Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [vb -s] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Utilities were among the more buoyant sectors , helped by the search by pensions funds for higher-income investments to compensate for the five-point drop in their investment returns as a result of the Budget changes . |
| 2 | There are two possibilities : one involves active rifting in which rifting develops as a response to the tensional stresses induced in the crust by uplift resulting from upwelling of the asthenosphere ( Fig. 4.5(C) ) ; the other involves passive rifting in which rifting is initiated by extensional stresses in the lithosphere , and this permits the subsequent upwelling of hot mantle which in turn induces thermal uplift ( Fig. 4.12 ) . |
| 3 | and then there be the third little bedroom in the middle which Pam has as a sewing room |
| 4 | As Packer ( 1968 ) has pointed out , the criminality of their enterprise acts as a kind of ‘ tariff ’ that protects them from the competition of ‘ legitimate ’ entrepreneurs unwilling to take the risks of illegal enterprise , and provides them with customers who have no legal redress against the most excessive forms of exploitation . |
| 5 | Fergus ' London also remains haunted by his IRA past , which Jordan shows as a conflict not between factions , but between different kinds of humanity — with Fergus himself seeming shockingly sympathetic after the media black-out on real-life terrorists . |
| 6 | Farthest away its surface acts as a mirror and the sky 's colours will be almost identical to those of its reflection — almost but not quite . |
| 7 | Their secret is soon discovered , however , when the local nuclear waste storage facility where their father works as a physicist records mysterious disappearances of radioactive materials . |
| 8 | Many common passerine species must also have increased their downland ranges as a result of the slow advance of scrub and woodland over the remaining grass , and probably the downland avifauna is more varied today than in 1939 despite losing its characteristic and most interesting specialities . |
| 9 | At that time it got around that he was a straight-faced , humourless character , which Wegerle regards as a slander . |
| 10 | ( David and Margot Wizansky have no financial interests in the properties , but their company acts as a consultancy and can provide a management service . ) |
| 11 | Mr Wakerley said Sams denied any knowledge of the kidnap and murder of Julie and in a confession to the Stephanie plot admitted making ‘ one huge error ’ by discussing his ransom plans as a joke with another person . |
| 12 | Even in that period , reactions were not always as bad as these ; in 1618 the water-poet John Taylor had a wonderful Scottish holiday ( having gone there , as a result of a bet with Ben Jonson , without money , so that his account stands as a testimony to the generosity of the Scots ) . |
| 13 | He is plagued by demons which go back to his childhood and his torment intensifies as a train hurtles him away from or maybe towards a crime . |
| 14 | We are espeically pleased that his Knighthood comes as a result of Mrs Thatcher 's personal recognition . |
| 15 | Like all representatives , his garage acts as a warehouse for samples and spare parts . |
| 16 | What is mandatory is nothing more or less than what Parliament requires as a precondition of according to such instruments the force of law . |
| 17 | But nobody else is in all four of these key areas of chemical technology , and there are no new entrants into what Ewart describes as a club with an extremely high entry cost . |
| 18 | ‘ The key to recognising an addiction is when it starts to have power and control over you and the rest of your life suffers as a consequence . ’ |
| 19 | When a covenant in a lease is breached the general contractual remedies — injunction , specific performance and damages — are available to whichever party suffers as a consequence . |