Example sentences of "[noun sg] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Terrorists often used an athletic stopwatch as a timing device . |
| 2 | And shipping lines are exploring the technique as a way of stripping paint and barnacles from hulls . |
| 3 | The other thing we 're looking at of course is your technique as a driver . |
| 4 | That voice is ever changing as we learn and develop our technique as a group . |
| 5 | Pearson 's technique as a biographer derived from his career on the stage . |
| 6 | MICHAEL FATH Technique As A Result Of Harmony THE THREE OCTAVE ARPEGGIO |
| 7 | MICHAEL FATH Technique As A Result Of Harmony THE SUSPENDED SECOND |
| 8 | Michael also has a record out on Music Maker Records , so catch Mr Fath in London and see what he means by ‘ technique as a result of harmony … ’ |
| 9 | MICHAEL FATH Technique As A Result Of Harmony THE DORIAN MODE |
| 10 | MICHAEL FATH Technique As A Result Of Harmony THE PENTATONIC MAJOR SCALE |
| 11 | MICHAEL FATH Technique as a Result of Harmony THE SEVENTH & MINOR SEVENTH |
| 12 | During the months preceding the accident , a set of underground workings , easiest thought of by the layman as a tunnel 18 feet wide and 7 feet high , had been following a seam of coal which was rising very steeply towards the surface . |
| 13 | It might appear strange to classify a retailer as a manufacturer but this will only happen where he is under a duty to inspect the goods and fails to do so . |
| 14 | Thus the duty of care prevents directors from acting wholly unreasonably ; the duty of loyalty ensures that their decisions are not biased ; and the duty to act bona fide in the interests of the company and not for any improper purpose is almost identical in its formulation as a standard of review to the administrative law test striking down decisions which are taken for an improper purpose . |
| 15 | Instead , the orbit as a whole twists a little further round each time , so that a true drawing of the planet 's course should really look more like one of the patterns produced by a children 's Spirograph toy . |
| 16 | The image of the housewife as a cabbage makes a number of appearances in answers to the question about writing housewife on a form ( it is mentioned by twelve of the forty women ) . |
| 17 | We can now turn right to the other end of the book , where there should be another paste-down and free endpaper , though in earlier books the latter will often be missing , having been appropriated by some seventeenth or eighteenth century housewife as a shopping list or for copying a cooking recipe . |
| 18 | Remembering that I am not defining housewife as a woman dancing attendance on a healthy but indolent male but as a person looking after babies and others who need looking after , what do feminists think the housewife should live on ? |
| 19 | In general this was the pattern for Polish industrialisation as a whole — a phenomenon that took place when there was the least chance of Poland ever regaining an independent existence . |
| 20 | The specimen pictured is displaying , either to an adjacent female in courtship , or to a competing male as a warning . |
| 21 | Making yourself aware of bias and adopting alternative usages should prevent the tacit presumption by your reader of the white male as a norm . |
| 22 | A boatload of men came ashore to demand a ransom of 2000 guineas [ £2100 ] , or the surrender of the local vicar as a hostage , for not attacking the town . |
| 23 | Enya as a composer drifts alone in uncharted ether . |
| 24 | And physically it was n't any worse than when I fell off my bike as a kid and was concussed for an hour or two . |
| 25 | ( He had always used a lady 's bike as a teenager because he thought the middle bar on a man 's one might do him a mischief if he cocked his leg over it carelessly . ) |
| 26 | He puts forward the radical solution that the range be given almost total protection as a wilderness area or area of land where the hand of man is less evident . |
| 27 | As he explains : ‘ The Deity does not need my supplication , but I , a very imperfect human being , do need his protection as a child that of its father . ’ |
| 28 | Like copyright , this right is automatic and does not depend on registration but , unlike registered designs , there is no requirement for the design to have eye-appeal , although if it does , it is not barred from protection as a design right . |
| 29 | On the basis of its fauna , the area in question might qualify for protection as a nature reserve , if not for designation as a site of special scientific interest . |
| 30 | If , on the other hand , it was the freedom to use protection as a weapon against unemployment with which he was primarily concerned , the decision was a disastrous failure . |