Example sentences of "as [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They are a silent order , pledged not to allow a single word to pass their lips in the time they spend as guardians of the shrine . |
| 32 | Surely the hears , minds and souls of people who love the hills are potent forces for good because they see themselves as guardians of these beautiful places ? |
| 33 | Writing in 1959 of the teaching of English in these universities , Dyson expresses a certain pessimism in the light of the powerlessness of " men of liberal principles to perform their proper function as guardians of " civilised values " . |
| 34 | Traditional departments will serve as guardians of standards , as centers for training and the assignment of specialists ; they wo n't be where the work gets done . |
| 35 | When they are cited in the context of discussion or debate , arguments about irrationality and its cultural transmission ( B ) are frequently used as a strategy of professional empowerment on the part of teachers , who define racism in such a way to privilege their own role , as guardians of reason and enlightenment , in combating it . |
| 36 | The same may be true of the Prinias horsemen , but the relief there is rather low , and an alternative is that they turn their eyes on us as guardians of the house : the ‘ terror-mask ’ , a concept we shall meet again . |
| 37 | During the nineteenth century the ulama became increasingly critical of the Wahar dynasty and found themselves acting in effect as guardians of the people against the governments ; but they did not seek to govern themselves . |
| 38 | They act as guardians of the public purse when dealing with members of spending departments who seek additional resources . |
| 39 | It was the received wisdom in Edwardian Edinburgh printing offices , and it has been repeated by writers ever since , " that women first entered the trade as strike-breakers during the great print strike of 1872–3 in the city . |
| 40 | Hair ban : Kuwait is to enforce an Islamic ban on men working as hairdressers for women in beauty parlours . |
| 41 | Carol will be happy to receive news of former students and provide information such as activities for graduates . |
| 42 | Executorships and trusteeships are , of course , commonplace and will ( save perhaps where there is a family connection ) nearly always be effectively treated as activities of the firm . |
| 43 | Many aquarium shops will sell these terrestrial plants but they are meant to be used as marginals outside the tank or in a paludarium . |
| 44 | Forty years later these factors were identified as bits of chromosome , and a century later as molecules of DNA . |
| 45 | Education in audio visual techniques should be considered as disciplines in their own right . |
| 46 | About 1839 he went to Manchester and joined Sharp , Roberts & Co. , who already had a high reputation as builders of locomotives and cotton spinning machinery . |
| 47 | But all these are shown to be birds of mature woodlands , while some warblers and Yellowhammer emerge as birds of scrub or young plantation and edge . |
| 48 | Those under threat also included some of the most majestic of all birds — the golden eagle , the peregrine falcon — because , as birds of prey , they were at the head of the food chain . |
| 49 | Some cases do n't seem to have any physical cause at all , but have been linked to intangible factors such as times of stress , anxiety or depression , although this is quite rare . |
| 50 | A medical model has a strict routine , whereas a social work model allows for more individual autonomy and choice in matters such as times of getting up , going to bed , and going out for independent activities , which might conflict with staff shifts and rotas . |
| 51 | Michel Noir , the dashing young mayor of Lyons , and Michèle Barzach , an ex-minister of health and a former protégée of Jacques Chirac , the RPR leader , are standing for re-election as independents against official RPR candidates . |
| 52 | What … has never taken place is an epistemological critique at the most fundamental level of the connection between the development of a historicism which has expanded and developed enough to include antithetical attitudes such as ideologies of Western imperialism and critiques of imperialism on the one hand , and on the other , the actual practice of imperialism by which the accumulation of territories and population , the control of economies , and the incorporation and homogenisation of histories are maintained . |
| 53 | Most dealers are content but some have expressed alarm not only about the expense but the difficulty of showing large objects such as tapestries in an enclosed space and the inconveniences of artificial lighting . |
| 54 | Indeed , Fullan identified several other important ideas ; time and change , leadership and change , meaning and change , and the tension between grandeur and incrementalism as strategies for development . |
| 55 | Animals live in populations that are dispersed in characteristic ways in the environment , ways that can usually be interpreted as a function of the behaviour of individual members operating as strategies for survival and reproduction . |
| 56 | The choice may be quite temporary and for limited purposes — using contingent loyalties as strategies for action . |
| 57 | The answer is none of these things have been undertaken as strategies for the church . |
| 58 | Applying Shirk 's concept of ‘ adaptive behaviour ’ ( Shirk 1982 : 5 ) , their enthusiasm for a number of major student ‘ tides ’ such as going abroad to study , doing business and having love affairs , can be viewed as strategies for escaping from the depressing reality of everyday life in contemporary China . |
| 59 | Another development of the 1980s , which is relevant to the fortunes of institutions such as the ICA , is the disappearance of what was once called the ‘ avant-garde ’ has tended to conclude that it always was distinguishable from ‘ modern ’ or ‘ modernist ’ , and that its key feature was political affiliation , generally expressed as strategies of negation and opposition . |
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