Example sentences of "as [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , what I have presented as the Althusserean reply to Connolly emphasises the claim that ISAs constitute subjects , at the expense of the view that they legitimate a mode of production . |
| 2 | It has been noted that the grounds on which the miller 's wife strikes her husband over the head with a staff as he fights with John are somewhat absurdly contrived : This can be interpreted as the contrived excuse for the wife to help her welcome lover to escape , as appears in some continental analogues of the tale . |
| 3 | Lamming on Dexy's-clones Big Sound Authority : ‘ wait till you see this man sweat ’ — sweat as the tangible proof of authenticity , commitment . ) |
| 4 | This view is known as the Oscillating Universe Theory . |
| 5 | This originated during the reign of Henry VI in London , where the two leading churches were Westminster Abbey , officially listed as the Collegiate Church of St Peter , and St Paul 's Cathedral . |
| 6 | I demonstrated in the previous chapter that the use of discursive metaphor causes simultaneity and association to replace causality and linear chronology as the compositional principles of the novel , allowing changes of scene in mid-sentence and the coexistence of a number of often incompatible signifieds in a given signifier . |
| 7 | And as the Chartist Bronterre O'Brien wrote , ‘ In spite of the Devil and Malthus , the work people are resolved to live and breed . ’ |
| 8 | As the Chartist candidate . |
| 9 | The Democratic Federation of Serbs was formed on Jan. 23 , 1990 , as the legal successor to the Democratic Federation of Southern Slavs in Hungary . |
| 10 | They are known by letters for which we have provided suitable mnemonics : ‘ A ’ ( the Accounting Committee ) deals with Budget and Finance as well as Trade and External Relations ; ‘ B ’ ( the Blazing Committee ) deals with energy and technology as well as transport ; ‘ C ’ ( the Caring Committee ) scrutinizes consumer and social affairs ; ‘ D ’ ( the Digging Committee ) is responsible for agriculture ; ‘ F ’ , the Environmental Committee is named the ‘ Friends of the Earth ’ ; Sub-Committee E ( Law and Institutions ) is traditionally chaired by a Law Lord — formerly by Lord Oliver of Aylmerton and now by Lord Slynn of Hadley — and is known as the Legal Eagles Committee . |
| 11 | Other institutions , such as the legal institutions , borstals , prisons and mental hospitals , become concerned with resocialization when deviance has occurred , been socially noticed , and action taken against the person . |
| 12 | That is , the use of the royal prerogative as the legal backing for the management of the public service , the principle that a civil servant is a servant of the Crown and holds office at the pleasure of the Crown is one of the best known principles of constitutional law , hallowed by usage and sanctioned by the courts . |
| 13 | That has threatened the whole concept of compulsory competitive tendering and we will keep threatening the government 's compulsory competitive tendering regime by using TUPE and the acquired rights directive as the legal shield to protect our members ' jobs and public services from the Tylers of this world . |
| 14 | As the legal experts pore over the intricacies of recording unmet need , care managers are getting down to work . |
| 15 | Once convinced , however , that no major philosophical change was involved , but merely the identification by reference to more sophisticated criteria of what has always been regarded as death , medical lawyers have increasingly come to accept brain-stem death as the legal description also . |
| 16 | Under a gold standard it is possible for gold to circulate domestically as the legal tender along with banknotes which can be exchanged on demand for gold . |
| 17 | John is a Birmingham-bred barrister of West Indian origin who will hit our screens early next year as the legal correspondent for GMTV 's new breakfast TV programme . |
| 18 | ‘ Your Majesty ’ , wrote Llorente , the historian of the Inquisition and a prominent afrancesado , ‘ recognized Joseph as the legal sovereign … . |
| 19 | Traditionally , the right of States to remain aloof from conflict between other States , and to have that stance recognised as the legal status of neutrality , was the most developed third party right . |
| 20 | As the legal regime for the National Curriculum comes into effect , it becomes increasingly apparent that it represents not so much a ‘ straitjacket ’ but a ‘ corset ’ — holding things in place , while restricting , but not totally , freedom of movement ! |
| 21 | The ‘ Act for the Abolition of Imprisonment for Debt , for the Punishment of Fraudulent Debtors and other purposes ’ , to give it its full name , was , said Wetherfield , a very short , simple and sweeping measure , ‘ a great innovation upon what we have become accustomed to as the legal relations of debtor and creditor . ’ |
| 22 | As the legal machinery for divorce ground into action , the children became pawns in a bitter and acrimonious battle which turned mother against daughter and husband against wife . |
| 23 | The library at Lindholme also serves as the legal aid and appeals office for the prison and the close proximity to the CAB allows the legal aid officer to refer the prisoner to the CAB session for any ‘ civil ’ enquiries that emerge from the legal discussions and vice versa . |
| 24 | The adoption contract might contain a proviso that if a natural son was born he would take precedence as the legal heir . |
| 25 | True , certain services for which duplication of provision would have been especially absurd ( such as the Legal Department ) were centrally provided . |
| 26 | More specifically though , the sharpest decline in employment in manufacturing within this period came in the later 1960s , with the ‘ shake-out ’ associated with the merger boom and the accompanying ‘ rationalisation ’ of enterprises ' activities , a process which was in part stimulated by fiscal deflation and in part actively sponsored by quasi-state agencies such as the Labour government 's Industrial Reorganisation Corporation . |
| 27 | In 1987 he fought and lost the general election as the Labour candidate for Gosport , another Tory stronghold . |
| 28 | As the Labour losses and Conservative holds flashed on the screen , desperate looks were exchanged . |
| 29 | If we are going to win , and win again , we must be as vigorous in promoting our cause as the Labour Party . ’ |
| 30 | The move came as the Labour Party 's housing spokesman , Mr Clive Soley , yesterday complained to the Press Council over newspaper reports that his party was proposing to ban second homes . |