Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun prp] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | As recently as 1922 Dr Joan Evans noted that ‘ Amber necklaces may still be sold in the chemists ’ shops of Mayfair as a cure for croup , asthma and whooping cough . ’ |
| 2 | THE COPIOUS volumes of records acquired each year by the Scottish Record Office are to be housed in a new repository on the outskirts of Edinburgh as the famous domed building on Princes Street is full . |
| 3 | These factors , taken together with the attractions of Edinburgh as a city and the University as a large , intellectually lively and well-supported institution , make the Faculty of Social Sciences an exciting and satisfying place in which to conduct research . |
| 4 | HDUR representatives also declared that the Hungarian population were loyal supporters of Romania as a sovereign and unitary state . |
| 5 | I have already mentioned that the sacred literature of the Near Eastern traditions contains many images of God as a person — judge , king , father , guide , keeper , shepherd and so on . |
| 6 | A lyric like Grimestone 's little fragment draws on a verse from Lamentations ( 1:12 ) which in the office for Easter was quoted as words of Christ as a reproach to sinful man . |
| 7 | Pictures of Lizzy as a child were everywhere . |
| 8 | The press carried idealized pictures of Elena as a goddess of fecundity and plenty . |
| 9 | John Robinson was telling us all in his 1963 book Honest to God that we should get rid of pictures of God as an old man with a beard living in the sky . |
| 10 | He first became a builder in 1953 , in Communist Czechoslovakia , after being released from three years ' working in the uranium mines of Jachymov as part of a five year prison sentence for political offences . |
| 11 | Mr Maude : I am not sure that I regard the nation states of Europe as the lower orders . |
| 12 | Another historian , the very mysterious Malchus or Cleodemus , whose Jewish origin is only probable , presented the sons of Abraham as companions of Hercules who married the daughter of one of them ( Jos . |
| 13 | There was a ha-ha , and there had once been a maze : garden features which one might take to represent the outside and inside views of B.P. as an institution ! |
| 14 | One does not have to agree with Shumiatski 's aim of revolutionizing the masses to accept these remarks as a nice corrective to those views of Chaplin as a proletarian and whatever the political reasoning they do offer insights into the psychology and social psychology of the ‘ little man 's ’ persona . |
| 15 | 127 , Sir Charles Hall V.-C. referred to the jurisdiction over the Inns of the judges of the superior courts of England as a peculiar jurisdiction which has always been recognised . |
| 16 | The Athenaeum saw the Birds of Europe as Gould 's first serious ornithological work , while the Analyst revelled in discovering a work fit to rival the foreign competition . |
| 17 | And in September 1988 , Donleavy seemed to confirm this by placing him on the ‘ inactive ’ list and arranging for him to rejoin the Boy Scouts of America as Director of Marketing and Public Relations for the Chicago Area Council . |
| 18 | These areas as you might recognize , are the presbytery areas of Scotland as these areas seem to be most closely allied to natural and civic boundaries . |
| 19 | companies of Ottery as a community place , about five or six years ago , were n't it ? |
| 20 | Chichester , with a population approaching 2,000 , also had its substantial merchants , yet its wealth was matched by that of the prosperous farming community of the coastal strip and the South Downs , despite £5,850 coming yearly into the city from all corners of Sussex as the income of the cathedral dignitaries ; almost certainly the moveable wealth of the clerical establishment was proportionately every bit as high as in Exeter , where it equalled one-sixth of aggregate lay wealth . |
| 21 | This hairstyle is modelled on that of actors and musicians , and is derived from that on statues of Apollo as the lyre-player . |
| 22 | At the tract 's beginning , Eudoxus inquires how it is with the advantages of Ireland as a place for agriculture — a key aspect for establishing civility — that it remains savage . |
| 23 | Outside there were tales of Westerners hiding in cupboards and vivid descriptions of Kuwait as a city under siege . |
| 24 | In 1932 Myles Horton was instrumental in forming the Highlander Folk School in the mountains of Tennessee as ‘ a school for problems ’ for the Appalachian mountain people . |
| 25 | In drawing up its outline plan , the WJEC was not content solely with commenting separately on the proposals made by its constituent local authorities but attempted to look at the needs of Wales as a whole , a procedure that was not always followed by the English RACs in respect of their regions . |
| 26 | If I had to describe the contents of Zettel as the answer to one question I think the question would have to be : What is the relevance , for our understanding of ‘ psychological ’ concepts such as understanding , thinking , expecting , intending , imagining , seeing , dreaming , knowing , believing , doubting , pretending , remembering , and feeling , of that account of meaning which distinguishes the later from the earlier writings of Wittgenstein ? |
| 27 | The curator of the Jeffery Museum scorned Mentmore as no more than ‘ a heterogeneous accumulation of prestigious loot ’ , while Lord Vaizey scathingly described the contents of Calke as ‘ skiploads of junk ’ . |
| 28 | She came to England to stay with a sister , went to acting school in London and through a teacher who knew how to persuade Emlyn Williams , was all but smuggled into The Last Days of Dolwyn as the sixth girl extra ‘ when only five had been budgeted for . |
| 29 | It was reported that about 20,000 refugees fled to Uganda and Zaïre in the last two weeks of January as a result of the fighting . |
| 30 | Some 10,000 Serbs fled across the river Drina in the last two weeks of December as Bosnian Moslem forces advanced towards Bratunac on the eastern border . |