Example sentences of "of [noun] [verb] as [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Now , instead of the bands gradually spreading to fill the gaps , there is a particular voltage at which the gaps are suddenly filled ( a type of change known as a ‘ crisis ’ ) . |
2 | Its face has a strange convoluted patch of skin known as a nose-leaf , which contains heat-sensitive areas . |
3 | The viticultural zone occupies that part of Champagne known as the falaises or Champagne cliffs . |
4 | This led into a couple of summers acting as a professional lifesaver during summer vacations from Sheffield University . |
5 | In several ways this loss of hope acts as a self-fulfilling prophecy . |
6 | I would alternate from extremes of hope to despair as every way I tried to win Grant back failed . |
7 | The client concerned undertook training with the British School of Motoring at a cost of £1,000 to qualify as an approved driving instructor immediately prior to commencing to trade as such . |
8 | If more than one attempt was required to guess the correct letter then the character is emboldened and the number of attempts shown as a subscript . |
9 | Those at the receiving end of policies made as a result of corporate arrangements — the policy-takers rather than the policy-makers — have often been forced to bear the costs of those arrangements . |
10 | Until recently , the prohibitive cost of hydrogen acted as a powerful deterrent . |
11 | As would be expected , the amount of damage increased as the number of vehicles using the tracks increased but the greatest reduction in vegetation cover was caused by initial vehicle runs . |
12 | Many of them also nurtured hopes that a new commercial sector would offset what their flights of fancy saw as the ‘ bolshie ’ bias of the BBC . |
13 | This book is not designed to engage with exposition of doctrine though it will inevitably point to its importance ; rather it attempts a mode of appreciation of these texts to help readers , whether or not they have prior knowledge of the subject , to respond to them as literary witnesses to a life of faith understood as a game . |
14 | Like the ‘ language ’ of narrative , the ‘ language ’ of literature serves as a source of stereotypes and models which provide ready-made explanations and prevent people from analysing the specificity of the world around them . |
15 | By 1676 it was part of the main Oxford to Coventry road and of course remains as a major trunk road today . |
16 | Since 1966 it has operated a set of rules known as the ‘ stabilizer ’ which has regulated the behaviour of tour operators and travel agents in the inclusive tour industry . |
17 | The cock-of-the-rock belongs to a group of birds known as the cotingas , closely related to the manakins . |
18 | Another was that , while Recommendations 7 and 8 had proposed higher payments to tutors , the Report had seen 75% of teaching costs as the maximum grant available , leaving the prospect of a widening gap to be filled from voluntary sources — 25% of a salary of ( say ) £700 being greater than 25% of one of £600 . |
19 | As in an Indian raga , a particular sequence of notes serves as the basis for variations that could continue to infinity ; eventually , however , it returns to its theme . |
20 | The ninth Central American summit was held in the Costa Rican town of Puntarenas on Dec. 15-17 , attended by the Presidents of Guatemala , Honduras , Nicaragua , El Salvador and Costa Rica , with the President of Panama attending as an observer . |
21 | Thus , for each census ward for which a 1981 population total exists , it is possible to determine the number of pixels classified as a certain land-cover type . |
22 | Representing a more traditional form of British cinema , John Schlesinger 's Madame Sousatzka ( Virgin ) has a stand-out performance by Shirley MacLaine and a keen eye for varied London locations , while A Time Of Destiny ( Vestron ) is a baroque romantic melodrama from Gregory Nava ( El Norte ) , which despite the miscasting of William Hurt as a Basque immigrant 's son seemed to me to have been unfairly downgraded . |
23 | The majority of builders therefore prepare a second set of accounts known as the cost accounts . |
24 | The 1968 Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia came as a surprise . |
25 | ( 9 ) The directors of an offeror company and the target company must , in advising their respective shareholders , act in the interests of shareholders taken as a whole and the interests of employees and creditors and not have regard to their own interests or those of their families . |
26 | The control portion of our micro-instruction now takes the form of a number of short encoded fields , each specifying one of a mutually exclusive set of control signals ( such as the function to be performed by the arithmetic unit ) or one of a mutually exclusive set of processor registers as the source or destination of a transfer . |
27 | The student demonstrations against corruption occurred because of illegalities exposed as a result of his high standards of probity . |
28 | When personal representatives sell without first effecting registration of their title , proof thereof and of the death of the registered proprietor must of course be lodged : a copy of the grant of probate or letters of administration certified as a true copy by the seller 's conveyancers ( when acting for a buyer you should make this requirement the subject of one of your requisitions on title ) is sufficient evidence . |
29 | At an early meeting of the YCCC with the Middlesboro City Council , the latter having changed the date and place of the meeting several times in order to avoid having to directly face the group on the issues of the campaign , a staff member of Highlander posed as a member of the press and , with video camera in hand , asked questions on the Yellow Creek pollution directly to the Mayor , and filmed the result . |
30 | Behind me , in the dark , was the similarly undisturbed sheet of crust known as the South American Plate . |