Example sentences of "[adj] as [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking back , I seem to recall that summer of 1943 as a continuation of cloudless days and warm sunshine , with long pink and purple evenings filled with the roar and drone of aircraft taking off all round us . |
| 2 | The British used the four ‘ freedoms ’ agreed at the Commonwealth meeting in October 1943 as the basis for discussion , but refused to consider a US proposal for a fifth freedom : the right to pick up passengers , mail , and freight at intermediate stops not in the country of origin of the airline or its ultimate destination . |
| 3 | Even longer-serving was Mr. Edwin Bromley , who had arrived in 1934 as a member of both the teaching staff and the maintenance department . |
| 4 | The marquis managed to pour the brandy without spilling it , his face chalk-white as the ramifications of Horatia 's return began to dawn on him . |
| 5 | Perhaps underused as a source of prospects , the press is nevertheless important . |
| 6 | Not only tragedy would feel the ban , but comedy , too , since all drama begins with human frailty , and none so universal and absurd as the propensity of mankind to behave badly . |
| 7 | Or else she would turn round , as though sensing my gaze on her skin , and for a moment as brief and yet momentous as a pause in music our eyes talked dirty . |
| 8 | Now when I said you were very good at it I said what 's fifty as a fraction of one fifty ? |
| 9 | Shaikh Rashid , born in 1914 , became ruler of Dubai in 1958 and Vice-President of the UAE on its formation in 1971 as a federation of six of the seven Trucial States [ see p. 25010 ] . |
| 10 | Some of the works were presented in 1971 as a sign of solidarity with Allende 's government , the rest were donated after the coup d'état . |
| 11 | It began trading in 1971 as the subsidiary of a Germany company before being bought over by its management team in 1987 . |
| 12 | The Republic of Zaïre ( known until 1971 as the Republic of the Congo ) , became independent from Belgium in June 1960 . |
| 13 | The Republic of Zaïre ( known until 1971 as the Republic of the Congo ) became independent from Belgium in June 1960 . |
| 14 | First , medical treatment other than symptom control or management is uncalled-for as a matter of law and , indeed , is inappropriate ; not only is it unethical conduct , but the doctor could also be subject to legal sanction . |
| 15 | This point is picked up by both Gregory and Fredegar , who describe the later Frankish invasion of Burgundy in 523 as the prosecution of Chlothild 's bloodfeud against her uncle 's family . |
| 16 | After getting physically very weak as the result of being unable to eat without extreme discomfort , a few weeks ago Molly was admitted to the Royal Homeopathic Hospital Great Ormond Street where doctors found and dealt with a severe restriction in her stomach . |
| 17 | A decision was taken in 1984 by F.I.S.A. at Pau to create Formula 3000 as a replacement for Formula Two . |
| 18 | Exsmokers live longer and are healthier as a result of kissing it goodbye . ’ |
| 19 | Indeed the Committee even extended this logic to a position whereby they felt themselves able to justify the decriminalisation of adult homosexual behaviour in private as a form of protection for the young : |
| 20 | Instances given by insiders include the total abolition of the closed shop ; the radical breaking-up of the National Health Service ; student loans ; rates ; vouchers for schools ; and , in earlier , pre-Hillsborough days , the restoration of what she and the late Airey Neave used , according to insiders , to refer to in private as the restoration of good local government in Northern Ireland . |
| 21 | Do n't overdo the length of the sequence : two or three minutes should be ample as an opener for your movie . |
| 22 | ‘ The fact is that there is a huge group which sees Labour as a way of furthering the cause of CND . |
| 23 | Not badly at all , given the immense difficulty of restoring credibility to Labour as a party of government . |
| 24 | Those of us who had been drawn towards Labour as a party of change now received a sharp reminder that whatever else it was at local level , it was at national level still essentially an electoral machine . |
| 25 | HARRIET Harman yesterday staked a claim for Labour as the party for women whose needs she said had been ignored under 13 years of Conservative rule . |
| 26 | Opinion on the exchanges was divided about the likely reaction to Labour as the party with the most seats but no overall majority . |
| 27 | In Greece , which had sent a frigate to the Gulf , there was concern that the balance of US military aid to Greece and Turkey was being upset as a result of increased US support for Turkey in the Gulf war . |
| 28 | In Peru , up-and-coming executives use a period of employment with a multinational as a form of training in the methods and values of big business and then may shift to employment with state or private Peruvian firms or go into business on their own ( Becker 1983 ) . |
| 29 | Many see the Basquiat retrospective as a referendum on the Whitney Museum 's curatorial standards , but just a month before the show was to open at the Whitney , a New York weekly reported that the museum had sought to fire Richard Marshall , the show 's curator , who had spent years preparing the project with Gerard Basquiat and the Robert Miller Gallery . |
| 30 | It had never been possible to go , even though she had taken Spanish as an extra at university . |