Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun sg] as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The more esoteric or higher understanding of the reality of one universal , wholistic creative principle ( monism ) is embraced only by those who are able to transcend the confines of theistic involvement as it is in any country or civilization . ’ |
| 2 | Miller jerked himself into some sort of alert state as they approached , smiling glassily . |
| 3 | Proponents of this view tend to see the idea of parental possession as one that is still protected and upheld by the law and by social agencies ; and they believe this state of affairs to be damaging to children , given that parents ' and children 's interests sometimes conflict . |
| 4 | After working in his father 's wire rope works at Halifax , Holroyd Smith struck off on his own , no doubt evoking a sigh of parental relief as he could not stop inventing and improving everything around him , from furnaces to ladies ' corsets . |
| 5 | Ace 's eyes were full of mocking laughter as they took in the discomfited expression on the journalist 's face . |
| 6 | From then on the mood is as fine a crescendo of obsessive behaviour as you 're likely to get this side of hell . |
| 7 | Injured Wednesday player-manager Trevor Francis has ruled himself out of the second round second leg leaving his side woefully short of striking cover as they attempt to recover a 3-1 first leg deficit . |
| 8 | But the practical components of the curriculum , whether in the medieval university or in courses of professional education as they developed after the Second World War , have been subsidiary elements in a much wider programme of studies ; and they have an internal connection with the general programme of theoretical studies . |
| 9 | On the particular issue of regional migration as it affects Greater York , I would suspect and we can probably put some information in to confirm this that the linkages between Greater York area and other county areas within er Yorkshire and Humberside , vary . |
| 10 | His robot companions were now to operate well away from him across a fairly large room and at key moments in the drama when there was an anticipatory silence from everyone else , he found he had the personal ‘ power ’ , and with some verbal style ( and a high degree of repressed excitement as he discovered he could be publicly effective ) he presented himself as an efficient robot controller . |
| 11 | Thus Regan , in memoirs not noted for their kindness to the president , says , ‘ [ Reagan 's ] grasp of economic theory as it had been taught in his time ( Eureka College , class of 1932 ) was excellent , and he kept abreast of later theory . |
| 12 | Covering her with his own body , he abolished all remnants of coherent thought as he parted her lips with his own , possessing her mouth with a mixture of passion and tenderness . |
| 13 | His look turned to one of complete amazement as he saw her standing there , a hesitant little smile trembling on her lips . |
| 14 | Because the Australian aborigines still exist at the hunter-gatherer level of culture they have no need for a weaning trauma in early childhood as is found among all primitive agriculturalists , and consequently children , although experiencing a period of oral dependency as they do in the West , linger in that stage , do not have to give it up and , in a sense , remain unweaned until adulthood — or , certainly until initiation , which is essentially the same thing . |
| 15 | The GDR 's borders are now open , and the Government in Bonn poised to jump in with massive economic support for the process of political reform as it develops . |
| 16 | A must for all who know B.C. or may have visited the area and to anyone interested in the many facets of rural life as it was in years gone by ( ISBN 0951596403 , price £5.95 ) . |
| 17 | Train journeys to cold suburbs and the first recorded attempt at love-making — ending in fear of eternal damnation as he dozed off in front of the fire afterwards and his socks began to smoulder . |
| 18 | Can I just say , first of all , that I am the odd-speaker out in this gathering because virtually everyone else who has addressed you has done so from the point of view of their own particular expertise and occupation and those of you who know health councils will appreciate that they tend to take a pretty robust view of private care as it impinges on anything to do with health . |
| 19 | The general consensus among modern anthropologists is that we too should get away from the notion of private property as we know it , when we analyse the economic system of pre-literate peoples , but instead talk of a multiplicity of rights of different types . |
| 20 | Marx sees such an argument as a subtle legitimation of private property as it existed in his time , because it made it basic to human nature . |
| 21 | Only after the war was it revealed that reports concerning the role of the task force had been an element of allied disinformation as it had already been decided not to conduct an amphibious assault . |
| 22 | Though , to start with , her initial feeling was one of total shock as she pulled back her door and saw Naylor Massingham standing there . |
| 23 | Members of the national Parliament charged with acting as ‘ watchdogs ’ on behalf of the citizens become engaged in acts of total deception as they pass the problems of their constituents up the line to ministers who are no longer in charge . |
| 24 | Pravda , the leading anti-Yeltsin newspaper in Moscow , has printed excerpts of what it claims is a memo from Mr Primakov , dated March 21st 1992 , in which the spook outlined the properties of red mercury , or mercuric salt of antimonous acid as it is also known , in detail . |
| 25 | All I will say is that in attempting to develop theories about the alleviation of neurological dysfunction as she has , Dr Hari has been one of very few medical scientists to address an important ‘ black hole ’ in the research agenda . |
| 26 | A requirement to minimise , even to trivialise the aesthetic — one might almost say , a fear of the aesthetic — is the hollowness at the heart of historical materialism as it is defended here . |
| 27 | counsel accepting an unseen brief at short notice is guilty of improper conduct as it was improbable that he had time to grasp properly the issues involved . |
| 28 | But this was only one of a variety of vessels , some of them much larger , it seems , used by the Vikings , and it is the accident that they still used them for burials which has enabled a small number to survive — the conversion to Christianity may be said to have deprived us for ever of the best evidence we might have had of medieval navigation as it developed in the eleventh and twelfth centuries . |
| 29 | The Hooded Cobra depicted in a coiled or undulating position is symbolic of the spiralling , vortex-like pattern of movement of Universal Energy as it permeates matter and proceeds to nourish and vivify it . |
| 30 | She smoothed her hair and straightened the shoulder-straps of her black camisole , then with an effort composed her face into an expression of detached amusement as she went back into the other room . |