Example sentences of "[noun] as a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Terrorists often used an athletic stopwatch as a timing device . |
| 2 | We can now turn right to the other end of the book , where there should be another paste-down and free endpaper , though in earlier books the latter will often be missing , having been appropriated by some seventeenth or eighteenth century housewife as a shopping list or for copying a cooking recipe . |
| 3 | Remembering that I am not defining housewife as a woman dancing attendance on a healthy but indolent male but as a person looking after babies and others who need looking after , what do feminists think the housewife should live on ? |
| 4 | Product and process technology investments made by Decorative Ceramics over the last two years have confirmed Johnson Matthey as a world leader in onglaze colour technology . |
| 5 | He puts forward the radical solution that the range be given almost total protection as a wilderness area or area of land where the hand of man is less evident . |
| 6 | Like copyright , this right is automatic and does not depend on registration but , unlike registered designs , there is no requirement for the design to have eye-appeal , although if it does , it is not barred from protection as a design right . |
| 7 | On the basis of its fauna , the area in question might qualify for protection as a nature reserve , if not for designation as a site of special scientific interest . |
| 8 | Now of course during the nineteen eighties the protection of agricultural land for its own sake er lost weight as an issue and the relevant structure plan policies er lost effective weight and were seen to do so but Government policy was quite explicit in the nineteen eighty seven circular , I think it was num number sixteen , was that although agricultural land protection as a farming resource was diminished as an issue , the protection of the countryside for its own sake was not . |
| 9 | Mr McFadyen said : ‘ We 've already been pledged financial support by several organisations if we can get part of the old school building as a community centre . ’ |
| 10 | As part of Richard MacCormac 's drive to develop the building as an architecture centre , the exhibition programme at 66 Portland Place expanded considerably . |
| 11 | ‘ Carrie gave Mike a watch as a Christmas present . |
| 12 | MY HUSBAND bought me a watch as a birthday present , but it kept losing time and I returned it after the holidays . |
| 13 | Fred Robertson 's record was outstanding ; he had taken part in 189 interception sorties , and been credited with ten confirmed , three probables and seven damaged while on the island ; his assessment as a fighter pilot endorsed in his logbook by Sqn.Ldr . |
| 14 | The agents of the Crown consequently became disillusioned about the New Forest as a Crown asset : it barely escaped the fate of the other royal forests . |
| 15 | We now look at the er price unity as a T ratio minus ten , right , so it 's highly significant , right and the er figure in square brackets , the probability value next to the T ratio tells you that we get least ninety nine point nine percent confidence coefficiency price elasticity demand significantly different from zero right , now is everybody happy interpreting the coefficient right and the T ratio ? |
| 16 | The reason why many ethologists would now prefer to explain ritualization as an arms race is that they have increasingly come to realize that selfish competition among individuals is the rule in the animal world . |
| 17 | Georg Mautner Markhof , 65 , a leading industrialist , had announced his resignation as an FPÖ vice-president on Feb. 27 . |
| 18 | The monitor allows you to see the contents of the memory in a form that you can understand i.e. it is translated back into text as a screen image . |
| 19 | The Markov methods represent the bottom-up approach , and they model English text as a Markov process which allows transition probabilities to be assigned to various letter combinations or n-grams . |
| 20 | Hedley Verity went to school locally , and came to the fore as a schoolboy cricketer . |
| 21 | What particularly incensed the good bishop was that Passelewe as a Forest judge had ordered the arrest and imprisonment of clerks as well as laymen , and had thus flouted clerical privileges . |
| 22 | I reach that conclusion , I hope , having properly considered the pros and cons of the situation ; the fact that he has this particular advantage as a police officer in marshalling evidence ; considering the issues . |
| 23 | I reach that conclusion , I hope , having properly considered the pros and cons of the situation : the fact that he has this particular advantage as a police officer in marshalling evidence ; considering the issues . |
| 24 | Mr Green declined to answer questions on political and privatisation issues , but it is known that he hopes to keep the InterCity brand as a marketing concept to compete with coach companies and airlines , although the Government wants to break up InterCity into separate operators . |
| 25 | In the 1960s she and husband Harry bought a Whitby cottage as a weekend retreat . |
| 26 | In the meantime an airship had caught fire in the USA , ending the use there of the lethal explosive hydrogen as a lifting gas ; it was replaced by the safer helium . |
| 27 | Certain types of bacteria , by genetic mutation , can build up resistance to disinfectants that act in the latter way to the extent that they can become totally immune to normal concentrations even utilising the disinfectant as a food source . |
| 28 | The company is foreswearing Sun Express as a distribution point for the Classics and will go through its usual channels instead . |
| 29 | In the early stages , however , Commodore believes that it needs to ensure a broad range of titles are available both to support the positioning of CDTV as a family leisure platform and to generate the initial installed base which will itself encourage the third party publishing on which the future of CDTV depends . |
| 30 | Speaking without notes , Mr Denton gave us a clear picture of the way the railways were first developed as a freight service , and indeed their rapid rise as a people carrier was an unexpected consequence . |