Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [vb pp] as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 3 ) A retiring partner may be discharged from any existing liabilities , by an agreement to that effect between himself and the members of the firm as newly constituted and the creditors , and this agreement may be either express or inferred as a fact from the course of dealing between the creditors and the firm as newly constituted . |
| 2 | Fast , quick-witted and determined as a player , demanding and insistent as a manager , there was little doubt that he would snatch his career back from the brink of failure . |
| 3 | Then it was back to Mick 's summer stamping ground at Henna Cliff , one which Mick dubiously claims is getting ‘ very popular ’ , and climbed Henna Fall ( grade III/IV and claimed as a three-star 95 foot classic ) . |
| 4 | The whole place seemed as empty and deserted as the Beast 's magic castle , though she was certainly no Beauty , Luce thought ruefully . |
| 5 | Have police attitudes hardened or changed as a result of public pressure ? |
| 6 | If the child has become lost or frightened as a result of parental neglect , then the adult in question may expect to be admonished by the fairy , who dislikes irresponsibility and carelessness . |
| 7 | While this gives great diversity to his work , something that Wordsworth would not be able to achieve , it means that it is quite conceivably contradictory when viewed as a whole . |
| 8 | These features can all too easily cause the annual review to be perceived as pointless drudgery , cause it to be prepared in as perfunctory a manner as possible and used as a device to obscure rather than reveal problems . |
| 9 | A few insects have tracheae that swell into thin-walled balloons which are depressed and expanded as the abdomen pumps up and down . |
| 10 | Is he addressing his comments to all those who have become marginalised and dispossessed as a result of right-wing Conservative policies over the years ? |
| 11 | 9.17 Frustration of reinstatement Landlords sometimes include a proviso that the landlord should have the right to terminate the lease in the event of reinstatement being frustrated or delayed as a result of circumstances beyond the landlord 's control . |
| 12 | A spinster in her seventies and employed as a housekeeper at the time , she died in Bishopsgate Street on 17 April 1898 . |
| 13 | Dressing to go to town , Nick could hear their voices through the open window and Marjorie 's occasional laughter , soft and contented as a cat 's purr . |
| 14 | He was born in Fife in 1870 and apprenticed as a carpenter but spent most of his life in England after leaving Scotland in 1893 . |
| 15 | He first started in the 1940s while stationed as an army draftsman in London , and from 1966 to 1988 made annual return visits , establishing relationships with Agnew 's , Jeremy Drummond , J.S. Maas and others . |
| 16 | • Raw fruit is better than cooked as a rule . |
| 17 | Nottingham failed to solve the problem until too late and created as a consequence some of the worst slums in any town in England . |
| 18 | In winter months P17 is very effective when used as a wrap around delicate shrubs or containerised plants which have to be over-wintered outside . |
| 19 | For celibacy is only really intelligible when understood as a demand of love . |
| 20 | Only an old man with his white hair cropped short and worn as a Jew 's cap had spoken to Holly with the wry grin of experience at his mouth . |
| 21 | Although deformed and treated as a spectacle , he was adopted by ‘ high society ’ at the height of his ‘ fame ’ and later abandoned by them . |
| 22 | But there are two further points which emerge from considerations of a wide range of literature relating to public enterprise : big investment decisions have been complicated and delayed as a result of having to be considered by a number of government departments ; such decisions have been easy prey to party political pressures when they have involved the location of new plants and/or closure of old ones [ Knight , 1974 ] . |
| 23 | Chief Officer Mason left as a Corporal motor-cyclist in 1914 and returned as a Major in 1919 . |
| 24 | The artificial chromosome was gel-purified and used as a hybridization probe to identify 48 cosmid clones in a library constructed using DNA from cells of karyotype 49 , XX ( ref. 25 ) . |
| 25 | the teacher must strive to create a non-threatening atmosphere in which the pupil can articulate fear , disagreement and possible rejection of previously held beliefs , and still feel valued and accepted as a person . |
| 26 | , with its impressive spire , was built in 1844 and used as the Assembly Hall of the Church of Scotland until 1929 . |
| 27 | The measurements are approximate and given as an indication only at this stage , taken from the architects ' drawings , the sizes may vary slightly after construction . |
| 28 | Having missed the deadline to register as a Democratic candidate in the November elections , he resigned from the party on Aug. 13 and registered as an independent . |
| 29 | He was born in Leeds in 1789 and trained as an architect , but by 1830 had taken over the fight against child abuses from Robert Owen ( q.v. ) , and conducted a vigorous campaign for a ten-hour day , which only succeeded in 1847 with the passing of the Ten Hour Bill limiting the working hours of all those aged up to eighteen . |
| 30 | Penguin Books has issued an eighth revised edition of Sir John Summerson 's Architecture in Britain 1530–1830 , first published in 1953 and intended as a companion to Ellis Waterhouse 's Painting in Britain 1530–1830 and Margaret Whinney 's Sculpture in Britain which covers the same period . |