Example sentences of "as [verb] [adj] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such profiles are characteristic of shorelines of emergence rather than of shorelines of submergence , a fact which led Johnson ( 1919 ) to class offshore bars as features typical of shorelines of emergence . |
| 2 | In Mr Shaw 's view , his Bill , if it had been law , would have prevented the Maxwell fraud and the problems with BCCI , as well as saving billions of pounds lost to the Exchequer every year because of tax haven activity . |
| 3 | Once he and his family and animals are ritually stoned to death and burned and buried under a great heap of stones , then God 's anger evaporates , and the people are able to attack Ai again , and deliver up its inhabitants , men , women , and children , to the same fate as met those of Jericho ( 8.1–29 ) . |
| 4 | As well as coaching many of Britain 's leading international crews , Spracklen is a key member of the Oxford University team , and he will be returning from Canada in March to look after them for the last fortnight before the Boat Race . |
| 5 | The resistance to Bauthumley or Trapnel as figures worthy of study is part of an institutional assumption that literary study in higher education should force a separation between the elite and the popular , the sophisticated and the simplistic . |
| 6 | As well as creating one of Europe 's most compact and flexible car factories , the changes will also alter the Oxford landscape , the bridge over the ring road which ferries car bodies to the assembly plant will no longer be required and will disappear . |
| 7 | This is precisely what has happened at Malham ( and though I find it visually offensive I still climb there , as do hundreds of others ) . |
| 8 | More than 100,000 people outside the Congress building celebrated , as did millions of people around the country ; one street demonstration completely blocked the city of Sao Paulo . |
| 9 | It is true that Edward V 's one and only regnal year began on the day the previous sovereign expired , as did those of Henry VII and Henry VIII , Edward VI , Queens Jane , Mary I and Elizabeth I , James I , Charles I and James II . |
| 10 | Several of its most famous names decamped to London , as did half of Factory . |
| 11 | As well as housing thousands of species of algae , fish and molluscs , the sea grass generates oxygen and has been dubbed the " lungs of the sea " . |
| 12 | In another study of migrants in central Wales , Jones ( 1965 ) even went so far as to test all of Ravenstein 's laws , but he could only definitely confirm Laws 1 and 5 , which argue that most migrants only travel a short distance , but that those who do travel further migrate to the great centres of commerce and industry . |