Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [noun sg] as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Bitumen ( or Raging Bullshit as he 's known amongst his colleagues ) , is never one to sit on the fence ( vandalising it is more to his nature ) . |
| 2 | At every point in those historic struggles which founded the Protestant and radical traditions in Europe , and which severed radicalism from the body of the Catholic Church , the struggle was as much for personal gain or for political or economic dominance as it was for any pure-hearted vision of goodness . |
| 3 | CHECK the castle is moored securely to the ground and never use it in high winds or wet weather as they have been known to slip over and wet slippery surfaces can be dangerous . |
| 4 | Absorption or wet scrubbing as it is often called has however the disadvantage of having to dispose of the liquid effluent obtained , which may itself require treatment before disposal , and has led to the comment that we may be merely replacing one effluent problem by another by using this method . |
| 5 | but anyway , erm , it came as a bit of a shock to me when who was at that time the Horticultural Adviser or Horticultural Organiser as they used to call him , turned up at home at Debenham where we lived at the time and er said he 'd come to collect my typewriter we had no notice of this anyway was erm a jolly old soul and erm he went off with my typewriter and erm shorthand machine and the next day my father brought me into Ipswich and erm , well I saw and did a bit of typing and erm , that 's how it all started . |
| 6 | What is likely to happen of course is that er in the year two thousand and ten when we do need these fast reactors , we 'll be buying in French or Japanese technology as we 've done in many other areas which is all rather sad really . |
| 7 | His papers illustrate that many living creatures and their parts grow in magnitude only , suffering no actual change in form or overall configuration as they become larger . |
| 8 | This was the serious business of becoming rich — a fantasy which involved descriptions of the clinic he would open with the proceeds , the disciples he would train , and the short burst of bad temper or glum despair as he checked his coupon and found he had n't won . |
| 9 | Someone looking after a partner or relative with Alzheimer 's disease — or senile dementia as it is also known — has particular problems . |
| 10 | Angus– or Black Angus as he preferred to be called , eyed Cornelius with contempt . |
| 11 | The patient would have to have an almost normal trunk , without any associated reactions or increased spasticity as he was placed in the prone position on the plinth . |
| 12 | Just as I had done before , I stumped around Clonmacnoise , surveying each ruined building or ancient cross as I came to it . |
| 13 | This could apply to trade advertising , or business-to-business advertising as it is called now , particularly if this is highly technical . |
| 14 | Although Wordsworth had produced more poems than Coleridge for their joint volume , Lyrical Ballads , honour was satisfied by giving the long Ancient Mariner — or Ancyent Marinere as it was originally spelt — pride of place . |
| 15 | The old Lock-up , or Blind House as it was called , no doubt through its lack of windows , is also behind the Town Hall but was originally in the parish churchyard . |
| 16 | This conclusion is as pertinent to women caring for an elderly or disabled person as it is to their sisters caring for young , able-bodied children . |
| 17 | This result was never thereafter challenged : there were no protests or riots in the streets or general mayhem as there would have been , and God knows has been , in that other Celtic country across the water whose struggle for independence has never ceased . |
| 18 | It pretends that there 's single no-fault ground for divorce — that the marriage has irretrievably broken down — but in practice it encourages nearly three-quarters of divorcing couples to rely on fault based grounds — adultery , or unreasonable behaviour as it 's usually called — and then makes it difficult for anybody to defend allegations , irrespective of whether that was the real reason why the marriage broke down . |
| 19 | It is therefore not surprising that otaku are fascinated with new technology such as virtual reality or digital compression as it connects to pornography . |
| 20 | Under clause 8(2) ( c ) boards have power to provide to students of the college such assistance of a financial or other nature as they may consider appropriate . |
| 21 | And with it such social and political change as they shall not understand . |
| 22 | South Africa is in a state of social and political flux as it enters a new non-racial era — yet it is still the favoured venue to host the 1995 World Cup . |
| 23 | But in the UK there is also as much if not more local and regional co-ordination as there is at national level . |
| 24 | The exception is an instructive one , because the Irish priests lived at much the same social and economic level as their flock ; they held their communities together and sustained their faith in a way that only Dissenting ministers in Wales and remoter parts of England were able to do . |
| 25 | Thank you , Lord , that you control the work of public and private industry as it affects us day by day , in our homes , in our neighbourhoods , at work . |
| 26 | Terry Wakenshaw , a veteran of 600 jumps , sustained injuries to his head , chest and right arm as he was caught in the slipstream of the Cessna 206 . |
| 27 | It will not be a perfect signal everywhere — and by ‘ perfect ’ they mean as good and reliable listening as you get from long-wave or a cassette . |
| 28 | One possible course of action is simply to leave the OED and completed Supplement as they are , a record of the vocabulary of English up to the late twentieth century but no more , and to concentrate on the production and revision of other smaller dictionaries . |
| 29 | ‘ Just enjoying the taste of the rum , Corporal , ’ I replied , getting to my feet and swilling out the mess-tins and empty mug as I made my way through the drizzle to my now very muddy slit trench . |
| 30 | He might have looked comic if his proud , wrinkled face had not remained set in a devout and dignified expression as he went through what was clearly a considerable exertion to his failing strength . |