Example sentences of "[adj] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking back , I seem to recall that summer of 1943 as a continuation of cloudless days and warm sunshine , with long pink and purple evenings filled with the roar and drone of aircraft taking off all round us . |
| 2 | The British used the four ‘ freedoms ’ agreed at the Commonwealth meeting in October 1943 as the basis for discussion , but refused to consider a US proposal for a fifth freedom : the right to pick up passengers , mail , and freight at intermediate stops not in the country of origin of the airline or its ultimate destination . |
| 3 | Her monograph , The Metabolism of Fat , published in 1943 as the first of Methuen 's monographs in biochemistry , summarized her views on the field , in which she was by then a recognized authority . |
| 4 | Charles Whiteside , of Tivoli Cottages , Moresby , joined Sekers in 1943 as an apprentice overlooker before becoming shift manager and later production manager . |
| 5 | He proved himself to be thoroughly professional as a railwayman and ruthless as a manager . |
| 6 | ‘ You grow quite professional as a landlady . |
| 7 | Jonathon is a graduate of the Northern College of Music and has been professional as a viola and violin player for 6 years . |
| 8 | A New Zealander , born in Dunedin and a graduate of Otago University , he went to Merton College , Oxford , in 1934 as a Rhodes Scholar , where he took a First in English . |
| 9 | Dinting Vale from an old postcard sent in May 1934 as a Robinson 2–8–0 crosses the viaduct heading a down freight . |
| 10 | Even longer-serving was Mr. Edwin Bromley , who had arrived in 1934 as a member of both the teaching staff and the maintenance department . |
| 11 | Rather than speaking of the seeds of ideological doubt sown in Nizan 's mind , it is more appropriate to envisage 1934 as a necessary stage in Nizan 's deepening awareness of social reality ; the gradual abandonment , in other words , of a stylised and exaggerated picture of reality , and a progressive movement towards a recognition of the unpredictability and complexity of the social world . |
| 12 | Edward Stanley Baker , who died at Great Dunmow , Essex on March 15 at the age of 81 , played 32 matches for Worcestershire in 1933 and 1934 as an amateur wicket-keeper with 40 victims . |
| 13 | The marquis managed to pour the brandy without spilling it , his face chalk-white as the ramifications of Horatia 's return began to dawn on him . |
| 14 | ‘ Do n't you think he looks rather divine as an officer ? ’ |
| 15 | Then there was the Mondays , always about to gatecrash the States with their apparently cleaned up act — and their new LP , ‘ Pills 'N Thrills And Bellyaches ! ’ is as close to the US mainstream as the Ryders can get without losing their natural pop suss . |
| 16 | Then there was the Mondays , always about to gatecrash the States with their apparently cleaned up act — and their new LP , ‘ Pills 'N Thrills And Bellyaches ! ’ is as close to the US mainstream as the Ryders can get without losing their natural pop suss . |
| 17 | The report proposes a new structure for the centre , which it says has been underused as a TNO institute . |
| 18 | Perhaps underused as a source of prospects , the press is nevertheless important . |
| 19 | Denys Darlow said : ‘ Having been a church musician since the age of eight as a chorister and later as an organist and choirmaster , the words of the Te Deum became a constant recurrence in my life and grew in significance as I grew older . ’ |
| 20 | Not only tragedy would feel the ban , but comedy , too , since all drama begins with human frailty , and none so universal and absurd as the propensity of mankind to behave badly . |
| 21 | Or else she would turn round , as though sensing my gaze on her skin , and for a moment as brief and yet momentous as a pause in music our eyes talked dirty . |
| 22 | Several quote 70 as the upper age limit for voluntary and statutory committees and the like . |
| 23 | Ian Woosnam fired a two-under-par 70 as the rain-hit Malaysian Open got underway in Kuala Lumpur yesterday . |
| 24 | Now when I said you were very good at it I said what 's fifty as a fraction of one fifty ? |
| 25 | The inclusion of the retired as a separate group added a socio-demographic element to the typology and , although the classification was two-dimensional , the two axes were not considered to be independent . |
| 26 | Some of the works were presented in 1971 as a sign of solidarity with Allende 's government , the rest were donated after the coup d'état . |
| 27 | Dismissed from the Albertina because of his German nationality , he then worked for the Graphische Sammlung , Munich , until 1971 as a curator and then as director . |
| 28 | Shaikh Rashid , born in 1914 , became ruler of Dubai in 1958 and Vice-President of the UAE on its formation in 1971 as a federation of six of the seven Trucial States [ see p. 25010 ] . |
| 29 | He moved to the UK in 1968 following the Russian invasion of Czechoslavkia and joined Bovis in 1971 as a project manager . |
| 30 | Joining Rhenania in 1971 as a Forwarding Manager in Heilbronn , he became Manager of Spendition Schneider in 1984 . |