Example sentences of "as a [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The writer of this sentence does n't know whether the reader is male or female , but has chosen to use " his " as a GENERIC to mean " male or female " , overriding the normal use of " his " as a gender-specific pronoun meaning " male " . |
2 | It is believed the brothers , who were keen anglers , went for a swim but got into difficulties in the lake which is renowned as a dangerous swimming area by locals . |
3 | It is believed the brothers , who were keen anglers , went for a swim but got into difficulties in the lake which is renowned as a dangerous swimming area by locals . |
4 | It is worthwhile carrying out QA on packages before major review points such as a critical design review . |
5 | Rainbow was developed in 1989 as a multi-cultural education policy statement to create anti-bias lessons . |
6 | Indeed , I am not absolutely sure that it has not been proved that in terms of pure cost-effectiveness a space such as a 4 cm double is the best you can buy — the only trouble is that you need an awful lot of them . |
7 | He shuffled , he stamped , he stayed well back in the shelter of the narrow brick passageway that he 'd found as a better lookout point . |
8 | A current Warner Brothers production , ‘ A Class Act ’ , billed as a black teen comedy , is being directed by an unknown white TV director , Randall Scott . |
9 | Stup flourished as a black market centre until September . |
10 | A new American–based organisation the American Friends of the Warburg Institute has been set up to raise funds that will allow research to continue through the enhancement of the collections ( for instance by the purchase of scholarly databases ) and the promotion of its function as a international research centre . |
11 | A famous one was dropping Ramadhin before the third Test in Australia and replacing him with Gibbs , whose Test career thus far had been fairly ordinary ; Gibbs took eight wickets in the match to see his team home and was under way as a real Test bowler . |
12 | Unmarried , his heir is his second cousin , once removed , Mr. Alfred Blacker who is believed to live in Hobart , Tasmania , where he was last heard of working as a Real Tennis professional . ’ ’ |
13 | Arthur de Haast of Jones Lang Wootton said institutions needed evidence of hotel performance as a real estate investment . |
14 | Finally , the masculine sounding dedicatee of Mozart 's Piano Concerto No9 , dubbed the Jeunehomme , stands revealed as a certain Mlle Jeunehomme , virtuoso pianist 7.30pm St John 's Smith Sq £5-£11/concs £5 WEDNESDAY11 The Creation Period Orchestra , the Age of Enlightenment : Haydn 's Handelian oratorio 7.30pm QEH £5-£15 THOMAS ALLEN Second recital this week ( after Blackheath on Thursday 5 ) by the vibrant Geordie baritone . |
15 | One class of experiment which has been used to investigate this issue involves what is known as a lexical decision task . |
16 | Eurodesk Scotland has been established as a two-way contact point between Brussels and Scottish authorities and agencies . |
17 | WIMBLEDON 'S Vinnie Jones could n't have chosen a less appropriate place than Old Trafford to expound on his vision of Premier League football as a glorified hangover cure . |
18 | Seldom is anything genuinely new shown at the Earls Court venue , normally used more as a glorified car showroom by the manufacturers than as a showcase for forthcoming cars and innovative ideas . |
19 | ‘ Their firms brought in somebody from outside who they treated as a glorified office manager and the culture refused to change . |
20 | Frighteningly true-to-life , and very funny , it is set in the fashion business and stars Joanna Lumley as a coked-up magazine editor and Jennifer Saunders as a drunken PR woman . |
21 | A county court action is classified as a fixed date action or a default action , depending upon the nature of the claim . |
22 | A claim for any relief other than the payment of money must be brought as a fixed date action — any claim for money as a default action . |
23 | In a default action where the plaintiff 's claim is amended by adding or substituting a claim which could not have been made in a default action , the action continues as if it had been commenced as a fixed date action ( Ord 15 , r 2(2) ) . |
24 | The rhetorical perspective proposed does not view attitudes as being static , for an attitude is not seen as a fixed response pattern located within an individual . |
25 | For each item shown as a fixed asset investment , disclose : |
26 | Erm I think we 're er er we 're quite clear at the moment that the correct erm interpretation of it from our point of view is as a fixed asset investment and unless something changes in the er constitution of the company , erm although it may be erm the guiding thing become profitable I think one 's got to play by the rules and the rules at the moment say it is n't one . |
27 | The higher the premium is on conversion then the more the issue will be treated as a fixed interest investment and valued on a yield basis , with attention given to the financial strength of the issuing company and the number of times the interest/dividend payment is covered by available profits . |
28 | As a fixed term appointee you will be non-mobile and not normally be expected to transfer to a post outside reasonable daily travelling distance of your home . |
29 | Many workers in the private sector receive some payment as a fixed fee independent of the value of their marginal product . |
30 | Any variations in production of 14 C are rapidly distributed throughout the atmosphere , so a calibration curve of radiocarbon ‘ age ’ versus calendar age for one material and one geographical region will serve as a global calibration curve . |