Example sentences of "[art] place as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had a there was a sort of electric burner in the place as a whole |
| 2 | The locals still used the place as a tip , and piles of old tyres and other junk lay about . |
| 3 | Both are chilling tales : blood and guts all over the place as a teenager pumps a shotgun at her school fellows in Monster , while in The Train a bunch of high school friends travelling from Chicago to San Francisco confess their guilty and vicious secrets before falling victim to savage revenge . |
| 4 | ‘ You should keep more pigs and run the place as a farm , ’ Simon said . |
| 5 | The mess was almost empty except for an Education Corps captain who was also using the place as an hotel , and three unmarried young officers who 'd been playing tennis and should n't have been in the ante-room dressed like that . |
| 6 | Such a request was made to Thomas Dundas by four of the councillors of Dunfermline who pressed him to use his interest with Lord Sandwich to get Midshipman Ebenezer Fish serving on board the Warwick a place as a lieutenant of marines , since the marine officers were not required to have the years of sea-service demanded of naval lieutenants . |
| 7 | The move is more or less an insurance policy that Apple will at least have a place as a client in the enterprise . |
| 8 | The move is more or less an insurance policy that Apple will at least have a place as a client in the enterprise . |
| 9 | His closeness to the king and his enthusiasm for the war would have ensured him a place as a leader of the younger generation of nobles , and his death was yet another misfortune for the king . |
| 10 | An excellent example of the role of a place as a focus of collective identity is provided by one of the major events in British industrial relations in recent decades — the National Union of Mineworkers ' strike of March 1984 to March 1985 . |
| 11 | Some such unfortunates ultimately abandoned the East Indiamen for a place in the pilot service in India , after they had acquired sufficient influence with important passengers to secure such an appointment , while others might take a place as an officer of one of the so-called country ships , which operated only in the East and did not return to Europe . |