Example sentences of "[noun sg] as [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its moisturising formula is ideal for natural curls or for permed hair as both hair types tend to be dry and it costs £1.19 for a 200ml bottle . |
| 2 | Steve Smith , who won gold at the World Junior Championships in Seoul , beat off the challenge of Olympic bronze medallist Steve Backley to claim the award as Male Field Athlete of the Year . |
| 3 | On 25 November 1986 , he fired North , accepted the resignation of Rear-Admiral John Poindexter , McFarlane 's successor as National Security Adviser , and spent the rest of his administration trying to dodge the political fallout from Irangate . |
| 4 | Walter lives in Dunblane with his wife , Judith , who also works in the University as part-time library assistant . |
| 5 | I 'd forgotten you 'd already classed me and my sister as experienced femme fatales , luring men to their doom ! ’ |
| 6 | Since 1 October 1991 firms which train ACCA members and students for the Recognised Professional Qualification and Practising Certificate are required to be registered with the Association as Approved Training Practices . |
| 7 | The Foreign Office design was for a three-storey building around three sides of a court , which had on its fourth side as arched entrance screen separating it from the new street . |
| 8 | It is suggested that nitrogen compounds in the air become bound up with the cloud ice particles , temporarily removing any free nitrate which would otherwise react and hold the ozone-depleting chlorine as inactive chlorine nitrate . |
| 9 | Such retroviruses offer an alternative to the use of filamentous bacteriophage as replicable display packages . |
| 10 | It is worthwhile to consider some models of polymer structure and ascertain their usefulness as representative volume elements ( RVE ) . |
| 11 | This would result in a countervailing fall in private investment as public spending rose . |
| 12 | Within four or five minutes , yet seeming like an eternity , the line begins to peel off the open spool , slowly at first but beginning to pick up momentum as each second passes . |
| 13 | Consider conifers such as golden thuja , spruce , dwarf pine and juniper as bold container statements or permanent windowbox contributions . |
| 14 | There continues to exist an element of uncertainty as all EC member countries are not at the same level of preparedness to proceed at an identical pace towards the final stage of European monetary unification . |
| 15 | Mr Delors finishes his term as European Community Commissioner in December . |
| 16 | Requests by bureaux for the supply of CPAG 's Supplementary Benefit and Family Income Supplement by John Mesher had been increasing and so the IPG decided to use this opportunity to survey which reference books the bureaux used in practice as social security reference books . |
| 17 | A large concrete yard and an even larger field act as ideal exercise areas for the dogs . |
| 18 | TIME 'S ON MY SIDE HARRY Bassett hopes his act as Old Father Time will give his Blades a greater cutting edge — bringing forward their New Year form by four months Picture : PHIL SPENCER |
| 19 | Not only is there a lack of independence in determining the quality of the water environment but the Bill ignores the statutory role of Cardiff city council as public health authority or port health authority . |
| 20 | The Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals ( CVCP ) offers , on a competitive basis , a number of awards to overseas research students who start full-time study for a higher degree as registered research students . |
| 21 | Decorate the room with stars as if it is night-time , and have the birthday child as Wee Willie Winkie . |
| 22 | So all the restaurateur has to do ( in the privacy of one 's own kitchen one can , after all , call one 's inventions what one pleases ; until they leave the house one 's guests are in no position to pass remarks ) is to follow the French example and describe his dish as faisan flambé au whisky or alternatively pheasant au Scotch . |
| 23 | I see Mitchells Plain as National Party territory . ’ |
| 24 | Wang played a major role behind the scenes in purging the first two of Deng 's chosen successors : Hu Yaobang , who lost his job as Communist Party General Secretary in 1987 , and Zhao Ziyang , thrown out of the party 's top job in 1989 after student-led pro-democracy demonstrations were crushed by the army . |
| 25 | Another to rise in stature when he was bestowed with the job as Irish pack leader . |
| 26 | After Palace reached the semi-finals , Allison was reported to be in line for the job as American team manager during a summer contest against England . |
| 27 | Until the election was called he has had to fit his campaigning around a job as senior business development officer for North Tyneside council . |
| 28 | Andrew Young has been promoted to become National Account Manager in the Cash and Carry and Wholesale Sector from his former job as National Account Executive in the same sector . |
| 29 | Councillor Bob Cairns , Edinburgh 's planning convenor , quit his post as Labour group vice-chairman in protest . |
| 30 | Professor Andrew Likierman ( 49 ) is to take up his post as Chief Accountancy Adviser to the Treasury on December 1 in succession to Sir Alan Hardcastle , who is retiring . |