Example sentences of "of [noun sg] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the householders learned that the completion of the contract marked the start of Ron 's retirement after 35 years , they clubbed together to buy him a carriage clock and bottle of whisky as a thank you gift to remember them by . |
| 2 | Some women would want to link this with the consolidation of black consciousness and with the reclassification of lesbianism as a political and sexual choice rather than a congenital affliction . |
| 3 | It takes its structure from a set of correspondences between elements and persons , and the old definition of temperament as a mixture of qualities is present to the reader 's mind — the same definition that permits us to think of Faussone as a part of Levi , or as his alter ego . |
| 4 | It can be argued ( though I do not have space to do it here ) , that there is an incoherence in a view of the subject which regards all notions of unity as an illusion . |
| 5 | The concept of play as an activity entered into with delight for its own sake is important for both the theology and the psychology of religion . |
| 6 | The reshuffle served its purpose , for after a 15-minute rather uncomfortable settling-in period Sunderland , inspired by Davenport 's goal , gradually assumed control and there was no indication of tiredness as the Rokermen , superbly served by Anton Rogan in defence and the non-stop Brian Atkinson in midfield , hustled Boro at every opportunity . |
| 7 | I regret the fact that I was not in the Chamber for the speech of the hon. Member for Pudsey ( Sir G. Shaw ) , but my hon. Friend the Member for Durham , North-West ( Ms. Armstrong ) , who was here , told me that he made a heavily veiled criticism of Government policy for its lack of recognition of progress as a key measure of the effectiveness of schools , and expressed concern about the morale of teachers who , he said , were not sufficiently recognised by society . |
| 8 | I mean here the notion of differentiation as a crucial component of the restructuring of the working class as part of the restructuring of the capitalist system of production in these last decades of the twentieth century ( see Byrne and Parson , 1983 ) . |
| 9 | Despite this , there were significant differences , reflecting the PSOE 's social base of support as a party of the left , and the particular dynamic of the transition to democracy . |
| 10 | Frequently , the support teacher becomes the source of all forms of support as the boundaries between education and counselling are blurred . |
| 11 | It is however not in curriculum thinking that Fullan 's major contribution is to be found , but rather in the issues he raises about the nature of change as a process in educational terms , and the implications these have for managers in the service . |
| 12 | We have to visualize the process of change as a gradual one , with progressive forays from the water , until the first animal with true limbs developed ( the bony elements of the limb are present in the fish fin ) . |
| 13 | Some things needed to change , but some needed to remain the same and I usually found myself in this place pulling at the forces of change as a child might pull at the reins of a runaway horse . |
| 14 | The environmental imperative is held to reside mainly in the market context of manufacturing firms and the rate of change as a variable determining the ‘ best ’ structure of an organization . |
| 15 | Fewer and fewer independent candidates sit as elected members , with many commentators now referring to this process of change as the ‘ nationalisation ’ of local politics . |
| 16 | Accordingly , the LTQ programme was conceived of as a series of structural realignments and common processual techniques which is embedding a culture of change as an everyday and on-going process rather than for a specific , limited period . |
| 17 | The development of Champagne as a sparkling wine |
| 18 | He told her she was a fool , and wished her luck — then he gave her a gold sovereign and a bottle of champagne as a farewell present . |
| 19 | She turned away abruptly and snatched up a glass of champagne as a waiter passed by with a tray of brimming glasses . |
| 20 | Other than this exchange , and a desultory extension of it , in which Boswell tried to get his Bear to perform by raising the quality of genius as a conversational topic , lunch and its aftermath proceeded to a dull conclusion . |
| 21 | This use of hair as a symbol of social disorder reflects Benthall 's contention ( 1976 ) that an obsessive interest in the body was a result of people turning to its use as a medium of expression , because of their individual inability to shape modern technological and bureaucratic society . |
| 22 | Levin makes a special case for Debord as a film-maker whose aim was to contribute to the ultimate destruction of cinema as a spectacularist medium . |
| 23 | The significance of cinema as a medium of mass entertainment and therefore as a potentially suitable weapon for political control was recognised by Lenin when he remarked , ‘ Of all the arts , for us cinema is the most important . ’ |
| 24 | The same meeting approved voting rights to Retired Members , providing there was a continuous and unbroken record of payment as a Full Member for at least 25 years . |
| 25 | Many historians have commented on the decline of nonconformism as a political force in the early twentieth century . |
| 26 | The Korean War marked the spread of the Cold War beyond Europe and the Atlantic : henceforward the US government saw the containment of communism as a global task . |
| 27 | First , there was the image of communism as the threatening enemy . |
| 28 | This argument he knew of old was hopeless and he listened to his own voice with a kind of horror as a note of pleading crept into it . |
| 29 | Unfortunately he took her lack of fight as a sudden sign of submission . |
| 30 | These correlations are given in Table 3.3 taking the degrees of freedom as the sum of those for individual subjects ( Guilford & Fruchter 1973 ) . |