Example sentences of "[det] as [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One kind , Bathygobius , has the habit of leaping from one pool to another as the tide retreats . |
| 2 | Pete says they set off and race around a course … they are given a landmark such as a cross roads or a church and they have to fly to that point take pictures of it and the fastest there and back takes the points |
| 3 | I shall be asking him questions such as ‘ Is it a good idea for parents to encourage their children to become interested in science by buying them toys , such as a chemistry sets , for Christmas ’ . |
| 4 | Much of the Polytechnic 's negotiation with outside bodies , such as the funding agencies referred to in Chapter 3 , reflect this corporate commitment . |
| 5 | However , we 're also starting to deal with other types of retailers such as the mail-order houses , and that will very likely involve us in different messaging standards . |
| 6 | Schemes such as the furniture stores would have operated at a much more modest level whereas now they are the main providers of this service in the city . |
| 7 | In fact the pollution control officer has as indices of activity neither the policeman 's arrest rate nor the evidence which some other compliance system enforcement agents can exploit , such as the dollar amounts recovered by consumer protection officers ( Silbey , 1978 ) . |
| 8 | The exploding nuclei of galaxies such as the Seyfert galaxies ( Figure 3 ) could be candidates for white holes . |
| 9 | The estimate for the two albums is £150,000–200,000 , and one might expect interest to be shown by an Italian State collection such as the Museo degli Argenti in Florence . |
| 10 | Others , such as the discount houses ( as we shall see later ) , have assets that are almost entirely short term . |
| 11 | Market loans consist of a variety of different loans from a few hours to a few weeks , mainly to other banks or to financial institutions such as the discount houses which specialize in short-term lending and borrowing . |
| 12 | They also , however , supported voluntary effort and legislation , such as the Factory Acts , to help children who lacked adequate family support . |
| 13 | Some of the risk factors identified , such as the work characteristics , could be modified to reduce sickness absence . |
| 14 | It is quite justifiable therefore to picture polymers as made up from stiff by flexible chains freely sliding among their neighbours and constrained only by cross-links or entanglements — unless , of course , strong lateral forces also exist , such as the hydrogen bonds in polypeptides or polyamides , which tend to hold neighbouring chains together . |
| 15 | But in a few species , such as the clown fishes ( Amphiprion ) , individuals start life as males and a proportion later become females ( protandry ) ( Fricke & Fricke , 1977 ) . |
| 16 | Germany is at last waking up to the what has been clear to outsiders for the past year or so , that there is going to be no quick fix to the recession it is facing and that it will be long and grinding : this week the BDI industrial federation admitted that the downturn could develop into Germany 's worst recession since the end of World War II , saying that the western German economy will continue to decline , and the fall will be deeper than previously thought , so that in important sectors such as the capital goods industry the downturn will represent a new post-war record ; the body blames weak foreign demand for German goods , the now over-valued mark and rising costs for German industry and now admits it is the result of structural problems that will have long-term economic effects . |
| 17 | Well I , I would n't disagree with it , but I , but I , the description is perfectly plain to ensure that effective arrangements are established from liaison between the various departments of the County Council and the appropriate organizations such as the emergency services . |
| 18 | Other satellite remotely-sensed data , such as the NOAA images already mentioned and the images from the French SPOT and the Japanese MOS satellites , can be processed by the methods described and illustrated in this chapter . |
| 19 | But while you are waiting , there is plenty to see in the historic ‘ plague village ’ , such as the village stocks , the original ‘ Plague Cottage ’ and , of course , the church of St Lawrence . |
| 20 | The other archways show areas in Cathay , Araby , Nippon , Lustria , Norsca , and the New World , or far more sinister lands such as the Chaos Wastes , the Castle of a dread vampiric necromancer , Ghouls feasting in a graveyard , and other wonders . |
| 21 | At the depths envisaged , any potential oil source rocks such as the Calp shales and Rossmore Mudstone have probably passed through the oil window ; unless oil was preserved by migration to higher levels , it is likely to have been cracked into gas and condensate . |
| 22 | Chief officers also liaise with other administrative units operating in the locality ( such as the field offices of central government departments along with health and water authorities ) and there are also important linkages with other councils , members of the public , and local pressure groups ( such as ratepayers ' action groups , local trade union branches , tenants ' associations ) . |
| 23 | You may also want to tile awkward shapes such as the window recesses , or things like bath surrounds . |
| 24 | Having made all your garment type selections , you will then be asked to enter some of the basic measurements for the garment , such as the chest measurements , overall length , upper arm measurement , sleeve length and so on . |
| 25 | However , the main difference between the record company 's and publishing company 's advance is that the publisher usually has no large expenses to pay such as the recording costs of an album . |
| 26 | He made the point that , whilst the mail order companies had lived with bad debt for years , for such as the building societies it was a new phenomenon . |
| 27 | The theory behind Sir Bryan 's thinking is that the more efficient tied agents — such as the building societies — will offer the products to consumers at lower prices than smaller and less efficient tied agents . |
| 28 | Although it was extensively used to model figures such as the river god at Ham , most of the surviving pieces are smaller decorative items such as the pineapple finials in the south terrace at Ham and the richly ornamented urns at Killerton in Devon . |
| 29 | From the demonstrations of British pluck and enterprise in The Wooden Horse ( 1950 ) , the first of a series of escape pictures , and the celebration of one woman 's heroism in the Anna Neagle-starring Odette ( 1950 ) , through action films such as The Dam Busters ( 1955 ) , The Battle of the River Plate ( 1956 , Pursuit of the Graf Spee in US ) and Sink the Bismark ( 1960 ) , there is a sense of well-known events being played out for an audience that already knew about them . |
| 30 | Many relevant authorities , such as the Sea Fisheries Committees , are excluded from the effects of the byelaws and many activities , such as discharge of any substance from a vessel , are excluded . |