Example sentences of "as [adv] [art] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the few moments in which she paused in her ascent to the church she reflected that now she was looking at the view the other way round ; now she was in one of the overcrowded little alleys visible from San Martino as merely a crack in a vast expanse of roof tiles and crumbling masonry and noticeable from that lofty vantage point because of the fluttering of the washing hung out on poles over the street to dry . |
| 2 | For David Marquand 's main mistake is to see the policy review as merely an exercise in junking outmoded policies . |
| 3 | Participating and enjoying disability arts could then be seen as only a side-show in the drama of struggle for change , something to provide relief from the tensions of boring or stressful committee meetings . |
| 4 | A person who holds over at the end of a lease is not a trespasser until demand is made , as only the person in possession can be trespassed against ( Hey v Moorhouse ( 1839 ) 6 Bing NC 52 ) . |
| 5 | ‘ When we came to leave the Lamb that afternoon , Mr Barnett , we were all in similar states of intoxication , but Jack had become as maudlin as only an Irishman in liquor can . |
| 6 | According to Ockleton , he had become ‘ as maudlin as only an Irishman in liquor can . ’ |
| 7 | Fuel burn at around 11 gallons per hour was what one might expect from the power plant , and the aircraft would undoubtedly benefit from turbo-charging although as always the trade-off in this is going to be increased maintenance costs . |
| 8 | Indeed , his view of this independent sovereign as purely a pawn in the French political game was never more clearly seen than in 1556 , when he contemplated marrying her to the English nobleman Edward lord Courtenay , in response to the threat that Philip of Spain , then married to Mary Tudor , would give her sister Elizabeth as a bride to Ferdinand of Austria . |
| 9 | They turned into Candlewick , now thronged with carts , pack horses and wagons as virtually every tradesman in the city seized the opportunity afforded by the break in the weather . |
| 10 | There you could meet the likes of Orson Welles , Norman Mailer , Lillian Hellman , Virgil Thomson , Martha Graham , Ethel Merman , and Anita Loos — as well as almost every star in American showbusiness . |
| 11 | You will recall discussion on the addition of Clydesdale District Council as a partner in the initiative , although not as yet a member in terms of the Articles of Association of the Trust . |
| 12 | There is as yet no shift in the overall direction of the group , which remains dominated in terms of political action by its monopoly catholic and nationalist constituencies . |
| 13 | Vera et al. believe that there is potential for improving productivity , including the introduction of legume-rich swards , though as yet the developments in cropping have far exceeded efforts to improve pasture lands . |
| 14 | Also important is his sympathy for ‘ the classicist point of view ’ which , he stated in 1916 ‘ has been defined as essentially a belief in Original Sin ’ . |