Example sentences of "[noun sg] as a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Terrorists often used an athletic stopwatch as a timing device . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | Enya as a composer drifts alone in uncharted ether . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Now of course during the nineteen eighties the protection of agricultural land for its own sake er lost weight as an issue and the relevant structure plan policies er lost effective weight and were seen to do so but Government policy was quite explicit in the nineteen eighty seven circular , I think it was num number sixteen , was that although agricultural land protection as a farming resource was diminished as an issue , the protection of the countryside for its own sake was not . |
| 9 | As such , tax diversion was not entitled to protection as a manifestation nf a philosophical belief in practice in the way that other acts , more intimately linked to the belief ( for example , acts of worship ) would be . |
| 10 | Mr McFadyen said : ‘ We 've already been pledged financial support by several organisations if we can get part of the old school building as a community centre . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Carrie gave Mike a watch as a Christmas present . |
| 12 | MY HUSBAND bought me a watch as a birthday present , but it kept losing time and I returned it after the holidays . |
| 13 | Fred Robertson 's record was outstanding ; he had taken part in 189 interception sorties , and been credited with ten confirmed , three probables and seven damaged while on the island ; his assessment as a fighter pilot endorsed in his logbook by Sqn.Ldr . |
| 14 | We now look at the er price unity as a T ratio minus ten , right , so it 's highly significant , right and the er figure in square brackets , the probability value next to the T ratio tells you that we get least ninety nine point nine percent confidence coefficiency price elasticity demand significantly different from zero right , now is everybody happy interpreting the coefficient right and the T ratio ? |
| 15 | The monitor allows you to see the contents of the memory in a form that you can understand i.e. it is translated back into text as a screen image . |
| 16 | The Markov methods represent the bottom-up approach , and they model English text as a Markov process which allows transition probabilities to be assigned to various letter combinations or n-grams . |
| 17 | Hedley Verity went to school locally , and came to the fore as a schoolboy cricketer . |
| 18 | I reach that conclusion , I hope , having properly considered the pros and cons of the situation ; the fact that he has this particular advantage as a police officer in marshalling evidence ; considering the issues . |
| 19 | I reach that conclusion , I hope , having properly considered the pros and cons of the situation : the fact that he has this particular advantage as a police officer in marshalling evidence ; considering the issues . |
| 20 | Mr Green declined to answer questions on political and privatisation issues , but it is known that he hopes to keep the InterCity brand as a marketing concept to compete with coach companies and airlines , although the Government wants to break up InterCity into separate operators . |
| 21 | In the 1960s she and husband Harry bought a Whitby cottage as a weekend retreat . |
| 22 | In the meantime an airship had caught fire in the USA , ending the use there of the lethal explosive hydrogen as a lifting gas ; it was replaced by the safer helium . |
| 23 | Certain types of bacteria , by genetic mutation , can build up resistance to disinfectants that act in the latter way to the extent that they can become totally immune to normal concentrations even utilising the disinfectant as a food source . |
| 24 | The company is foreswearing Sun Express as a distribution point for the Classics and will go through its usual channels instead . |
| 25 | Speaking without notes , Mr Denton gave us a clear picture of the way the railways were first developed as a freight service , and indeed their rapid rise as a people carrier was an unexpected consequence . |
| 26 | Wrong examples confuse pupils who already have difficulties with words , so never give an incorrect example on the board as a teaching point . |
| 27 | Transfer from special school to integrated provision as a pupil gains mastery of specialised skills or transfer from integrated provision to special provision for specific reasons should be neither surprising nor impossible . |
| 28 | He told her she was a fool , and wished her luck — then he gave her a gold sovereign and a bottle of champagne as a farewell present . |
| 29 | Against Poland at Lansdowne Road , the underfoot moon-rock masquerading as a soccer pitch put paid to anything going into the Polish net other than by fortuitous ricochet , or some such happy accident . |
| 30 | It was too much , too soon because his development as a person could n't keep pace with his progress as a tennis player . |