Example sentences of "as [noun prp] [noun] [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's quite clear , as Little Richard hitches his pants and ecstatically rolls his eyes in ‘ Do n't Knock The Rock ’ , that rock 'n' roll represented an explosion of black consciousness into mainstream white American culture . |
| 2 | As Ania Loomba puts it , in relation to colonialist studies , ‘ the neglect of histories surrounding native insubordination either devalues or romanticises the latter , or worse , tends to read colonised subjects through linguistic or psychoanalytic theories which , for some of us at least , remain suspiciously and problematically shot through with ethnocentric assumptions whose transfer to all subalterns is unacceptable ’ ( ‘ Overworlding ’ , cited from manuscript ) . |
| 3 | As Michel Foucault reminds us , though : |
| 4 | The role of the station was , as ever , crucial in this process , as Roger Price reminds us : |
| 5 | The third perspective is Kao yuan , in which the viewer is looking up towards a mountain scene , as William Willetts puts it , ‘ through successively receding heights represented by flat parallel planes , each with its own horizon ’ . |
| 6 | As Ian Michael puts it in his admirable history of English grammar , This function of pronouns , as John Wilkins saw in 1668 , is to ‘ represent things … |
| 7 | The Mobile Moustache — as Ian Chappell calls him — was the bowler who won the match for Australia . |
| 8 | As Dotun Adebayo puts it : ‘ The fact is that , offscreen , Arsenio Hall is not so black . |
| 9 | If they are ‘ mediators between clients and the wider state apparatus ’ , as Neil Thompson puts it , then it is vital their prejudices are challenged . |
| 10 | Science education was envisaged , as David Layton tells us , by some early nineteenth century radicals like Richard Carlile as undermining dogma and leading to social emancipation . |
| 11 | As David Griffiths tells us , when , in the 1940s and 1950s it was necessary to make appointments to advise on Youth Drama in order to meet the requirements of the new Government project , these people were the experts , already familiar with training schemes , whose advice was sought . |
| 12 | As Richard Neustadt puts it , ‘ When one man shares authority with another , but does not gain or lose his job on the other 's whim , his willingness to act upon the urging of the other turns on whether he conceives the action right for him . ’ |
| 13 | To the right of our view , the lawn sloped up a gentle embankment to where the summerhouse stood , and it was there my father ’ s figure could by seen , pacing slowly with an air of preoccupation — indeed , as Miss Kenton puts it so well , ‘ as though he hoped to find some precious jewel he had dropped there ’ . |
| 14 | DOA ( 15 Buena Vista 12 Oct ) is another remake , this time of a 1949 film noir , starting well as Dennis Quaid discovers he has been poisoned and will die within 24 hours : the initials stand for Dead On Arrival . |
| 15 | As Edward Pechter puts it , ‘ History does not tell us what the text is , because we decide what history is , and then put history into the text , rather than the other way round . ’ |
| 16 | Like many other aspects of twentieth-century thought and culture , both modernism and postmodernism negotiate with the problem that ‘ we can know the real ’ , as Linda Hutcheon puts it , ‘ only through signs ’ , and , based on arbitrary relations between signifier and signified , language and sign may sheer away from the reality they seek to represent ( Hutcheon 1988 : 230 ) . |
| 17 | It 's no wonder that , as Steven Meisel puts it , many people in the industry are ‘ resentful of the money they earn ’ . |
| 18 | But not so , as Volare Volare hangs its flimsy raison d'être around a Roger Rabbit -style conceit of cartoons spilling into the real world and interacting with human beings . |
| 19 | So , go to a considerable amount of trouble to , first , find the point where your story has to begin , where the first absolutely necessary fact has to be put before the reader , then work equally hard to find a form of words to state it that will catch your reader as firmly as Ruth Rendell catches hers . |
| 20 | As Ruth Hartley sums it up : |
| 21 | Some writers have stressed the importance in the struggle to create an independent national State of the use — or the attempt to establish the use — of one language in a given territory , ‘ unified fields of exchange , as Benedict Anderson puts it . |
| 22 | But in its decline , as Ivy Compton-Burnett depicts it , the ancestral house becomes a mere rapacity for lost estate . |
| 23 | As Simon Frith puts it ( 1978 : 195 ) , ‘ Adorno 's is the most systematic and the most searing analysis of mass culture and the most challenging for anyone claiming even a scrap of value for the products that come churning out of the music industry ’ . |
| 24 | The course avoids being two separate disciplines running alongside each other through making energy and matter the core themes of the course : energy and matter are then examined from physical and chemical aspects ; as Dr H puts it , energy and matter are ‘ pegs to hang the course on ’ . |
| 25 | As Jane Gallop puts it : |
| 26 | As Mr. McCue puts it , he has a right when he is in prison to know why he is there . |
| 27 | Or , as Samuel Burler has it , the proper statement of relations between successive generations is to say that a hen is merely an egg 's way of making another egg ’ |
| 28 | This view eventually fell away because , as Tom Smail puts it , the theologians ‘ could not cash it out ’ as a fully-blown doctrine of atonement . |
| 29 | In the end , however , and in spite of Acheson 's approval the policy Planning Staff paper ( PPS 51 ) remained , as Robert Blum puts it , a non-policy paper : for information rather than for action . |
| 30 | As Martin Howe puts it : ‘ The existence of an ultimate right of secession is the ultimate touchstone of the continued existence of the sovereignty of the nation state . ’ |