Example sentences of "[det] as [art] [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew that the job of breaking the news was n't a routine chore , that she had n't been chosen merely because she was the only woman in his team and he saw this as a woman 's job . |
| 2 | I write this as the world 's Number One fan of the Demon Boyz , a roughneck little Tottenham posse . |
| 3 | The ground was broken by rifts and pits of naked , black peat , where water lay and sharp , white stones , some as big as a pigeon 's , some as a rabbit 's skull , glimmered in the moonlight . |
| 4 | Vignettes drawn ad vivum depict the lives of the inhabitants of the distant regions , such as a raja 's procession in Sumatra , and a Tupinambá village in Brazil . |
| 5 | In addition to this more or less regular sort of investiture , there seem to have been investitures on a number of special occasions , both state occasions such as the accession of a sultan , a victory or the birth of a prince , where the right of investiture extended to a number of scholars , and also more personal occasions such as a scholar 's acceding to a high learned office , where the right of investiture was limited to the individual involved . |
| 6 | Under s 21 of the Road Traffic Act 1991 , which has now been brought into force , it is an offence for an officer such as a company 's director or secretary to fail to give the name of a driver of one of the company 's vehicles where an offence has taken place in connection with that vehicle ( p 94 ) . |
| 7 | Under s 21 of the Road Traffic Act 1991 , which has now been brought into force , it is an offence for an officer such as a company 's director or secretary to fail to give the name of a driver of one of the company 's vehicles where an offence in connection with that vehicle has taken place . |
| 8 | We have been working closely with over 20 publishers on a number of major projects to ensure that computer systems are functional from 1st January , and able to collect the required information , such as a customer 's VAT number and a two character country code . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ without lawful authority or reasonable excuse ’ Lawful authority means the lawful carrying of the weapon such as a policeman 's truncheon . |
| 10 | As are considerations that go a step beyond them , such as a policeman 's attitude to his wife and family ( he is stopped from going off duty at the time his wife expects : what will be her reaction ? ) or an unmarried policeman 's love life , or for that matter the love life of a policeman who is cheating on his wife . |
| 11 | Things which are not open to change , such as a person 's age , are treated as causes ; indeed , some researchers like to reserve the term ‘ cause ’ for such factors . |
| 12 | Superimposing the pattern of a sound wave ( such as a person 's voice ) on to an electromagnetic wave ( such as the radio waves sent out from a telephone ) is simple and effective . |
| 13 | Fees have beautiful faces with hypnotic eyes , though they may be identified by a physical flaw , such as a snake 's tail or bird 's feet . |
| 14 | The unit 's radio antennae and built-in modem provide access to what is termed a ‘ tele-terminal ’ communications network , and will enable mobile users to access an office mainframe from remote locations such as a client 's house or office . |
| 15 | Children tend to come into care after upsetting events at home , such as a mother 's illness or following the trauma of eviction and homelessness . |
| 16 | Stressful life events , such as discovering a husband 's affair , and long-standing difficulties , such as a husband 's continuing unemployment causing financial and marital strains , can often be found to precede the onset of a depressive disorder . |
| 17 | Independent events are those which are most unlikely to have been brought about by the behaviour of the respondent , such as a husband 's car accident which happened while the woman was at home . |
| 18 | Rhos-on-Sea where the new breakwater forms its own natural harbour , has a continental atmosphere , and many amenities , such as a Children 's paddling pool and par putting . |
| 19 | The typical problems that occur are that a file created on your system using downloadable fonts works perfectly but , when you send it to another system , such as a bureau 's typesetter , what you had in , say , Bodoni Bold comes back as New Century Schoolbook Italic . |
| 20 | In principal , a character may be armed with any weapon or piece of equipment normally available to the Mobs , but this does not include special weapons such as a Fanatic 's ball and chain , or a Squig Hunter 's prodder for example . |
| 21 | According to BAFTA 's rules , the panel chairman votes only if there is a tie in the jury of seven — which would have come about if , for example , there had been three votes each for Prime Suspect and GBH and one for one of the other nominees such as the BBC 's Clarissa . |
| 22 | According to BAFTA 's rules , the chairman of the panel votes only if there is a tie in the jury of seven — which would have come about if , for example , there had been three votes each for Prime Suspect and GBH and one for one of the other nominees such as the BBC 's Clarissa . |
| 23 | In some cases , such as the BBC 's , though damage has been done the library , surviving still , has critical mass and is usable . |
| 24 | Fresh questions have arisen in response to such phenomena as the emergence of the new religious movements or ‘ cults ’ and the rise of new forms of orthodox religions of the right , such as the Ayatollah 's Iran , or Jerry Falwell 's Moral Majority in the United States . |
| 25 | He referred to the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 , which stresses that there must be some objective basis for reasonable suspicion if somebody is to be searched , such as the individual 's behaviour or information received . |
| 26 | One potential countermeasure which will be explored is to direct memory serach to contradictory evidence such as the individual 's own driving errors . |
| 27 | Incorporating a table look-up of existing aggregations such as the Registrar-General 's Social Class and Socio-Economic Group ( SEG ) and Goldthorpe classes . |
| 28 | Trade union membership continued to grow until 1920 — even though there were reverses for the movement , such as the government 's decision to ignore the advice of the Sankey Commission of 1919 and to return the coal mines to the coal owners in April 1921 . |
| 29 | Trade union membership continued to grow until 1920 — even though there were reverses for the movement , such as the government 's decision to ignore the advice of the Sankey Commission of 1919 and to return the coal mines to the coal owners in April 1921 . |
| 30 | Largely this is a political question depending on a number of factors such as the government 's strength and the need to relieve pressure on it . |