Example sentences of "and [vb -s] as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The neck joint is similar to Ibanez and Heartfield 's ‘ all access ’ variety which does away with the usual bulky metal plate and offers as an alternative four recessed bolts and a sloping , shaped heel , which really does feel good under the hand . |
| 2 | The Divisional Court of the Queen 's Bench Division , which exercises a supervisory capacity over the inferior courts and sits as a court to which an appeal ‘ by way of case stated ’ may be made from the Magistrates ' Court , is bound by the House of Lords , the Court of Appeal and its own previous decisions . |
| 3 | Mr Tapie is by no means a doctrinaire socialist and sits as an independent in the National Assembly . |
| 4 | With wartime labour shortages and guaranteed farm prices prevailing , the union representatives on the boards found little difficulty in raising wages substantially and union membership increased by leaps and bounds as a result . |
| 5 | If the females release stored sperm , the egg becomes fertilised and develops as a female , otherwise it becomes a male . |
| 6 | It gathers detritus ( wood , and other forms of cellulose ) which it carries into the heart of its giant nests , and uses as a substrate on which to cultivate fungi , on which it feeds . |
| 7 | If a person criticizes the criminal justice system and uses as an example the handling of his case , are his opinions to be considered opinions ‘ regarding such crime ’ ? ’ |
| 8 | The real message they need to get across this Christmas is that anyone who drinks , drives and kills as a result will be tried by a judge and jury and severely punished . |
| 9 | Adjudicates resource disputes between individual services and acts as a clearing house for individual service proposals . |
| 10 | The lowest layer is patented as the ‘ nanokernel ’ and acts as a substrate for the other layers . |
| 11 | In a country where the media is state controlled and acts as a mouthpiece for the Party , putting up posters was one of the few forms of communication and free expression . |
| 12 | A laboratory of the Science & Engineering Research Council , the Observatory also accommodates the University 's Department of Astronomy and acts as a control centre for major telescope facilities in Australia and Hawaii . |
| 13 | The transfer function of the circuit of figure 8.5(a) is where R' represents the resistance of R in parallel with R L , while the transfer function of the circuit of figure 8.5(b) is or Respective comparison of equations ( 8.11 ) and ( 8.14 ) with equations ( 8.17 ) and ( 8.18 ) reveals that the circuit of figure 8.5(a) responds similarly to that of figure 8.3(a) and acts as a low-pass filter while the circuit of figure 8.5(b) responds similarly to that of figure 8.3(b) and acts as a high-pass filter . |
| 14 | Many of the familiar aspects of modernization , such as a rise of individualism and of specification in material culture use and scientific-rational order , may be traced in these studies , but the evidence provides a means of analysing such changes in terms of the structural organization of everyday objects for the population as a whole , and acts as a balance to the more common literary and self-reflective accounts or these changes . |
| 15 | Some wish it to be , and therefore are disposed to describe it as being , a school which serves the neighbourhood , and acts as a focus for its life . |
| 16 | There is a separate pantry ( C ) , and a porch ( A ) which both screens the front door and acts as a fuel store . |
| 17 | The transfer function of the circuit of figure 8.5(a) is where R' represents the resistance of R in parallel with R L , while the transfer function of the circuit of figure 8.5(b) is or Respective comparison of equations ( 8.11 ) and ( 8.14 ) with equations ( 8.17 ) and ( 8.18 ) reveals that the circuit of figure 8.5(a) responds similarly to that of figure 8.3(a) and acts as a low-pass filter while the circuit of figure 8.5(b) responds similarly to that of figure 8.3(b) and acts as a high-pass filter . |
| 18 | The flanged plastic collet is then pushed firmly on to this , and acts as the hanger for items up to 30lb in weight . |
| 19 | The state is linked to all three components , through a set of institutions which : regulates the sphere of circulation , in order to ensure continued accumulation of surplus value in the sphere of production , but in doing so may promote the interests of certain intra-class groups over others ; oversees the processes of economic , biological and cultural reproduction ; and acts as the arena within which the popular democratic forces struggle over the other two . |
| 20 | The Central Council for the Disabled is a coordinating national body that encourages the development of voluntary effort for the disabled , and the British Council for Rehabilitation of the Disabled conducts research into their needs and problems and acts as an information body . |
| 21 | Ruether does not think in terms of a God who is transcendent above history and acts as an agent in history ; and this we might say lets her off the hook as far as the theodicy question is concerned . |
| 22 | Pollution control work in the southern area has had , in contrast with the northern , a relatively long history and tends as a result to emphasize the maintenance of already existing acceptable standards of water quality . |
| 23 | Holists , by contrast , wish to explain individual intentions and desires as the outcome of these wholes , thereby awarding explanatory priority to a range of social factors the identity of which varies from theory to theory . |
| 24 | Smith says that quantitative methods are inappropriate to linguistic inquiries and cites as a warning Labov 's work in New York City , which he represents thus : ‘ The classic example of a quantificational linguistic study is provided by Labov 's investigation of the determinants ( age , class and casualness ) of New Yorkers ’ pronunciation of /r/ , pre-consonantally and finally , in words like ‘ fourth ’ and ‘ floor ’ ' ( 1989 : 180–1 ) . |
| 25 | The diary gives an intimate record of his ministry and of his private doubts and triumphs as a Christian . |
| 26 | Unfortunately in Giulini 's hands , Beethoven 's heavenly vision has more of the quality of a ‘ Missa Somnambulis ’ : the Italian conductor smooths every rough edge , rounds every corner and seems as a consequence to sap the life from the work . |
| 27 | Meton lived in Athens and appears as a character ridiculed by Aristophanes in The Birds , produced in 414 BC . |
| 28 | The high-relief figure — one could hardly call it a three-dimensional effigy — is placed on a plain black ledger lying on the floor , and appears as a body rising vertically from the grave . |
| 29 | If the water is frozen , and shifts as a glacier , then it can carry entire boulders , as big a h or as big as a hotel , hundreds of miles , and gouge great scars . |
| 30 | If a speaker tries to talk while riding fast on a horse , the speaker 's pitch will make a lot of sudden rises and falls as a result of the irregular movement ; this is something which is outside the speaker 's control and therefore can not be linguistically significant . |