Example sentences of "as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This has produced a Texel , referred to in Holland as the Texelaar , that breeds consistently true to type and when used as a terminal sire leaves progeny of level quality .
2 We then put together a package of care within the resources that are available within the community to meet their individual needs and this will be changing as the sufferer 's condition deteriorates .
3 Fish-eating birds are being destroyed to reduce competition for fish stocks , whilst many ground birds such as the corncrake and bustard are declining as a result of major changes in agriculture .
4 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 .
5 Much of the discussion at the meeting was about issues not directly related to cycling , such as the wearing of rear seat belts .
6 er in or out according to where he wants them to flicker , well you see , as it , as the wearing get hot , that plastic expands and become loose and he 's got a , a split , see that steel thing
7 You will notice on the printed sheet that Ashbone and Wallis of Twitchit are named as goalkeeper and centre-half for Dorning , and that the Saliki twins of Dorning are named as the Twitchit substitutes .
8 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 .
9 Germany is at last waking up to the what has been clear to outsiders for the past year or so , that there is going to be no quick fix to the recession it is facing and that it will be long and grinding : this week the BDI industrial federation admitted that the downturn could develop into Germany 's worst recession since the end of World War II , saying that the western German economy will continue to decline , and the fall will be deeper than previously thought , so that in important sectors such as the capital goods industry the downturn will represent a new post-war record ; the body blames weak foreign demand for German goods , the now over-valued mark and rising costs for German industry and now admits it is the result of structural problems that will have long-term economic effects .
10 In our May 22nd issue , we referred to Portland as the capital of Oregon .
11 Major Iron Age stronghold , but much better known as the capital of the Ancient Nabataeans , fourth century BC to sixth century AD .
12 Traditionally looked upon as the capital of the former Visigothic kingdom of Aquitaine it seemed therefore to belong to Aquitaine .
13 Undismayed , Aarau carried on with the building of the Laurenzenvorstadt to house its responsibilities as the capital of the canton .
14 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 .
15 The old Anambra State was renamed Enugu State with its capital at Enugu ; Bendel became Edo State with Benin City as its capital ; and Gongola became Adamawa State with Yola as the capital .
16 The popes regarded the city as the capital of their duchy .
17 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 .
18 He is aided in this by good actors like Angela Punch McGregor as the girl 's mother and Bruno Lawrence ( so good in New Zealand 's in Smash Palace ) as the boy 's sea-faring mentor .
19 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 ’ .
20 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 ’ .
21 He eventually panicked and ran off as the boy screamed for help .
22 He taught her brother how to roll a cigarette , and she remembered him doubling up with delighted laughter as the boy coughed and spluttered on his first smoke .
23 The difference with Burton came from the scale on which he did it , the talents he gambled , the colossal winnings , the rupturing losses , the public glare in which increasingly it took place and the undeniable fact that in the middle of this maelstrom was always a quiet , reading man whom Cis would have recognised with relief as the boy sitting beside the fire , buried in a book .
24 Could that answer be an intellectual deceit because you did n't , and do n't wish to be publicly identified as the boy going through travails that turns out to be so controversial ?
25 He 's unrecognizable as the boy we once knew .
26 ‘ It owes much to acting of charm and conviction from Michael Crawford and Sarah Long as the boy and girl , ’ wrote the Coventry Evening Telegraph critic .
27 I bet myself that was Sorley 's , as I 'd had him pegged as the Boy Racer type and I was glad the insurance companies were uprating them .
28 We sat there a while , almost dark inside after Mendez dropped the side curtains , not saying anything , feeling the coach move up and down on its leather thoroughbraces as the boy who worked for us put the travelling bags in the rear end boot and covered them with a canvas .
29 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 ?
30 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 .
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