Example sentences of "[noun] as [verb] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I see its loss as lying at the root of many current social problems . ’
2 McEwan and Sylvester ( 1984 ) describe the work as beginning at the point where words fail by creating ‘ … evocations of mood and sensation more than visual records ’ ( p. 10 ) .
3 Soviet Persian language broadcasts described the Soviet Gulf plan as aimed at the defence of the Persian Gulf countries against any foreign intervention and at securing the self-determination of the regional nations , including Iran .
4 It would he a very revealing item of Bomber Command 's history were a tape to be made available today of that unfortunate telephone link-up , and for a cold assessment to be made of all the circumstances as known at the time .
5 ‘ The question as stated at the beginning of his argument by Mr. MacDermot was whether a tenant against whom a final order for possession has been made is a tenant within section 12(1) ( g ) .
6 ‘ It 's as true as I stand here … had it from Mary Daniels as works at the Galleon .
7 Imagine the triangle was made into a square as shown at the side .
8 It was a series which left viewers as baffled at the end as they were at the beginning .
9 It may again turn on the evidential issue of unsoundness as determined at the moment by the doctor .
10 In all the cases analysed , make has shifted to evoke an antecedent cause , and the to infinitive almost always evokes a state as arising at the end of a process of causation ( or of coming-to-be ) .
11 The basic outline as agreed at the planning meeting was enshrined in an operational order , No. 146 , issued by MEHQ and addressed to Stirling .
12 You may like to check yourself when you are relaxing on your back on the floor as suggested at the end of Chapter 12 .
13 But in terms of his public image as seen at the time , he had been careful to distance himself from the unpopular anti Jewish terror of the Nazi mobs and had placed himself on the side of legality .
14 Many authorities regard the Monoplacophora as lying at the root of the other molluscan groups ; gastropods , cephalopods and even bivalves may have been derived from them .
15 Table 10.2 provides a summary of total expenditure as outlined at the beginning of the appendix .
16 … For the purpose of these proceedings it is to be assumed that the plaintiff 's injuries as subsisting at the time of her birth were caused by the act or omission of the defendant in the driving of his car .
17 The two men came to an arrangement which means the group of sixteen will now be spending their summer holiday as planned at the chateau in Bordeaux .
18 If the official receiver has a number of general proxies given to him , it is usual for him to vote with these proxies in accordance with the wishes of the majority as expressed at the meeting itself or by virtue of special proxies lodged .
19 But it is the realm of production itself ( of paid employment ) which is seen by this perspective as lying at the heart of capitalism and uneven development .
20 With only a little imagination we can see the gene as sitting at the centre of a radiating web of extended phenotypic power .
21 Thus , there was still widespread damage in the superficial mucosa as seen at the light ( Fig 4C ) and scanning electron ( Fig 5E and F ) microscopic level .
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