Example sentences of "[adv] as [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where they had been was raw earth , smothered with the rubbish and dust of bombardment , and pitted with curious mounds and recesses which Nicholas recognised only slowly as rank upon rank of recent , random , haphazard graves . |
| 2 | All right as name of café , but no more . |
| 3 | Ferguson stressed that the American actions need not be interpreted as aggressive but rather as part of defence against a possible Soviet offensive . |
| 4 | His Platonism meant that relationships were ideal patterns , not to be taken literally as lines of descent . |
| 5 | These breakdowns in the neat E/P/R logic are often grouped together as signs of dissatisfaction . |
| 6 | Thus , for a few moments they reverted to passive projection , in role merely as spectators of teacher 's performance . |
| 7 | The gallery deploys different systems of organisation from those adopted by the Design Museum ; exhibits are proposed less as objects of desire than as object lessons . |
| 8 | The Gruppo Italiano per lo Studio della Sopravvivenza nell'Infarcto Miocardico ( GISSI-2 ) , its international extension , and the Third International Study of Infarct Survival ( ISIS-3 ) are large mortality trials that have provided reliable and consistent information on the risks and benefits of combined aspirin and subcutaneous heparin or aspirin alone as adjuncts to thrombolysis ( table I ) . |
| 9 | The fourth congress of the PCT on July 30 , 1989 , re-elected him as central committee chairman and thus as head of state for a further five years . |
| 10 | With this assumption in mind Gorbachev told the Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in May 1985 that ‘ the newly independent countries do not want to be regarded any longer as objects for profit-making and for installing military bases and strongpoints in their territories ’ . |
| 11 | Colin Harbury moved elsewhere as Professor of Economics . |
| 12 | A hot bath , sex , a warm drink and alcohol also figured prominently as aids to somnolence . |
| 13 | AMERICA 'S CBS TV is looking for a replacement for Alistair Cooke who , at 84 , is retiring soon as host of Masterpiece Theatre , a series which presents the best of British TV drama to American viewers . |
| 14 | Subsequently he disobeys God disastrously , and has to be set aside as king in favour of David . |
| 15 | It is also our intention to add more magic items at a future date , possibly as part of scenario supplements and also in White Dwarf magazine . |
| 16 | It is also our intention to add more magic items at a future date , possibly as part of scenario supplements and also in White Dwarf magazine . |
| 17 | It is our intention to add more magic items at a future date , possibly as part of scenario supplements and also in White Dwarf magazine . |
| 18 | Psychiatrists tend to treat their cases more as organisms in need of medical treatment . |
| 19 | Forty years later these factors were identified as bits of chromosome , and a century later as molecules of DNA . |
| 20 | At Thanksgiving 1985 , Bush sent North a postcard thanking him for his work ‘ with the hostage thing and in Central America ’ and exhorting him to get some turkey ; North read it out at his trial four years later as evidence of approval , but it was all delightfully vague . |
| 21 | Brito was second vice-president of the PSD and had stood unsuccessfully as candidate for mayor of Oporto in December . |
| 22 | They had value in themselves as expressions of personality , as both the programme and the reality of bourgeois life , even as transformers of man . |
| 23 | Not only are the institutions of Cabinet and Prime Minister virtually unknown to the law ; they are relatively recent historical phenomena even as creatures of convention . |
| 24 | When Thompson joined Goldsmiths ' twenty years ago as head of painting , succeeding Andrew Forge , he immediately set to work amalgamating the painting and sculpture departments into a homogenous fine art course , believing that the old craft distinctions between the media were philosophically untenable . |
| 25 | Then it 's time for the adoration of Jeremy Beadle — for Beadle is about in Bognor today as guest of honour . |
| 26 | The wider conception of ISS is shown by the mention of parents in the section on assessment , but not simply as receivers of information about test scores . |
| 27 | Some were brought back from new and exotic lands simply as sources of amusement or sensation . |
| 28 | Four-coach trains regularly substituted for eight- coach , with passengers jam-packed way beyond the safety margin acceptable to a factory inspector , let alone providing a modicum of comfort , can not surely be explained away simply as lack of funding or union intransigence . |
| 29 | In 1974 Hawking made the astonishing discovery that black holes , previously regarded simply as absorbers of radiation , do in fact themselves radiate . |
| 30 | They attend many conferences on user education in the capacity of chairmen or speakers or frequently as exhibitors of user education teaching material . |