Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | One can rarely dip into a Pollini recording as a series of edited highlights ( except perhaps as a demonstration of superlative digital execution ) , as he rarely ever plays ‘ for the moment ’ ; one is irresistibly drawn towards hearing the whole work , as only then does the integrity of his vision register with its fullest potency . |
| 32 | This alternative version is referred to below as a lifetime consumption base . |
| 33 | Absence of status consciousness is worth commenting on further as an effect of national culture on scores . |
| 34 | In fact it 's , it 's more often referred to correctly as a conference . |
| 35 | The first second source to be announced for the Digital Equipment Corp Alpha RISC looks like being a real surprise : Mitsubishi Electric Corp , not noted up to now as a fabricator of microprocessors , is negotiating a tie-up with DEC that could lead to Mitsubishi making and selling the Alpha , Reuter reports from Tokyo . |
| 36 | The first second source to be announced for the Digital Equipment Corp Alpha RISC looks like being a real surprise : Mitsubishi Electric Corp , not noted up to now as a fabricator of microprocessors , is negotiating a tie-up with DEC that could lead to Mitsubishi making and selling the Alpha , Reuter reports from Tokyo . |
| 37 | The upper third of the vagina is pierced by the neck of the womb , the cervix uteri , usually referred to simply as the cervix . |
| 38 | What I have been referring to vaguely as the knowledge system , Fodor calls the central systems . |
| 39 | The Veterinary Medical Association so formed , familiarly known since then as the VMA , received permission to hold a meeting in the College theatre on 22 November 1836 . |
| 40 | The report has been referred to twice as the County Council report . |
| 41 | What I referred to previously as the comprador mentality , the slavish attachment to things foreign , is not a necessary component of the ideology of the TCC , but it does occur ( see Chan , 1987 , ch.18 ) . |
| 42 | The sanctuary attendants arrested Apollonius at once as a magician and a robber , suspecting that he had tamed the dogs with the intention of stealing the sanctuary treasure . |
| 43 | It was a picture of Louise Butler and Terry recognised her at once as the girl who had run out in front of his car on the night of the rave . |
| 44 | The Missa Papae Marcelli of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina ( C. 1525–1594 ) , then master of the chapel at St. Maria Maggiore at Rome , may well date from this time and have been accepted at once as an embodiment of the Tridentine ideal but there is no evidence that it was the unique exemplar of the legend . |
| 45 | The days of casual sex from encounters in bars and discos went out with the arrival of AIDS , at least as a way of life . |
| 46 | A reserve of justice remained with the King , and so those who could not get relief in the King 's ordinary courts might , with some hope of success , petition the King and his Council for redress , if not as a matter of right at least as a favour . |
| 47 | And given also the Government 's apparent determination to retain and strengthen A levels as a block of 18 + examinations , it is probably most useful to explore ways in which graded tests might be combined with both GCSE and A level , at least as a beginning . |
| 48 | If our peace-loving citizens really care about the future of our world organisation , they must help to create the momentum for reform by mandating our politicians to adopt , at least as a beginning , the urgently-needed measures recommended by the Secretary General . |
| 49 | The picture that emerges , at least as a possibility , is of something close to the idea of a constitutional monarch , a king whose power was substantially restricted by the overwhelming spiritual , political and economic power of the priesthood . |
| 50 | The peers argue that if Britain fails to treat it at least as a basis for negotiation ‘ the other 11 member states may well go ahead and sign the charter without any UK participation ’ . |
| 51 | The entire painting was thus conceived if not exactly as a kind of memento mori , at least as a statement about sexual compulsion and gratification and concomitant feelings of disgust , danger and fear of disease . |
| 52 | yes , well , er I follow that , but I 'm sorry I put it rather badly Mr forgive me , part of your defence against the claim by er relates to erm these agreements , you must say that these agreements erm because they are of the standard form are anti competitive and therefore they or part of them are void , erm building on that presumably your defence says or employs er that because erm , you know there void , I du n no perhaps you can tell me this erm , all , all the er all parts of the void , all the power of the agent , the agreements with regard to premium trust funds and the like , er are also unenforceable as between er the erm name and his er members agent , erm and in consequence of that you say , as I understand it , er that that is , all that cause be lost which you can neither set up as a defence to claim under the central bi-law or at least as a set up or counterclaim , I just wanted to explore this aspect of it , erm , as to the consequences of your plea , does it mean that clause nine is put on one side wholly or to an extent in the latter case to what extent ? |
| 53 | The extraordinary achievements and transformation of 19th-century Japan , at least as a model for other parts of Asia , had to some extent been tarnished by her conflict with China and her consequent appearance in the ranks of the imperial powers . |
| 54 | The law therefore allows the offence to be treated just as seriously as rape , and we have seen how some would argue that it should be included as a form of rape , or at least as a form of the most serious offence of sexual assault , in any reformed law . |
| 55 | Given these premises , then , and Moffat 's distaste notwithstanding that it would imply ‘ democracies reduced resort monarchy as weapon against Communism ’ , one wonders what else , apart from outright rejection , the US might have done when the French turned towards ex-Emperor Bao Dai : at least as a rallying point for non-communist Vietnamese nationalists and , of course , as someone who might be expected to be more amenable to French influence than Ho Chi Minh . |
| 56 | In one case " attainment of a norm " will mean style borrowing : the approximation to some external norm as a " disguise " or at least as a point of reference . |
| 57 | It is possible that he now established Anna 's brother , Aethelhere ( see Appendix , Fig. 5 ) in his place , to judge from Aethelhere 's presence in Penda 's army at the Winwaed , if not as a dependent ruler at least as an ally ( HE 111 , 24 ) . |
| 58 | Some historians have seen St Pirmin 's monastic foundations ( the most famous at Reichenau ) , by which Pirmin made an important contribution to the Christianization of the south-west German world in the first half of the eighth century , as an attack upon Boniface 's episcopal authority among the Germans , or at least as the creation of a counter-sphere of influence . |
| 59 | Four thousand goose-grazing hours an acre are not to be bandied about lightly as a conversation stopper . |
| 60 | It is a quiet and comfortable village to stop in , as I know from having stopped there , with good walks up into the hills and good fishing — for trout , which begin to come into their own around here as the mountain fish . |