Example sentences of "[verb] as [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We support and accept the good sense of increasing sentences for offences that are worse than taking and driving away and of extending the deterrent of disqualification where personal injury and damage occurs , but it is quite another thing for someone to be guilty of additional offences that he does not commit , to which he is not a party and which he might not have foreseen as the likely consequences of his taking and driving away . |
| 2 | As a result , although there is a section devoted to ‘ Images of Love ’ ( some of its most fascinating and impressive poems are by women , whom we 're used to seeing as the silent objects of love ) , it is only one among many . |
| 3 | For Higher Rate Taxpayers , when the Bond matures or is surrendered the profit for tax purposes is calculated as the final proceeds less the original investment . |
| 4 | The racists are redefined as the black racists and Mr Honey ford , dogged defender of freedom , is invited to Number 10 Downing Street for consultation . |
| 5 | William Graffunder , an expatriate German and the promoter of an organisation in Cardiff which he registered as the Amalgamated Seamen 's and Tradesmen 's Union of Great Britain and Ireland in September 1890 , likewise made no bones about its connection with the Shipping Federation in the supply of " free labour " , though he denied being its official . |
| 6 | His Political Memoranda , written for the instruction of his Residents in the period 1902 to 1905 and published in 1906 , were revered as the canonical texts of Indirect Rule , and his administrative record , as Hugh Clifford discovered upon succeeding him as governor of Nigeria , was regarded as beyond criticism . |
| 7 | He had been exposed as a secret police informer under the ousted communist regime , although he insisted that his activities had been confined to reporting on foreign visitors to Sofia 's Natural History Museum ( where he had been a department head ) and on his visits abroad for scientific research ; he categorically denied that he had ever informed on dissidents . |
| 8 | These are called poleniers There are two kinds of poleniers one occurs along the coastline of Antarctica and is essentially formed as the strong winds blowing off Antarctica just remove the ice exposing the ocean , and the ice forms in this now exposed ocean very rapidly and then it 's removed by the wind . |
| 9 | The following were listed as the key points in economic construction during the coming decade and the eighth five-year plan period : strengthening agriculture ; strengthening the basic industries and infrastructure and reorganizing and transforming the processing industry ; and strengthening educational , scientific and technological undertakings . |
| 10 | The continued decline of international prices for the LDCs ' main export products during the last decade ; the danger of a fall in official development assistance and the consequences of the Gulf crisis , were listed as the main factors affecting growth in LDCs . |
| 11 | Construction faults , equipment failure and inadequate training of staff were given as the major causes of incidents . |
| 12 | Most often only the problems of the children were given as the significant handicaps to placement . |
| 13 | The enforcement of Amhara supremacy over other nationalities and the absence of a democratic machinery for instituting change are given as the main reasons why the Tigray People 's Liberation Front ( TPLF ) started an armed struggle in 1975 . |
| 14 | Parking problems and noise in the mainly residential area around Darlington Memorial hospital , where the development would have taken place , were given as the main reasons for dismissing the appeal by Surrey-based Bioplan . |
| 15 | There is no very compelling reason , however , why foreseeability should not be utilised as the test of remoteness in cases where it is irrelevant to the initial determination of liability : ‘ granted that an escape takes place , albeit unforeseeably , what would a reasonable man regard as the foreseeable consequences of such an escape ? ’ |
| 16 | Well each has a particular history erm each has a particular culture and pattern of doing things , structure of government as I 've mentioned but also of course we have common interests so in foreign policy we sometimes draw differences between what we would regard as the direct interests of each state and what we can call common interests of mankind . |
| 17 | Compact can be regarded as an equal opportunities initiative . |
| 18 | The costs for the US would be enormous , indeed the requirement of the French was that the US would pay the entire cost , but money and munitions could be regarded as the essential calipers which might allow the rickety infant to walk ; and as long as it had an American account it would grow up and would be able to buy everything that was needed for a new nation state . |
| 19 | The five ancestors are generally regarded as the sole survivors of the Shaolin temple after it was sacked and burned down by the Ching emperor 's army . |
| 20 | In Ophioprium cervicornis the two types of papillae are distributed in a regular way ; the smaller papillae are situated on the proximal part of the jaw and can be regarded as the oral papillae . |
| 21 | Should nation-states be regarded as the principal actors in the global political system ? |
| 22 | Matisse and Picasso are usually regarded as the great artists of the century . |
| 23 | In Hellenistic and Roman times the Chaldeans , as the Babylonians were called , came to be regarded as the great experts in astrology . |
| 24 | Of the two wives of Jacob , whom spiritual writers regarded as the biblical types of the contemplative and active lives , Rachel was beautiful , but Liah was the fertile one . |
| 25 | These structures can be regarded as the semantic primitives of the MTD , incorporating linguistic knowledge with general world knowledge in the representation of each word sense . |
| 26 | Golf on the Continent in the 1920s was very much a pastime for the rich , whereas in Britain professionals were employed by clubs as low-paid servants : across the Channel they were regarded as the social equals of the members they served , by virtue of their skill at the game . |
| 27 | The following may be regarded as the main factors for determining where the general administration of a trust is carried on : 1 . |
| 28 | The Ancient Egyptians are generally regarded as the true founders of aromatherapy . |
| 29 | In generic terms , these were regarded as the operational functions of the College , ie those primarily concerned with delivering the end product . |
| 30 | Many of Brindley 's ideas were regarded as the hair-brained schemes of a madman which would never see the light of day . |