Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adj] as [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In speech we frequently use reference words such as the demonstratives this and that or the personal pronouns , he , she , it to point to persons or objects present and therefore known to the participants . |
| 2 | Although external organs such as the police networks were used to enforce control , much of it was exercised through existing social institutions , for example , the family and the company , and through official organizations such as the reservists , youth leagues and women 's groups , of which membership , where appropriate , eventually became compulsory . |
| 3 | Over the years a physical and emotional connection had been reinforced by the institution of army-sponsored organizations such as the reservists , through which the army established considerable control over village life . |
| 4 | The National Joint Council of the Labour party , the parliamentary Labour party and the Trades Union Congress , in a deputation to the Home Secretary , argued that unless the government took action against the BUF the Labour movement would be unable to control the justified anger of extremists who were already forming anti-fascist organizations such as the Greyshirts . |
| 5 | The importance of the family unit is most evident amongst the scythesmiths , with local dynasties such as the Rayboulds of Lower Gornal , the Waldrons of Clent , the Hill and Lea families of Bloomers End , Cradley , the Badgers of Kingswinford and others whose names constantly recur in local records . |
| 6 | A visit to the annual conferences of the two major parties should convince any observer of the deep contrasts , and this is as evident in the case of the minority parties such as the Liberals and Social Democrats , and the Scottish and Welsh Nationalists . |
| 7 | The new obsessions , which were already making their mark in national politics abroad with parties such as the Greens in Germany , would take over . |
| 8 | We are entering an exciting phase in which links are being forged between transduction events at the plasma membrane and the cell cycle proteins such as the cyclins and cyclin-dependent kinases which contribute to the DNA-synthesis and maturation-promoting factors which operate at G1/S and G2/M respectively . |
| 9 | Great trading nations such as the Phoenicians and the Etruscans produced almost no coins . |
| 10 | Clinton issued a statement that he was ‘ opposed to the creation of an independent Palestinian state ’ and added that ‘ the US President should not be taking positions on subjects such as the settlements ’ . |
| 11 | Visitor attractions such as the dungeons and marinas will only form one leg of what Nick Irens and David Hudd plan to be a three-pronged business . |
| 12 | Secondly , even though static analysis of the sort featured in Figures 5.3 and 5.4 may point to the stimulating effect of price reductions , dynamic considerations such as the effects of bankruptcy and default during the process of price deflation may serve to tighten the grip of recession rather than loosen it . |
| 13 | His books such as The Man-eaters of Rudraprayag have become minor classics . |
| 14 | More usually street gangs such as the Nachos , Montañeros and Calvos are hired by drug barons for a ‘ kill ’ for between £1,000 and £5,000 , depending on the importance of the victim and the risks of being caught . |
| 15 | This highly simplistic view omits many other influences such as the stages in an interaction , familiarity and the individuals ' perceptions . |
| 16 | We can date the clearance of stable upland environments such as the chalklands of Wessex and Yorkshire and the Jurassic limestones of the Cotswolds and elsewhere to this period . |
| 17 | Singh proposed that industrial licences be abolished except in certain strategic sectors such as the arms industry , atomic energy and strategic minerals . |
| 18 | The use of more persistent and less volatile compounds such as the chloramines has posed a serious problem for many fishkeepers . |
| 19 | Here , no vertebrates at all could be found , the fossils consisting only of invertebrates such as the trilobites . |
| 20 | The reason for such anomalies may be because flavonoids are also potent lipoxygenase products such as the leukotrienes are powerful inflammatory agents . |
| 21 | Older trading institutions such as the Fairs which had served Europe since the Middle Ages , were disappearing , at least in their old forms . |
| 22 | Yet another irritating picture defect is the flickering moire effect which is often seen on finely-patterned surfaces such as the stripes in men 's suits . |
| 23 | Here we encounter one of the main differences between normative-explanatory accounts such as the ones offered here of authority or the later account ( in Chapter 7 ) of rights , and the purely linguistic explanations often advocated by analytic philosophers . |
| 24 | Yet so many people fail to see these wider and far more important aspects in their search for minutiae such as the differences between the Midland Railway signal boxes and those of the Great Western . |
| 25 | This required two steps : the reimposition of state control over insurrectionist authorities such as the Committees of Public Safety ; and the restoration of a clear distinction between military and civilian spheres . |
| 26 | Connected speech processes ( CSP ) are phenomena such as the deletions and assimilations characteristic of allegro speech , which appear to be in some way phonetically motivated rather than linguistically arbitrary variation . |
| 27 | The reservations that Galileo 's rivals held about accepting phenomena such as the moons of Jupiter that Galileo had learnt to see must have been in part due , not to prejudice , but to genuine difficulties encountered when learning to ‘ see ’ through what were , after all , very crude telescopes . |
| 28 | Scientists can readily account for physical phenomena such as the tides , but the Moon 's sway over human and animal behaviour has long been recognised without any satisfactory explanation . |
| 29 | These include very practical interests such as the contaminated land legislation , as well as more general cultural reasons such as the needs of companies to sustain reputations and human societies to explore their own identities and pasts . |
| 30 | The general requirements in the Order , which came into force on 1 May 1979 , will replace parts of earlier Acts such as the Factories Act ( Northern Ireland ) 1965 and the Office and Shop Premises Act ( Northern Ireland ) 1966 but they do not supersede the detailed requirements contained in the earlier legislation . |