Example sentences of "[noun] as a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it was n't , and he came back and caught me , then I 'd have to fall back on my story as an over-enthusiastic games player . |
| 2 | Payments terminated on 31 May 1753 , but evidently no ill feeling marred the end of Miller 's contract as a few years later he dedicated to the Duke the beautiful Figures of Plants ( 2 vols. ) which had been published in parts from 1755–60 . |
| 3 | An Indonesian-registered freighter , the Perintis , carrying 32 containers of toxic pesticide , sank on March 15 , 1989 , in an area of the English Channel described by the UK Ministry of Defence as a conventional explosives dumping ground . |
| 4 | First of all if one looks at the draft advice on the erm regional plan guidance prepared by the Yorkshire and Humberside local planning authorities , they in fact advocate new settlement as an appropriate circumstances , there is not a policy which says that they are not appropriate or are inconsistent with other policy objectives , and I note in that respect that the D O E as Mr Donson said , are mildly supportive of the new settlement in the Greater York area . |
| 5 | The catering industry as a whole experiences seasonal demands for additional labour but , more important , those firms which provide catering for special " events " — exhibitions , cultural sporting or social occasions — have to cope with dramatic day-to-day variations in their demand for labour [ see Chapter 6 ] . |
| 6 | During the same era of the early sixties , TV tough guy , Lewis Collins was earning a living as a junior ladies ' hairdresser at Andre Bernard 's salon in Liverpool . |
| 7 | In March 1990 the Soviet media carried several critical reports , with Moscow News ( banned in Cuba in August 1989 , along with Sputnik magazine ) depicting Cuba as a degenerating police state . |
| 8 | For children under 5 in Lothian the number of casualties in 1991 was nearly one third greater than the 1981–85 baseline total , whereas for Scotland as a whole casualties in this age group rose by less than 5% . |
| 9 | For those who get involved with up-front lathe work , how about a smock as a New Years gift ? |
| 10 | Also surprising , given Bourdieu 's work as an ethnographer in Algeria , is the lack of consideration for the nature of mass consumption as an historical phenomena . |
| 11 | I recognise that dealing effectively and sensitively with rape as a human rights violation requires careful treatment and consideration . |
| 12 | All the participant states accepted ( although Turkmenistan did not sign ) motions tabled by Kazakhstan on ( i ) setting up a group of military observers as a collective CIS peacekeeping force for preventing and settling conflicts arising on CIS member states ' territory ; ( ii ) banning the use or threat of force between member states ; and ( iii ) collective action for the peaceful resolution of disputes and conflicts . |
| 13 | While there has been contraction more recently , New Zealand Railways , almost uniquely , use the magnificence of some of their stations as a public relations and marketing feature . |
| 14 | Earlier this week the members of the University Lecturers ' Association at the school , where Mrs Falconer 's post as a senior textiles lecturer is being made compulsorily redundant , voted 19-2 for the one-day strike , with the threat of escalating their action next week . |
| 15 | The exercise of bureaucratic functions reflects the way the state apparatus as a whole functions . |
| 16 | Brian Rowe has relinquished his role as Eastern Counties Field Officer so that he can concentrate on developing the Salt Cellar as a joint churches enterprise in Sudbury . |
| 17 | Since part of the lithosphere is replaced by hot mantle of lower density from the asthenosphere , the lithosphere as a whole experiences isostatic uplift . |
| 18 | Education as a public relations activity |
| 19 | He added : ‘ These steps included maligning your dead wife as a criminal drugs dealer . ’ |
| 20 | He added : ‘ These steps included maligning your dead wife as a criminal drugs dealer . |
| 21 | If we analyse all the uses to which income is put , then it is immediately obvious that for the economy as a whole consumers ' expenditure on goods produced in the domestic circular flow is only one element . |
| 22 | This magazine as a whole attempts to provide some of that missing sense of movement by tracking down individual people that the NI once profiled to see what time has done to them . |
| 23 | Marshall had been appointed to the Supreme Court in 1967 after a successful career as a civil rights lawyer , legal director of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People ( NAACP ) and an Appeals Court judge . |
| 24 | Alter the war , The Miami Herald invested heavily in the system , at one point transmitting five editions daily , but the advent of television soon made the concept redundant and fax reverted , once and for all , to its previous role as a utilitarian communications medium . |
| 25 | This lead to the company 's present role as a protective coatings supplier , concentrating on high quality , high margin profits for the European market . |
| 26 | An excited fan planted a kiss on the Duchess of York 's cheek yesterday as she practised for her new role as a United Nations roving ambassador . |
| 27 | Larry ‘ Boyz N' The Hood ’ Fishburne gets his first , long-awaited starring role as an undercover narcotics cop in the gripping thriller Deep Cover . |
| 28 | The state as a whole functions as ‘ an ideal collective capitalist ’ ( Altvater , 1973 ) , a political institution which corresponds to the common needs of capital . |
| 29 | Unless Britain catches up with the progress being made in the wealthiest EC countries , Britain as a whole risks becoming a backward ‘ region ’ of the Community . |
| 30 | The support post proved successful enough to establish Manchester as a national datasets centre with considerable expertise in handling and analysing Census data . |