Example sentences of "[det] as [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That Alex Wyllie , the grizzled New Zealand coach , regards this as the All Blacks ' most important tour since the Cup is a tribute not to the Welsh but to the necessity of bringing through the next generation of players . |
| 2 | They 've been described by some as the ugliest dogs in the world . |
| 3 | A more general argument takes up the reference by Gramsci to the ‘ semi-colonial market ’ and develops the concept of ‘ internal colonialism ’ , which has had widespread application to areas as different from one another as the peripheral regions of Great Britain , the black homelands in South Africa , Alaska and the Amerindian areas of Central and South America . |
| 4 | It is therefore a good ideas to make copies from fairly early on of all language and anthropological materials , and to keep them in other places , such as a technical studies department or headquarters office . |
| 5 | The main complex building has tripled in size with many new Victorian and Edwardian displays , such as a bygone chemists , grocers , sweet shop , railway station , wireless shop , maid 's bedroom , photographer 's studio and a World War II street scene plus much more … |
| 6 | This procedure takes a new snapshot and does pixel counts for various subareas such as a narrow strips at the edge of the region of the reference area which is supposed to contain the reference card . |
| 7 | It follows from this that a consumer who uses an appliance which is not " ordinarily intended for private use " , such as a heavy goods vehicle , will not be covered beyond death or personal injury under the CPA 1987 . |
| 8 | There are those with mandibulate or biting mouthparts , such as the Orthopteroid orders and the Coleoptera , those with piercing and suctorial mouthparts such as the Hemiptera , Siphunculata , Siphonaptera and some Diptera , and those with more or less elongate , haustellate mouthparts adapted for taking up liquids without piercing ( e.g. Lepidoptera and some Diptera and Hymenoptera ) . |
| 9 | I have no doubt that most cases will be considered in that way , because the threshold is very low — lower for leave to appeal than in most other parts of our judicial system such as the criminal courts . |
| 10 | Therefore this is evidence for the view that whereas certain volatiles such as the inert gases were acquired during accretion , others such as carbon and nitrogen ( and hydrogen ) were acquired subsequently . |
| 11 | Perhaps ironically , in Britain the 1980s also saw increased government regulation of certain sectors of the economy such as the financial services ‘ industry ’ . |
| 12 | But they merit special emphasis in the approach to be adopted to the construction of a statute , such as the Financial Services Act 1986 , which in some respects introduced radical new solutions for old problems . |
| 13 | Other derivatives markets , such as the financial swaps market with its standard documentation , or the forex market , with its common computer equipment , may also appear to operate on a multilateral basis . |
| 14 | This implies that the state of the system at successive time-periods , such as the successive positions of the drunken man , are uncorrelated . |
| 15 | During the great epidemics , such as the successive invasions of cholera , there was neither space nor time to bury the dead with decency ; the degradation of human beings continued in death as in life . |
| 16 | In less difficult country , such as the Irish midlands , he was an advocate of railways , and later reproached the government 's commission on this subject with the inadequacy of the network it proposed for Ireland . |
| 17 | Each country has a different name for them , often reflecting local attitudes , such as the graphic villas miserias in Argentina , highlighting the poverty of the communities . |
| 18 | No doubt such structures reflect not only assumptions about the structure of knowledge , but more mundane matters such as the existing groupings of staff , the physical location of sites , historical accident and the current pressures to retrench and regroup . |
| 19 | Some of these will remain to watch over the living ; others enter the bodies of white birds , such as the sulphur-crested cockatoos or white egrets which hover over the Toraja rice-paddies . |
| 20 | Countries such as the Baltic states hardly signed up with the Soviet Union as free agents . |
| 21 | In areas such as the Baltic provinces and the semi-autonomous Duchy of Finland , the government 's attempts to tighten its control and impose administrative and cultural uniformity created nationalist opposition where little had existed . |
| 22 | I will not go on to examine by the same criteria the other manifestations of The Thing , such as the anti-apartheid demonstrations , in which open breach of the law was widely condoned and encouraged by the organs of public opinion . |
| 23 | FAMILY 's enemies ( and it had many , most notably among feminists ) were fond of equating its origins with movements of the seventies such as the anti-abortion campaigns , the racialist right and the pro-censorship lobby , and certainly it had drawn members from all these . |
| 24 | Muscular ridges , such as the temporal lines and nuchal crests , are larger . |
| 25 | Snowdonia ) the greatest losses have been due to afforestation ; in SW England and southern Wales , agricultural conversion has been the main cause , whereas in intermediate areas such as the Cambrian Mountains of mid Wales , moorland has been lost to both . |
| 26 | Our thanks are also , of course , extended to , who has so professionally , purposefully and cheerfully dealt with hiccups such as the extra numbers at the first seminar and so on . |
| 27 | It also endorsed an independent judiciary , a mixed economy with equal status for private property , and Yugoslavia 's " full participation in the European integration process " including accession to bodies such as the European Communities . |
| 28 | A summit meeting of Czechoslovak , Hungarian and Polish leaders , was held in Bratislava , Czechoslovakia , on April 9 to discuss the " return to Europe " of the three Warsaw Pact countries — i.e. their integration into European structures such as the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 29 | The Prague meeting was preceded by sharp disagreements between the Soviet Union and some member states , notably Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland , whose representatives spoke openly about the dissolution of COMECON and pressed for a speedier implementation of currency convertibility and the right to trade individually with organizations such as the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 30 | Governments and organizations such as the European Communities ( EC ) and the Council of Europe sought steps to contain both the influx of migrants , many of whom came from the Soviet Union and eastern Europe , and the rise of racist sentiment . |