Example sentences of "and [noun] as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frederica said to Alexander , before he could say it to her , that there was an intrinsic problem in writing about artists , for how could he dramatise the battle with the colours and forms as opposed to the whore and the rival , the father , the brother , the nephew Vincent Van Gogh ? |
| 2 | Below : Ripstop nylon samples from Carrington Novare and Bainbridge as supplied to kite manufacturers for selection of colour and weight of spinnaker cloth . |
| 3 | Globally , the issue at stake is the complex relationship between Marxism and literature as exemplified in the life and work of a specific interwar French intellectual . |
| 4 | Second , it can be concluded for both the UK ( Best , 1976 ) and for the EEC ( Best , 1979 ) that although there are major differences within countries , notably in the relative areas devoted to woodland and urban land , that there is a common pattern of land loss to both urban use and woodland as shown in Figure 8.1 . |
| 5 | Some British officials hoped that the judicial system would gradually gain acceptance and function as intended , but there was little opportunity for Sri Lankans to observe the principles which lay behind the rule of law . |
| 6 | Intra-aortal 5HT , given at the same dose and route as had induced acceleration of ICJ transit , failed to significantly alter baseline absorption found during the ia infusion of saline ( Fig 3 ) . |
| 7 | Havelock is here , of course , giving authority to Goody 's distinction between ‘ oral ’ and ‘ literate ’ thinkers and their connection respectively with the concrete and experience as opposed to the abstract and impersonal . |
| 8 | Only by using as much knowledge and experience as resides in the whole school can both the broad issues of school management and the minutiae of its efficient operation be appropriately financed . |
| 9 | All told we 're adding maybe another 45 minutes to the journey using public transport and foot as opposed to using your own car . |
| 10 | Yes , there are times we should cut the crap and get on with the ‘ real ’ issues of starvation and disease , but to dismiss all problems of prejudice and inequality as whining self-pity is callous beyond belief . |
| 11 | This is achieved by introducing two bends into the instruments ( Figure 11D , b ) and by tilting the instrument head and manipulator as shown in Figure 8 . |
| 12 | You are responsible for maximising performance by supporting and developing your people and for carrying out the full range of managerial duties and checks as prescribed . |
| 13 | Failure of heirs , or the survival only of heiresses , was exploited by the king himself for the benefit of his own sons , who expected endowments and titles as befitted their rank and who by virtue of their birth played a leading part in aristocratic society . |
| 14 | This phenomenon of STYLE BORROWING has many manifestations in prose : the child language at the beginning of Joyce 's Portrait is an example we have already noted ; others are the style of private correspondence used in epistolary novels such as Pamela ; the racy colloquialism of first-person novels such as The Catcher in the Rye ; the use of stylistic parody and pastiche as exemplified in Ulysses . |
| 15 | Nonetheless , virtually all studies also conclude that rural recreation rates are still strongly influenced by social class and income as shown in Figure 7.1 and that the more affluent have much greater participation rates as shown in Table 7. 1 . |
| 16 | Walpole generalized the above bounds on K and G as follows : |
| 17 | Prepare and submit reports to Divisional Officer and Directorate as requested . |
| 18 | These distinctions are vitally important : whereas teachers of foreign languages are working with a body of knowledge and skills which is expected to be put to use mainly in employment or during vacations abroad , community language teachers are relating to perceptions of identity , culture , and prejudice as experienced by dynamic sections of the population here in Britain . |
| 19 | Management process and accounting As outlined in chapter I , the management process is primarily concerned with decision-making , that is choosing a course of action from a set of possible courses of action in the light of agreed objectives . |
| 20 | On 31 July 1987 , Mr Justice Nolan held that the Regulations were ultra vires and void as regards imposing a tax on dividends and interest paid by building societies prior to 6 April 1986 . |
| 21 | Indeed , tourism has been one of the crucial components in the west 's construction of the east , and a passage from Thomas Cook 's brochure for tours of Egypt and Palestine in 1925 encapsulates the Orientalist attitude : ‘ Native life and manners as seen from the steamer are as quaint a study as can well be imagined . |
| 22 | In the day-to-day world of human interactions , this is expressed most clearly in the symbolic equivalence of food and nurturance as manifested in the ethic and practice of food sharing . |
| 23 | It can be rescued only if we do not take judicial opinions at face value at all ; we must treat all the judges who worry about problematical statutes and precedents as practising some unmotivated form of deception . |
| 24 | The younger enthusiasts of revolution , those who fervently accepted the ideals of The Green Book , seemed not to recognize the hard political work of the administrators nor to pay much attention to such discrepancies between ideology and practice as forced themselves into the consciousness of Libyans with wider experience of the ways of government . |
| 25 | When investigators questioned the public about privacy on behalf of the Younger Committee , 33 per cent of those asked objected to the publication of names and addresses as happens in the Electoral Roll . |
| 26 | A surveyor who fully understands his own role and appreciates the roles of both client and contractor as defined in the contract can have a great influence in ensuring that a project runs smoothly . |
| 27 | In the Pablo Najera arbitration , France had failed to register an agreement between itself and Mexico as required by Article 18 of the League Covenant . |
| 28 | If coal was just another industry or a medium-sized company in the private sector whose product was not as much in demand as previously , or had been superseded by another product that it could not make or compete with it , that industry or company would slim down or might even close altogether — with the same tragic effect on families and communities as has been seen in the coal industry . |
| 29 | With the aid of measured drawings and a 1:10 model of the room in the Alcazar Palace in Madrid , destroyed by fire in 1734 , in which Velazquez painted ‘ Las Meninas ’ ( now in the Prado ) , Philip Troutman , director of the Courtauld Institute Galleries 1958–80 , has been able convincingly to show that the figures seen in the mirror at the far end of the room in ‘ Las Meninas ’ are those of the king and queen as painted by Velazquez on the canvas propped on the easel , and not , as has been suggested , of figures peering through the doorway behind the viewer . |
| 30 | Differences in style and substance between politicians and administrators are consistent with a view of politicians as ‘ energizers ’ and administrators as seeking equilibrium : |