Example sentences of "[noun pl] as [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many had come to look upon their children as vehicles of social emulation ; hence they began to project their own social attitudes as the moral imperatives of childhood . |
| 2 | Indeed the approach in some ways resembled that of the early Russian school of soil science and involved the recognition of zonal phenomena as the direct results of latitudinal climatic belts ; of azonal phenomena arising from non-climatic control including endogenetic effects ; extrazonal phenomena which occurred beyond their normal range of occurrence such as sand dunes on coasts ; and polyzonal phenomena including those which operate in all regions of the globe subject to the same basic physical laws . |
| 3 | Much of this started by using local agricultural products as the raw materials . |
| 4 | Gouache is an ideal medium for building these forms as the light changes and catches each leaf . |
| 5 | Table 5.4 shows that US borrowers , dominant until recently , have partly withdrawn leaving Japanese and to a lesser extent UK institutions as the main issuers . |
| 6 | He restricted his investigation to the 2,200 or so words in the LDOCE core vocabulary , and took the sense definitions as the textual units over which to collect co-occurrence data . |
| 7 | These pupils were not necessarily involving their parents in a conspiracy to allow them to avoid school for its own sake ; they were more likely to agree with their parents in putting home values before school values as the following quotations from two headteachers illustrate : |
| 8 | Moreover , and this concerns policy-makers at least as much as teachers themselves , where certain dilemmas remain unresolvable because they are rooted not so much in particular classroom strategies as the inbuilt limitations of the generalist class teacher system , the professional , political and resource implications must be squarely faced . |
| 9 | The islands , known by the Russians as the southern Kuriles , were occupied by Soviet forces in 1945 and , since then , had been a source of dispute significant enough to have prevented Japan and the Soviet Union from concluding a formal treaty to end the Pacific War . |
| 10 | Because the world is divided into sovereign states , most with relatively clear and unified national cultures , it is convenient to identify these states as the basic elements of the global system . |
| 11 | A grand draw with mountain bikes as the main prizes is also planned . |
| 12 | Someone with more experience of the rough and tumble of friendships , jealousies and animosities might have been able to dismiss Deana 's words as the unmotivated expressions of bitterness and jealousy that they were , but Belinda was inexperienced , and although she knew enough about Deana to be wary and distrustful she did not know enough to ignore her as fully as she should . |
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| 14 | So far as Cold War issues were concerned , de Gaulle was an anti-Communist but he believed that the bi-polar world of the 1950s had brought an ever-present threat of nuclear conflagration and effectively left the Superpowers as the only states with true independence in foreign affairs . |
| 15 | THERE are some movie stars in the minor league who are held in almost as great affection by film fans as the major ones . |
| 16 | Round she went , mouth slightly parted , eyes seeing who knew what in that circle of lights running into a liquid line as the machine quickened ; in the faces , all one blur below her as she was swung out to them and back away from them again ; in the dark caverns of leaves away above in the trees which seemed so distant , so other , lit in strange patches by the wandering spotlights , strange shadows feeling their way over branches as the lighted islands in the gathering dark turned and twirled , swayed , shuddered , slowed and came to rest . |
| 17 | The government will now do its best to ensure that Norway holds its referendum after those of Sweden and Finland , in the hope that Yes votes in those countries would make Norwegians think twice before joining the Icelanders as the only Nordics to stay out of the EC . |
| 18 | So far I have written of the individual in relation to his , or her , environment of other people and have pointed to object relationships as the key connections between the inner world of the individual and his outer world . |
| 19 | Similar lines of thought , sometimes with nations as the rational maximizers , sometimes with individuals , have been common in International Relations . |
| 20 | This implies that , like normal observers , C.C. saw the green shapes as the perceptual figures whether they appeared on the right or the left , implying that figure-ground segregation operated normally across the display ( his phenomenal descriptions of ‘ green shapes at either side ’ on debriefing are also consistent with this ) . |
| 21 | Then , prodded by the older men in their topsy-turvy costumes as the quick spirits of sap and growth , they gradually unbent and felt the thirst for blood sing again in their veins . |
| 22 | Once the bickering and backbiting , which also led to Terry Vaux and Gwilym Treharne standing down from their posts as the Welsh representatives on the International Rugby Board , had died down , the general committee resolved to consult the clubs again over links with the Republic . |
| 23 | About 240–230 B.C. Eratosthenes put together Carthaginians , Romans , Persians and Indians as the barbarian nations that came closest to the standards of Greek civilization and specified that Carthaginians and Romans were the best governed ( Strabo 1.4.9 , p. 66 ) . |
| 24 | This savannah covered huge areas as the great forests of 15 million years ago decreased following global changes in climate . |
| 25 | There were contemporary radiations of plankton , including coccolithophores , foraminifera , diatoms and dinoflagellates ( Lipps , 1970 ) and deep-sea ichnofauna ( Frey 7and ; Seilacher , 19801 , while on land the angiosperms rapidly replaced the gymnosperms as the dominant plants ( Doyle , 1977 ) . |
| 26 | Aug. 2 , the anniversary of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait , was marked by a broadcast by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in which he described the Iraqis as the true victors in the subsequent war , on the grounds that Iraq had not backed down in the face of the enormous odds against it . |
| 27 | The people who can really lay a claim on hipness as the first to promote the workwear cause , though , are the Authentic Americana Nuts who want their lives to resemble Happy Days ; the readers of the small ads in a magazine like the biker title Back Street Heroes ; and Scottish rig workers , who have been targeted by foreign workwear companies as the natural customers all along . |
| 28 | All the participant states accepted ( although Turkmenistan did not sign ) motions tabled by Kazakhstan on ( i ) setting up a group of military observers as a collective CIS peacekeeping force for preventing and settling conflicts arising on CIS member states ' territory ; ( ii ) banning the use or threat of force between member states ; and ( iii ) collective action for the peaceful resolution of disputes and conflicts . |
| 29 | It 's a pattern that Irish rugby will see a lot more of in the coming years as the successful clubs in this new , competitive All Ireland League attract the top players . |
| 30 | It could lead to their being faced with even more years as the junior partners in farming enterprises and the possibility of legal wrangling on the death of the parent or parents . |