Example sentences of "[noun] as [adj] [coord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can not bear emotion in public , and we look at grief as pathological or a sign of emotional instability . |
| 2 | Indeed , according to Louis Lomax , there had occurred ‘ The Negro Revolt ’ , meaning that there had been a gradual but discernible rejection of the notion of blacks as inferior and a series of social movements orchestrated to sound this ( 1963 ) . |
| 3 | Whichever way his tastes lie , and whatever the capacity of his purse and his bookshelves , it is certain that no other single work offers to the collector such variety of choice , experience and discovery as four and a half centuries of the book of which Lord Chief Justice Sir Matthew Hale ( 1609–76 ) wrote to one of his sons who had just recovered from smallpox : |
| 4 | Gorbachev on the same day described Iraq 's invasion as treacherous and a blatant violation of international law , calling for a political solution and warning of a possible " chain reaction endangering the whole world community " . |
| 5 | The old British patent laws prohibited applications for perpetual motion machines as unworkable and a waste of Patent Office time . |
| 6 | The MORI poll conducted for the Sunday Times ( Jan 1988 ) showed that 11 per cent considered the quality of primary school education as excellent and a further 61 per cent as good . |
| 7 | He described the drastic measures to move to a market economy as Utopian and a kind of " neo-Bolshevism . " |
| 8 | It has four wheel drive as standard and a new turbocharged engine that is said to meet all current EC emission standards . |
| 9 | The new hero may start out in life as untenured or a drifter — seldom as a wage-earner — but he settles down . |
| 10 | Data were compared by statistical procedures as appropriate and a p value of <0.05 was considered significant . |
| 11 | He was n't a composer as such but a great translator , not just a violin but also a violinist , an Itzhak Perlman of actors . ’ |
| 12 | There is a decrease with age in the percentage describing their health as good and a rise in the percentage reporting poor health ( Figure 6.1 ) . |
| 13 | In the early 1970s this led Weiskrantz and Warrington ( see Parkin 1987 ) to argue that the human deficit was not a failure of memory as such but a deficit in retrieval brought about by undue interference from incorrect items at the time of recall . |
| 14 | However , in M v. Home Office the Court of Appeal held that although neither the Crown as such nor a government department could be held liable for contempt as a result of disobeying a court order ( including an order of prohibition or mandamus ) because they are not ‘ legal persons ’ , Ministers and civil servants could be personally guilty of contempt for failing to comply with an order directed to a Minister in his or her official capacity . |
| 15 | A statement issued by that party on Jan. 20 described the scheme as impractical and a futile attempt to form yet another selected shura ( an Islamic consultative council ) in order to prolong the tenure of the interim government which was due to expire in February . |
| 16 | Sutcliffe makes a similar observation : " the real motivation for selecting one dialect or another has relatively little to do with the English class system as such and a great deal to do with ethnic and cultural identification . " |
| 17 | Daniel Halpin : ‘ My last hat was a flowery one , the same shape as this but a bit more girlie . ’ |
| 18 | The Oxfordshire Club has been described by some experts as unique and a course for the twenty first century … what makes it so special is a mixture of three styles … of classic English with trees … of links with sand dunes … and of American type holes landscaped by lakes … it 's been designed by Rees Jones |
| 19 | Welcomed by women of almost all ages as comfortable and a declaration of female sexuality , the short skirt suit with power dressing shoulder-padded jacket was simply the best for oozing confidence at the office . |
| 20 | Welcomed by women of almost all ages as comfortable and a declaration of female sexuality , the short skirt suit with power dressing shoulder-padded jacket was simply the best for oozing confidence at the office . |
| 21 | For Oakeshott the ‘ rationalist ’ error is the equation of reason which technique , and thus the problem is not the use of reason in politics as such but a misidentification of what constitutes reason . |
| 22 | The audience rose as one and a shocked intake of breath hung in silence for a second , before they broke into hysterical laughter . |