Example sentences of "as [art] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as the centre 's fascinating nuclear power exhibition , a packed programme of special events has been arranged for visitors — which is how brave assistant information officer Diane Williams ended up getting the bird ! |
| 2 | What larks and japes persuaded this audience to collapse in convulsions is a mystery as dark as the Druids ' Runes . |
| 3 | The term also includes all copies of any part of the software as well as the User 's Guide contained in this package . |
| 4 | They asked not only about feeding , weaning and toileting practices , but also about such matters as the mothers ' ways of handling dependent and aggressive behaviour , their methods of disciplining , their feelings towards pregnancy , overt expression of affection , and adjustment in marriage . |
| 5 | Kim 's years as a dissident meant that he remained unpopular with many of those DLP members who were associated with the old ruling DJP.Moreover , as the DLP 's executive chairman and the chief architect of the its March 1992 general election campaign , Kim was also extensively blamed for the party 's poor showing . |
| 6 | Santander paid $220m for its 13% stake in First Fidelity ( and for an option to raise the stake to 23% ) , roughly the same amount as the stake 's book value . |
| 7 | The instruments do n't have the same clarity as the Calibra 's and some of the Corrado 's switches are masked by the wheel . |
| 8 | Although their cars were not as good as the Germans ' he drove brilliantly and beat the Mercedes and Auto Unions at the Nurburgring in 1935 to win the German Grand Prix . |
| 9 | Emily watched as the shoemaker 's daughter uncovered the amethyst-decked slippers . |
| 10 | When at the beginning of Shakespearean Negotiations Greenblatt half-jokingly announces literature professors as ‘ salaried , middle-class shamans ’ there is actually a context being uncovered which , just as the anthropologist 's place in reading a culture , needs to be scrutinised . |
| 11 | I began to realize how inadequate my picture of Laura was ; that I had made no room in my thoughts for an independent life of her own , let alone one as earthed and pragmatic as the potter 's craft . |
| 12 | It is exactly as the explorer 's biographer predicted it would be : 1,800 feet high , half-covered with jungle , a little way off the trans-Isthmian Indian tracks and somewhat detached from the rest of the Sierra — an outlier , distinct and somewhat aloof . |
| 13 | Eventually , half-way through the second act , as the play 's climax approached , Michael Banks could stand it no longer . |
| 14 | I concede that it will do for judging in retrospect the spontaneity beyond the margins of my rationality , as when jumping like an instinctive animal for the side of the road , and for such primitive choices as the child 's refusal of another helping ; but I continue to insist that at the centre of me I differ from the child in having escaped being restricted to choice between spontaneous goals . |
| 15 | The child 's refusal to comply may not seem as bad as the child 's habit of answering back . |
| 16 | He chuckled , as the child 's face changed . |
| 17 | Her emotions were as confusingly mingled as the child 's expressions laid one over another . |
| 18 | The mothers had been interviewed periodically since the children were two or three months old about such characteristics as the child 's activity level , adaptability , distractability , persistence and quality of mood . |
| 19 | It was amazing really , Lindsey thought , watching , fascinated , as the child 's tears became a hesitant smile . |
| 20 | The ideal , preferred temperature for feline food is 86°F , which happens to be the same temperature as the cat 's tongue . |
| 21 | This may be necessary for reasons of motivation , innate intelligence , interests , time for study , time of arrival into class as well as the students ' linguistic abilities . |
| 22 | As soon as the girl 's lungs fill , she screams again . |
| 23 | The dance music is both fiery and resilient , and the mystic landscape of the famous epilogue so tantalisingly evoked that value judgements fade away as surely as the music 's vision itself . |
| 24 | And as for the future , the economist 's forecast is about the same as the weatherman 's : cloudy at best , more likely bleak . |
| 25 | But we can not forget that in fabliau terms the wife of the Shipman 's Tale can be credited as a successful trickster ; in so far as the Shipman 's Tale does develop an antifeminist perspective in the ways suggested above , it enhances the antifeminist possibilities of a genre that is characteristically only playfully antifeminist . |
| 26 | Stephen thought it a curious place to leave one 's car , blocking , or partly blocking , the northbound roadway , while taking it a farther ten yards on would have enabled its driver to pull in onto the bridlepath that traversed the Vale as far as the Reeve 's way . |
| 27 | When Charlotte , ‘ a delicate and capable young person ’ , was caught travelling on the Underground without a ticket , it was not the 3s 6d fine that bothered her so much as the magistrate 's warning that , in consequence , her application for naturalisation might be rejected . |
| 28 | The defendant was held liable for the loss , as the thief 's act did not break the chain of causation . |
| 29 | Davout told Thiercelin he had done better than expected , which was generous praise from him , especially as the marshal 's own enquiries had been unproductive . |
| 30 | Such relatively minor matters as the firm 's car policy , the payment of home telephone bills and payments to partners ' wives for " secretarial " services also have to be agreed . |