 | This is quoted and endorsed by Meyers ( Homosexuality and Literature , 148 ) , who goes on to describe Lawrence 's Aaron 's Rod as possessing many components of ‘ a homosexual novel ’ including ‘ an intense hatred and fear of women , who are characterised in two male gatherings as threatening , frightening and repulsive ’ , and ‘ a symbolically castrated hero who is afraid to let himself go in heterosexual love and runs away from his three women ’ ( p. 154 ) . |