Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] as [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like oil , gas and coal fields , peat bogs act as vast carbon stores . |
| 2 | His assistant , Douglas Morgan , was a new cap in that 1973 game and even in more recent years , McGeechan 's first home Five Nations match as senior coach was against the Welsh ( the 23-7 triumph in 1989 ) . |
| 3 | Conversely , the wafer-thin ears of many bats act as sound frequency filters allowing all but the most ultrasonic frequencies to pass right through . |
| 4 | Joyride terror : Shoppers run as stolen car races through busy street . |
| 5 | Research shows that there is considerable variation in what schools regard as sufficient ground for exclusion and in exclusion rates in different schools . |
| 6 | This is a situation which the tidy , randomized , and morally neutral competitive regularities of Darwinian evolutionary theory , which the sociobiologists treat as Holy Writ , did not take into account . |
| 7 | MOORE 'S VERBAL RECOLLECTIONS OF THE MINES ARE MUCH MORE EVOCATIVE THAN THE DRAWINGS THEMSELVES , IN WHICH THE MINERS APPEAR AS FROZEN STATUARY . |
| 8 | Patches of the old floodplains remain as dry river terraces . |
| 9 | With increasingly elaborate explorations being conducted into the establishing of texts , editors , even when acknowledging alternate readings , present impressive scholarly authority for creating an authorised version — the text on the page around which the variants and explanatory comments exist as supplemental scholia . |
| 10 | The 25 pictures on temporary show in Glasgow 's Converse Gallery are a sample of about 200 photographs and instruments of torture from a Belgrade exhibition countering what sympathisers describe as Western censorship of the horror and cruelty suffered by Serbian minorities in the civil war . |
| 11 | It must be recalled that Marx was using a very abstract model , in which only workers and capitalists appear as economic persona . |
| 12 | For instance , a page with an illustration on it — a solid page with a picture — the men charge as solid type and if the page is a little bigger than an ordinary page , they will charge extra for putting that page in , besides charging it as setting up so many thousand letters … |
| 13 | Proposals aimed at confining the use of merger accounting to the ‘ relatively small number of cases which are true mergers ’ were published by the Accounting Standards Board as Financial Reporting exposure Draft 6 . |
| 14 | Consequently , some nodal units should be set up to provide a supporting role through downstream activities such as analysis , whilst others act as upstream support by providing a library-type function , in which data relevant to the background of the design , and company practices , reside . |
| 15 | All in all , it was a classic example of what criminologists define as net widening , leading to consequences quite different to those envisaged . |
| 16 | They especially liked Israel 's affirmations that negotiations on the final status of the occupied territories would be based on UN Security Council Resolution 242 , the 1967 land-for-peace document that all the Arab delegations regard as holy writ . |
| 17 | This artificial ash cliff is perhaps one of their last strongholds have also found refuge around our fire stations , protected from tramping feet and sheltered from chemical sprays these rare plants thrive in the damp salty margins alongside the ash lagoons all this within the boundaries with just a few of the country 's coal fired power stations but the need for sea walls of other coastal stations merely intake pipes to the coaling system , another world teams this is not a plant , fan worms have flowerlike mouth parts used to filter food from the sea water other worms use just two sticky tentacles to catch food shrimps forage over closely packed sea the delicate bodies of these printed vertebrates work as tiny water pumps , pulling water in one hole and pumping it through the other here two barnacles feed in the gentle flow of water over the cooling pipes from the station Marine life quickly packs the underwater structures and is about to become too thick and sometimes affect the performance of the machinery barnacles belong to the same family as crabs and lobsters , but being in their adult life standing on their head which is fixed to the concrete they use their feet to filter the water and kick food into their mouths but if they ca n't move , how do they get there so quickly in the first place ? |