Example sentences of "as [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they 'll take stage victories , not the big prizes , and may often be deployed as super-domestiques to younger and more eager men . |
| 2 | In the summer of 1372 an English fleet was defeated by Castilian galleys off the port of La Rochelle , and many Englishmen were taken as prisoners to Spain . |
| 3 | Smaller fields , however , could be commercially developed onshore and fields as small as 50 Bcf might be an attractive proposition offshore , if they were to be developed as satellites to larger fields . |
| 4 | I analyse the various types of experiential modalities , and in particular the manner in which objects are targeted , and present themselves as objects to our evidential consciousness . |
| 5 | LIFESPAN treats SPRs as objects to which some sort of response must be made . |
| 6 | LIFESPAN treats SPRs as objects to which some sort of response must be made . |
| 7 | Miss Bellamy gave examples of projects supported by the initiative team such as improvements to grassland areas which could be turned into wildlife areas if managed correctly leaving uncut grass around recreation areas will encourage wild flowers , which will attract insects , birds and small mammals . |
| 8 | Three watercolours depicting Kora-kora from Gebe , North Moluccas by Alphonse Pellion , a warrior from Gebe by Jaques , and a cuscus by A. Prevost were executed for the Louise de Saulces de Freycinet 1817 voyage of discovery and were subsequently published as illustrations to the official account Voyage autour du monde entrepris par ordre du Roi execute sur les corvettes de l'Uranie et la Physicienne ( Paris , 1824–44 ) . |
| 9 | So I do n't know whether they 'd been sending them away , to be er as patterns to some other firm or what , but there was quite a quant there was er a quantity of of casting sand you know black stuff that you use . |
| 10 | One can assume that the leaders of the Revolt were eliminated , removing the upper levels of tribal society , and also that the lands and possessions of the tribes would have been seized by the state to be retained as agerpublicus , sold off to speculators or given as rewards to loyalists . |
| 11 | During the first year of studies leading towards the MLitt and PhD , students will be assisted by induction courses , such as introductions to the Library 's East Asian and other collections and , where appropriate , courses in sinological method . |
| 12 | Their pay in paper money was so bad and came so late that unless they had peasant relatives who could supply food , they were reduced to making shoes , singing psalms in church , or hiring themselves out as labourers to peasants . |
| 13 | Perfumed soaps , bath foams or oils , talc and vaginal deodorants can all act as irritants to the delicate skin around the vagina and urethra , because of allergy or sensitivity , and act as triggers . |
| 14 | Reminiscent of conventional municipal statutory local plan-making , the preparation of the Area Strategies — ‘ informal ’ local plans — have enabled MDC to create a forum in which local authorities , residents and the private sector alike can contribute as consultees to the local urban renewal process . |
| 15 | The Brazilian automobile assembly industry was created in the 1950s to replace imports by using investment allowances and protection as inducements to foreigners to invest . |
| 16 | The new President , the Premier , the two Deputy Premiers and the Defence Minister all held seats in the People 's Great Hural which they were required to give up , as it was stipulated that Cabinet post-holders could not concurrently serve as deputies to the assembly . |
| 17 | Growing herbs at random throughout a garden is in some ways the best arrangement — it is , after all , the way in which they would grow naturally — and species and varieties will be found that are happy on the rock garden , by the water , in bedding schemes , or as underplantings to tall perennials , shrubs and trees . |
| 18 | The Anglican clergy campaigned actively on behalf of Tory candidates , denouncing their Whig rivals as enemies to the Church and State . |
| 19 | These flat files were used as inputs to the contig-building software , together with ancilliary files giving information about the positions of any mapped probes and any contigs that had been determined previously . |
| 20 | Those programs that filter or rearrange the data write output files in the same format as the inputs , so that they may be used as inputs to the other applications . |
| 21 | Yet though disco has never been short of ‘ Push push in the bush ’ and ‘ Ring My Bell ’ sentiments , voices of doom , correction , ‘ positive ’ lifestyle and spiritual inspiration have always reacted as counter-insurgents to disco 's erotic , dervish thrust . |
| 22 | These give us a better view of the musical lives of the Hotteterres in their historical and social contexts , reflecting the positions they held as musicians to the court of Louis XIV . |
| 23 | It is noteworthy that Martin is described in the inventory as a ‘ Mâitre facteur d'instruments ’ , a designation rarely found for the Hotteterres ; normally they are named in documents according to their official titles as musicians to the court . |
| 24 | Undergraduates at Imperial College , London , guide and stimulate local pupils by acting as tutors to small groups within classes |
| 25 | In the communist world in the long years before collapse all concessions to the market were resisted as concessions to capitalism ; they were inconsistent with the accepted principles of socialism . |
| 26 | Roman generals who campaigned in the Greek-speaking eastern Mediterranean during the second and first centuries BC were regarded by the Greeks as successors to the Macedonian kings , who were in their turn successors to Alexander the Great ( d.323 BC ) . |
| 27 | The teaching role of the bishops , as successors to the apostles , is described as a service to the whole Church . |
| 28 | Would-be ambassadors thus continued to be trained , in so far as they were trained at all , by the time-honoured method of acting as secretaries to older and more experienced diplomats , or by being attached in some subordinate capacity to one of their country 's embassies abroad . |
| 29 | This idea may even have developed from the hunting practices and rituals , in which men dressed as animals to be able to approach near enough to use their short-weapons effectively . |
| 30 | Bishops in every diocese in France could be seen sorting out conflicts in ecclesiastical organization according to its principles ; parish priests and laymen were drawn into the processes , whether as parties to disputes or as witnesses . |