Example sentences of "a [noun sg] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the party obliged to make a payment as the result of an expert 's decision does not do so , he may , if he is an individual , be served with a statutory demand under s268 of the Insolvency Act 1986 ; or , if the defaulting party is a company , it may be served with a written demand under s123 of the Insolvency Act 1986 . |
| 2 | As I say , we 're now , we shall now be working on the er , on a financial strategy , so that we 've got more detailed costings er , available to us , erm , but I think members will be interested to know that erm , within the next few months there will , we shall be taking part , er , as part of a wider national exercise , in an exercise undertaken by the District Audit Commission , on Children 's Services , so that we , I think we shall be in good stead , to have this as a base as a working document for that erm , Audit Commission exercise . |
| 3 | Important cases in which public policy has been the paramount or only reason for striking down a provision as an unreasonable restraint of trade include Morris ( Herbert ) v Saxelby and Leng ( Sir WC ) & Co Ltd v Andrews [ 1909 ] 1 Ch 763 . |
| 4 | First , wind velocity is measured at a given observation point and refers solely to that point , for all that it may be convenient to show it on a chart as an arrow apparently extending for a long distance . |
| 5 | I have learned never to do this again and the second concerns the use of a lacquer as a finish for fine furniture which I hope never to use again . |
| 6 | We think that such a duty is imposed by law ; and on consideration of the Statute of Elizabeth , l and of the cases which have been decided on this subject , we are all of the opinion that a party can not maintain an action for compensation for loss of time in attending a trial as a witness . |
| 7 | Frege , it should be stressed at once , interprets functions basically by analogy with machines , i.e. he sees a function as a kind of logical mechanism , such that if certain numerical constants or " arguments " are " fed " into it , it will produce certain values . |
| 8 | His ability to A function as a surveillance office and B to function as a armed officer after being maybe in the er in a vehicle for that length of time er is both dangerous to the public and dangerous to him . |
| 9 | You need to use THEN if it is followed by : or you wish to exit from a function as a result of the test . |
| 10 | A facade has a function as an ornament to a town as well as cloaking a building . |
| 11 | Charlemagne 's throne , which may still be seen in the basilica at Aachen , gave all the kings of western Europe sooner or later the idea of regarding a throne as an essential symbol of royal greatness . |
| 12 | The Civil Justice Review , on examining the arguments , recognised the need to assist people who do not qualify for legal aid funding , drew attention to the major advances that had been made in regulation policy so as probably to be able to control a contingency fee system and , on the basis of competition policy , considered whether it would be more desirable to devise more limited schemes under which lawyers would have a stake in the outcome of a case as an incentive . |
| 13 | When I get a case as the duty solicitor I pass it on to the criminal department . |
| 14 | But he chafed a bit as a member of a commercial office team . |
| 15 | Buy me one I know I do n't like it till I 've had a bit as a drink . |
| 16 | I 've just talked about what happens when a branch member wants to appeal but this is a branch as a whole that 's made a decision at a meeting that it does n't agree with something that 's happened . |
| 17 | It is small wonder that the practice has grown up in recent years of referring , however inaccurately , to a mistress as a ‘ common law wife ’ . |
| 18 | I had a mum as a single parent and two grandparents and they did an excellent job of bringing me up ! |
| 19 | ‘ Look , Bea , I feel like a shit as a matter of fact , but I ca n't live like this - . |
| 20 | Since the teacher has already used a stick as a sign of Beowulf 's authority he decides to give this additional prominence by making it the object to be retrieved from under the chair . |
| 21 | He walked with a teeter , as though he was in the middle of falling on his nose , and brandished a glass lens on a stick as a warning to those in his way that his eyesight was not of the best . |
| 22 | Similarly , a child at play may use a stick as an aeroplane or a settee as a car . |
| 23 | In the country it was the custom for the estate workers or tenants to act as both coffin- and pall-bearers , this was a necessity as the local builder often doubled up as undertaker and would not have had so many men at his command as the full-time town undertaker . |
| 24 | So the creation of a rich er along these lines of the creation of a rich peasant economy is a necessity as the Communist Party see it in terms of paving the way for industrialization . |
| 25 | The principal catalyst behind this act was the fact that in September the wavering Châtelherault had come to a decision as a result of Cecil 's help in arranging the escape of his son Arran from France , and finally agreed to join the Lords of the Congregation , thus ending the uneasy situation in which the Hamiltons had dithered between two opposing forces . |
| 26 | It is arguable , with some hope of success , that we can speak of a choice or a decision as an effect and not be committed to there having been a causal circumstance which was required for it , and speak of an action as an effect and need not be committed to there having been a causal circumstance that was — roughly speaking — prior in time to the agent 's initial neurophysiological activity . |
| 27 | The traditional image of a dinosaur as a slow , lumbering creature is logically derived from what we understand about great body size and weight . |
| 28 | A major constraint upon the straightforward re-use of a windmill as a dwelling is imposed by its circular or polygonal plan which tends to conflict with conventional cubical furniture and may only be reconciled satisfactorily with purpose-made , built-in fitting ( Plate 40 ) . |
| 29 | This is the time to consider joining a class or taking a course as the new term , or year , starts in September . |
| 30 | That career had peaked with a part as a junior barrister in Granada TV 's Crown Court . |