Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shell , one of the League 's top offensive tackles for 15 years , made the Pro Bowl eight times as a Raider . |
| 2 | Sceptics may baulk at such an idea , but given the attested presence of such equally implausible-sounding objects as a block of portable eighteenth-century soup ( ex Captain Cook ) , Inuit seal-gut underwear , African cobweb hats and other equally exotic objects , the concept of dressed fleas may seem more acceptable . |
| 3 | Thus , for example , in the case of such a social group as a ball team , the team is the generalized other in so far as it enters as an organized process or social activity — into the experience of any one of the individual members of it . |
| 4 | She was as much an old friend as a lover , or future wife … ’ |
| 5 | Such a transitory career as a rabbi suggests to me a new saying — ‘ sick humorists transit ingloriously ’ . |
| 6 | The following year Arthur Woods directed They Drive by Night ( 1938 ) , which makes evocative use of such ordinary English surroundings as a dance palace and the roadside cafés along the Great North Road for the story of an ex-convict hunted for a murder he did n't commit , who comes back to London to hunt down the real killer , a weirdo with books like Sex in Relation to Society and The Thrill of Evil in his briefcase . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , we 're just going out to have one , ’ said Penelope , thinking how typical it was that Ianthe should long for such a dull and essentially English thing as a cup of tea . |
| 8 | At one time , this rating was credited with almost as much scientific objectivity as a person 's blood group , but now its use is generally limited to self-diagnosis questionnaires in Sunday supplements . |
| 9 | A doctor of medicine is in the same social class as a company director but is more likely than the director to be accorded some degree of deference by the local community . |
| 10 | By 1839 the mill was in the hands of Richard Hone and in 1840 he installed some form of steam engine , probably to power such auxiliary equipment as a winnower and bolting machine . |
| 11 | It is assumed , in addition , that all significant propositions , irrespective of their truth or falsity , must in principle be explicable in terms of propositions about such entities as a condition of their significance . |
| 12 | The list was so long because he counted every programme over £1m — the previous definition was over £5m — and included such projects as a car park at Medway Hospital in Kent . |
| 13 | We open on Thursday and at the moment we 've made about as much noise as a fart in a hurricane . ’ |
| 14 | Ideally , you should look on such money as a bonus and should save or invest it . |
| 15 | De Gaulle saw all such plans as a way to reshape US domination of Western Europe . |
| 16 | I shall continue to take into account the view of the judiciary on the requirements of retribution and deterrence in such cases as a factor amongst others ( including the need to maintain public confidence in the system of justice ) to be weighed in the balance in setting the first review date . |
| 17 | ‘ I shall continue to take into account the view of the judiciary on the requirements of retribution and deterrence in such cases as a factor amongst others ( including the need to maintain public confidence in the system of justice ) to be weighed in the balance in setting the first review date . |
| 18 | BC is currently encouraged to adopt a speculative approach when drawing up such maps as a result of the pro-opencast policies in MPG Note 3 . |
| 19 | Given such winners as a guide , betting shops should start a book on the ilk of Hartung and Estève ( if still alive ) , and every contemporary sculptor , however meretricious , bent on an international round ( Jeff Koons for 1993 ? ) . |
| 20 | There was no legislation to enforce the use of the safety lamp and many miners did not like it because it did not give out as much light as a candle . |
| 21 | The headlights , in their blackout cowls , threw about as much light as a candle , and finally they went off the road . |
| 22 | However , there were others , more distinctively local in their orientation : the gradual demise of the traditional two-tier model of primary school management and its replacement by three-tier and matrix models ; the desirability of building on the diversification of staff management roles which PNP has produced , avoiding any contraction of such roles as a consequence of LMS ; the need to acknowledge the pivotal role , for good or ill , played by primary heads , and to work with and through rather than round or against them ; the need to expand the focus of management training courses to encompass the roles and needs of all staff ( not just those of the ‘ managers ’ as conventionally defined ) , to locate management strategies in whole-school analysis , and generally to broaden the concept of ‘ management ’ which currently informs such courses ; the importance of training , support and INSET for heads , and of ensuring that these give close attention to the broader aspects of the expertise needed for headship , such as professional knowledge and personal relationships as well as the more obvious tasks , roles and strategies . |
| 23 | The blurring of boundaries , which took place at about that time , had created such anomalies as a householder having an Essex postal address while paying his rates to Suffolk County Council . |
| 24 | Arguing with him had about as much effect as a snowflake falling on a pond . |
| 25 | They were closely integrated into the emerging central paradigm of social evolution , according to which the level of sophistication of these objects was held to symbolize the place of such peoples as a kind of fossil record of social development from the primitive to the civilized ( Steadman 1979 ; Chapman 1985 ) . |
| 26 | You were taken on as a boy and er you got a boy 's wages but you were expected to do as much work as a man . |
| 27 | In your twenties , you took as much exercise as a woodworm . |
| 28 | As indicated earlier , the United States straight bill of lading is , although not negotiable , a transferable document , and as such functions as a document of title . |
| 29 | Indeed , the theodicy question as to how one could ever use such texts as a medium through which to worship God may be thought to be even more insoluble than is Schüssler Fiorenza 's finding inspiration in the early Christian community . |
| 30 | The Workhorse is supplied as a single pair of hinges , for use as a sawbench ; or as two pairs , which can be used to create a stable trestle on uneven ground , for such applications as a garden barbecue or fête table . |