Example sentences of "[noun sg] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Fokine developed his mimed dance and danced mime , the old dualism of dance and mime was largely eliminated , although twentieth-century choreographers still use the strictly academic technique as the firm basis of their design . |
| 2 | But ‘ Miserere nostri ’ is medieval in technique as the lovely ‘ Ave rosa sine spinis ’ is in feeling , and at his finest — as in the glorious antiphon ‘ Gaude gloriosa Dei mater ’ — we hear him as the heir of the Eton composers , not of Josquin . |
| 3 | East Germany , where the lingering Protestant work ethic marched shoulder to shoulder with Leninist concepts of electrification as the vitalizing force that would change society , has the world 's highest per capita emissions of sulphur dioxide and carbon dioxide . |
| 4 | But one can not overlook the point that all other known medieval European versions of this tale , written in or translated from Latin prose , present it as a moral example ; it can be allegorized , with the housewife as the Christian soul , the absent husband Christ , the lover worldly vanity , the procuress the Devil . |
| 5 | Dale Spender describes the tendency to refer to the male as the norm and women in pejorative terms as a ‘ rule ’ of language ; she use the term ‘ sexist syntax ’ to describe this . |
| 6 | The trouble for the Tory whips , and for such organisers of backbench opinion as the Chairman of the 1922 Committee , Cranley Onslow , was that far too many Conservative contenders appeared : Peter Brooke , the former Ulster Secretary ; Terence Higgins , a minister as long ago as Ted Heath 's government , and chairman of the Treasury Select Committee ; Sir Giles Shaw , another officer of the '22 ; Paul Channon , another former cabinet minister ; Dame Janet Fookes , some Tories ' hope as the first woman Speaker . |
| 7 | Again without apology to Jonathon Porritt , I would say we are defining animal welfare as the quality of environment as perceived by the animal and we are defining environment protection as the quality of environment as perceived by us . |
| 8 | That day the Brigade gave their first public display , and these events , with the rescue from a burning building as the highlight , were to continue into the 1930s . |
| 9 | It became an important building as the burial place for the kings of Sweden . |
| 10 | She glanced at her watch as the train pulled away from the platform . |
| 11 | The mixture of agrarianist views put forward in subsequent years have tended to be lumped together under the heading of nó0honshugi , the concept of agriculture as the socio-economic base of society . |
| 12 | Agrarian thinkers shared a hatred of capitalism and urbanization , and sought to re-establish an owner-farmer based agriculture as the foundation of the national economy . |
| 13 | erm , and you would see er , a shift in capital to , to agriculture as the return on capital in urban falls , |
| 14 | The Nature Conservancy Council ( NCC ) has warned that leisure parks and industry are rapidly replacing agriculture as the most serious threat to UK Sites of Special Scientific Interest . |
| 15 | The design of an aircraft structure falls into this category as the preferred solution for a component design would be that it has zero mass and infinite strength . |
| 16 | Public health physicians propose the technology of health needs assessment as the mechanism by which the purchasing process will be made to respond to the distribution of the population 's needs . |
| 17 | Some foreign ministry officials ( like Briand 20 years before ) saw European unity as the only solution : France and Germany could join in European institutions as equals , with no need for special controls on Germany ; but at the same time German economic independence would be restricted and German resources would be used for the good of a greater whole . |
| 18 | Mr Morrison and his group can play their part by learning for themselves the full complexity of the problem and trying to convey it to Irish-Americans who see Irish unity as the only answer . |
| 19 | Colonic transit was similarly assessed with the four colonic segments and effluent as the fifth segment . |
| 20 | One of Franco 's most fervent supporters , Luis Galinsoga , editor of the Barcelona daily , La Vanguardia , lauded the Generalísimo as the " sentry of the west " and the " guardian of the European spiritual fortress " — a description which undoubtedly fitted perfectly Franco 's own image of himself and his role in Spanish and world politics . |
| 21 | Using anti-env antiserum as the second layer , specific NIP.BSA-binding activity was detected in supernatants from pooled pNIPenv psi2 clones ( titre 10 3 G418 t.u. /ml ) and from clone psi2-NIPenv5 , but not from clone psi2-NIPenv1 or pooled psi2-DCNeo clones ( titre 10 3 G418 t.u. /ml ) . |
| 22 | Lee turned slightly towards the sound — and immediately heard the double click as the hammers on the shotgun were pulled back . |
| 23 | Emphasis as between local language and English teaching varies according to national patterns and policies , but a survey would most probably reveal the English text as the most commonly possessed book in most schools . |
| 24 | From the content of the text the analyst can , in principle , determine what aspects of the context are explicitly reflected in the text as the formal record of the utterance . |
| 25 | Politically , Bradley argues Charles de Gaulle 's case for the independent French deterrent and for the Paris-Bonn link as the real linchpin of European security . |
| 26 | But it was the period between 1986 and 1989 that put Andy and Nick at the fore as the most formidable team in Europe , and probably worldwide , in recent years . |
| 27 | Yet , increasingly , arguments about the effects of privatisation on the state 's finances , rather than discussion about the appropriate role of the state , have come to the fore as the revenue gained from asset sales has become sizeable . |
| 28 | The theses about adversary politics and overload came to the fore as the fact of economic recession bit into public consciousness : these were the pessimistic theories for the bad times . |
| 29 | A secondary aim which came to the fore as the project developed was to define the categories of the annotation scheme sufficiently rigorously that they can be applied in a predictable fashion to other language samples — that is , the SUSANNE annotation scheme is intended to offer a ‘ Linnaean Taxonomy for the English Language ’ . |
| 30 | The presence of this type of homophilic interaction as the dominant form of molecular association in the sCD2 crystals lends support to the general hypothesis . |