Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [vb pp] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 3 ) A retiring partner may be discharged from any existing liabilities , by an agreement to that effect between himself and the members of the firm as newly constituted and the creditors , and this agreement may be either express or inferred as a fact from the course of dealing between the creditors and the firm as newly constituted . |
| 2 | Fast , quick-witted and determined as a player , demanding and insistent as a manager , there was little doubt that he would snatch his career back from the brink of failure . |
| 3 | Then it was back to Mick 's summer stamping ground at Henna Cliff , one which Mick dubiously claims is getting ‘ very popular ’ , and climbed Henna Fall ( grade III/IV and claimed as a three-star 95 foot classic ) . |
| 4 | The whole place seemed as empty and deserted as the Beast 's magic castle , though she was certainly no Beauty , Luce thought ruefully . |
| 5 | Similar experiments have been reported from the Ivory Coast by Roose ( 1986 ) who has compared runoff and erosion from several plots , one of which was deforested and maintained as a bare soil by ploughing , and others in which a variety of perennial , annual and tree crops were grown . |
| 6 | ‘ But more than this , his domination with every aspect of the club is such that the transition period after his departure could be as painful and prolonged as the one Leeds endured after Don Revie left in 1974 . ’ |
| 7 | Have police attitudes hardened or changed as a result of public pressure ? |
| 8 | If the child has become lost or frightened as a result of parental neglect , then the adult in question may expect to be admonished by the fairy , who dislikes irresponsibility and carelessness . |
| 9 | While this gives great diversity to his work , something that Wordsworth would not be able to achieve , it means that it is quite conceivably contradictory when viewed as a whole . |
| 10 | Is not the social charter regarded on the continent by both right and left as an essential complement to a single trading area ? |
| 11 | These features can all too easily cause the annual review to be perceived as pointless drudgery , cause it to be prepared in as perfunctory a manner as possible and used as a device to obscure rather than reveal problems . |
| 12 | This short Act amounts to the United Kingdom 's formal approval of the agreement concluded by the heads of government of the Community countries in 1986 and known as the Single European Act , which makes important changes to the Treaty of Rome . |
| 13 | A few insects have tracheae that swell into thin-walled balloons which are depressed and expanded as the abdomen pumps up and down . |
| 14 | Commerce can be seen to be more closely regulated from the late seventh and eighth centuries onwards in the form of manufacturing and trading centres ( Hodges 1982a ) , although these certainly do not necessarily imply free trade ; in fact , quite the opposite , for the evidence from Saxon Southampton , Hamwic , indicates that the craftsman there were as tied and organised as the rural ‘ peasantry ’ . |
| 15 | Is he addressing his comments to all those who have become marginalised and dispossessed as a result of right-wing Conservative policies over the years ? |
| 16 | Doc Allsop 's professional grin , broad and crumpled as a crushed melon , was much the same whether he were offering congratulations or consolations . |
| 17 | 9.17 Frustration of reinstatement Landlords sometimes include a proviso that the landlord should have the right to terminate the lease in the event of reinstatement being frustrated or delayed as a result of circumstances beyond the landlord 's control . |
| 18 | A spinster in her seventies and employed as a housekeeper at the time , she died in Bishopsgate Street on 17 April 1898 . |
| 19 | Dressing to go to town , Nick could hear their voices through the open window and Marjorie 's occasional laughter , soft and contented as a cat 's purr . |
| 20 | He was born in Fife in 1870 and apprenticed as a carpenter but spent most of his life in England after leaving Scotland in 1893 . |
| 21 | He first started in the 1940s while stationed as an army draftsman in London , and from 1966 to 1988 made annual return visits , establishing relationships with Agnew 's , Jeremy Drummond , J.S. Maas and others . |
| 22 | In 1921 , Parker created a pen that broke all the rules , officially called the Duofold but known as the ‘ Big Red ’ . |
| 23 | • Raw fruit is better than cooked as a rule . |
| 24 | Nottingham failed to solve the problem until too late and created as a consequence some of the worst slums in any town in England . |
| 25 | In winter months P17 is very effective when used as a wrap around delicate shrubs or containerised plants which have to be over-wintered outside . |
| 26 | The policies of international aid , which defy rational justification on either economic or strategic grounds , are at once intelligible when viewed as a collective purgation of the fear of envy , to which the ‘ affluent society ’ — itself an envy-guilt coinage — is especially prone and which is more vivid to the donors than the imagined envy is to the recipients . |
| 27 | For celibacy is only really intelligible when understood as a demand of love . |
| 28 | What you can not turn to with such pride is BR 's printed timetable , which changed format several times during the eighties and ended as a poor thing , well below continental standards . |
| 29 | Only an old man with his white hair cropped short and worn as a Jew 's cap had spoken to Holly with the wry grin of experience at his mouth . |
| 30 | Although deformed and treated as a spectacle , he was adopted by ‘ high society ’ at the height of his ‘ fame ’ and later abandoned by them . |