Example sentences of "to [noun] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Belinda whispered to Judy as the latter prepared a syringe on the doctor 's order . |
| 2 | All too frequently Nizan 's highly publicised resignation from the PCF in September 1939 is interpreted by contemporary liberal critics imbued with a visceral hostility to communism as the visible sign that his allegiance to the party was flawed from the beginning . |
| 3 | In a general election on July 19 , 1987 [ see pp. 35388-90 ] , the PSD , which under Cavaco Silva had been ruling as a minority administration , was returned to parliament as the first government since 1974 to command an absolute majority . |
| 4 | But Michael Peckham does all three — which makes him seem , on the face of it , an unlikely character to move to Whitehall as the government 's new Director of Research and Development at the Department of Health . |
| 5 | And he carried that Conservative generation to vote a motion which preferred Liberalism to Conservatism as the better future for the country . |
| 6 | Few institutions in the western world have proved as resistant to change as the Commons . |
| 7 | Indeed the ex-editor of Classical Music contacted the publisher to ask why they had reverted to Times as the body copy typeface , he had changed it from Times to ITC Clearface , and was duly surprised to find that the reason was to do with the fact that the title was being produced on a desktop publishing system . |
| 8 | Chapman had first appreciated the crowd-pulling potential of a station practically on Arsenal 's doorstep , giving the club a quick connection with most parts of the capital , when he came to Highbury as the visiting manager of Leeds City in 1913 , and it now fired his imagination . |
| 9 | It was partly because of the dominant part played by the Christian religion in that society , with its emphasis on the importance of adherence to rules as the basis for personal conduct and the need for absolute standards in the life of society . |
| 10 | It is simply what presents itself to Moose as the truth when he reflects as carefully as he can , and what he therefore expects to present itself likewise to others . |
| 11 | The sado-sexual crime is not described , yet everything in the text points to Mathias as the perpetrator . |
| 12 | He helpfully identified one typical cobbled street in Valletta as the Red Light alley , known to servicemen as The Gut . |
| 13 | And if I dare say it , she has come to glory as the earthly manifestation of a holy trinity with Nicholas Ryan , father , producer , and his wife Roma , Holy Spirit and lyricist . |
| 14 | erm , and you would see er , a shift in capital to , to agriculture as the return on capital in urban falls , |
| 15 | It appeared to Nizan as the only realistic method of conducting human affairs in a civilised manner . |
| 16 | Near the end of the period gold coin may have been used in commercial transactions , but the dwindling supply of gold in western Europe caused a switch to silver as the principal precious metal . |
| 17 | Threat to insurers AS THE £1.1bn takeover bid by Australian Mutual Provident , Australia 's largest life insurer , gets underway for the Pearl Group , a new survey suggests that perhaps the Australians should have made a bid for a building society . |
| 18 | She closed the door behind her and the conversation came to Meredith as the muffled indistinguishable sound of Harriet 's voice . |
| 19 | Moreover , while Ms Heneson does mention in passing the other categories of AIDS victims — Haitian immigrants , IV drug users and transfused haemophiliacs — she refers to AIDS as the ‘ latest manifestation of Sodom and Gomorrah , ’ which betrays a serious ignorance of current Biblical scholarship , and she emphasises ‘ sexually hyperactive , urban gay men ’ . |
| 20 | Peter Fowler is the first name that springs to mind as the hardest worker on the Tour , purely because we do n't see Nick Faldo too often ! |
| 21 | The killings occurred in the Arab quarter of Jerusalem 's Old City at the Haram al-Sharif or Temple Mount , sacred to Jews as the site of the Temple of Solomon , destroyed some 1900 years ago , and also currently accommodating the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa mosque , both sacred to Islam . |
| 22 | By December 1989 evidence was mounting that consumption was giving way to investment as the main engine of growth . |
| 23 | Two smaller protests took place , however , on the news of the award of the Nobel Peace Price to the Dalai Lama in October 1989 [ see p. 36990 ] ; and in December celebrations turned to violence as the Dalai Lama went to Norway to receive the award . |
| 24 | A man had his arm around her , rocking her from side to side as the singers swayed with their patriotic song . |
| 25 | The yacht rocked violently from side to side as the ship 's wake came under them . |
| 26 | BODIES of 23 peacekeepers shot in weekend battles with Somali gunmen in Mogadishu were flown home to Pakistan as the UN honed plans to hit back at the killers ‘ within days . ’ |
| 27 | They 're live documents which are subject to revision as the organization changes and as we improve . |
| 28 | The recent ENO production of Königskinder may have helped to alert interest to Humperdinck as the composer or more than Hänsel und Gretel , and those who enjoyed the work will find the splendid overture and three other pieces here . |
| 29 | Kathie is all Nell has got , we 've been told this several times ; he appeals to Nell as the mother of their only child , not to cause her to leave home . |
| 30 | Madonna plays to type as the centre fielder , Mae Mordabito , a man-hungry show-off . |