Example sentences of "[noun] and as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In better days , however , it merely served to guarantee the privacy of the sovereigns and as a diversion for the Prince Imperial who enjoyed running up and down it when he came to play with his parents .
2 She helped to produce a sketch of her assailant and as a result of its publication , another woman told police that he was the same man who had attacked her the day before .
3 Many women used the campaign as a means of deepening feminist consciousness and as a platform for launching a wider programme of demands .
4 We therefore conclude that an element important for neuronal-specific expression has been lost by this deletion and as a consequence that the transgene is more sensitive to position-effects .
5 These committees act as a forum for interested parties to air their grievances and as a result enables a clearer picture to emerge of the extent of any odour problem in the area .
6 Kung fu was primarily developed as a method of self-defence and as an exercise to promote good health .
7 The hierarchical nature of news organizations — both as a chain of command and as an information processing organization — ensured that the power centre remained well removed from the specialist correspondents .
8 She wore a soft , hyacinth-coloured jersey , for she had summed up Miss Cress as a rival and as a woman who took everything in , clothes , manners , appearances , weighed and judged them .
9 The duchy of Rome was the papacy 's ancient land to which the popes were deemed to have succeeded as the continuators of Byzantine rule and as a result of the Donation of Constantine .
10 When I passed at this point MacArthur said perhaps I would like to hear his summary as a soldier and as no businessman or textile expert .
11 We have made significant progress in our asset rationalisation programme and as a result are strengthening the balance sheet and creating capacity to invest in a very exciting range of exploration and development opportunities which will add materially to cashflow and improve profitability .
12 Where the user takes advantage of the voluntary vision screening programme and as a consequence of vision defects at the viewing distances used specifically for the display screen work concerned is recommended to have a full eyesight examination by an ophthalmic optician , then during this interim period , the user will be permitted to use an ophthalmic optician of their own choice .
13 Now as someone who 's taught at other institutions — I 've taught at the University of Kent and at Middlesex Polytechnic — I think I was aware of the level of harassment which erm was there in those institutions , there certainly was sexual harassment , it certainly was a problem , but I have to say it did n't seem to me to be the problem that the students have identified it as being in Oxford and I think that 's striking and it 's something that erm as tutors and as a university we really do have to think about .
14 ‘ But it became obvious that we were n't posing enough of a threat to get them through the bottle neck and as a result they dived and went hell-for-leather back into Scapa Flow .
15 We must remember that he had started his active life as a lawyer and as a student of rhetoric , and he is using a common figure of rhetoric , hyperbole , within carefully controlled limits .
16 It can also act as a dilution guide , when the level of foam is related to concentration and as an activity indicator , whereby the formulation is adjusted so that when detergency is exhausted the foam collapses .
17 She signed up for two employment agencies : Solve Your Problems and Knightsbridge Nannies , and worked as a waitress at private parties and as a charlady .
18 The US deficit also enabled most West European central banks to accumulate dollar reserves and as a consequence most of their currencies became fully convertible for non-residents after December 1958 , which further facilitated the international transfer of funds .
19 Founded and run by forty year old Jack Kilgore , it is a logical development of his previous interests as a collector and his successive positions as Assistant Vice-President of Christie 's New York Old Master department and as a director of Richard Feigen 's New York gallery .
20 The complexity of an organisation 's activities in turn increases with differentiation , interdependence , uncertainty and as the uncertainty in an organisation increases , the greater is the amount of information that needs to be processed by decision- makers to ensure coordination .
21 He claims there were only four turnstiles to admit thousands of Everton supporters and as a result he and his party were still queuing , in crushed conditions , at 3.10 .
22 She worked at Glasgow University for seven years in research and as a lecturer in social work .
23 This paper examines the role of archives of machine-readable data as a resource for research and as a source of teaching material .
24 Doi ruthlessly exploited the difficulties which the 1989 Recruit scandal caused for the LDP and as the personification of the nascent Japanese women 's movement she was successful in attracting female voters who had become disillusioned with the political process and estranged from the ruling party .
25 Erm erm , A ten it the there 's various units and as a unit erm are the family and I felt that perhaps at that stage are you not on the family and what it 's about .
26 In nearly all cases the must will be dosed with sulphur dioxide , which will encourage this settling process as well as act as an aseptic agent and as an antioxidant .
27 He did indeed return , in disguise and as a fugitive , seeking shelter for the night in 1646 when the war was lost .
28 Could you at the same time treat the biblical texts as objects of critical scientific study and as the medium of a message from God ?
29 This information will be helpful in subsequent job appraisal and as a background to future fee quotations .
30 But the very foundation of entrepreneurship — as a practice and as a discipline — is the practice of systematic innovation .
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