Example sentences of "[noun] as [noun] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now for all those reasons madame speaker , this these orders er er today are inadequate , too little , too late , we ca n't vote against them , much as the the member who preceded me seemed inclined to vote against them and I wish that he had the g er the guts of 'is cu the courage of his convictions er he should vote against them , er we on this side are far more responsible er than that because to vote against them er might be an indication that we 're as much in frau in favour of fraud as members on the other side of the house , er we 're not in favour of fraud , we welcome any progress to detection of fraud , even progress that we asked for five eight years ago when the relevant legislation was passed . |
| 2 | Britain was given a big pre-Christmas boost as shares on the Stock Market jumped by almost £10 billion and industry reported order books filling up . |
| 3 | The problem of hanging such a stiff fabric as damask on the state beds was overcome by carving the hangings out of wood , and sticking the fabric curtains onto the carved folds . |
| 4 | Among those omitted , only Eric Ellwood , and even then just in two games , can be said to have had as much influence as Weir on the ultimate placings in the international championship . |
| 5 | Had the same influence as Strach on the team . |
| 6 | The latter 's daughter , Lady Joan , is certainly interested in ‘ the Condition of England Question ’ , and his guests include the principled , High-Church , and well-born clergyman , St Lys , who retorts to Lord Mamey that war on the cottage does not at first seem so startling a cry as war on the castle . |
| 7 | Early the next morning , Ray Doyle watched impatiently in the computer room as information on the rest of the bank job team , which Jack Stone had led , was printed out into George Cowley 's waiting hands . |
| 8 | Whereas the view of mid-century literature as preromantic was effectively demolished by Northrop Frye there is a danger now of regarding women writers as pilgrims on the way to modern feminism , or at least to some recognizable place in the history of women 's writing . |
| 9 | If , however , the coursework is such that it would be helpful for the marker to make his comments as annotations on the student 's work , then the annotated work should be returned electronically to the student . |
| 10 | Lewis will have a firsthand close-up of Holyfield-Bowe as co-commentator on the live Sky transmission and , on the way to Las Vegas , will call in on the World Boxing Council convention in Cancun , Mexico . |
| 11 | Taylor opposed the ECOMOG intervention , apparently regarding its arrival as intervention on the side of Doe just when the latter was on the brink of defeat , and threatened reprisals against nationals of the countries providing troops for ECOMOG . |
| 12 | Erm first of all er would you , if er if you became Euro candidate er the unequivocally support the objectors to this motorway and secondly , would it be an embarrassment to you having to take the same line as Gary on the matter . |
| 13 | But however low he is brought , the urgent forward and upward drive of the writing gives us such moments as stages on the way to eventual triumph . |
| 14 | Other communities of vici acting as corporate bodies are attested by inscriptions from Housesteads , Chesterholm and even as far north as Carriden on the Antonine Wall . |
| 15 | With the increased comfort and greater operational range more ambitious patrols could now be carried out and Venturous began to be seen as far north as Islay on the west coast and the Tyne on the east coast . |
| 16 | In later years he drifted away from his original Liberalism and his later Labour ties , and in 1910–11 served as a Conservative nominee as alderman on the London county council . |
| 17 | I was on watch as quartermaster on the forenoon watch on February 6 when the officer of the watch asked why HMS Glasgow and HMS Liverpool were flying the flag at half mast . |
| 18 | From where I stand I can see through the half-open doors of the ward , the long lines of white beds , the charts , the flowers on the central table , whose scent fails to mask the smell of antiseptics as flowers on the bench must have failed to hide the smell of humanity from the judge in less sterile days . |