Example sentences of "as [art] [noun sg] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Sunday , and dead as the proposal to market a can of ‘ Diet Guinness ’ . |
| 2 | Robert Duvall and Faye Dunaway as the couple do a marvellous job portraying the ‘ family/hearth ’ ruthlessness of those in control . |
| 3 | The process is continued in this way simply using the granule as the intermediary to transfer a 500th of a drop instead of the direct addition of the whole drop as is the case with the centesimal 1:100 ratio . |
| 4 | StaffWare will be adding some BT-specific features such as the ability to implement a corporate-style graphical user interface and to pick any database of choice . |
| 5 | Control is widely defined as the ability to exercise a decisive influence over a company by any means . |
| 6 | We must get in , do the job and get out as quickly as POSSIBLE — leaving the place as the public have a right to find it . |
| 7 | Producers and organisations such as the Guild have a vital role in telling consumers both at home and abroad how good British cheese can be . |
| 8 | He is convinced the necessary seven member states whichever they may be can still meet the criteria for economic convergence which has been set as the minimum to permit a single currency in a majority of member states . |
| 9 | Structural innovation , a horizontal emphasis , marked angularity , splintered melody and the admission on equal terms of difficult intervals such as the tritone signalled a move into uncharted territory . |
| 10 | Stoke Mandeville 's Spinal Injuries Unit was chosen as the site to launch a Europe wide campaign against industrial accidents . |
| 11 | I do n't know if I 'm unique , I suspect I 'm not but I go to my two design people and I say right blah blah blah this is what we want to do but you organise the printer I want you as the designer to find a printer that you can work with but here 's my timescale and it 's up to them |
| 12 | Although not intransigent , Wash was clearly uneasy about the specific link with Bedfordshire as the precedent to establish a principle . |
| 13 | As the silence surrounding a caravan site . |
| 14 | One way of using the seaweed would be to use some very fine towelling as the background to give a beachy feel to the picture , and incorporate some minute shells , as the material would absorb their shape , thus allowing the glass to lie flat against the plant material . |
| 15 | Taking an unmarked structure such as The book received a great deal of publicity in China as a starting point , we can suggest a number of possible thematic structures in English , starting with the least marked and ending with the most marked . |
| 16 | A simple statistical procedure known as the z-score assigns a score to the strength of association between the lemma and each of its collocates . |
| 17 | What began for us as the effort to capture a purely objective record of what we saw gradually dissolved into a quest , an odyssey of self-discovery which actually took place amongst the last of the lands of real living kings and queens , dragons and pirates , cannibals and headhunters , mystics and magicians . |
| 18 | This period is thus , in effect , the lifetime of the product , during which it can be expected to function normally without the need for repair ( other than , of course , in appropriate cases , replacement of consumables — such as ribbons on a printer , and routine or preventive maintenance — such as the need to service a car in accordance with the maker 's guidelines ) . |
| 19 | To deal with the enemy as a Jew has a special significance . |
| 20 | The creative team took this new insight and used it as a spring-board to create a very successful campaign based on sprouting leaves and the headline : " Refreshes the parts other beers can not reach " , thus demonstrating the imaginative leap creative people make from research findings to effect communication messages . |
| 21 | In the past the courts have construed statutory and common law rights to information restrictively and have either required an applicant to show a special reason for wanting the information or have denied access to a person with an ‘ indirect motive ’ such as a councillor helping a constituent in a complaint against the authority . |
| 22 | Then , using spirit-level and pegs as a builder lays a concrete floor , level it to the flatness of a billiard table . |
| 23 | He speaks as a Conservative representing a coal mining area and he truly speaks up for the industry . |
| 24 | An eighteen-year-old boy who had flown from India to marry a Calcutta girl now living in Liverpool was detained for three days by the officials , who suspected him of being under age and of using marriage as a trick to get a work permit . |
| 25 | Notice that a set of four consecutive bytes could be treated as a word containing a 32-bit binary pattern upon which word instructions can operate , or as a byte string to be operated on by the byte string instructions , or ( possibly ) by the packed decimal instructions . |
| 26 | ‘ Working class ’ people may wish to see their interests favoured over those of the ‘ middle classes ’ but they are unlikely , in general terms , to see this conflict as a struggle to displace a ruling class . |
| 27 | Dent 's comment at the time when that Act was still before Parliament as a bill has a curious irony to it , which will become all the more apparent from the discussion which ensues later : |
| 28 | Through all the religious and political troubles in Tudor and early Stuart Sussex the county 's upper classes as a whole experienced a prosperity and an increasingly self-assertive sense of authority . |
| 29 | Trade discount , however , would usually be deducted from the cost unless it was received as a rebate from the supplier when the company as a whole reached a certain level of purchases . |
| 30 | It happened again on Thursday , when the people not only of England but of the United Kingdom as a whole blew a resounding raspberry at all the wise men , the opinion pollsters most of all . |