Example sentences of "[noun pl] as [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The picture thus sketched is in strong contrast to the popular view of housewives as a leisured class . |
| 2 | Some people in INTELSAT saw the Franco-German Symphony satellites as the thin edge of the wedge . |
| 3 | He felt that attitudes as a bad debt problem made itself felt , got out of control and was brought down again , could be typically summarised like this : |
| 4 | Usually your criticisms of literature will be based on your experience as a reader , not on your own skills as a literary writer . |
| 5 | It 's worrying how many excellent drama teachers have been troubled by the idea that they might be teaching theatre skills as an integral part of their non-performance work . |
| 6 | Both the school librarian and the teacher view information skills as an integral part of the content and process of the Modern Studies syllabus . |
| 7 | Rose of Lima 's mystical marriage to Jesus , his visits to her , her direct sense of his immediate and corporeal presence , was understood by her and her contemporaries as a direct reward , and more than a compensation , for the violence of her own purification . |
| 8 | An Oxford rugby blue in 1959 and 1960 and a keen sailor , Sir Robin , 54 , is remembered by many Whitehall contemporaries as the shrewd captain of the Mandarins cricket team which he led for many years . |
| 9 | Rundell , hard-working , often irascible , and steadfast in striking a bargain , who was also regarded by London contemporaries as the keenest judge of diamonds , superintended the firm 's jewellery and other manufacturing departments . |
| 10 | He cites the proliferation of non-chlorine bleached paper products as a good example . |
| 11 | While West Germany and the UK argued in favour of removing most restrictive legislation ( although the UK had appealed for the treatment of certain oil and gas projects as a special case , while West Germany and Spain had made similar appeals for their coal industries ) , France and Italy demanded that they be allowed to retain their rules restricting the access of foreign contractors to certain projects in these fields . |
| 12 | Participant observation is employed in many cases as a complementary method . |
| 13 | Debbie Jones , who co-ordinated the SSD 's response , describes the forms as a blunt instrument which do not properly measure disabled children 's progress . |
| 14 | The most junior of these acts as a regional supervisor who manages the activities of area staff . |
| 15 | Acts as a powerful skin moisturizer and is anti-inflammatory ( especially with sunburn ) . |
| 16 | There is now substantial evidence to show that 1,25 ( OH ) 2 D 3 acts as a differentiating agent and that some of these actions are associated with a modulation of receptor concentrations . |
| 17 | When implemented as a stand-alone MS-DOS application , BW-Server acts as a dedicated server , so that the workstation can be devoted exclusively to Network File System file and resource sharing . |
| 18 | The estate as so altered then binds the original tenant , because the assignee has been put into the shoes of the original tenant and can do all such acts as the original tenant could have done . |
| 19 | In the private sector , the imperative need to be profitable acts as an external discipline on the activities of enterprises . |
| 20 | Prima facie such a corporation has the power to do with its property all such acts as an ordinary person can do , and to bind itself to such contracts as an ordinary person can bind himself to . |
| 21 | As with so many poisonous animals , the tarantula prefers to keep its venom for feeding time and only employs it against enemies as a last resort . |
| 22 | Mr Howell stressed the TEC 's intention to improve appreciation of the benefits of training among Teesside employers as a major thrust of the TEC 's future operations . |
| 23 | It is the fundamental skills of problem-identification , analysis and debate which are usually perceived by examiners and potential employers as the main achievement of literary studies . |
| 24 | Australian Greg Norman may go down in the record-books as the unluckiest player in the major championships . |
| 25 | Not surprisingly , Ali is chosen by most boxers as the most proto typical figure , though Bunny Johnson cites Jack Johnson and many of the newer recruits to boxing look to Sugar Ray Leonard , the quick-fisted American multiple world champion who blazed his way from an Olympic gold medal at Montreal in 1976 to an estimated 30 million dollars by the end of 1981 . |
| 26 | The South may withdraw their grand prix meeting from the ITV deal , and team it with the rejected meetings as an alternative package for ITV 's rivals . |
| 27 | The PLO , of course , saw its often murderous operations as a sacred duty ; they were fighting the occupying power that had taken away the land of the Palestinians . |
| 28 | Filip said that figures for all of 1992 were not clear enough to state if the workstation business was profitable in the year but in the fourth quarter , even assuming a margin of error in accounting for the workstation operations as a distinct business , the operation clearly was profitable . |
| 29 | Announcing storm-damaged figures and government plundering of its profits that left nothing over for investment , Deutsche Bundespost Telekom yesterday said that following its move to set up its cellular operations as a separate company as a first step to privatisation , it was also considering privatising the unit it has created to look after large customers . |
| 30 | This was taken by him and his sons as a sacred treasure when they went into Egypt . |