Example sentences of "as a [noun] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cutting back and forward furiously , Royston tries to include the complex relationship between Ruth 's father and his ageing ‘ boy ’ , Tim ( Ilarrio Bisi-Pedro ) ; as well as a portrait of Gumede , a freedom fighter on the verge of lunacy — excellently played by Osei Bentil ; and an analysis of a South African police Colonel who is affably stark mad . |
| 2 | ‘ Maybe she 's waiting to ring later , ’ Shirley said feebly , as a tide of rage with Liz , far away in distant London , washed through her : too absorbed in her own life , too selfish even to spend five minutes talking to her own mother . |
| 3 | When Professor Tidy sat down , worse was to come for the defendants , as a plethora of witnesses placed every permutation of the four in or about the vicinity at various times that evening . |
| 4 | He insisted on wearing his Sunday best for such an important occasion , and as a mark of deference to the young master . |
| 5 | It 's quite possible that people shunned us not so much as a mark of outrage at what we had done , but to avoid the frustration of not being able to satisfy their curiosity about what exactly it was . |
| 6 | Vial was buried ( at the expense of the College , as a mark of respect ) in the chapel in the Savoy — Vial 's wife was of the Lutheran faith . |
| 7 | Pete did n't know whether to duck or run , and the choice was fairly academic anyway , as for the moment his body seemed to be about as responsive as a sack of rocks . |
| 8 | It provides 124 standard chart designs including bar charts , pie charts , table charts and word charts , as well as a variety of customization options . |
| 9 | In addition to wine cups rhinoceros horn was used to make small sculptures of such traditional figures as Kuan Yin and Pu Tai , as well as a variety of desk furniture , toilet requisites and personal ornaments . |
| 10 | To replace the depleted vegetation a range of species were planted on the island in the nineteenth century , including the maritime pine ( Pinus pinaster ) and blackwood ( Acacia melanoxylon ) , as well as a variety of herbs and shrubs which have now established specific vegetation zones . |
| 11 | The Mini Vac is very reasonably priced at £10.95 to include p&p and is ideal for cleaning dust and dirt off knitting machines as well as a variety of home and office equipment including typewriters , computer keyboards , video recorders , answering machines , stereos and so on . |
| 12 | One year older than Leonard , he went through the varying experiences of adolescence with him , sharing not least Leonard 's musical interest ( Morton played both the banjo and the trombone ) , as well as a variety of pastimes and a healthy interest in the fairer sex . |
| 13 | The importance of this corridor can be judged from the variety and number of different trees , shrubs , and other flowering plants recorded in one particular place by the Lothians Branch of the Scottish Wildlife Trust , namely a total of 147 different plant species , as well as a variety of birds and evidence of roe deer and badgers . |
| 14 | Practical classes and laboratory work are part of this training , with opportunities to use all the tools of the social scientist as well as a variety of equipment in surveying and photogrammetry , computing and Geographical Information Systems ( GIS ) , and physical geography . |
| 15 | Funny monsters , robots , animals — as well as a variety of humans — appear in situations which appeal to the young imagination . |
| 16 | Just stick to the Government recommendations by breastfeeding or giving your baby infant formula , as well as a variety of solids , until she 's a year old . |
| 17 | These include shops and restaurants as well as a variety of sports facilities . |
| 18 | On Nov. 27 the Supreme Court had issued a ruling declaring all the decisions of the National Assembly since Sept. 2 null and void , as a quorum of members had not been achieved on that date . |
| 19 | We noted earlier that , as well as a shortage of science teachers in schools , there is a shortage of modern language teachers . |
| 20 | The Director paused and watched the scene below for a few thoughtful seconds , as a squad of house servants bagged and carried out the human remains , and began stripping off the blood-soaked canvas cover from the padded squares underneath , removing it for cleaning . |
| 21 | This meant that despite Meehan 's pardon , the proceedings to some extent would be a retrial of Meehan as well as a trial of Waddell ; and one of its more lunatic aspects was hearing Mr King-Murray as prosecuting counsel , who for two years had strenuously refused to entertain the notion of Meehan 's innocence and Waddell 's guilt , now deploying arguments to show that very thing ( although unlike Griffith-Jones at Ward 's trial , he did not seem to have his heart in it ) ; and conversely to hear Waddell 's counsel echoing the arguments of the prosecutor at Meehan 's trial to demonstrate Meehan 's guilt and Waddell 's innocence . |
| 22 | The line I took with the manager was that , as a composer of music for films , I really needed to see equal commitment all along the picture beam to the public . |
| 23 | Thus we have a processor register called the accumulator , the same length as a word of computer storage . |
| 24 | All this he did to boys without any compulsion or correction ; nay I never heard him utter so much as a word of austerity among us . ’ |
| 25 | Could it be , thought Henry , as a shower of yams , bottled gherkins and packets of pastrami disgorged themselves on to the red-tiled floor of the kitchen , that his present bouts of cultural amnesia were a response to his mother 's extravagant hopes for him ? |
| 26 | There is increasing use of the mother tongue or local ‘ language of the market place ’ , as a medium of instruction , particularly in lower classes and consequently a movement , albeit slow and tentative , towards the development of a body of expertise in curriculum development and materials production in the mother tongue . |
| 27 | The press always has been a medium of propaganda as well as a medium of information . |
| 28 | Finally , though , because his style resembles not a force of nature so much as a medium of measurement or response ( response to pressure , atmospheric pressure ) , I settle on something less personal : Barometer Barnes . |
| 29 | In corporate accounting , this would go down under salaries or labour costs ; while for Brazil it represented an investment of time and resources as well as a transfer of technology . |
| 30 | Karadjordje , as a man of action and a mighty leader , was impatient with the idea that he should submit his unbridled power to the arbitration of assemblies , courts and councils . |