Example sentences of "and [noun] [vb pp] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is the access for your car and your visitors ' cars adequate , or is the road and entrance treated as a public car park ? |
| 2 | They too , spoke enthusiastically about , for example , the opportunities offered by The Machine Gunners for emotional empathy with the world of the child versus the world of the adult ; the emotional pleasure pupils frequently found in empathizing with Billy 's relationship with the hawk , and the themes and topics raised by Kes ; the complex nature of the link between humans and animals offered as a theme in The Red Pony ; the thematic possibilities of the Irish location of Across the Barricades together with its handling of prejudice ; and the understanding of allegory and its special features which might be well illustrated by a reading of Animal Farm . |
| 3 | In the nineteenth century , after the American and French revolutions , another distinction — between monarchy and republic — assumed great importance , and republicanism developed as a radical political movement directed against survivals or attempted restorations of the ancien regime , merging to a large extent with the general democratic movement . |
| 4 | According to present-day ideas , a star begins its career by condensing out of a cloud of dust and gas known as a nebula . |
| 5 | They chose carbon dioxide subjected to heat and pressure so that it acquires a state between liquid and gas known as a " supercritical fluid " . |
| 6 | Both the rates ( then the only locally determined tax , levied on property and based on the capitalization of rental values ) and fees and charges declined as a proportion of income , while grant became more important . |
| 7 | Thus instead of writing If the Seller shall have given the Buyer notice that the goods are ready for collection , and the Buyer shall fail to collect them within seven days from service of such notice , the Seller shall be entitled to make arrangements for the storage of the goods and the Buyer shall reimburse the Seller all costs and charges incurred as a result of such storage the drafter could write If after the Seller has given the Buyer notice that the goods are ready for collection , the Buyer fails to collect the goods within seven days , the Seller may make arrangements for the storage of the goods and the Buyer shall reimburse the Seller all costs and charges incurred as a result of such storage . |
| 8 | Thus instead of writing If the Seller shall have given the Buyer notice that the goods are ready for collection , and the Buyer shall fail to collect them within seven days from service of such notice , the Seller shall be entitled to make arrangements for the storage of the goods and the Buyer shall reimburse the Seller all costs and charges incurred as a result of such storage the drafter could write If after the Seller has given the Buyer notice that the goods are ready for collection , the Buyer fails to collect the goods within seven days , the Seller may make arrangements for the storage of the goods and the Buyer shall reimburse the Seller all costs and charges incurred as a result of such storage . |
| 9 | This structure is followed in the example given above and can be broken down as follows : If after the Seller has given the Buyer notice that the goods are ready for collection [ case ] , the Buyer fails to collect the goods within seven days [ condition ] , the Seller [ subject ] may make arrangements for the storage of the goods [ action ] and the Buyer shall reimburse the Seller all costs and charges incurred as a result of such storage . |
| 10 | Your camcorder consists of a video camera and recorder built as a one-piece unit . |
| 11 | fresh or dried leaf with fish dishes , salad , and salad dressings , yoghurt and fat meats ; seeds may also be used ; root and stems eaten as a vegetable |
| 12 | Trade , output , and employment suffered as a consequence on an international scale . |
| 13 | Because the machine is produced and factory aligned as a double bed with the needles sitting in individual channels and because of the addition of the pushing down wheels , the tuck knitting is more easily made , with its stitch formation more accurate , without the lateral distortion than can occur within the stitches made on a machine that does not have needle channels . |
| 14 | Inspection of ( 47 ) , repeated here for convenience as ( 65 ) ( 65 ) would lead us a priori to expect , first , that the language might provide a simple way to question the noun phrase and adjective taken as a unit , and second that , if there are simple interrogations for the noun phrase alone and for the adjective alone , these would take a form parallel to that for the subject and ( ordinary ) predicative adjective of a normal copular clause . |
| 15 | ( G ) In the event of any occurrence giving rise to a dispute between a party hereto and its Insured or to a claim against a party hereto other than a claim for which this Agreement provides it shall be optional to such party upon notice thereof to suspend the application of this Agreement to such occurrence until such dispute or claim has been adjusted provided that such party shall indemnify the other party hereto against all costs and expenses incurred as a consequence of such suspension in defending its interests in a matter for which this Agreement provides . |
| 16 | From this darkly humorous curtain-raiser , Scorsese steps back in time to Henry 's adolescence and time spent as a local don 's errand boy . |
| 17 | From this darkly humorous curtain-raiser , Scorsese steps back in time to Henry 's adolescence and time spent as a local don 's errand boy . |
| 18 | Some people swear by a mixture of hot water and lemon taken as a digestif . |
| 19 | Thus is the subject decentred , and subjectivity revealed as a kind of subjection — not the antithesis of social process but its focus . |