Example sentences of "as [art] [unc] [no cls] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While I appreciate that in many cultures a woman 's failure to marry can have serious socio-economic implications which may not exist for many women in the UK , I was distressed by AI promoting this view of marriage as the raison d'etre of a woman , and of a woman whose hymen has been perforated as ‘ damaged goods ’ . |
| 2 | It should be noted that , despite the historical primacy of arithmetic calculation as the raison d'etre for computers , we ought perhaps to see them instead as symbol-processing devices . |
| 3 | Vit is a frequent homonym in Old French , appearing , as in Modern French , as the passé simple of the verb voir , " to see " , and being nearly homophonic with the nouns vis , " face " , and vie , " life " . |
| 4 | Lord Mansfield 's judgment in the case , adverse to the Crown , became known as the Magna Carta of the Colonies . |
| 5 | Missionaries travelling throughout Western Europe established Latin as the lingua franca by the end of the seventh century . |
| 6 | The civil servant is simply acting as the alter ego of the minister . |
| 7 | And Rowbotham wrote a piece based on her feelings as the annus mirabilis of 1968 drew to a conclusion . |
| 8 | It is a mark of Hilton 's clarity of thought and practical spirituality that he should pick up the episcopal ideal of a composite life-style and set it up as the modus vivendi for a spiritually — minded temporal lord . |
| 9 | He captured her in a variety of poses and moods which reflect her many facets : as a grande dame in a hat and fur collar ; as a great courtesan — ‘ Madam Pompadour ’ he called the painting , perhaps deliberately mis-spelling it ; in a wicker chair ; demure in front of the piano ; and he sketched her all the time , with quick , deft strokes . |
| 10 | So you 'd say that as a b er as a result of that it did it did er so it did When you say it served its purpose , it did improve the image ? |
| 11 | This can be seen as a kind of intermediate position halfway between the child as a tabula rasa with no innate knowledge of the world and the child being able to speak at birth . |
| 12 | Perhaps I 'm not suggesting this as a sort of erm a definite wording just as a s sug as a suggestion erm to the effect that the settlement should best serve the development needs arising in Greater York rather than the demand generated from outside the area . |
| 13 | Figure 1.2 Excess of female population after the age of 45 years and males as a per cent of the total ( 1981 ) |
| 14 | Using acid phosphatase as a lysosomal marker enzyme , values for latency and supernatant enzyme ( calculated as a per cent of control values and expressed as means ( SEM ) ) were as follows : latency — 143.6 ( 38.7 ) % ; supernatant enzyme — 96.4 ( 2.8 ) % ( four experiments ) . |
| 15 | Yiddish yiddish served as a lingua franca for Jews . |
| 16 | This includes Swahili which although the mother-tongue of only 4m people is probably used as a lingua franca by about 30m . |
| 17 | This includes Swahili which although the mother-tongue of only 4m people is probably used as a lingua franca by about 30m . |
| 18 | She had spent a year here once , working as an au pair for the family of one of the big industrialists . |
| 19 | In the summer before I go away to university I get a job as an au pair in London . |
| 20 | As far as the extent of this limited edition being only 200 is concerned , my only reservations are outlined above : namely that a guitar is designed to be used and not coveted wholly as an objet d'art to be hung on the wall , which I suspect is exactly where the bulk of these models are likely to end up . |
| 21 | But interest now focuses on its potential as an aide memoire in police investigations . |