Example sentences of "as the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The universal nature of enthalpy/entropy compensation is manifested in many phenomena as diverse as the sublimation of organic crystals , and agonist/antagonist binding to membrane bound receptors [ 6 ] . |
| 2 | Their outstanding abilities lay elsewhere and ie is to their fine engineering achievements in vaulting such constructions as the Basilica of Constantine and the Baths of Diocletian , or in the building of amphi-theatres such as the Colosseum , or in layouts like the Palace of Diocletian in Split or the Villa of Hadrian at Tivoli that we can appreciate their genius for architectural effect and scale in planning . |
| 3 | As an example , one of our machines with a SCSI hard drive takes about three minutes to boot from cold , as the SCSI card gets its affairs in order . |
| 4 | This also has the advantage of freeing the precision lapping machine for preparing successive batches of slides , as the polishing stage can be protracted . |
| 5 | I have n't been involved as far as the self-appraisal is concerned . |
| 6 | Italy , as the centre of the Roman world , conveyed the classical idea to a barbarian Europe ; Rome , as the site of papacy , propagated the faith of the Catholic Church . |
| 7 | A proper respect for the Modern thinking that underlay such tools of social and economic experiment as the centre of Zlin , the original Bauhaus buildings , the Weissenhof , the Maison Savoye and many more , demands that their documentation should be preserved , but they themselves should be allowed to die . |
| 8 | The years of steady expansion were over , although achieving the hoped-for cuts was not to be as easy as the centre expected . |
| 9 | In 1932 the government sent commissioners into Rotherham and Durham councils to take over their public assistance committees when they refused to operate the means test as rigorously as the centre wished . |
| 10 | Despite its boulevards in the north , the city was never as monotonous as the centre of Paris after Baron Haussmann had really got down to work on it in the 1860s . |
| 11 | The modern centre of Coventry is as much a reflection of mid-twentieth-century ideals , demands and greed , as the centre of Saffron Walden is of those of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . |
| 12 | Small it may be , but as the centre of an area of prosperous little villages , it has become a thriving business centre , and is equipped with a wide range of sports facilities , while the admirably designed , flag-bedecked Thurgauerhof is a thriving centre for concerts , exhibitions and other events . |
| 13 | Recently , the gallery was under the threat of total closure as the centre had lost its local funding . |
| 14 | As the centre of Paris moved west , masses of workers were evicted from the city centre , some to move along with the new factories to the banlieue . |
| 15 | However , the region over which this Minkowski frame matches actual space time would be small because of the intense curvature and would become smaller as the centre of the black hole is approached . |
| 16 | As the Centre develops it is hoped that the staff of social work agencies will undertake research projects in conjunction with it . |
| 17 | As well as the centre 's fascinating nuclear power exhibition , a packed programme of special events has been arranged for visitors — which is how brave assistant information officer Diane Williams ended up getting the bird ! |
| 18 | Neurotic anxiety is probably progressively giving way to social discontent , and as the centre of the conflict moves away from the ego into the society as a whole individual psychotherapy of whatever kind probably becomes increasingly difficult . |
| 19 | The consequence is that the nonsensical at the bottom disappears as utterly as the sense in works of art at the top . |
| 20 | If the sense in which all behaviour was non-autonomous turned out to be the same as the sense in which abnormal behaviour is now understood to be so , then the same attitude to it would be appropriate . |
| 21 | As far as the sense goes , we would be better to say that line B specifies the way in which God brings the army of the stars out in flaIl number : it is by summoning each one of them by name . |
| 22 | Coalition thus involved inevitable difficulties which could only be kept in check as long as the sense of crisis lasted . |
| 23 | The partial compensation found in the fertility of the black and brown immigrants of the Commonwealth countries who had sent over 3 million people into Britain since 1962 did not meet with universal enthusiasm , as the evidence from the Race Relations Board frequently suggested . |
| 24 | This view could not easily be maintained as the evidence mounted that , despite their negotiations with Sir Herbert Samuel and the TUC 's meeting with the Prime Minister on 12 May , the strike had been called off without any guarantees that those who had been involved would not be victimized by employers and that there would be no immediate resumption of negotiations between the coal miners and the coal owners . |
| 25 | Fragment A is more difficult to analyse as the evidence is incomplete and the habit of keeping to a set rate of progress may not have evolved at the A stage of composition ; but it could have been completed between June 1758 and April 1759 , in a shorter or longer time depending on whether he wrote one verse or three each day . |
| 26 | Such an approach ignored the complexity of modern business organisation as well as the evidence on taxation levels from abroad [ Phelps Brown , 1977 ] . |
| 27 | Yet as the evidence is unfolded it becomes increasingly incongruous that the mandarins of Whitehall should claim so little when they patently control so much . |
| 28 | The fitted values for the 1984/193 observation ( Figs 1 b , 2c ) should be treated with caution , as the evidence for the presence of a QPO feature is only marginally ( 85% ) significant . |
| 29 | The products of the Dorset potters were probably intended only for the auxiliary forts , as the evidence from Waddon Hill and Nanstallon ( Fox and Ravenhill , 1972 ) suggests . |
| 30 | Yet there was early trade with the Continent , as the evidence from Hengistbury Head has demonstrated . |