Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun] as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it ran with each school area , you know , Berry , Grimness , Marketthorpe and so on , and now of course the total areas as one but I think perhaps it would be permissible to somebody with local parentage maybe not resident in the area . |
| 2 | The Bank is also influential in the gilt-edged market as it administers the issue of new bonds when the government wishes to borrow money . |
| 3 | The secrecy of the League was primarily due to its connection with the White Knights of Britain , or the Hooded Men as they were sometimes called . |
| 4 | A heavy swell pounded and cascaded over the broken pier at the narrow entrance as we made a hair-raising dash through to keep steerage way . |
| 5 | Discarded papers blew in the narrow street as they walked back to the car . |
| 6 | A knot of men stood on the other side of the broad avenue as he walked through the gate . |
| 7 | Somewhat to his own surprise , Harry found himself booking a single room , despite the exorbitant tariff , and following the prim receptionist as she led him to the door . |
| 8 | As soon as he confessed what he knew , fumbling the hideous admission as they came out of a rather good film about love that he had hardly been able to stand , she managed to make it seem that it was he , not she , who was the disturber of their lives . |
| 9 | So Taylor took Lineker into the European Championship as his first choice marksman , but with big doubts about what he would contribute . |
| 10 | Erm the Labour Party is absolutely furious that unemployment goes down in this country and they keep trying to say to the public that it 's all hooey and , and , and , and the figures are distorted etc. , etc. , The fact is unemployment is going down , we are overcoming the recession , er faster than any other member of the er European Community or the European union as it 's now concerned and , and these are the facts but having said all that , we on this side er certainly support a continuing strategy whether we 'll er have to continue spending money at this level , er I do n't know , hopefully er the , the recession will be overcome and the spending can be reduced , but the strategy we believe . |
| 11 | Montgomerie now takes a five-week break from the European circuit as he awaits the birth of his first child next weekend . |
| 12 | The reason we want regionalisation is that we are the only country within the European Community as it now stands , bar Luxembourg and Ireland , not to have regional Government , regional co-ordination of our economic policies and a proper role for the regions to link across Europe . |
| 13 | They were a courageous couple and did their best to lighten the strained atmosphere as they all waited for the heart stimulant to work . |
| 14 | I saw the Rabbit Grounds again , and the flaming bodies as they jumped and sped . |
| 15 | She looked at the strong hand as it shifted gears and continued resting on the lever . |
| 16 | She was sitting by the shieling door as they approached . |
| 17 | The physical and emotional violence McBurney brings to the tormented king as he rages among the toys in his young son 's nursery has the sickening impact of a kick in the solar plexus . |
| 18 | Aubrey , meanwhile , was perched on the edge of his sister 's bed while she sat at her dressing-table , twisting her head in front of the triple mirror as she tried to place two matching clips in her hair . |
| 19 | It has remained the accepted practice that all important governmental decisions emanate from the central departments in Whitehall , a practice which is of great help to the political leadership as it collects all the levers of policy-making and administrative control into one , compact , signal box . |
| 20 | Even those men , such as Bert Cooke and John Douglas , who were later critical of ministers becoming professional politicians , found themselves acting in the political arena as they tried to explain to an increasingly interested audience why their spiritual leader was being sent to prison . |
| 21 | But there is a need to beware of the assumption that they have as direct an impact upon the political system as they do in the United States . |
| 22 | The electronic collection of Alexander Hamilton 's works will hold out as much interest to the linguist , philosopher , and the political scientist as it does to the historian . |
| 23 | From his position as Chancellor , Law could exercise sufficient influence on the domestic management of the war to avoid further problems , and as Leader of the House of Commons and de facto deputy Prime Minister he could also deal with most of the political problems as they arose . |
| 24 | His voice was the merest whisper as he stared down the landing towards a particular door , his mind imagining the two people behind it ; two people he resented beyond words . |
| 25 | It is predicted that such developments will gain common ground in the elaboration of the GUI concept as it has in the computer-aided design world , but will quickly diversify in terms of the actual products which emerge . |
| 26 | A light wind stirred the coarse grass which grew thick and rough on the eroded banks , but thinned to the odd clump as it reached the river 's thick , iodine coated mud |
| 27 | The , they really convert bibles for doing that is because I 've always done that of er right that 's , that 's out of the way , jump the paperwork , now what about talking about your clubs and that t to sort of close down the call and relax the client for getting into referral mode and I 've always done it tail end on so the introduction to the referral is at the beginning and perhaps looking for them during i is totally unfamiliar , I mean I do note the odd thing as I go through and note them down on the , the but I 'd never been used to actually although we were told referrals how and why that went with it . |
| 28 | Arthur Dooley 's presence deterred the opportunists , and Mallachy was content to watch Terence and his sidekicks receive the odd punch as they were passed and bundled backwards to the door . |
| 29 | In civil defence terms the Scud attacks , directed as they were at civilian populations , posed a dilemma for the Israeli authorities as it was not known in advance whether the missiles would carry conventional or chemical warheads . |
| 30 | He did n't want tea , he wanted to lie down , to escape from the pulsing pain as its waves crashed through him . |