Example sentences of "as [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was widespread international sympathy for the mujaheddin as opponents of Soviet invasion : but this obscured the internal , civil war , origins of the conflict and led too few observers to ask what the programme of the tribal insurgents was , not least with regard to women . |
| 2 | The wholesale nature of the grants also threatened the interests of men not recognized as opponents of the regime , something which Gloucester was careful to avoid elsewhere . |
| 3 | The wholesale nature of the grants also threatened the interests of men not recognized as opponents of the regime , something which Gloucester was careful to avoid elsewhere . |
| 4 | Feminist analyses of them are compelled to co-exist with their uncertainties , and to make links with other , non-psychological discourses , such as discourses of gender . |
| 5 | Those who are addicted to the vertiginous rhetoric where language tells us nothing about reality , merely about other language , and where signifiers float in endless unattached free play , are apt to be contemptuous of demonstration and logic , seeing them as forms of bourgeois intellectual oppression . |
| 6 | The evidence of three recent controlled studies indicates that clients with bulimia nervosa can benefit to a similar degree from treatments which can not be regarded as forms of Cognitive–Behaviour Therapy ( Fairburn and Cooper , 1989 ) . |
| 7 | The first three of these serve as forms of energy ( starch mainly in plants , glycogen mainly in animals ) while cellulose is the tough material from which the cell walls of plants are constructed . |
| 8 | A number of student ‘ tides ’ were underway which can be seen as forms of adaptive behaviour or strategies for improving their social position , either temporarily or on a more permanent basis . |
| 9 | Although the leaked Catechism concedes that ‘ non-violent measures are preferable ’ as forms of punishment , it nevertheless declares that the death penalty ‘ is legitimate ’ . |
| 10 | But having snapped the thread which had led Hegel on from there to his speculative Absolute , they turned back to find the real meaning and reference of these objectifications in the subject which had produced them as forms of its own self-expression . |
| 11 | The constitution of subjects , and the simultaneous constitution of the occupants of particular roles would then both be seen as forms of legitimation . |
| 12 | Similarly , when G. P. Jones moves from noting the greater prominence of pronouns in Shakespeare compared with other Elizabethans to the statement that his sonnets have ‘ a substantial autobiographical element ’ , and that the ‘ fluctuation between thou and you ’ shows ‘ the poet 's uncertainty about his personal , social and professional connection with his patron is at its most acute ’ , then I feel that such speculations deflect attention from the real focus of interest , the pronouns as forms of relationship . |
| 13 | The United States ' amicus brief tried , unconvincingly , to demonstrate that both these forms of procedure should be regarded , and had been by the drafters of the Convention , as forms of ‘ service abroad ’ . |
| 14 | The multiplication of life tenures , the scramble for reversions , and the attempt to make posts hereditary are all indications that offices were coming to be regarded as forms of property rather than as jobs to be done . |
| 15 | Knowles and Mercer reject the idea that there is any general relationship between ‘ race ’ and gender as forms of division : rather , both racism and sexism should be ‘ viewed as a series of effects which do not have a single cause ’ . |
| 16 | Shirking and the pursuit of managerial goals are generally regarded as forms of behaviour that are socially inefficient , since the former involves the sub-optimal use of resources and the latter , on the assumptions discussed in Chapter 1 , produces allocatively inefficient outcomes . |
| 17 | The invention and development of the material means of cultural production is a remarkable chapter of human history , yet it is usually underplayed , by comparison with the invention and development of what are more easily seen as forms of material production , in food , tools , shelter and utilities . |
| 18 | There are forms of dance which we all admit as forms of art : for example , classical ballet . |
| 19 | Fourth , discounts for ‘ full line ’ ordering and commodity bundling are best interpreted as forms of price discrimination . |
| 20 | Kant , as we saw , held that the unity of the phenomenal world can be accounted for only if space and time are interpreted as forms of our intuition , not as properties of things in themselves , but that for this very reason we must accept that there is an extra-phenomenal as well as a phenomenal side to reality , with things in themselves being inaccessible to cognition . |
| 21 | Because these are short-term and rather non-specific behavioural changes , they must be regarded as forms of non-associative learning , but important to Kandel 's argument is that classical conditioning is also possible ; in this the unconditioned stimulus is a shock to the tail , and the conditioned stimulus a mild tactile stimulus to the siphon . |
| 22 | This makes little difference to the behaviour of the companies so far as the production of policies and their conduct of business are concerned , but it does impose further constraints on the marketing of what are now clearly seen as forms of saving . |
| 23 | His unspoken premise was that such a space for freedom would always continue to exist ; he saw Parliament and the courts as guardians of liberty . |
| 24 | Because they have seen the future they can not or will not speak of what they know so the Phoenix Guard are a silent order , pledged not to allow a single word to pass their lips in all the time they spend as guardians of the shrine . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 ? |
| 27 | 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 " . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |