Example sentences of "as [art] [noun sg] ['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 | The term also includes all copies of any part of the software as well as the User 's Guide contained in this package . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Emily watched as the shoemaker 's daughter uncovered the amethyst-decked slippers . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Eventually , half-way through the second act , as the play 's climax approached , Michael Banks could stand it no longer . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The child 's refusal to comply may not seem as bad as the child 's habit of answering back . |
| 11 | He chuckled , as the child 's face changed . |
| 12 | Her emotions were as confusingly mingled as the child 's expressions laid one over another . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It was amazing really , Lindsey thought , watching , fascinated , as the child 's tears became a hesitant smile . |
| 15 | The ideal , preferred temperature for feline food is 86°F , which happens to be the same temperature as the cat 's tongue . |
| 16 | As soon as the girl 's lungs fill , she screams again . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | And as for the future , the economist 's forecast is about the same as the weatherman 's : cloudy at best , more likely bleak . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The defendant was held liable for the loss , as the thief 's act did not break the chain of causation . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , as the artist 's brown wash is notoriously subtle and fugitive , even the slightest fading alters such works . |
| 24 | As a result , he gives a slightly different portrait of a more experimental painter , dictated less by logic than intuition , and pursuing a development which was not as rigid as the artist 's admirers would have maintained . |
| 25 | Within days of the report 's appearance , the Labour Party — after a two-years study that inevitably consulted many of the same people as the prince 's working party — announced a very similar plan , calling them Newton Institutes . |
| 26 | But as far as the Prince 's speech was concerned the couple might as well have been strangers . |
| 27 | Caroline watched as the Prince 's face underwent a metamorphosis . |
| 28 | The Council of the Law Society has today elected John Young , Council Member for the City of London , as the Council 's candidate to be nominated as Deputy Vice-President for the year 1993–1994 . |
| 29 | It is surprising , therefore , that it should have rejected the claim that a boy 's ‘ slippering ’ at boarding school broke the convention — particularly as the court 's past rulings led to the outlawing of corporal punishment in state schools . |
| 30 | On 1 October 1965 Bowart and Katzman duly obliged , as the first 2,500 copies of EVO rolled off the presses — the same number as the Voice 's first issue ten years before . |