Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] as [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Noverre did not specifically name them he described these dancers ' particular characteristics as having similar physiques and technical expertise as the danseurs classiques but they were not always so well-proportioned and usually possessed a natural sense of comedy . |
| 2 | preferences for more focused or salient entities as the referents of pronouns and other anaphors ( e.g. Sidner 1979a ; Alshawi 1987 ) . |
| 3 | One advantage of doing this at this stage is that the reader will probably feel able to devote a little extra effort to learning this terminology as the statements of the theorems themselves will take little remembering — many of them should be fairly familiar to him already . |
| 4 | Trobriand islanders use the tug-of-war , cricket , the collection of yams and great and freely expressed sexual enthusiasm as the planks of their complicated beliefs . |
| 5 | Faecal occult blood testing was not used as an entry criteria nor was its usefulness assessed during this study as the investigations to locate a possible source of bleeding would have been pursued even if faecal occult blood tests had been negative . |
| 6 | There was another break as the pips sounded and Forester fed the callbox again . |
| 7 | With changes of government over time reflecting different views about inflation and unemployment , a cross-section Phillips curve with different countries as the observations is postulated . |
| 8 | The swap strategy provides a more demanding test as the transactions costs will be lower . |
| 9 | ’ With a sigh he turned to me , and said , ‘ Sometimes doctors forget that fathers who love their bairns suffer as much pain of a different sort as the children . |
| 10 | However , it was difficult to accept this concept as the prostaglandins measured were not proaggregatory . |
| 11 | The Deputy Under Secretary headed the Secret Intelligence Service of the United Kingdom , and that was not a subject matter for gossip and conversation on a bougainvillaea-fringed veranda as the lights of the fishermen 's dug-outs floated inside the coral reef … |
| 12 | Satyāgraha also effects a transformation in social structures as the examples I have given of its application in South Africa and India clearly show . |
| 13 | LONG before England came such a cropper at Lansdowne Road , there were many besides the Scots among the British rugby fraternity who were already positive that Gavin Hastings would be revealed this morning as the Lions ' captain for the forthcoming tour of New Zealand . |
| 14 | Derby are favourites ahead of United for promotion and Keegan admitted : ‘ We go into this game as the underdogs . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Celtic have problems that wo n't be sorted out over 90 minutes at Dens Park and Dundee will not go into this game as the underdogs , ’ said Stainrod . |
| 16 | The doctrine of the fiduciary duty , being judge-made , is capable of extended application as the courts please . |
| 17 | The 23-year-old , playing only his fifth Test , finished with a career-best 7-52 from 23.2 overs as the tourists , chasing 359 for victory , were dismissed for 219 despite a maiden Test century by opener Phil Simmons ( 110 ) . |
| 18 | This may be as crude a model of the public official as the models of ‘ protector of the public interest ’ , ‘ profligate incompetent ’ , insensitive automaton or neutral instrument of political will that it seeks to replace . |
| 19 | Yet the study of non verbal communication — body language , gestures , facial expressions , proximity — was initiated only this century as the fields of sociology , socio biology and socio psychology developed . |
| 20 | The sensationalist cover in 1977 which followed the death of a fan at a gig by The Radiators ( my then combo ) will take some beating as the PITS . |
| 21 | Developed in this country as an applications generator it has been used to create a data base publishing system of exceptional power . |
| 22 | If pure sands can be given sufficient organic matter to retain moisture and provide plant nutrients , they need no further structure as the pores between sand particles are large enough to allow drainage and sand can not be compacted into a ‘ pan ’ . |
| 23 | It is imperative not to accept the subjects of popular interest as the objects of theoretical scrutiny , not to reify a concept of dubious historical provenance , but instead to unpack the powerful rhetoric that hides behind the notion of the inner city , to outline the contours of alternative urban realities and to place this empirical evidence in the political and economic context that will determine the life chances of those people that live in real places in real urban locations today . |
| 24 | In 1813–14 the English were back in Bayonne , this time as the besiegers , when the Duke of Wellington 's army drove Napoleon 's troops out of Spain and back within their own borders . |
| 25 | These weighed as heavily in the social balance as the areas of social tension like Galicia . |
| 26 | Another Romantic poet , Byron , challenged the conventional view of popular protest as the actions of " the mob " when he defended the Luddites in his maiden speech in the House of Lords in 1812 : |
| 27 | Whilst not retracting anything that has been said about the inappropriateness of either a corporeal God or a God who is a person , it has to be said that interpreting certain historical events as the actions of God is the primary way in which a number of religions understand the divine nature . |
| 28 | Cardiff turned away from the rain-streaked window as the policemen on cordon-duty lifted the wooden pole and the last of the cars slid away into the night . |
| 29 | I mean like with Kevin and Bill , we negotiated but even that we would n't talk about their professional work as a careers officer |
| 30 | Was he outgrowing his strength , she 'd wondered , as her other children had done , her vague fears of wasting fevers and rickety limbs vanishing to be replaced by incredulous horror as the soldiers on their tall horses had begun to charge . |