Example sentences of "as [noun] [noun prp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as Ian McGeechan himself said : ‘ He has been playing some of the best rugby of his life . ’ |
| 2 | As well as David Sanborn he has worked with Aretha Franklin , Miles Davis and Dave Grusin , not only as bass player , but as a producer too . |
| 3 | Remember this is the country , as Signor Fixit himself told me , where a lorry can be hired not only to move your furniture but to run over an unpopular citizen . |
| 4 | Since I ca n't address you as Miss Whatsit I do n't see why you should keep to the ‘ Doctor ’ bit — Penry will do . ’ |
| 5 | A solicitor of an undischarged bankrupt who receives after-acquired property on behalf of his client and transfers it to another agent , even with knowledge that that agent has been instructed to sell , is not liable for conversion at the suit of the trustee in bankruptcy , for the solicitor 's act can be described as ministerial within the test laid down by Blackburn J. Unfortunately , as Blackburn J. himself admitted , it is doubtful how far it goes . |
| 6 | After all Dr Kugelmann recommended Karlsbad to so untypical a member of the middle class as Karl Marx , who carefully registered himself as a ‘ man of private means ’ to avoid identification , until he discovered that as Dr Marx he could save some of the rather steep Kurtaxe . |
| 7 | As Alexander Augustus he was tempted to go into the village for some refreshment : it looked charmingly picturesque , even under the dull skin of grey ; smoke from chimneys curling , thatch , goats , geese , the homely clutter of rustic glamour : but as John he knew only too well the new picturesque was the comfortable conscience for the old poverty . |
| 8 | I shall refer to the first case as Mr. A. He wrote to me in March saying : |
| 9 | As Tom MacQueen himself once told me , banks will always lend you an umbrella , when it 's not raining . |
| 10 | He believes in his heart and conscience , as I do , that the Government are doing this thing without the consent of the country , that in pressing it forward without the approval of the country they are as much a revolutionary committee as President Huerta who governs Mexico . |
| 11 | However , most two pack systems , similar to our own Wood Bleach , do not contain any acid and as Mr Leach himself points out the ‘ A ’ solution is usually a strong alkaline . |
| 12 | Their figures were dissolving in her mind , their features blurring , till they became as subtle and ambiguous as Mr Rundle himself ; and , romantically tinged with melancholy because of the death of their parents , they became dream children , good and beautiful . |
| 13 | A shy man from a conservative Catholic family ( his father , ex-President Antonio Segni , belonged to the right wing of the Christian Democrats ) , he has rallied a wide range of supporters to his reform campaign : free-thinking radicals , communists , a Catholic bishop , trade unionists , the influential Rome daily La Repubblica and the top ranks of Confindustria , Italy 's employers ' association , as well as Mr Orlando himself . |
| 14 | As Mr Hart himself asked in a letter to The Times : ‘ In the face of so pellucid a Parliamentary intention , how was it that the Revenue not only thought it worth while to try it on , but actually found two courts to agree with it ? ’ |
| 15 | He had grown quite fond of Mr Multhrop with his many worries but , being on holiday , failed to view his ‘ problems ’ with as much anxiety as Mr Multhrop himself . |
| 16 | But as Professor Smith himself notes , there is one important caveat to this argument . |
| 17 | As Jo Grimond he was MP for Orkney and Shetland for thirty-three years and was seen as the last traditional Liberal . |
| 18 | He had had little to say to her since then , having turned his attention to the red-headed horsewoman she had today identified , from the servants ' gossip at the back of the church , as Mrs Covington-Pym She wondered what he could have to say to her now , not expecting it to be pleasant . |
| 19 | What I ever did to annoy Old Saul , whether it was the heat that made him especially cantankerous , whether Agnes really had kicked him in the head when she arrived , as Mrs Clamp says-none of this do I know . |
| 20 | It is about the most fundamental human freedoms , of speech and thought and belief : these are the things that in the end matter most , as Salman Rushdie himself knows , and stresses . |
| 21 | One has said , as Leonard Arthur himself believed , that ‘ in such circumstances , with parental consent , it could be right to end life . ’ |
| 22 | As Leonard Lowe he faces his biggest career challenge since Raging Bull . |
| 23 | And let us remember that as De Klerk himself said they changed not because as he said , we wanted to but because we had to . |
| 24 | They were on exactly the same wavelength as Massim d'Azeglio who said , after Italy had been politically unified : ‘ We have made Italy , now we have to make Italians ’ , that is out of the inhabitants of the peninsula who had all sorts of identities , but not one based on a language they did not speak , and a state that had come into existence over their heads . |
| 25 | As well as Panna Cotta they do a wicked creamy chocolatey spongey thing called Tiramisu , literally translated pull-me-up , which was very much to the point afterwards . |
| 26 | As Anne Rampling she writes modern romantic novels and as A N Rouquelaure she writes highly avant-garde sado-masochistic pornography based around the sleeping beauty legend . |
| 27 | Erm he is a very good landscape photographer e er in a same style as Ansell Adams who 's his hero . |
| 28 | Beware , however , of a succession of interviews and nothing else which , while corresponding perhaps to a real-life investigation , can became rather repetitive in pattern and thus boring , even in the hands of such a skilled practitioner as Ngaio Marsh who often laid out her books on these lines . |
| 29 | He said : ‘ If I am half as good a player as Paul McGrath I 'll be satisfied — but obviously I am hoping to become better than him . ’ |
| 30 | No , he said , he was just disagreeing with a view put to him by the interviewer — just as Lady Thatcher herself would have disagreed with it . |