Example sentences of "as a [noun] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It therefore came as a shock in early afternoon when reports began to filter through of a massive disaster that had overtaken the centre on the Pratzen Heights . |
| 2 | When liquid helium was first made it soon became an essential laboratory tool as a coolant in low temperature experiments . |
| 3 | They did not portray it simply as a change in philosophical stance , but as an outcome of the advance in scientific psychological knowledge . |
| 4 | Just as a change in liquid assets may lead to little or no change in credit , so a change in credit may occur with little or no change in liquid assets . |
| 5 | Various agonists , for example , ADP , collagen , adrenaline and thrombin , are then added to the platelet-rich plasma to induce aggregation which is measured as a change in optical density . |
| 6 | The music was sure as a swing in high summer , to and fro , light as racing over a sunny lawn to the blessed shade under the trees . |
| 7 | Joint honours in Agriculture , Forestry and Rural Economy can be taken as a degree in Agriculture or as a degree in Ecological Science . |
| 8 | American economic activity in the international arena ( or American economic imperialism , as it was increasingly being labelled ) began to be identified as a problem in urgent need of resolution , and to be conceptualised in terms of the multinational or transnational corporation . |
| 9 | Brian Cook and John Craven went through the PR OCU as a crew in late 1964–1965 before being posted to 39 Squadron . |
| 10 | As Christians , our approach to the Old Testament is frequently selective : we value the Ten Commandments as a basis for public morality , the psalter as a help in public worship and the record of the lives of men and women of faith as examples from which we can learn . |
| 11 | He was established as a lecturer in natural philosophy at Edinburgh University for many years , but it was not until the age of fifty-eight that his first publication is recorded , when his work on the structure of crystals culminated in his report ‘ on a method of so far increasing the divergence of the two rays in a calcareous spar that only one image may be seen at a time ’ ( Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal , vol. vi , 1829 ) . |
| 12 | She worked at Glasgow University for seven years in research and as a lecturer in social work . |
| 13 | Almut Suerbaum , of the university of Munster , has joined us as the new Fellow in German ; as a specialist in Medieval German literature she continues the tradition of her predecessor . |
| 14 | relating the team to the organisation as a whole in structural terms |
| 15 | The rule was that as a member in good standing of another church ( and I was a member of the Presbyterian Church of England ) one might do so on a temporary basis ; but that if one found oneself doing so for any extended length of time , one should ask oneself whether one should not be confirmed . |
| 16 | Mr Lawson 's words might have reassured the financial markets had he carried conviction as a man in complete charge of short-term economic policy ; instead he sounded faintly ridiculous . |
| 17 | She has played Mozart on stage and in her new film Orlando plays someone who starts off as a man in Elizabethan times and ends up as a woman in the present . |
| 18 | It will show the girls that the image of an engineer as a man in dirty overalls tinkering with engines is completely misleading . |
| 19 | Alf , a well-known all-round sportsman , who still plays socially , was Secretary to the Henley Artisans for some 10 years and had the lucky chance as a man in domestic service , of learning golf on a small private course at Chalkhouse Green . |
| 20 | The human factor was evident when short evenings in the spring and autumn were seen as a constraint in growing cereals . |
| 21 | I was ready to fulfil the condition of my having the operation : I had to spend a year ‘ passing ’ as a male in stereotypical working-class jobs . |
| 22 | You seem to have styled yourself as a knight in shining armour for her , and I admit she makes a rather sweet damsel in distress , but — ’ |
| 23 | Casein was used as a glue in ancient Egypt and as a vehicle for pigments by the medieval painters . |
| 24 | He emphasized the need for single command of strategic forces and for a common foreign policy , with the Commonwealth being recognized as a subject in international law . |
| 25 | Pre-exposure to a novel flavour normally results in both a reduction of neophobia and in a reduction of the ability of that flavour to serve as a CS in flavour-aversion conditioning . |
| 26 | Neither in terms of practical diplomacy , nor as a factor in Japanese cultural or even economic relations , is Europe of remotely comparable importance to the US . |
| 27 | Skin colour is losing its meaning as a factor in economic life . ’ |
| 28 | So far as its origin is concerned , we shall take it as a factor in organic evolution , and shall content ourselves with pointing out certain more primitive features of which it is the natural development . |
| 29 | So trading profits down twenty four percent and although the interest charge was down er , quite sharply , largely , of course , as a reduction in net depth through the Elserver sale , profits before tax ended up as you heard before , twenty three percent lower . |
| 30 | It started life as a consultancy in parallel processing and then branched out into virtual reality , after seeing the potential of the technology . |