Example sentences of "as a [noun] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the ward 's life as a teaching an research place is now over . |
| 2 | Estate agents are cautious about taking the profit rise as a sign the slump in house sales is over . |
| 3 | Like the other quasi-nominal forms of the verb , it has as a support a representation of person not yet differentiated ordinally , as we have just seen . |
| 4 | Thus Thoroughbreds , Arabians , Shetlands , and so on , will prefer as a companion a member of their own breed . |
| 5 | As a compromise the Running Foreman agreed to have the engine fully prepared and ready . |
| 6 | Taking the river Loire as a boundary the lands north of this reflected the Norman influence — that same influence which produced England 's Norman architecture also that of Sicily and southern Italy . |
| 7 | He did not want any services and did not see counselling help as a service a social worker might offer , nor did he want to share any grieving for his wife . |
| 8 | The highest court in Britain is the House of Lords , but when they sit as a court the Lords consist only of a panel of members who have long judicial experience and who have been appointed as Law Lords . |
| 9 | She brought as a present a portrait of Mother Mary as she appeared to the children at Fatima , executed by someone of sentimental disposition , and a statue of the Virgin Mary , the mould fashioned by someone of a melancholy and austere frame of mind . |
| 10 | He replied that he held his power in Italy by the same right of conquest established by Charlemagne and Otto , he had come , he said , ‘ not to receive as a suppliant the transient favours of an unruly people , but as a prince resolved to claim , if necessary by force of arms , the inheritance of his forebears ’ . |
| 11 | I I was also thinking o of Veestol and and er the weapons going on and the mistakes anyway on on the developing a harrier replacement , is the R A F still interested in that as a feature a short take-off vertical take-off ? |
| 12 | She describes as a calamity the declaration by the Director of Public Prosecutions that there is ‘ insufficient evidence ’ to initiate proceedings against Juliette by the Marquis de Sade . |
| 13 | In the country as a whole a staggering two-thirds of black babies are born to unmarried mothers ; 43% of black children are , by government criteria , born poor ; many do not live to see their first birthday . |
| 14 | Those who are unhappy about calling Unionist Northern Ireland a democracy , or equally unhappy about not calling Britain as a whole a democracy , are compelled to return to questions of meaning and definition . |
| 15 | There is within the health sector and the popular movement as a whole a conscious and structured effort to involve as many as possible in the movement for change . |
| 16 | These may include calls to follow the Lithuanian lead and abolish from the Soviet Constitution as a whole the clause which guarantees the Communist Party a leading role in society . |
| 17 | In India as a whole the figure is about 40% ( see chart ) . |
| 18 | In London as a whole the grammar schools ( twenty-one of which were directly maintained by the London County Council ) were for many years to admit 17–20 per cent of each age group , and the movement towards comprehensive schools was painfully slow . |
| 19 | In the universe as a whole the two directions of time are indistinguishable , just as in space there is no up or down . |
| 20 | As a whole the season had not brought a successful fishing , which , sad to relate , would condemn to bachelorhood for another year many Lewismen who waited a successful season to enable them to begin life in partnership with a fisher lass . |
| 21 | While in the world as a whole the dispossessed may outnumber the reasonably well-off by some four to one , in the democratic ‘ market economies ’ of the capitalist world their minority status assures them lasting subservience to the democratic majority . |
| 22 | The proportion of Roman Catholics in the most senior posts rose to 25% , but in the force as a whole the proportion dropped from 11% to 4% . |
| 23 | The early twentieth century was very much a period of collecting together the data and presenting it en masse , seen at its best in G. Baldwin Brown 's exceptional study of the material of Anglo-Saxon archaeology as a whole The Arts in Early England ( 1903–1937 ) . |
| 24 | Taking Primary Schools as a whole the curriculum is probably wide enough to serve curriculum needs … |
| 25 | But in Europe as a whole the car was still a rich man 's toy . |
| 26 | In Britain as a whole the number of domestic electricity consumers rose from 9.7 millions on nationalisation to 14.3 millions ten years later , reflecting the increase in the number of households as well as a sharp reduction in the proportion without electricity . |
| 27 | Taken as a whole the acts envisage several grades of gentleman . |
| 28 | Taken as a whole the Turneys formed a not unimportant family of landed peasants and yeomen all living in the neighbourhood of Leighton Buzzard . |
| 29 | I would be sorry not to hear Mravinsky 's incandescent performance of Siegfried 's Funeral March again , but that is also available on Olympia , and as a whole the Erato Wagner disc is difficult to recommend . |
| 30 | As a whole the reading calls to mind that of Del Monaco ( Karajan/Decca ) , and is none the worse for that , but misses the better manners of Pavarotti ( Solti/Decca ) and Domingo ( Maazel/EMI ) . |