Example sentences of "as [pron] [noun sg] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I chose housing as my theme for the Dimbleby Lecture , and I enunciated a belief which is as firm today as it was when I delivered it : |
| 2 | The Club had become of political significance , and as its support for the Peace Alliance was unacceptable to the Labour Party it was inevitable that there should be some conflict between the two . |
| 3 | The government or political executive has as its instrument for the business of governing , the administration or bureaucracy , which extends through the ministries and departments , to a variety of institutions such as public corporations , banks , and others ( particularly the institutions of education and the media ) . |
| 4 | On Oct. 18 the Bundesrat ( upper house ) unanimously elected Alfred Gomolka , Minister President of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania , as its president for the coming year , the first holder of this office from what had been East Germany . |
| 5 | Critics have sniped that the dividing line between the political and the profit motive has never been too sharply defined on Hamnett 's agenda , a feeling provoked by such off-the-cuff comments as her enthusiasm for an idea that will ‘ make me rich and wo n't hurt animals ’ . |
| 6 | Madeleine was awarded for her many hours spent with the elderly , helping with cooking , shopping or driving , as well as her work for the social services . |
| 7 | It was as genuine as her affection for the old man . |
| 8 | Mrs Frizzell , engrossed in thoughts of buying a new dress , as well as her costume for the ball , which was being made by a dressmaker and was as yet unpaid for , jumped and turned round . |
| 9 | The former defence procurement minister , Alan Clark , 64 , has confirmed that Newbury conservatives have rejected him as their candidate for the forthcoming by-election caused by the sudden death last month of the sitting MP , Judith Chaplin . |
| 10 | As their fascination for the appalling , arbitrary and marred has got more religious , so their sound has begun its ascent into the cosmos . |
| 11 | Trying to arrange a temporary nanny proved to be as useless as their hunt for an electrician . |
| 12 | Greville continued Sherer as his deputy for the two clerkships until Sherer 's death in 1598 and after that he appointed John Powell . |
| 13 | Even so , Dalziel not missed a first team game since October and Saturday 's decisive strike against Kilmarnock took his tally for this year to seven as well as his total for the season to 30 . |
| 14 | His raptures over pretty strangers and their come-hither designer clothes were as over-the-top as his enthusiasm for a new cocktail . |
| 15 | Harry had worked as tirelessly as his sister for the last few days ; now he sank down on to a stool beside his cannon out of sheer weakness , and began to weep at the thought of the wasted powder and the wasted water resulting from this misfortune . |
| 16 | And is it as poor as his theme for The Big Match ? |
| 17 | She had worked for Mair as his PA for the last three years and he knew her now no better than on that morning when she had sat in this same office being interviewed for the job . |
| 18 | We may now represent this simplest of linguistic situations as follows ( the minor complication potentially caused by the presence of PLURAL is ignored here ) : Naturally we shall use E as our symbol for the occurrence of an entity , and P for that of a property . |
| 19 | We have seen how our feeling that a particular stretch of language in some way hangs together , or has unity , ( that it is , in other words , discourse ) , can not be accounted for in the same way as our feeling for the acceptability of a sentence . |