Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] as [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mounting violence came as the parents of Tim Parry , the 12-year-old victim of the IRA 's Warrington bombing , made the agonising decision to switch off his life support machine . |
| 2 | The Soil Association exists as a standards body for much of the organically produced food in the UK . |
| 3 | He swiftly integrated the 300,000 or so men of the Resistance army ( the FFI ) into the ranks of the regular army and disbanded a Resistance-run paramilitary force known as the milices patriotiques . |
| 4 | The disclosure came as the parents of Matthew Guest , the boy who underwent unnecessary chemotherapy , called for a full and speedy inquiry . |
| 5 | So , it 's stuck with defending this form of public housing in the face of mass dissidence within the working class itself , not so much with the principle of council housing as the tenants ' lack of control over design and management . |
| 6 | Sensitive to criticism from abroad , it was endeavouring to create a more favourable impression with investors , following what this group regarded as the upheavals of the Arusha Declaration . |
| 7 | The critical point is not so much the adequacy of the safety plans as the perceptions and beliefs that people hold about them ’ . |
| 8 | Now that two of you are married and a couple of you are starting families , does the band work as a lads ' escape ? |
| 9 | He had lined up assorted members of the crack US Navy team known as the Seals , a 100-horsepower Zodiac boat , a helicopter , and an oxygen back-pack with six minutes of air . |
| 10 | They are cells derived from animals of the group known as the coelenterates , which includes the sea anemones and jellyfish . |
| 11 | The ichthyostegids in turn came from a group known as the rhipidistias , and radiated ( migrated outwards ) across the Paleozoic land masses in the moist coal forests with club mosses and giant seed ferns . |
| 12 | The permanent swimmers belong to four main groups : the squids ( which are cephalopods — molluscs — related to the octopuses ) ; the bony fish , most of which belong to the group known as the teleosts ; the sharks — which are quite different from the teleosts , though they are also commonly referred to as fish ; and the cetaceans , which are the whales , dolphins and porpoises and are , of course , mammals . |
| 13 | Dark-I swear as the faces of the two White Mountain boys . |
| 14 | Disputes arose as to what should be done with the cargo and the shipowners issued an originating summons on 12 March 1991 in this court naming as the defendants the charterers of the vessel . |
| 15 | Publicity accelerated as the Times Beach residents scattered , and government technicians moved in late last year . |
| 16 | Bearing in mind the importance of the conclusion of the Uruguay round of the GATT to many industries in Britain and to third-world economies , what does my right hon. Friend see as the prospects for overcoming the obstructionism of the socialist Government of France to a successful outcome ? |
| 17 | In all probability he was greeted at the tiny settlement known as The Lagoons by an impromptu ‘ corrobery ’ , just as the missionary James Backhouse had been the year before . |
| 18 | The viticultural zone occupies that part of Champagne known as the falaises or Champagne cliffs . |
| 19 | But I depressed his chest with my palms every three seconds In the old-fashioned way , willing the dog to breathe as the eyes still stared at nothing . |
| 20 | His father started as an accounts clerk for a road haulier ; his mother was a shop manager . |
| 21 | It misses the significance of the points : first , that the occasional engagement of trade unionism in the promotion of industrial co-operatives had been tactical and opportunistic , rather than principled ; and second , that Co-operation identified as the Consumers ' Movement had opposed any significant role for the industrial co-operative , properly so-called . |
| 22 | When we received it we thought it was great , but after chewing on them for a while , mum got a bit worried as the pieces we were chewing off looked like hard plastic . |
| 23 | Use the sides of the triangle named as the bases . |
| 24 | His pace quickened as the accents changed ; City gents in long black coats and bowlers gave way to professional men in dark suits and trilbies , to be taken over by rough lads in ill-fitting clothes and caps , until Charlie finally arrived in the East End , where even the boaters had been abandoned by those under thirty . |
| 25 | The attack happened as the widows , from Sunderland , were on a trip to South Shields . |
| 26 | Second , there is the idea that the bureaucratic apparatus of the state grows as the institutions of feudalism and other pre-capitalist relations of production are absorbed into the modern state . |
| 27 | There are other ways besides exhortation in which citizens can be placed under pressure to perform what a government sees as the obligations of citizenship , short of coercive legal enforcement . |
| 28 | Later he became associated with a Christian denomination known as the Collegiants . |
| 29 | Yet as he developed this , the government emerged as the Pharisees , weighing down the people with unjust laws , and the right claimed by Jesus to satisfy his disciples ' hunger became the right of East Germans to satisfy their hunger for truth . |
| 30 | ( Enter DERRICK GUYLER dressed as a policemen like in Sykes , ie the brilliant TV series starring Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques ) |