Example sentences of "as [art] [noun sg] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inflation as a problem dominated the late 1960s and 1970s , whereas the 1980s seem to have been characterized by both inflation and unemployment . |
| 2 | By several accounts , Jaruzelski and the officer corps as a whole resented the fact that the LWP was called upon to assist the militia ( police ) in quelling the shipyard riots in 1970 . |
| 3 | The court accepted that in certain circumstances information about prices could be invested with a sufficient degree of confidentiality to make that information a business secret or its equivalent but in the present case it found factors which led it to the conclusion that neither the information about the prices nor the sales information as a whole had the degree of confidentiality necessary to support the plaintiff 's claim . |
| 4 | This gave the shell the look of an inverted Roman oil lamp , with the stalk as the wick , and so the group as a whole gained the name of lamp-shells . |
| 5 | The party as a whole proved the reality of its patriotism from the first days of the war , and the logic of this continuation from peacetime was underlined by the speed with which Ulster Unionists rallied to the flag in 1914 , and the gallantry with which they died on the Somme in 1916 . |
| 6 | But in a house in the heart of the Woodfield Estate there was no whistling as a man searched the streets for the fourth time for his child , then finally , belatedly , picked up a telephone and rang the police . |
| 7 | There , he had been dragged from the car in the pitch dark , and held down as a man drove the vehicle over his legs and back again . |
| 8 | A YOUNG handbag snatcher was jailed for five years yesterday as a judge signalled the fight back against street crime . |
| 9 | The room darkened momentarily as a cloud hid the sun 's rays . |
| 10 | But before Molly could answer they all looked out as a car breasted the top of the small hill and lit them as brightly as actors on a stage . |
| 11 | The battle lasted for several hours and at about 10.30 p.m. there was a further clash as a crowd charged the police and was dispersed by a counter-charge . |
| 12 | Right from the first day I worked hard , no longer rested on my oars and as a result topped the class list . |
| 13 | Parsons did not substantially alter this view , and as a result lost the stress Freud had placed on conflict . |
| 14 | They had four sons ( the eldest of whom died in 1895 ) and by the second , Charles , came the five grandsons who as a team continued the family firm until it was sold in 1965 to the Hawker Siddeley Group . |
| 15 | His later fame as a painter produced the legend that at heart Pollock was a cowboy . |
| 16 | By the end of the second Test , Willey 's last nine Test innings had produced 90 runs , and , had he been caught when on 13 at Old Trafford , his Test days would almost certainly have been over ; as it was , his 62 not out there and his reputation as a battler persuaded the selectors to press on with him , and he justified their faith now . |
| 17 | Hall , who this time last year was fighting as a schoolboy found the experience of Russia 's Sergo Chargakov , plus the burden of four bouts in six days , just a shade too much . |
| 18 | The fire which ironically had the purpose of killing Ralph and the island , saved them as a seaman spotted the smoke . |
| 19 | The 15 most heavily indebted developing countries ( see p. 37017 ) in 1988 as a group increased the surplus of their merchandise exports over their imports to nearly dollars 28,000 million ; the dollar value of their exports rose above the 1981 peak for the first time since the onset of the Third-World debt service problem , although the GATT report pointed out that this trade performance needed to be seen against the background of rising interest charges and continued lack of fresh capital inflows . |
| 20 | Few mystical treatises get off to a more intriguing start than The Fire of Love , which describes the first time Rolle became aware of a heat in his breast which , he insists , was not imaginary or metaphorical but which could be felt as a finger felt the heat of the flames in which it had been thrust . |
| 21 | Peter Foley , who had come on as a substitute struck the upright with a powerful drive , for the ball to rebound clear . |
| 22 | Great nicety of control was called for , especially as a tank approached the upper position . |
| 23 | He saw the daft circles they made as a wind lifted the flames and turned them ; he saw their hysterical galloping back and forth , and saw the cherry-red line crackling across the stumps of corn , towing its apron of smoke . |
| 24 | Suddenly he crouched as a cry broke the stillness and another cry answered it . |
| 25 | Angie Ross lay in bed and watched a spangle of light flicker and fuse on the wall as a breeze moved the curtain . |
| 26 | ‘ How many more of you are- ’ he broke off with a stifled gasp as a hand clutched the skin exposed at the side of his neck by his wide and unbuttoned collar , and he folded to the ground . |
| 27 | Yet when Professor Lester Williams as an educationist addressed the American Library Association conference on " What the school expects of the school librarian " there was something of a ring of novelty in his style when ( after the usual platitudes about " the library as a workshop " ) he went on : " Teachers expect librarians to act as a service agency in providing and dispensing all manner of instructional aids , such as phonograph records , clippings of fleeting materials , films , slides , pictures … |
| 28 | Green 's early works as an architect included the Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Society 's building ( 1822–5 ) and the beginnings of a lengthy sequence of somewhat undistinguished Gothic-style churches ; while he also developed a reputation as a designer of farmhouses , being employed in this capacity on the Beaufront estate near Hexham ( 1824 ) and by Hugh Percy , second Duke of Northumberland [ q.v . ] . |
| 29 | But some advocates of public service broadcasting — citing the BBC as an example opposed the ‘ commercial logic ’ advertising would entail : competition between the two state channels might be healthy professionally , it would be pernicious otherwise — ratings wars , lowering of standards , especially during prime time . |