Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] as a [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In modern conditions the only remaining peg on which to hang the concession theory 's claim that the state has a special right of intervention in company affairs is the idea that since separate personality and limited liability are benefits conferred by the state , the state is entitled to intervene to safeguard the public interest as a quid pro quo . |
| 2 | Prokofiev 's fate was particularly poignant because of his long-standing reputation as an enfant terrible . |
| 3 | That the British eventually accepted the American view in most details shows that they had largely subsumed the aviation issue in the larger question of economic viability , and used aviation as a quid pro quo for the American loan . |
| 4 | Its main use is as a riding/tool/brake vehicle on winter works trains , but it is also doing temporary duty as a tickets/sales vehicle at Bala on busy days in the season . |
| 5 | The Jesuits were expelled ( 1767 ) from both Spain and Spanish America — a measure that gave its author , Aranda , a European reputation as an esprit fort — and the reformers attempted to turn the universities into state-controlled educational institutions teaching useful knowledge instead of Aristotelean ‘ words ’ . |
| 6 | But the serrated gratings must have sufficiently broken the crust of the brick-broken mutilated plastimetal that covers a great deal of the world that is an eyeball , and little light yellow-green stubs poked through , cos the Sun was still up there , way up there , even though someone had devised a new kind of force of matter transference and was attempting to move the Sun to his laboratory-country where it would be used to grow humlants — in which the old human brain was to be stretched in durable fibrosity and connected inextricably to root and flower , making rings of energy that took their partners for a whaltz or a flexitrot and multiplied their species by being fried on a plasetal plate whose temperature was so great that they never actually touched it but skimmed over , coming off the other side as a more-than-when-they-started . |
| 7 | In his various schools in lower Egypt Nasser has a certain self-consciousness as a saidi and one of peasant background . |