Example sentences of "[adj] as a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A New Zealander , born in Dunedin and a graduate of Otago University , he went to Merton College , Oxford , in 1934 as a Rhodes Scholar , where he took a First in English . |
| 2 | The report proposes a new structure for the centre , which it says has been underused as a TNO institute . |
| 3 | He moved to the UK in 1968 following the Russian invasion of Czechoslavkia and joined Bovis in 1971 as a project manager . |
| 4 | Jim Callaghan 's response was that he ‘ had never in fifty years been so depressed as a trade unionist ’ . |
| 5 | His back , broad as a standing stone … |
| 6 | He felt strong as bronze , he encompassed her in a reach broad as a chestnut tree . |
| 7 | Parallel to his attempt to portray Labour as a consensus government , Mr Kinnock sought to turn his confession of ‘ errors of judgment ’ over Europe and unilateralism into virtues in sharp contrast to Tory failure to apologise for ‘ Thatcher mistakes ’ . |
| 8 | I have seen you on stage , pretending to sensuality , when in truth you are frigid as a winter storm . ’ |
| 9 | The minimum investment in a unit trust is commonly 500 as a lump sum , and 20 as a regular monthly contribution . |
| 10 | At the bottom of the hill he doglegs left and vaults the creek , his right arm held stiffly out to snap back the neck of any tackler , the ball tucked professionally low into his stomach , hard and muscular as a wash board . |
| 11 | Hopefully , sometime zoos will become unnecessary as a nature reserve but this is an unrealistic aim while the hunting and destruction of habitat continues . |
| 12 | About as genuinely friendly as a boa constrictor , and a damned sight more dangerous . |
| 13 | The Abbey Lane Pumping Station at the junction of the Leicester Canal with the River Soar , a mile north of the city centre in Corporation Road , was built in 1891 as a sewage pumping works . |
| 14 | Now and again the walkway became even more narrow as a pavement café spilled its chairs and tables upon it , tempting the strolling shopper to stop for refreshment ; here and there a small crowd gathered around a solitary musician or a group of young teenagers singing , the plates at their feet covered in kroner as a testament to their audience 's approval . |
| 15 | An open palm , as big and fattily solid as a Bradenham ham , smote the side of my head with horrific force . |
| 16 | Solid as a bull whale in his confidence and peering through eyes that suggest he is not lacking in a little magic himself , Hugh Smith calmly rebuts every argument that London is in decline . |
| 17 | This is not possible as a part number must be unique . |
| 18 | That was when Kleiber had given up the struggle and collapsed , limp and helpless as a rag doll . |
| 19 | This is so even though the exact economic effect might be carried out through a transaction which , in form , was registrable as a security interest in the goods . |
| 20 | After taking a degree in Mediaeval History at St. Andrew 's University , in which he specialised in mediaeval medicine , Mark joined ASH Scotland in 1986 as a Project Development Officer . |
| 21 | And put that as a work top |
| 22 | They , na , nan and granddad may have that as a sitting room to start with . |
| 23 | Right we , we 'll we 'll treat that as a fail safe then . |
| 24 | The second reason that , that we 're delighted to see you is that as a Trades Council we have been trying very hard over the last six or seven years to raise the profile of the trade union movement and this has been quite difficult in in during the Thatcher years , during the anti-trade union legislation , the onslaught by the media , trade unions er , the profile of trade unions has not been easy to raise . |
| 25 | How 's that as a consolation prize ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I wonder if I could ask you to comment on that as a career structure , ’ he said levelly . |
| 27 | These changes have caused marked declines in breeding Wheatears and Stone Curlews , the former being nearly extinct as a downland breeding bird , and the latter much rarer than in 1939 . |
| 28 | Now it is probably extinct as a breeding bird in Shetland , and its place has been taken by the reed bunting . |
| 29 | Information about the actual place is sparse , but an Orangutan Foundation representative told BBC WILDLIFE that there are no facilities and no expertise there to care for the orangs , and that the surrounding primary forest has been destroyed by fire and so is unsuitable as a release area . |
| 30 | Like Unix , it started life as a development environment , and like Unix , it had intrinsic features that made it unsuitable as a production operating system . |