Example sentences of "as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps this is because , as a member of the Abingdon Group put it : ‘ In a group there is the fun and companionship … and the awe at saving a life , supporting a prisoner through years of isolation , getting your prisoner free . ’ |
| 2 | Writing by the art critic of a newspaper is self-evidently criticism , in parallel with the writing of music and theatre critics ; an exhibition can be treated almost in the same way as a performance . |
| 3 | Bridget Riley had no intention of either presenting an account of Poussin 's aims and procedures , or of demonstrating Veronese 's debts to his predecessors in Venetian art , as a historian would have felt a duty to do . |
| 4 | Major art museums may devote considerable resources to an individual artist 's exhibition , on the same scale as a historical show . |
| 5 | A still life is in some ways an ideal picture to describe , as a firm basis can be found in a catalogue of its components . |
| 6 | As a sound is a mantra , so an image is a yantra , the two used together making a powerful combination for spiritual exercises . |
| 7 | Picasso 's Guernica is ‘ OK for some but I do n't like it ’ , as a young boy put it . |
| 8 | Tortured by the regime in South Africa , Roche has written a book about it , and now , in the Caribbean , has joined the firm of Sablich 's as a welfare worker , whose job is to define and to publicise the firm 's good intentions toward the community . |
| 9 | And they are those of a hero , as well as a drifting hyacinth . |
| 10 | Each of the two principal actors glimpses his double in passing , as a reflection in a glass , and each stands to the other in the same relation — a relation which presupposes , as in many other Gothic texts , some sort of metempsychosis or rebirth . |
| 11 | Eliot comes across as the sad man who sees double , as a living embodiment of the proposition that the double has to do with pain and with relief from pain , with the search , in such circumstances , for someone other . |
| 12 | Jaromil is not so much a character as a type , and is not unlike the Shelleyan poet in Shaw 's Candida , Eugene Marchbanks . |
| 13 | Fairly early in Take a girl like you , Patrick delivers himself of an unqualified condemnation of women , which is followed by a sentence from the narrator concerning and presumably condemning Patrick 's attitude to Jenny at that stage , as a girl to be taken and left : ‘ He wanted more than his share of her before anybody else had any . ’ |
| 14 | The ‘ distrustful fellow ’ of the past is present , and not just as a commemorative item . |
| 15 | I remember dark , solemn and suspicious looks , as a travelling family was given tea in the back-garden of a house in the country . |
| 16 | Poor wounded name : my bosom , as a bed , |
| 17 | — Now you shall see , but take this by the way — He came home this Morning at his usual Hour of Four , waken 'd me out of a sweet Dream of something else , by tumbling over the Tea-table , which he broke all to pieces , after his Man and he had rowl 'd about the Room like sick Passengers in a Storm , he comes flounce into Bed , dead as a Salmon into a Fishmonger 's Basket ; his Feet cold as Ice , his Breath hot as a Furnace , and his hands and Face as greasy as his Flanel Night-cap. — O Matrimony ! |
| 18 | I could n't afford the fares into town as well as a reasonable seat for sitting in . |
| 19 | And it can be particularly useful to have some background in this area , as a first job may often be that of an ‘ acting ASM ’ — particularly if you join a small touring group or a Theatre in Education company . |
| 20 | In terms of the acceptance of law and order , the bulk of the catholic — nationalist remnant form a part of the civil society of Northern Ireland , though as much as a third of the remnant can defect from this consensus , as when supporting the Provisionals over the ‘ H ’ -Block prison issue . |
| 21 | The structure of this oppressive power contained not the Roman catholic church as state executive , but as what Gramsci termed ‘ an organic intellectual ’ , as a planner and co-executor of the ethos of the state , merging this public aspect of the catholicism of the day with ideological elements from more recognized sources of catholic-Irish nationalism : the language movement , anti-imperialism and , generally , catholic-Irish domination . |
| 22 | In other words , when the New Ireland Forum was being assured by Bishop Daly of the intention of the Roman catholic church in Ireland to support full civil and religious rights for Northern Ireland protestants , the bishops were effectively reserving to themselves , as a body of luminaries with a direct access to the inner structures of social reality , the right to declare what actually constituted a civil and religious liberty or right and they were doing so on the grounds of what they considered good for society . |
| 23 | It is quite clear that Rome did not have a policy on catholic schooling at this time , and certainly not one requiring attendance at such schools as a religious duty . |
| 24 | Even those who had never heard of him mouthed his words , repeating them to others as though they had just thought of them themselves , which perhaps they had , for there is surely such a thing as a spirit of the times . |
| 25 | As a leading writer put it , after casting doubts on the appropriateness of the philosopher 's imagery , just because his answer was probably the right one it was in effect no answer at all . |
| 26 | as if every sentence he had ever written had not cried out to the heavens that the man had as much integrity as a rotten tree-trunk . |
| 27 | Not so much an eye as a template . |
| 28 | Not so much an object as a place where , the means by which , the past can be called up , the future foretold ? |
| 29 | ( In their 1988 survey , Mintel noted that ‘ the proportion of consumer expenditure represented by alcohol consumption has fallen steadily , whilst at the same time that spent on leisure as a whole has increased ’ ( Hunt , p42 ) . ) |
| 30 | The pub has always had to tread a difficult tightrope in reconciling its social function , as a ‘ house ’ for the public , with its commercial function as a retail shop . |