Example sentences of "[adj] as [art] [noun] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | HARRIET Harman yesterday staked a claim for Labour as the party for women whose needs she said had been ignored under 13 years of Conservative rule . |
| 2 | Although 4-ply is popular as a backing for weaving , 3 and even 2-ply can be more effective . |
| 3 | If one suspect confesses and implicates the other , who does not confess , the confessor will go free as a reward for cooperation , while the partner is sent down for the maximum sentence , 10 years . |
| 4 | Insults so ferocious as the recipe for Sussex Layer Pancakes — why pick on Sussex ? |
| 5 | It is the darkness , not the thickness , of the ruled lines that makes it helpful as a guide for writing . |
| 6 | The former Head Wrightson site , now renamed Teesdale , is famous as the venue for Margaret Thatcher 's so-called walk in the wilderness on the day she referred to those who complained about high unemployment as ‘ moaning minnies ’ . |
| 7 | The MB86931 has claimed performance of 42 VAX MIPS and operates at 40MHz ; it is smaller and more cost-effective for higher speed working than the predecessor MB86930 , and useful as a controller for office automation and factory automation equipment . |
| 8 | ‘ They made us more professional and were useful as a basis for court reports , ’ he says . |
| 9 | We will first view organisations as having three layers of management because this traditional view proves useful as a basis for analysis . |
| 10 | Second , and related to the first point , the model of man as a violent animal — and hence self-seeking and violent in the pursuit of attaining his goals — is useful as a justification for authority and institutions of authority . |
| 11 | The couple were diving near the Smalls reef off the Pembrokeshire coast , an area which is notorious as a grave-yard for ships over the centuries . |
| 12 | Thus , these trends towards a greater stress on educational qualifications imply that intragenerational mobility within work caused through promotion becomes much less important as a route for advancement . |
| 13 | The recognition of good staff interpersonal relationships as fundamental to all management processes and important as a model for pupils |
| 14 | This is important as the outcome for women whose labour is induced for ‘ uncertain postmaturity ’ is significantly worse than for those who have labour induced at 42 weeks ' gestation . |
| 15 | The level of rates could also rise substantially from one year to the next and was unpredictable as a basis for business decisions . |
| 16 | The framework set out in Figure 7.5 is provided by Tough as a guide for teachers when identifying uses of language ‘ which they are probably already fostering , either intuitively or with some deliberation ’ . |
| 17 | The UK is also highly unattractive as a place for US or Japanese corporations to site their European holding companies . |
| 18 | All roads seem to lead to Hewlett-Packard Co these days , and the company has now also won Fujitsu Ltd as a licensee for SoftBench — the first licence on the thing in Japan . |
| 19 | Some even promoted the idea of an enlightened socialist administration of the colonies — ‘ until the Federation of the world becomes an accomplished fact , we must accept the most responsible imperial federations available as a substitute for it' ( George Bernard Shaw ) . |
| 20 | Honey face saver : legendary as a treatment for ailments such as sore throats and hayfever , honey has also been shown to heal burns and can sort out dry and spotty skin problems , so get stuck in ! |
| 21 | The document finally ‘ agreed ’ by the disagreed committee was stuffed with jargon and so incomprehensible that it was useless as an agenda for discussion ; yet the meeting at Evanston had to discuss it ; with results which may be imagined . |
| 22 | Achieving greater economic convergence among EC members in such areas as inflation , budget deficits and interest rates was regarded by Germany in particular as a prerequisite for EMU . |
| 23 | ‘ Right ’ and ‘ wrong ’ are , for her , immutables drawn from religious teaching , which are necessary as a context for sex education , and around which a previously existing consensus was being subverted by ‘ propagandists ’ for ‘ permissiveness ’ . |
| 24 | Quisling stands supreme as the synonym for traitor . |
| 25 | Sex was still largely taboo as a subject for discussion in " decent " circles . |
| 26 | He gave no priority to any particular relationship of inequality : for example , he believed that the relation between money-lender and debtor might be as significant as a basis for class as that between workman and employer . |
| 27 | is also valid as a requirement for entitlement to registration , since it is an indissociable principle of the very concept of establishment . |