Example sentences of "[vb base] as [art] [noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Erm and I had to think up something that I do as a hobby er to teach other people . |
| 12 | Cast as the gaoler 's daughter , she had a pleasing soprano voice and was an adequate actress by the undemanding standards of grand opera . |
| 13 | I practise as a ship 's doctor . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | What modern biologists see as the theory 's most important contributions were subordinated to a contemporary philosophy encouraging struggle and exploitation . |