Example sentences of "[noun sg] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can use the Alexander Technique as a preventative measure : after all , prevention is better than cure . |
| 2 | The book is written specifically for engineers and engineering undergraduates to present this computational technique as a practical tool in engineering , keeping the mathematical content to a minimum . |
| 3 | When Fokine developed his mimed dance and danced mime , the old dualism of dance and mime was largely eliminated , although twentieth-century choreographers still use the strictly academic technique as the firm basis of their design . |
| 4 | But ‘ Miserere nostri ’ is medieval in technique as the lovely ‘ Ave rosa sine spinis ’ is in feeling , and at his finest — as in the glorious antiphon ‘ Gaude gloriosa Dei mater ’ — we hear him as the heir of the Eton composers , not of Josquin . |
| 5 | Such opposition is backed by appeals to protect the small retailer as a unique feature of Japanese culture against an alien Western transplant . |
| 6 | " He used to travel in prahus as a young man , then a guru told him that one day he would die by water . |
| 7 | East Germany , where the lingering Protestant work ethic marched shoulder to shoulder with Leninist concepts of electrification as the vitalizing force that would change society , has the world 's highest per capita emissions of sulphur dioxide and carbon dioxide . |
| 8 | A man of action all his life , David went into the Army in the RAMC as a young man and later trained as a State Registered Nurse in a civilian hospital . |
| 9 | This defence of housework is all the more necessary because housework passes unmentioned in the predominant stereotype of the housewife as a leisured homemaker . |
| 10 | But one can not overlook the point that all other known medieval European versions of this tale , written in or translated from Latin prose , present it as a moral example ; it can be allegorized , with the housewife as the Christian soul , the absent husband Christ , the lover worldly vanity , the procuress the Devil . |
| 11 | ‘ While you provide the contrast as a proper femme fatale . ’ |
| 12 | Even if the typical criminal sanction holds out little hope as a general deterrent , does it act as a specific deterrent ? |
| 13 | The trouble for the Tory whips , and for such organisers of backbench opinion as the Chairman of the 1922 Committee , Cranley Onslow , was that far too many Conservative contenders appeared : Peter Brooke , the former Ulster Secretary ; Terence Higgins , a minister as long ago as Ted Heath 's government , and chairman of the Treasury Select Committee ; Sir Giles Shaw , another officer of the '22 ; Paul Channon , another former cabinet minister ; Dame Janet Fookes , some Tories ' hope as the first woman Speaker . |
| 14 | With the increase in public transport costs , road tax and insurance , more and more people are changing to the humble bike as an alternative form of transport . |
| 15 | A study in COLOMBIA found that an integrated service with proper medical back-up cost four times as much per person-year of protection as a straight female sterilisation drive and led to a wide-ranging cost-cutting exercise . |
| 16 | In international law generally the duty to exhaust domestic remedies is to protect the interests of States but , in the context of the protection of human rights , also because the institutions in Strasbourg regard the development of effective domestic mechanisms for their protection as a necessary concomitant of the international procedures : individuals are required to make use of what the national systems provide before invoking the international jurisdiction . |
| 17 | ‘ … is would be helpful if the Listing Division of the Department of the Environment could revise their own guidelines in order that certain pubs could receive more protection as an integral whole . |
| 18 | Corbett vaguely recalled the building as a pleasant two-storeyed affair : the fire must have caught the sun-dried timbers and turned it into this blackened mess . |
| 19 | We owe another debt to the local English citizens who have restored and revitalized this building as a tangible memorial to those men . |
| 20 | The idea is to re-create the building as a 12-bed extension for the neighbouring and packed Stockton mission for the single homeless without losing its historical railway look . |
| 21 | I see the move into the people stage in building as a particular manifestation of the post — industrial culture , into which Western European societies will increasingly move . |
| 22 | Reflecting the great care taken by the architects to conserve and enhance the qualities of this former industrial building as a significant element in the metropolitan riverside scene , the project has received several awards , including a Doe Housing Design Award and a Civic Trust Award , both of which were presented in 1985 . |
| 23 | The owner of ‘ The Hollybush ’ at Elstree proposed to infill an original coach arch in the pub 's facade and to demolish the timber framed side walls of the passageway behind in order to form a larger and open interior , even though it was this feature that distinguished the building as an historic inn . |
| 24 | Blundell foresees equivalent advantages in transgenic plants for foods , fibres , energy products , pharmaceuticals , organic chemicals and construction materials — in short a return to agriculture as a major source of raw materials . |
| 25 | The NFU survey shows the devastating loss of a total of £6 million to our agriculture as a direct result of the MacSharry proposals . |
| 26 | The mixture of agrarianist views put forward in subsequent years have tended to be lumped together under the heading of nó0honshugi , the concept of agriculture as the socio-economic base of society . |
| 27 | The design of an aircraft structure falls into this category as the preferred solution for a component design would be that it has zero mass and infinite strength . |
| 28 | This is essentially a distinction between assessment as an integral part of the curriculum and assessment which is designed primarily to be a form of communication serving the needs of the outside world . |
| 29 | This view of assessment concentrates not so much on end of unit tests nor results in an external exam ( such as in former S.C.E. ‘ O ’ Grades ) , but on assessment as an on-going and integral part of the learning and teaching process . |
| 30 | I think that for once we need feel no qualms in taking Diodorus as a faithful epitomizer of what must have been a compact and careful section of Posidonius on the slave war in Sicily . |