Example sentences of "as [art] principal [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The central position which the Communists occupied in these campaigns was a result of their international connections , which made them appear as the principal opponents of Fascism . |
| 2 | James Paul saw the National Deaf and Dumb Society as the principal backers of establishing a network of missions for the deaf throughout the country , and the Society did indeed succeed in establishing the Ayrshire Mission to the Deaf at Kilmarnock in 1881 , with Paul himself as missioner , and the Stockton-on-Tees Mission in 1882 . |
| 3 | John Hogan , managing director of LASMO North Sea , cited low oil prices , coupled with the marginal economic yield from the project , as the principal reasons for not continuing with the project at the moment . |
| 4 | Should nation-states be regarded as the principal actors in the global political system ? |
| 5 | The statement that ‘ the parties that contended in turn for domination regarded the possession of this huge state edifice as the principal spoils of the victor ’ is nowhere more true than in the immediate pre- and post-colonial competition among indigenous interests for the administrative positions hitherto reserved for the imperialists . |
| 6 | By August 1984 a report issued by Lloyd 's of London was identifying mines , together with missiles and groundings , as the principal causes of damage claims . |
| 7 | As the principal ratepayers in the locality — even after the de-rating of agricultural land in 1927 — they pursued a low rateflow expenditure policy and therefore were extremely reluctant to commit local authority expenditure to the building of houses which could become a burden on the rates . |
| 8 | In Servan-Schreiber 's theory , the next generation of cheap personal computers , accessible to ordinary conversation in hundreds of different languages , would begin to replace cars and radios as the principal vectors of cultural exchange and development . |
| 9 | This philosophy was massively endorsed by the Scarman Report ( Scarman , 1981 ) , which advocated the setting up of community liaison procedures and the use of ‘ beat ’ officers as the principal ways of ensuring greater trust and co-operation between the police and their public . |
| 10 | It will be the first time that he and the Princess of Wales have attended together as the principal guests . |
| 11 | The quartzo-feldspathic gneiss contains quartz , feldspar and hornblende as the principal minerals , variable though small amounts of biotite , and with iron ores and apatite as the common accessory minerals present . |