Example sentences of "as [art] [no cls] [no cls] " in BNC.
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1 | On the main island of Curaçao which was allocated 14 seats , Liberia Peters 's centre-right National People 's Party ( Nationale Volkspartij — NVP — also known as the Partido Nashonal di Pueblo ) won seven seats ( compared with six in the last elections in November 1985 — see pp. 34291-92 ) . |
2 | While I appreciate that in many cultures a woman 's failure to marry can have serious socio-economic implications which may not exist for many women in the UK , I was distressed by AI promoting this view of marriage as the raison d'etre of a woman , and of a woman whose hymen has been perforated as ‘ damaged goods ’ . |
3 | It should be noted that , despite the historical primacy of arithmetic calculation as the raison d'etre for computers , we ought perhaps to see them instead as symbol-processing devices . |
4 | At the time , though , he was not aware — could never have been aware — of the extraordinary service he would have to render as the quid pro quo of the agreement . |
5 | The basis for this implied authority was , therefore , seen as the in loco parentis principle — the teacher acting in place of the parent and subject only to the same limits imposed by the law on the parent . |
6 | Vit is a frequent homonym in Old French , appearing , as in Modern French , as the passé simple of the verb voir , " to see " , and being nearly homophonic with the nouns vis , " face " , and vie , " life " . |
7 | Lord Mansfield 's judgment in the case , adverse to the Crown , became known as the Magna Carta of the Colonies . |
8 | Several rucks at Elland Road confirmed Cantona 's previous billing as the enfant terrible , but French TV viewers saw him live up to his new label as Manchester United 's ‘ Gallic Gazza ’ after the striker burst into tears before an estimated 15 million audience . |
9 | From it you can walk to Itxassou 's other half , which is clustered round the church , about a kilometre away and within sight of the defile known as the Pas de Roland , an opening in the rock said to have been made by the hoofs of this luckless paladin 's horse ( but more of Roland in the appropriate place , when we come to Roncevaux ) . |
10 | Having said that , it is entirely possible that one is being hopelessly naïve and that it is simply that the AIDS test has replaced the screen test as the sine qua non for any ambitious ingénue . |
11 | In any event the ‘ Far East ’ solution depended , with rather specious simplicity , on the ability to separate communist sheep from nationalist goats and even though the distinction was recognized as the sine qua non of a solution , it assumed that those who would not support genuine independence , once it was granted by the French , would identify themselves as communists : and would thereby distinguish themselves from the rest of the ‘ nationalist elements ’ who comprised the major part of the resistance forces . |
12 | It also made more than passing obeisance to the logic of the experiment which , for many and wrongly , was taken as the sine qua non of the scientific method . |
13 | This ushered in what was to become known in Germany as the Leben-Jesu Forschung ( ‘ Life of Jesus research ’ ) and in English as ‘ the quest of the historical Jesus ’ . |
14 | A club where kung fu is practised is called a kwoon , which means ‘ training place ’ , and is known as the kung fu home . |
15 | The opposite positions may be identified as the status quo ( p&l account only ) and the equivalent of annual financial statements ( p&l account , balance sheet , cash flow statement and full notes ) . |
16 | Missionaries travelling throughout Western Europe established Latin as the lingua franca by the end of the seventh century . |
17 | But in practice the status of English as the lingua franca is assured for the foreseeable future — and the need for the language in many countries amounts to a clamour . |
18 | Five of the eight appear on the royal books for 1661 as members of the ensemble known as the Hautbois et musettes de Poitou . |
19 | A group of Teleuts , in tsarist documents known as the vyezzhye belye Kalmyki , moved into Russian-held territory and settled there out of reach of the Teleut princes . |
20 | Holy objects , relics , and talismans , such as the Agnus Dei — a small piece of wax containing an image of the lamb and flag — were widely believed to provide supernatural help during times of crisis ; and holy bells , holy water , and candles were thought to give protection against diabolical spirits . |
21 | The first type of ‘ Negroid ’ painting is more purely pictorial and is represented by the sketches and series of heads which culminate in the Nu à la Draperie , a painting of late 1907 which is known also as the Danseuse aux Voiles . |
22 | Notes retails at around £400 a user ( with discounts on multiple purchases ) , and is getting so popular that it may well emerge as the de facto standard for disseminating information . |
23 | Currently the course covers PostScript as the de facto standard for page description languages , and introduces ODA and SGML as examples of standards for structured documents and as a vehicle for illustrating how to derive multiple views of a document from a single logical description . |
24 | The Dutch recognised the Republic as the de facto authority in Java and Sumatra . |
25 | Within 18 months , the IBM PC was established as the de facto standard and CP/M machines began the inexorable slide into oblivion . |
26 | Decree 1/90 , issued in July 1990 , formally stated that the SLORC would continue as the de facto government until a new constitution ( to be drawn up by the SLORC ) was submitted to a referendum . |
27 | The civil servant is simply acting as the alter ego of the minister . |
28 | And Rowbotham wrote a piece based on her feelings as the annus mirabilis of 1968 drew to a conclusion . |
29 | It is a mark of Hilton 's clarity of thought and practical spirituality that he should pick up the episcopal ideal of a composite life-style and set it up as the modus vivendi for a spiritually — minded temporal lord . |
30 | The decision to buy in or not is particularly relevant to personal computer sales where margins are tight , but Bearpark reckons that the company can remain competitive because it has huge purchasing power and can buy components at volume discounts — especially in Germany as the Deutsche Mark is very strong at the moment . |