Example sentences of "as of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all this Basil 's sense of humour , kindliness , and perception both of personalities as well as of every aspect of the visual arts , were a great help and encouragement to me , and I shall always be grateful for those years in , the West Riding when I knew and worked with him . |
| 2 | Regan relents to the extent of regarding this as an ‘ exaggeration ’ but concludes that , , indirect duty views are committed to regarding how we treat moral patients as of no direct moral significance' ( 1983 : 186 ) . |
| 3 | Speaking in a deeply bitter and sarcastic manner , President Rhee said it was very easy for a man several thousand miles away from Korea airily to dismiss Korea and its 30 million people as of no strategic or other importance to the United States . |
| 4 | For example I shall later consider Bultmann , who has no classical two-nature Christology , but who says of Jesus , as of no other , that this was the man whom God raised from the dead ; so that for him this man 's resurrection becomes the pivot of history . |
| 5 | Were we to suppose that life was purposive , that everything was part of a planned progression due to culminate in the appearance of man or some other creature that might rival him in dominating the world , then the echinoderms could be dismissed as of no consequence . |
| 6 | As we see from the passage I just quoted from Barthes , the work or labour that the writer puts into composing his text is brushed aside as of no importance . |
| 7 | Miliband 's response to Poulantzas was that he goes too far in dismissing the composition of the state elite as of no account , and in suggesting that structural constraints are so compelling ‘ as to turn those who run the state into the merest functionaries and executants of policies imposed upon them by ‘ the system ’ ( Miliband 1983 , p. 32 ) . |
| 8 | Then there was a banging noise as of a large , hairy fist striking a desk . |
| 9 | Over the next few decades there are references to a Mr S.R. Pattison producing cloth , as well as of a Mr Farrar , leasing all or part of the mill for dyeing . |
| 10 | A flowing , as of a liquid . |
| 11 | A flight , as of a routed army . |
| 12 | I believe that this is as much a matter of teaching style as of a correct single method ( it is also a matter of the ‘ ear ’ and sensitivity to language of individual pupils ) . |
| 13 | Cornwall was then truly the ‘ ultima thule ’ , the limits of civilisation — or beyond , and indeed many wrote of the Cornish as of a barbaric tribe and treated any elements of civilised behaviour with surprised condescension . |
| 14 | Guitarist Simon Walker left right at the end of recording and so , as of a few weeks ago , we have a brand-new House Of Love guitarist — ex-Woodentop Simon Mawby , fresh from playing funky Chic-style stuff behind Jimmy Somerville , and now in the unenviable position of trying to learn the new album while compressing three guitar parts into one in order to play it live . |
| 15 | She first appeared as a strange red light , as of a ship all a-glow , in the midst of which light her masts , spars and sails , seemingly those of a normal brig. , some 200 yards distant from us , stood out in strong relief as she came up . |
| 16 | It is perhaps a physical impossibility to be as aware of a bitter as of a sweet taste , but a toothache relentlessly pulls wincing sensibility to itself . |
| 17 | ‘ Why , Joan — whom else ? ’ asked Anne — as of a child . |
| 18 | Frequently and for no apparent reason , there would be a chilling burst of wind and a roar as of a passing train . |
| 19 | With its free power glove , the figure below made a sign as of a leaping spider . |
| 20 | More realistically , the papal Curia thought that when the full ideal was unattainable , it was better to be content with what could be salvaged than to be left empty-handed : the precise opposite of Anselm , who ( as he told Queen Matilda ) would as soon be deprived of everything as of a little — ‘ and I say this not for love of property , but for love of God 's justice ’ . |
| 21 | But Ettore 's ‘ subjective ’ voice is not so much the sound of a private individual subjectivity , as of a subjectivity constructed by its social and historical silencing . |
| 22 | the guardian , not so much of particular Home Office policies , as of a certain Home Office approach to life which I was convinced had to be broken if future Home Secretaries were to avoid the St. Sebastian-like fate of Brooke and Soskice . |
| 23 | It is all too easy to assume that formal regulation has an immediate unilinear impact , but in actuality the history of sexuality is as much a history of an avoidance of , or resistance to , the moral code , as of a simple acceptance and internalisation . |
| 24 | Here and there gleams as of a few scattered pieces of silver marked the windings of the great river ; and on the nearest of them , just within the bar , the tug steaming right into the land became lost to my sight , hull and funnel and masts , as though the impassive earth had swallowed her up without an effort , without a tremor ( 5 ) . |
| 25 | ( 1 ) , " suggesting ruins of stone walls ( 2 ) , " looked solid ( 2 ) , " Corresponding in their insignificance " ( 4 ) , " as of a few scattered pieces of silver ( 5 ) , as though the impassive earth had swallowed her up … " ( 5 ) , " mitre-shaped " ( 6 ) . |
| 26 | His leather jacket was adorned with the face of a screaming woman symbolising , according to the caption below , Chaos , and his own blunt and pitted features suggested to Preston not so much those of a bird as of a pit bull terrier with acne . |
| 27 | There was an unexpected sense of achievement , as of a decision sensibly made . |
| 28 | What had seemed an innocuous and perfectly reasonable suggestion was answered with a moan as of a child in pain . |
| 29 | 721 at the earliest and dedicated to Aelfwald , king of East Anglia , who died in 749 , describes Aethelbald as of a famous progeny , whom Ceolred drove into exile and pursued ( Vita Guthlaci , chs 40 , 49 ) . |
| 30 | As she hesitated outside Bob 's door she heard a muffled metallic thump from within , as of a saucepan being put down on a gas-stove , then the sound of a tap being turned on . |