Example sentences of "as [art] [noun] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Palestinians of East Jerusalem , who had overwhelmingly refused Israeli citizenship , had equally firmly demanded the city as the capital of a future State of Palestine . |
| 2 | Although not explicitly referred to in this statement , issues such as the size of a united Germany 's armed forces and its relationship to NATO were expected to be discussed under this umbrella , dubbed the " two-plus-four " formula ( that is , the two Germanies plus the four allies ) . |
| 3 | However , Iran came to regard the need for closer identification with the Third World as the counterpart to a progressive de-emphasising of ties with both superpowers . |
| 4 | The Constitution of Cadiz was always represented by conservatives as the handwork of a radical minority , divorced from any representative opinion in Spain . |
| 5 | We can describe this historical situation as the beginning of an era of mass movements , among which , in the latter part of the nineteenth century , the labour movement appeared as the paradigm of a social movement . |
| 6 | They find in Rousseau 's stress on the unity of society , and his dislike of factions or interest groups , a threat to the pluralism and tolerance of diversity which are regarded as the hallmarks of a liberal democracy . |
| 7 | This solution , which he regarded as amongst the most valuable and characteristic of all his works ( Hume 1981 p 165 ) and which had originally been suggested to him by his brother as the plan for a large house to be occupied by workmen ( Stephen , 1900 p 201 ) , he published in pamphlets entitled Panopticon or the Inspection House and Panopticon Postscripts Parts 1 and 11 . |
| 8 | is Above all , he was seen by the young Nietzsche as the proponent of a total philosophy , a vision of life that called for a personal , not merely an intellectual , commitment — a vision that stimulated , and even promised to satisfy , the yearning to be a personal whole attuned to the ultimate values , or non-values , of life . |
| 9 | As the holder of a coveted Swiss resident 's permit , the former premier 's son is taxed at just 12 per cent . |
| 10 | The whole film could , in fact , be seen as the nightmare of a middle-aged divorce whose children are being brought up by another man . |
| 11 | It begins as the story of a black British soldier , Jody ( the excellent , accent-perfect Whitaker ) and his IRA captors , in an isolated Irish farmhouse . |
| 12 | As the story of a white woman who rides into the Mexican mountains to be sacrificed , naked and unprotesting , to the god of the Indians in order to maintain for them ‘ The mastery that man must hold , and that passes from race to race ’ , this piece , particularly when contrasted with Sweeney Agonistes , makes clear the essential difference between Eliot 's interest in the savage and that of Lawrence . |
| 13 | Sotheby 's packaged its contemporary art sale as the sequel to a dull sale of Impressionist paintings and sculpture . |
| 14 | As the mum of a 12-year-old son , we are both learning as we go along how to use the Amstrad 5086 , my son concentrating more or less on games and school related programs , myself for the odd game , but mainly word-processing ( I have just written my first book ) , genealogy and cheating on addressing the Christmas cards . |
| 15 | To work hard to get a better class of degree was regarded as the mark of a gray man — ; the worst epithet in the Oxford vocabulary . |
| 16 | But yesterday 's arrangements could hardly be described as the preparation for a normal family ceremony . |
| 17 | It is distinct from the methods of the old New Criticism , which though believing that lyric poems were dramatic utterances , still read them as the utterance of a single voice . |
| 18 | But factors such as the frequency of a particular phonological class in the language ( in English , for example , the vowel in words such as house , out turns up relatively rarely ) have an effect on the size of the sample needed . |
| 19 | Sensitivity was defined as the frequency of a positive test in all subjects with H pylori infection , and specificity was the frequency of a negative test in those without the infection . |
| 20 | This chamber is brilliantly sculpted to appear as the inside of a vast chest cavity . |
| 21 | These meetings were largely an opportunity for Harold Wilson to use me as the wall of a fives court against which he banged the ball . |
| 22 | In much of this material there was little attempt to relate such antipathy and prejudice to a consistent and coherent theory of behaviour , but the assumption and arguments on which it was based can be seen as the origins of a racial nationalist ideology which was to be more rigorously formulated at a later date . |
| 23 | Harry would have felt inclined to dismiss it as the invention of a hysterical mind but for the fact that Mrs Diamond 's mind was clearly anything but hysterical . |
| 24 | The meeting , which signalled some of the most radical changes in the alliance 's history , endorsed the creation of a United Kingdom-led " rapid reaction " force as the core of a new defence structure based on mobile , multinational units [ see p. 38170-71 ] . |
| 25 | They made it clear that they saw it as the core of a European army . |
| 26 | When first envisaged , then , the lectures were not seen as the core of a forthcoming book , even though ( with their Wagnerian connection ) they bore on his current preoccupation — and even though he was currently casting around for a subject for a book . |
| 27 | The events that it scans during its journey are conceived as the experiences of a positive vector . |
| 28 | Salieri 's ‘ admission ’ may thus be discounted as the ravings of a demented old man . |
| 29 | Suddenly , the common achievements of unknown people in the past were seized as the artefacts of a national genius , part of a struggle to invent and impose a cultural consistency both on the past and on the present inhabitants , in contrast to the heterogeneity of benighted foreigners . |
| 30 | She accepted it as a convenience , like an improved system of telephones ; she did not dedicate herself to it as the expression of a moral idea of comradeship and equality , the avowal of which could leave nothing the same . |