Example sentences of "as [adj] [noun sg] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Gainsborough films that best characterize the desire of filmmakers to close their eyes to the darker currents in society , to make believe that the world really is as cosy as some wartime films made it out to be , are Holiday Camp ( 1947 ) and the three sequels set amongst the jolly Huggett family . |
| 2 | Historically , the vast majority of housing departments screened their tenants , putting the ‘ better class of person ’ , as many housing officers described them , onto the best estates , while ensuring that the poorest tenants were housed in sink areas . |
| 3 | The Infant Hercules , as Prime Minister Gladstone described it , acquired an awesome reputation for squalor and toughness . |
| 4 | Now , at the age of 18 , the faintly gangly , freckled kid from Croydon with the ‘ moonchild ’ face , as one make-up artist puts it , is enjoying international modelling success . |
| 5 | It was visibly true that the CNAA , as one education correspondent put it , was ‘ busy about the job it was set up to do — to award degrees and to make sure that the standards of them are at least up to university level ’ . |
| 6 | As one law lord put it in 1967 , it can be ‘ very unpleasant ’ and ‘ hard ’ for the advocate ‘ to explain to a client why he is indulging in what seems treachery to his client because of an abstract duty to justice and professional honour ’ . |
| 7 | The ‘ baby difficulty ’ , as one attendance officer called it , led to many late nineteenth-century state elementary schools opening crèches . |
| 8 | With competition for research funds now especially fierce , the Defense Department is using its bountiful budget for university based science to ‘ sensitise ’ — as one Defense official put it — university scientists to its security concerns . |
| 9 | As one television executive put it : ‘ We do a few gay programmes , and will carry on doing them . |
| 10 | The Vietnamese potbellied pig is , as one pig expert puts it , ‘ the most appalling ball of grease . ’ |
| 11 | It was , as one refugee worker put it , ‘ the easy way out ’ and it solved nothing . |
| 12 | Since the poll-tax disaster broke , the government has been — as one cabinet minister puts it — retreating from Moscow under hostile fire . |
| 13 | As one community leader put it : |
| 14 | As one health worker put it , ‘ They fiddle with all the bits that men do n't have . ’ |
| 15 | Australian jazz in the 1980s was varied but rigorous ; less concerned with baring one 's soul at all costs than , as one woman saxophonist puts it , ‘ achieving a good standard of playing ’ . |
| 16 | As one force member put it : Directors were encouraged to use this free resource to their own advantage in pushing it through with members . |
| 17 | So ‘ every brewer and his auntie ’ , as one nablab marketer puts it , rushed headlong to brew up — many with foul-tasting and ill-researched products that consumers quickly and rightly rejected . |
| 18 | As one teacher trainer put it not long ago , ‘ I have been in education for 25 years and I have never known morale so low . |
| 19 | By and large , HQ recruitment activities ( rolling general recruitment , summer events ) were as successful as other work pressures allow them to be . |
| 20 | This question had little significance and was relevant only to the part-time farmers as most family farmers said they did not take holidays . |