Example sentences of "as an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Charles Medawar points out in his seminal study , Power and Dependence ( Social Audit , £10 ) , it was not until the 1980s that benzodiazepine dependency became recognized as an iatrogenic problem , a disease caused by medicine itself . |
| 2 | The proposal for Leapor 's subscription conveys a similar idea of Leapor as an uneducated genius given , nonetheless , to considerable reading : |
| 3 | Lesley Faragher is Britain 's top lady rodeo star yet is decidedly feminine , quiet , petite and at the same time of writing possesses the warm glow as an expectant mother . |
| 4 | Industrial assurance began in the 1850s as an entrepreneurial response to the need for working-class burial insurance . |
| 5 | Regard them as an annoying incident , a mere ripple on the pool — do not drown in it , it is not the end of the world . |
| 6 | What constitute the elements of a structure , its units , never seems to be a problem for the structuralists because they are taken as an empirical property of the medium of signification ( the text ) . |
| 7 | If he could adopt that standpoint , he might describe himself as an empirical realist but a transcendental idealist ; but , since he can not adopt that standpoint , he is just a ‘ realist ’ . |
| 8 | Hirschi treats the question of what ‘ bonds ’ individuals to conformity as an empirical problem . |
| 9 | Primarily a political tract , it can in no sense be regarded as an empirical analysis of society . |
| 10 | He derives from MP his holism in the theory of meaning , but insists that we can not account for language learning as an empirical activity , unless we allow that some sentences have a determinate meaning and are therefore independently ( strongly ) verifiable . |
| 11 | It is a moot point whether TGAT 's ‘ rough speculation ’ should be seen as an empirical prediction , or a design criterion for the system . |
| 12 | As an empirical observation , that is normally the case ; that set of shared norms is part of the culture of institutions of higher education . |
| 13 | If this value of fv is substituted in the Doolittle expression for viscosity we find An equation of this type had already been suggested by Williams , Landel & Ferry as an empirical way of combining data derived at different temperatures into one master curve . |
| 14 | For a decade until the late 1930s , people could do no better than to regard the electron as an empirical fact . |
| 15 | While it is not easy to establish as an empirical matter what the current income-wealth distribution is , even if it could be established , the question of what degree of inequality should be the trigger for government policy remains . |
| 16 | An unblinded design was necessary for this study , since artemether is commercially available only as an intramuscular injection , but intravenous quinine remains the treatment of choice for cerebral malaria in children . |
| 17 | The Primo Levi who is read by Fernanda Eberstadt is a man who is unable to write about Jews — though he does in fact write about them with great sympathy , believers and unbelievers alike — and who has no feeling for people whose background and abilities are different from his own , though the joy of Levi 's work , for other readers , is very often that he has such feelings , that he knows himself to be , while also knowing himself not to be , an ordinary man , a worker , a man who worked as an industrial chemist and who was no less of a worker when he wrote books . |
| 18 | Another feature of the new approach is that the software industry has been exempted from the licensing provision of the Industries Act : there are no constraints on the setting up of software houses , and programming is not treated as an industrial activity . |
| 19 | With the recovery , though , came a boom that confirmed America 's coming of age as an industrial and financial power . |
| 20 | According to the driver , it was to be redeveloped as an industrial site , despite protests . |
| 21 | Most Dutch filling stations already supply LPG and there is a considerable market for its use as an industrial heating fuel . |
| 22 | At Wapping Wharf is a steam crane with a curved jib , built in 1875 and now preserved as an industrial exhibit — the only one of its kind left . |
| 23 | The brick and stone-built cone is sixty feet high , and was saved from demolition in 1962 by excavations which showed its importance as an industrial monument , this area of Yorkshire once having had a thriving glass industry . |
| 24 | The Town and Country Planning ( Minerals ) Act of 1981 recognised the unique nature of mineral working as an industrial activity and created mineral planning authorities to oversee the process and ensure the restoration of the land after its mineral resources are exhausted . |
| 25 | It must be reformed before it will carry out the reaction again , thus making the reaction uneconomical as an industrial process ( particularly as iridium is very expensive ) . |
| 26 | THE Republic of Ireland 's dramatic appearance as an industrial nation since the 1950s is a European — and quite possibly a world — phenomenon . |
| 27 | At a preview it was introduced live by John Butcher MP , Under-secretary of state for Industry , asserting that futurologists who write off Britain as an industrial nation are ‘ talking a load of hooey ’ . |
| 28 | Eventually these ideas coalesced into the belief that Germany 's rise as a new state and as an industrial power was being hampered by uncertainty over the unreliable national loyalties of the Slav peoples in the east , by the back-stabbing machinations of the Jews inside Germany , and by the threat of communism that came in both Slav and Jewish forms . |
| 29 | Mr Lamont claimed , in an optimistic message to the nation , that the ‘ self-denigrating myths ’ of Britain 's decline as an industrial nation were not borne out by the truth . |
| 30 | When the original phase of the development of the airfield as an industrial park was revealed , the provision was for 150 acres , building was not to extend near to the valuable runway , but it was considered to be a deterrent to property sales , so the runway would be removed . |