Example sentences of "as [adj] [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carson knew better than to use the Mercedes as in-town transport-traffic and parking problems made a car into a liability during the daytime . |
| 2 | The UK 's highest sulphur pollution as dry deposition and gas is in the power station belts of the East Midlands , South Yorkshire and north Kent . |
| 3 | After Senior House Office appointments at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School and the Brompton Hospital , he moved to St Bartholomew 's Hospital as Junior Registrar and subsequently as Research Fellow supported by an R.D. Lawrence Memorial Fellowship from the British Diabetic Association . |
| 4 | Think of life on earth as junior school and the spirit as the pupil . |
| 5 | It was recognised that the exclusive pursuit of higher things was very likely to be unremunerative except in certain of the more saleable arts , and even then prosperity would come only in mature years : the poor student or young artist , as private tutor or guest at the Sunday dinner-table , was a recognised subaltern part of the bourgeois family , at any rate in those parts of the world in which culture was highly respected . |
| 6 | This happened at the same time as parishes were being formed , and it seems to have resulted in the extinction of many churches , not only as private property but also as working churches . |
| 7 | Peasants were encouraged to register their communal holdings as private property and to consolidate their scattered strips into coherent farms . |
| 8 | The republics were to decide for themselves policy in such key areas as private property and land ownership . |
| 9 | For them , especially , it 's time we caught up with the rest of the European Community and extended to all workers employment protection , pro rata benefits and pay , as well as parental leave and childcare . |
| 10 | A subsidiary publishing company , Alma Books , has been set up to produce a number of guide books and the Campaign also works with commercial publishers to produce such titles as Classic Town and Country Pubs and Beer , Bed and Breakfast . |
| 11 | During his two months as Labour leader and Prime Minister Moore was successful in closing the gap between the two parties , but the opinion polls continued to point to a clear National Party victory . |
| 12 | He is being exhaustively briefed on such things as rural medicine and trends in the insurance market . |
| 13 | Physical disinfectants include the natural elements like sunlight and freezing as well as generated heat and cold : chemical disinfectants include liquids and gases . |
| 14 | Seeing the latter in one-dimensional terms , and characterising it as a weak version of the more prestigious intellectual analogues used ( design as weak art or weak science ) , such models never explored design — cognitive activity from its own standpoint or in respect of its own efficacy . |
| 15 | It is true that the former incorporated such normative policies as progressive taxation and the maintenance of high employment , and underlying both approaches was the belief in the desirability of more centralised economic policy-making than had operated before the war . |
| 16 | He worked at St Mary 's Hospital as assistant physician and lecturer in pathology and in 1866 graduated MD before returning to University College as professor of pathological anatomy in 1867 , becoming a physician to University College Hospital in 1878 . |
| 17 | In 1959 Mitchell succeeded MacGregor as Assistant Director and R. A. Eden took charge of the South Lowlands Unit . |
| 18 | From April 1987 ( after a year in which he acted as Deputy Director of the Polytechnic ) he was redeployed as Assistant Director and Dean of the Modular Course on the assumption that he would have half of his time from September 1987 available for Course administration . |
| 19 | you see and ther I su I suppose there was about ten or a dozen girls behind the counter because it was early and late turn for them because you see we were open , you see , until ten o'clock at night , you see , and er then , well , anyway , after that erm I heard about this job going as Assistant Manageress at Cambridge and er so I applied and the Manager said to me , I thought well I 'll be here ten years , erm I can be here until I 'm you know , donkeys years and er so he said well look you may not get a job because he said that another girl coming from Norwich to go to Cambridge to see the Manager as well as you and so you might not get it , she might get it , and , however , I went and er I , I met the Manager and the Manageress in the front office , the Manager 's office and we all had a chat but I did n't see the girl from Norwich , she must have gone some other day and anyway I got the job , you see , and er , and so I went to Cambridge as Assistant Manageress and I very well and I got to know all kinds of people , all nationalities being a university city . |
| 20 | Colin was based at Linlithgow for 10 years — the first eight as Assistant Manager and the final two as Manager — and although originally from Edinburgh , he and his wife Joy and their two sons , Martin and Douglas plan to stay in the town . |
| 21 | What in any other circumstances would be counted as normal wear and tear become weapons used against the tenants . |
| 22 | Schopenhauer 's status as total philosopher and cultural ideal lasted longer , in the event , than the doctrinal appeal of his metaphysics . |
| 23 | They undertook numerous engineering feats , including the construction of roads , bridges and tunnels as well as extensive terracing and irrigation systems to improve crop production . |
| 24 | There usually is , of course , as that savage but homely metaphor concerned with ‘ skinning a cat ’ suggests . |
| 25 | It puts the learner in the same position as that audience and demands the same exercise of language skills . |
| 26 | Without over dramatising the fact that firearm , coupled with myself could easily kill somebody so we have to make sure that every single time we draw the weapon er there is a need , there is a justification for it er and as soon as that need and justification stops , so would we put the weapon away . |
| 27 | The fact that meaning is not constructed from the formal language of the message alone is crucial in explaining what it is that makes people perceive some stretches of language as coherent discourse and others as disconnected jumbles . |
| 28 | As each couple or small group arrived , everyone was introduced to everyone else , the gentlemen bowing and shaking hands all round . |
| 29 | Depending on the size of the party , the organizer chooses three or four children as each animal and they have to find their group . |
| 30 | A real teacher is unlikely to use an instruction like this , for 11-year-olds : ‘ Find three ways in which you can tell from the drawings ( of spider and crane fly ) that they are the same as each other and three ways in which they are different . ’ |