Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a [noun] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a lot of tooth-sucking for a while as he tried to get me to say more and that was almost funny , given that it was the tooth-sucking that made me think of it in the first place , suddenly thinking . |
| 2 | I was surprised , therefore , on starting to read this book , to find that there were three introductory chapters with sections on Man and computers and The computer as a laboratory as well as the more intriguing Computer chemistry and human psychology and Problem solving and artificial intelligence . |
| 3 | They intend to run the course as a pay as you play facility , however , they intend to offer a membership scheme so as to accommodate competitions and team matches within the club . |
| 4 | Are you open to suggestions from the educational field as a whole as to what you should do and what 's important and so on ? |
| 5 | You acknowledge their status and they 'll be quite happy to bask in reflected glory for a while as you say your piece . |
| 6 | ‘ LEIGH HUNT lived here ’ is about as exclusive a tag for a house as ‘ Queen Elizabeth slept here ’ . |
| 7 | Didsbury College , Manchester , Dunfermline College , Edinburgh , and others were talking with the CNAA in 1970 , in the former case about a certificate as well as a degree , but national policies on teacher education were now coming under the microscope , and there were no other approvals in this field until after the James Committee on teacher education had reported in 1972 . |
| 8 | The MP for Newport East , Roy Hughes , described the extension of VAT to fuel bills as criminal when dismissing the Budget as a whole as ‘ uninspiring ’ . |
| 9 | Deposition of nitric acid in particular may contribute to the equation as a fertiliser as well as a pollutant per se . |
| 10 | And you got a company car as a benefit as well ? |
| 11 | He nodded and I could read more than one emotion in his face ; not just the dread of breaking the news to the famous owner but the distress of a horse-lover as he witnessed the plight of the beautiful animal . |
| 12 | The Quality Assurance operation allows a LIFESPAN user to record a decision whether to accept the work done as a result of a DC as fit for its intended purpose . |
| 13 | What passes through the mind of a dog as he snoozes with half an eye upon his trusted human companions — whimpering , tail-wagging and yelping in his sleep ? |
| 14 | Secondly , Meshkinpour did not regard confirmation of a diagnosis as influencing patient management whereas we felt that it was of value in certain situation such as in patients with suspected achalasia before myotomy . |
| 15 | Few claimants will want to attract the social stigma which attaches to a characterisation of a person as disabled . |
| 16 | I thump against the side of a carriage as it passes . |
| 17 | You can add or subtract any amount from one side of an equation as long as you do the same thing to the other . |
| 18 | On the one hand it would be perfectly in order to write the biography of a poet as long as it is understood that it would be ‘ on a par with biographies of generals and inventors ’ ( Tomashevsky 1978 : 55 ) and was not mistaken for literary science . |
| 19 | just as I said , ’ Ward murmured , no trace of an accent as we collected our baggage . |
| 20 | The trade surplus for the first quarter of 1990 was down 35 per cent on the same period in 1989 and there was increasingly frequent talk of a recession as the major economic indices fell . |
| 21 | Yet the striking developments of the law of trusts depend on much more than this : they are an integral part of the conception of a trust as opposed to a legacy . |
| 22 | As he says : ‘ it is hard to imagine how the conception of a tree as tenanted by a personal being could be more plainly expressed . ’ |
| 23 | However , emphasis has already been placed on the value of Cooke 's conception of a region as defined by ‘ class cultural ’ practices in civil society . |
| 24 | Leyhill prison on the Gloucestershire Avon border is as far from the popular conception of a jail as you can get.Modern buildings cluster around borders boasting blooms that many public parks would be hard pressed to match.Leyhill is an open prison … the last port of call for inmates nearing the end of their sentences.A hundred prisoners work on the nearly forty acres of lawns , borders and market gardens.Their skills won them a silver medal at Chelsea for this display of garden design.And at Leyhill , they 've created a spectacular show … with drifts of brightly coloured pelargoniums competing for attention with giant cannas … and a fine show of roses.New borders are being created all the time … giving the prisoners an opportunity to express themselves and learn techniques that could help them go straight when they 're released : |
| 25 | There was the sputter of a match as he lighted a cigar . |
| 26 | MORTALITY — The state or condition of a population as being subject to death ; the relative incidence of death . |
| 27 | The Headmaster still had on his gown and he flapped in the wind like a bat as he charged across the grass . |
| 28 | A day earlier , some of these veterans had taken part in as emotional and personal a demonstration against a president as Washington has seen for years . |
| 29 | The orgasmic bellowing began when I got the car into a slide as the track began to get wet with rain and caught it with opposite lock . |
| 30 | But then her identity is partly outside her control , so she tries to turn her lover into an object as well ( Sartre , 1957 , pt . |