Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] as [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cumberland was on record as believing that a battle without a cannonade was like a dance without music and Culloden began as a gunners ’ battle . |
| 2 | Rebel Ruddock emerged as the players ' spokesman for Venables , speaking up for him in the High Court yesterday , having already slapped in a transfer request to Sugar . |
| 3 | Auditions had been held , and Peter Tomlinson and Bob Pierson chosen as the presenters . |
| 4 | Ironically , if — as is not unlikely — Jason Leonard and Nick Popplewell go as the loose-heads , it is Wright who could cost Probyn his seat on that Lions ' plane . |
| 5 | We used to embrace the comfortable doctrine that the Roman cities of Britain survived as the shells of walled towns — with cathedrals often built within them in the seventh and eighth centuries , but little other semblance of civic life — until English towns were revived in the late ninth century by King Alfred , who enjoyed a vision of urban life which could owe nothing to the English civic scene in which he had been brought up . |
| 6 | Nicholas Turner , a director of the French bank where Mark Newall works as a derivatives trader , the Banque Arabe et Internationale d'Investissements , said : ‘ Mark Newall has been employed by the BAII group since 1986 . |
| 7 | I had decided when in Rome to do as the Romans or in this case , more appropriately , when in Babylon do as the Babylonians — no , I do n't mean I 'm having orgies in the servants ’ quarters , or letting Gooseneck have his way with me . |
| 8 | In time , Jakki moved to London , Jim to America to work as an exhibitions organiser . |
| 9 | The sharp peaks are what Hoffman identified as the markers for 1461 and 2615 keV ; the signal that interested Fleischmann and Pons consists of the dotted structure around 2500 keV . |
| 10 | Before setting up the charity , Pauline worked as the arts education officer for Derry City Council and realised the North West needed a play resource centre to ‘ turn waste things into creative things ’ . |
| 11 | At the other end of the scale the ‘ When in Rome do as the Romans ’ is no excuse for dropping to the level of a curse between every other word that is met in some otherwise honest circles . |
| 12 | The interest which the RUC has as a police force derives entirely from the social context in which it operates , but this context is both a spur and a hindrance to research on the RUC . |