Example sentences of "[noun] as a [no cls] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Negotiations were carried on in secret and the results were presented to shareholders as a fait accompli . |
| 2 | And then again if they pay me this money as an ex gratia payment . |
| 3 | Defeated in the 1922 general election for Dáil Éireann , she secured a seat in Dublin in the 1923 election but abstained from taking her seat as a Sinn Fein republican . |
| 4 | She was only half Indian , her mother being a Viennese woman who had come to England as an au pair and married a doctor from Darjeeling , a surgical registrar in a Bradford hospital . |
| 5 | The play functions as a mise en abyme of the novel as a whole . |
| 6 | This can be seen as a kind of intermediate position halfway between the child as a tabula rasa with no innate knowledge of the world and the child being able to speak at birth . |
| 7 | In the summer before I go away to university I get a job as an au pair in London . |
| 8 | Here we use Saccharomyces cerevisiae as an in vivo model system to show that the Myc protein is a sequence-specific transcriptional activator whose DNA binding is strictly dependent on dimerization with Max . |
| 9 | Dragons of Flame is at best a weak beat-'em up , and could never cut the mustard as a bona fide roleplayer . |
| 10 | The liberals of the Cortes of Cadiz accepted this dissolution as a fait accompli and it was this that made the Orders the chief enemies of liberalism in Spain . |
| 11 | Figure 1.2 Excess of female population after the age of 45 years and males as a per cent of the total ( 1981 ) |
| 12 | The coveted contract helps strengthen arguments proposing Tuxedo as a de facto standard . |
| 13 | Having devoted the greater part of this year and last to extending its near hegemony in the market for low-end and mid-range Unix-based imaging solutions , promoting the GL graphics library as a de facto standard , and continuing to digest the business of the former MIPS Computer Systems Inc , SGI has n't given much attention to its high-end . |
| 14 | Although GL is gaining ground as a de facto standard it does not support PEX , the Phigs extensions which allow developers to write distributed , three-dimensional graphics applications for X-Windows : ‘ because PHIGS is years behind the marketplace , ’ insists SGI . |
| 15 | Although Ice Cube 's role as an agent provocateur is unequivocal , his future as a bankable revolutionary must be open to doubt , despite his assertion on the liner notes of ‘ Predator ’ : ‘ I will become an African-American when America gives up the oppression of my people . ’ |
| 16 | Kissinger erm who began life as a er er as professor of history . |
| 17 | The County Council , having been presented with the Channel Tunnel as a fait accompli , is concerned to maximise its potential benefits by directing associated commercial development to those areas which will benefit most . |
| 18 | That the British eventually accepted the American view in most details shows that they had largely subsumed the aviation issue in the larger question of economic viability , and used aviation as a quid pro quo for the American loan . |
| 19 | Even so , it is possible for a court to interpret a statute as covering what looks at first sight as a casus omissus if it can find or invent some plausible general principle of interpretation , an exercise that may call for a little ingenuity . |
| 20 | But interest now focuses on its potential as an aide memoire in police investigations . |
| 21 | Such was Beltrami 's legal skills that he had already secured one postponement of the trial , citing Celtic 's European Cup commitments as a bona fide reason . |
| 22 | In particular , in spite of his attempt to avoid positing history as an a priori transcendent law , in the published first volume of the Critique he had still utilized an organicist teleological model of history which assumes that the end is already implicit in the beginning , and that history rolls forward to a determined end . |
| 23 | First he takes the city council to task for presenting the LET scheme as a fait accompli , criticising it for ‘ accepting without question LET's objective of redevelopment in the form of 500-metre-long , inward-looking building ’ . |
| 24 | R. R. Stokes , a Catholic Labour MP who feared that the price of resistance to Hitler would be the establishment of Communism throughout Europe , led a small group of MPs in calling for peace negotiations — a position which accepted the partition of Poland as a fait accompli . |
| 25 | Sinclair had a reputation as a bon viveur as well as a fine sailor . |
| 26 | Prokofiev 's fate was particularly poignant because of his long-standing reputation as an enfant terrible . |
| 27 | The Jesuits were expelled ( 1767 ) from both Spain and Spanish America — a measure that gave its author , Aranda , a European reputation as an esprit fort — and the reformers attempted to turn the universities into state-controlled educational institutions teaching useful knowledge instead of Aristotelean ‘ words ’ . |
| 28 | OSF 's business manager for DCE , Jon Gossels , says X/Open 's endorsement of DCE — see front page — ‘ demonstrates the industry-wide support for DCE as a de facto standard . ’ |
| 29 | Like Williams , Hill was defiant about his talent and ambitions , saying : ‘ I am not too disheartened because I am improving all the time as a Grand Prix racer and you have to remember it is my first season . |
| 30 | The slaves themselves needed the pidgin as a lingua franca , not just for communication with their captors , but to communicate among themselves ; a typical cargo would bring together slaves from many language groups , and on arrival in the American ports , they were deliberately split up to reduce the likelihood of conspiracies . |