Example sentences of "[vb base] as [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.

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1 Yeah , course I mean as a bat er pitched a bat on this is a beau a beauty but are there are rough spots which you 've helping the slow left arm , or help any spinner .
2 Cool as a nun 's kiss .
3 limp as a lobster 's claw ,
4 They usually act as the employer 's agent , and therefore have a dual function ; as well as giving the contractor instructions , the certifier administers the contract .
5 Welcome as the Cabinet 's new policy must have been to some Ministers in the Lords , such as Lord Pakenham , then Minister of Civil Aviation and an abolitionist to his fingertips , voting for suspension can not have been an agreeable experience for the unyieldingly retentionist Lord Chancellor , Jowitt .
6 His eyes resemble dish-telescopes that seem to look right through his friends , and he sees the psychic energy people emit as an astrophysicist 's radio-telescope ‘ sees ’ sounds bounced off distant galaxies .
7 We know as a matter o that the roads wh when dualled the road when dualled , will have sufficient c capacity .
8 I think the army thought they were going in to a situation where they could they could help , they saw themselves if you like as the referees er as a neutral party in between two sides .
9 Either way , the meaty hunk of French boeuf , who we rate as the screen 's answer to Ian Botham , seems considerably ill at ease as a father trying to fend off the local romeos from his daughter while holidaying on the enchanted island .
10 It 's up to you , he 's saying , to satisfy the hunger which the letter to Katkov and the Crime and Punishment notebooks rationalize as the criminal 's moral demand .
11 I 've scoured the the technical professional press to find out if there is some general statement which sums up what sustainability means , and the one which I 've seen most commonly referred to , I think , and the government has used it in this way , is a requirement to ensure the needs of the present generation are met in a way which does not prejudice future generations , now I do not believe that a properly conceived and located new settlement is any less sustainable in the long term that other forms of urban growth , and by properly conceived I 've got to say I believe that to mean properly balanced er form of development for the new settlement , and I think I would say that new settlements have usually been proposed because continued infilling , like the the normal forms of accommodating further development requirements , infill , and peripheral development , have been determined in York context not to be sustainable , the sorts of issues which arise as a result erm of additional development in or on the edge of York and the surrounding villages , problems of additional congestion , loss of green space in towns , loss of employment opportunities and so on .
12 Erm and I had to think up something that I do as a hobby er to teach other people .
13 Cast as the gaoler 's daughter , she had a pleasing soprano voice and was an adequate actress by the undemanding standards of grand opera .
14 I practise as a ship 's doctor .
15 I now come to what I regard as the plaintiffs ' most convincing argument , namely , that paragraph 33 of Buckley J. 's order , combined with the letter dated 23 October 1991 from the Crown Prosecution Service , provides effective protection for the defendants against the criminal consequences of having to disclose incriminating information or documents by virtue of paragraphs 18(a) and ( c ) and 19(a) and ( c ) of the order .
16 Five of the twenty-seven staff who made written responses gave the book two stars for pupil popularity , i.e. ‘ very popular ’ ; two of them reported that girls had complained about ‘ having to read about male heroes ’ and that The Machine Gunners , which ‘ girls see as a boy 's book ’ , had frequently been the impetus for such comments .
17 In my experience , even at this early stage when the process has hardly begun , the family trying to make sense of what is happening around them focus their general distress on what they see as the church 's preoccupation with making money , rather than offering help .
18 Although the company is trying to limit the damage of Pettitt 's departure , Specialix competitors cite other reasons for what they see as the company 's loss of direction .
19 The solution would be a corollary to what lawyers see as the accountants ' distinct advantage of a more continuous and broader based role through the company audit .
20 What modern biologists see as the theory 's most important contributions were subordinated to a contemporary philosophy encouraging struggle and exploitation .
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