Example sentences of "as [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Protestant reformers were strongly opposed to practices such as the wearing of relics and talismans , and the sprinkling of homes and fields with holy water to ward off evil spirits . |
| 2 | Much of the discussion at the meeting was about issues not directly related to cycling , such as the wearing of rear seat belts . |
| 3 | THE 1950s : MANAGEMENT CONSULTANTS AS THE PRECURSORS Of SEARCH |
| 4 | They adamantly believed that ‘ at that time it was not done to ‘ ’ poach' ’ settled executives in any direct or overt way' ; but they may be seen as the precursors of headhunting in Britain , in so far as they acted as consultants in executive selection and advertising , within a general management consultancy practice . |
| 5 | Stamford became the capital of a huge kingdom extending right across central England ( it is still referred to as the capital of the Fens ) and King Penda ( c.577–655 ) , the last pagan King of Mercia , had his palace here . |
| 6 | In our May 22nd issue , we referred to Portland as the capital of Oregon . |
| 7 | Major Iron Age stronghold , but much better known as the capital of the Ancient Nabataeans , fourth century BC to sixth century AD . |
| 8 | Traditionally looked upon as the capital of the former Visigothic kingdom of Aquitaine it seemed therefore to belong to Aquitaine . |
| 9 | Undismayed , Aarau carried on with the building of the Laurenzenvorstadt to house its responsibilities as the capital of the canton . |
| 10 | The Palestinians of East Jerusalem , who had overwhelmingly refused Israeli citizenship , had equally firmly demanded the city as the capital of a future State of Palestine . |
| 11 | The popes regarded the city as the capital of their duchy . |
| 12 | Its foundation as the capital of Scotland in the late eleventh century , and its development in the following centuries into a distinctive city crowded on a hill within a defensive wall can be traced through its buildings . |
| 13 | The magazine described Mr Donovan as the boy with bleached hair , although the actor told the court he had never used chemicals on his hair — ‘ just lemon juice in the sun sometimes ’ . |
| 14 | The magazine described Mr Donovan as the boy with bleached hair , although the actor told the court he had never used chemicals on his hair — ‘ just lemon juice in the sun sometimes ’ . |
| 15 | And as the relationship between fat intake and cholesterol levels in the blood serum of any particular individual is very variable , why should we even try ? |
| 16 | The most serious problems over credit use — sometimes an extreme manifestation of one of the general problems , such as the relationship between ignorance , high-cost credit use , and over-commitment ; sometimes something quite distinct — are too rare to show up in a quantifiable way in a sample survey such as ours . |
| 17 | Of great interest will be journalist Didier Eribon 's record of Conversations with Ernst Gombrich , discussing recurring issues in his writings such as the relationship between art and perception and the way in which our responses are conditioned by conventions , history , social pressures and changes of taste . |
| 18 | What is certain is that as the relationship between doctors and their patients becomes less paternalistic , so must the manner in which we seek to obtain their consent for treatment . |
| 19 | Whatever Edward IV had initially envisaged as the relationship between the two men , Gloucester gained the upper hand almost immediately . |
| 20 | My hon. Friend the Member for Linlithgow ( Mr. Dalyell ) raised some extremely interesting issues which we do not have time to debate today but which I hope will be debated in the other place , such as the relationship between the putative funding council and the Scottish Office . |
| 21 | Whatever Edward IV had initially envisaged as the relationship between the two men , Gloucester gained the upper hand almost immediately . |
| 22 | Over the past two decades , the Commission and Court have been asked by aggrieved individuals to rule upon matters such as the rights of prisoners to communicate with the outside world and police interrogation methods . |
| 23 | As the performance of the two is relatively similar and inverted files are more widely used in their own right , most of this chapter deals with serial and inverted files . |
| 24 | The reader will not , however , begrudge the author 's serendipity which , especially at election time , succeeded in extracting for him the following from Smollett 's Humphrey Clinker ( 1771 ) : I know nothing so abject as the behaviour of a man canvassing for a seat in Parliament . |
| 25 | Then her wish was granted as his head blotted out the sun , and Robbie emitted a little ecstatic noise as the space between them melted away entirely and they lay body pressed to body , mouth to mouth , his hands moulding her to him with a sudden , startling ferocity . |
| 26 | As the size of barbel in a shoal becomes larger , so the number of fish in that shoal will be fewer . |
| 27 | Details of the exact nature of the writing tested , such as the size of the script , the quality of script , the speed it was written , the pen type , tablet resolution and so on are often sadly lacking in research papers . |
| 28 | A third strategy used to manage and motivate employees as the size of industrial enterprises increased has been the development of bureaucratic personnel policies . |
| 29 | As the size of many businesses grew , the number of employers was reduced . |
| 30 | Children generally spent less time working and more time distracted as the size of their work groups increased from one to twenty . |