Example sentences of "[noun sg] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not even the hasty relieving of my weary bladder as we scrambled out of the car was enough to offset that wonderful feeling of rejuvenation . |
| 2 | The male bicolour damselfish flexes the muscles attached to its swim bladder as it patrols its patch of coral reef . |
| 3 | The histology of the removed bladder showed widespread invasive bladder tumour , not only across the base of the bladder obstructing both ureters but also at other sites in the bladder as well . |
| 4 | Calcium and cylic AMP also inhibit both NaCl absorption and apical membrane Na + /H + exchange in the gall bladder as do aldosterone and activators of protein kinase C in the clon . |
| 5 | Our failure to find a difference between cholecystectomy and gall stone subjects could , in theory , be because a high proportion of the second group having a non-functioning gall bladder as , from the physiological standpoint , a non-functional gall bladder is equivalent to cholecystectomy . |
| 6 | It was only a short distance and Paula spotted the Colombi as they turned a corner . |
| 7 | These start off usually with a thin , gentle slithering sound of sliding boulders on the scree slope , which abruptly gives way to a much louder , roaring collapse as the main mass of rock falls away and hurtles downhill , and then afterwards minor falls continue intermittently for long periods . |
| 8 | And , God forbid , if the ice sheets at the pole collapse as well , high tide will be 15ft higher . |
| 9 | Miss Miller was answering a plea for advice by Steve Reese , 28 , who moved to Bristol after his home in Newcastle upon Tyne was repossessed — and then saw his photographic business collapse as interest rates ‘ went daft ’ . |
| 10 | Soft flabby growth in plants is as much at risk to disease attack and structural collapse as it is with ourselves and other animals . |
| 11 | Bower 's team at the University of California , Santa Barbara , proposes such collapse as the means by which buckminsterfullerene is synthesized . |
| 12 | US holdings of FRNs increased after the market collapse as US investors were generally happier with the credit quality of the names involved . |
| 13 | But Lancashire 's Ian Austin , Peter Martin , Wasim Akram and DeFreitas forced a collapse as Essex lost their last seven wickets in 14 overs for 40 runs . |
| 14 | A current flowing into the inductance L1 at the dot produces a voltage V2 = M(dI1/dt) as shown in Fig. 4.9 . |
| 15 | Conversely , a German anthropologist , Georg Elwert , reminds us that the concept of the Volksdeutsche , the ethnic German who , by the constitution of the Federal Republic , has a ‘ right of return ’ to his homeland as Jews have in Israel , is an ideological construct . |
| 16 | Have we not the right to fear for our homeland as well as to fight and die for it ? ’ |
| 17 | Now nobody can make him fight , but he can not leave his new homeland as he has no passport . |
| 18 | ‘ The car , the one the girl was in , if it was a Zil as she says , then it was seen by a policeman , ’ Myeloski told Duncan . |
| 19 | The dignity of the State will be enhanced , and with religion as its guide , there will never be a rule that is not just … ’ ( 1930 : 64 ) |
| 20 | From the opening word , ‘ Polyphiloprogenitive ’ , the stress on religion as sexually oriented is evident . |
| 21 | I am confident that when he reaches his teens he will challenge and possibly reject religion as he will earlier have rejected his other fantasies . |
| 22 | Unlike adherents of other contemporary religions in the Roman empire , except Judaism , Christians regarded their religion as expressing the purpose of God in history ; but whereas Judaism was concerned primarily with the fortunes of Israel , Christians considered their faith to be of universal significance . |
| 23 | On the contrary , it is time to treat religion as something strange and outside the ordinary run of life , something which , mysteriously , has had a vast effect on people , over which wars were fought and people were burned and persecuted , and which still has an effect on people ; something which can not be reduced to mere kindness at the old people 's parties or village jumble sales , but which has inspired some of the most splendid painting , writing , music , and architecture ever to be produced by the human imagination , and is still capable of producing martyrdom , cruelty , and sectarian passion . |
| 24 | If they were now able to hear that story , and be able to make an overall and broad appraisal of that one-time promising religion as it now is , they would be appalled . |
| 25 | Scholars of Confucianism are agreed that it is not so much a religion as a guide to a system of political organisation , and as time went on , it too fell victim to divisions and disputes . |
| 26 | Schleiermacher conceives of religion as pre-existing particular historical manifestations which are grounded in the fundamental unity of religion , an a priori condition . |
| 27 | The same point applies to Tillich 's definition of religion as Ultimate Concern which refers not simply to man 's subjective concern , that is , the expression of his Ultimate Concern , but what he is ultimately concerned about , or that which is the source of his concern . |
| 28 | What can be deduced from this is that religion as he understands it involves belief in an ordered moral government of the whole universe and in the fact that religious and ethical ideals should inform all our actions . |
| 29 | Can it be , that when Gandhi refers to morality without religion as being similar to a house built on sand he is simply expressing in a different way his belief in the convertibility of these terms rather than suggesting that morality has to be related to a particular religion ? |
| 30 | In religion as in so much else the daily life of the South Saxons was conducted over several centuries by word of mouth and the group memory rather than by letter and record . |