Example sentences of "[noun] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not even the hasty relieving of my weary bladder as we scrambled out of the car was enough to offset that wonderful feeling of rejuvenation . |
| 2 | The male bicolour damselfish flexes the muscles attached to its swim bladder as it patrols its patch of coral reef . |
| 3 | The histology of the removed bladder showed widespread invasive bladder tumour , not only across the base of the bladder obstructing both ureters but also at other sites in the bladder as well . |
| 4 | Calcium and cylic AMP also inhibit both NaCl absorption and apical membrane Na + /H + exchange in the gall bladder as do aldosterone and activators of protein kinase C in the clon . |
| 5 | Our failure to find a difference between cholecystectomy and gall stone subjects could , in theory , be because a high proportion of the second group having a non-functioning gall bladder as , from the physiological standpoint , a non-functional gall bladder is equivalent to cholecystectomy . |
| 6 | It was only a short distance and Paula spotted the Colombi as they turned a corner . |
| 7 | By and large there were almost as many buffaloes as black cattle throughout Kandyan districts , but in the Low Country black cattle outnumbered buffaloes by at least two to one and in some districts by as much as ten to one . |
| 8 | But none works harder than Vijay Singh as Norman Dabell found out . |
| 9 | I 'd say Vijay Singh as he 's out there working at sunrise and still there at sunset . |
| 10 | This culminated in an interview which he gave to the Illustrated India Weekly in which he criticized Prime Minister V. P. Singh as " weak " and repeated allegations of corruption against two other Cabinet ministers , Arun Nehru and Arif Mohammed Khan . |
| 11 | Resignation of V. P. Singh as parliamentary party leader |
| 12 | The BJP routed the incumbent Congress ( I ) government in state assembly elections held in February 1990 , and the next month the BJP 's Shanta Kumar replaced Virabhadra Singh as Chief Minister [ see p. 37245 ] . |
| 13 | Basavaiah Rachaiah replaced Sarup Singh as Governor of Kerala in December 1990 [ see p. 37915 ] . |
| 14 | Markandey Singh replaced Arjan Singh as Lt.-Governor of Delhi in December 1990 [ see p. 37915 ] . |
| 15 | Beant Singh as Chief Minister headed a 27-member government . |
| 16 | These start off usually with a thin , gentle slithering sound of sliding boulders on the scree slope , which abruptly gives way to a much louder , roaring collapse as the main mass of rock falls away and hurtles downhill , and then afterwards minor falls continue intermittently for long periods . |
| 17 | And , God forbid , if the ice sheets at the pole collapse as well , high tide will be 15ft higher . |
| 18 | Miss Miller was answering a plea for advice by Steve Reese , 28 , who moved to Bristol after his home in Newcastle upon Tyne was repossessed — and then saw his photographic business collapse as interest rates ‘ went daft ’ . |
| 19 | Soft flabby growth in plants is as much at risk to disease attack and structural collapse as it is with ourselves and other animals . |
| 20 | Bower 's team at the University of California , Santa Barbara , proposes such collapse as the means by which buckminsterfullerene is synthesized . |
| 21 | US holdings of FRNs increased after the market collapse as US investors were generally happier with the credit quality of the names involved . |
| 22 | But Lancashire 's Ian Austin , Peter Martin , Wasim Akram and DeFreitas forced a collapse as Essex lost their last seven wickets in 14 overs for 40 runs . |
| 23 | A current flowing into the inductance L1 at the dot produces a voltage V2 = M(dI1/dt) as shown in Fig. 4.9 . |
| 24 | Conversely , a German anthropologist , Georg Elwert , reminds us that the concept of the Volksdeutsche , the ethnic German who , by the constitution of the Federal Republic , has a ‘ right of return ’ to his homeland as Jews have in Israel , is an ideological construct . |
| 25 | Have we not the right to fear for our homeland as well as to fight and die for it ? ’ |
| 26 | Now nobody can make him fight , but he can not leave his new homeland as he has no passport . |
| 27 | Consul Veitch was later removed from his post for addressing Napoleon as ‘ Your Majesty ’ instead of ‘ General ’ , as he had been instructed by London . |
| 28 | Although , as we have seen , in 1828 Veitch was dismissed from his consulship for having addressed Napoleon as ‘ Your Majesty ’ instead of plain ‘ General ’ when he met the vanquished Emperor en route for St Helena , he had become such a popular figure in Madeira that , after representations from the island , he was reinstated by Lord Palmerston in 1831 . |
| 29 | The Armée 's massive size proved a positive handicap to Napoleon as its supply problems became horrendous . |
| 30 | Portoferraio , the capital , was described by Napoleon as ‘ the most complete harbour in the world ’ |