Example sentences of "[noun sg] as a [noun] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 The Markov methods represent the bottom-up approach , and they model English text as a Markov process which allows transition probabilities to be assigned to various letter combinations or n-grams .
2 Though he has a good deal of contact with senior officials ( and in the northern agency spends most of his time at headquarters ) he has a strong loyalty to the field officers in his area , retaining from his own earlier experience as a field officer what he feels to be a sympathetic understanding of practical problems .
3 Thatcham is funded by the insurance industry as a specialist operation which researches and measures how long all repair jobs should take , something of which most consumers will be unaware .
4 Recruitment in food service starts at the bottom with entry as a snack steward who will work in the self-service areas and assist in the smooth running of the lido deck service .
5 Using the P-postlabelling method with butanol extraction as an enhancement procedure we have compared adduct levels in a group of patients who have had either a previous truncal vagotomy and drainage where bile reflux might be expected or a previous highly selective vagotomy where bile reflux is less common .
6 Thus , provided that the court categorises the issue as a collateral question it will substitute judgment on the point , whether that be one of fact or law .
7 At the same time as our launching of Youth Leagues , we identified volleyball as a growth sport which was not only visually exciting but also had a good , clean image .
8 This is to treat the right as a call option which confers the right to purchase the share at an exercise price equal to the subscription price .
9 The fallacy that by using drama as a learning medium we necessarily dilute the drama is exposed by the fact that drama itself is usually greatly enhanced by the work that can accompany it in other curriculum areas .
10 The Association , who are rebuilding Modified Hall 7903 Foremarke Hall , are running the day as a fundraising event which will include sideshows , a fun-fair and , of course , steam specials .
11 Elizabeth , who met her fiance on holiday five years ago , was described last night as a kind person who ‘ would not see evil in anyone ’ .
12 The dock , near the Garden Festival site , is being marketed by the Merseyside Development Corporation as a waterfront development which could include offices , industry , a car showroom or fast food outlet .
13 Images are presented electrically to an optoelectronic array as a bit pattern which are is then sent in parallel by the device to a laser beam .
14 Images are presented electrically to an optoelectronic array as a bit pattern which are then sent in parallel by the device to a laser beam .
15 The ‘ Second ’ Prokofiev Sonata comes first on the disc — in its original guide as a flute sonata it dies predate the First Sonata — and it is here that Hardy and Devos really distinguish themselves .
16 Well my Lord as a time saver it would quite er how my er learned friend went through the documents , i it in the contents she would otherwise make and one suspects that it would take a great deal longer .
17 Eventually she ended up at Kirtland AFB , New Mexico , and after a less than spectacular career as a war memorial she was in danger of imminent scrapping .
18 A series of drawings may be selected and used in a slide show , making the program ideal for use as a presentation tool You can even import graphics files in a variety of formats from other applications for this purpose .
19 As will be shown below , the use of microcomputers to allow pupils to retrieve information sources for curricular work and viewing microcomputer use as an information skill which all pupils should acquire , ensures that the microcomputer is seen as a tool to enhance the learning done by pupils in schools .
20 As a matter of fact , I started on this paper as a graduate trainee myself .
21 Marcos had arranged the hand-out as a PR gesture he could easily afford , since he largely owned the pharmaceutical companies .
22 Tom Cruise , 30 , is tipped to win an Oscar for his performance as a navy lawyer who teams up with Demi Moore , 30 , battling against tough base commander Nicholson , 55 .
23 Particularly unimpressed was Nell McCafferty who thought it a bad choice as an opening movie which she assumed had been selected as a ‘ keynote ’ film for the festival .
24 In the case of both /Ε/; and /a/ it is the persons for whom the vowel has less significance as a network marker who seem to be leading the linguistic change .
25 People live in the real world , their not really going to be influenced , its about as sensible as saying er a Mills and Boon novel for example tells people about love are saying M I five use from Russia with Love as a training manual its the same kind of level of
26 This Order , which is now in force , amends the provisions of The Building Societies ( Supplementary Capital ) Order 1988 in terms of the specification of supplementary capital as a capital resource which building societies may aggregate with the reserves to assess the adequacy of their reserves and other designated capital resources under s 45(3) of the 1986 Act .
27 It was said that if the defendant took employment as a milk roundsman he would not be able to solicit orders for milk from any of the customers who had had their chairs renovated by the plaintiff company .
28 These areas are ( i ) the organization of licensing , censorship and other similar forms of control , and the struggle against these ; ( ii ) the organization of the market , both in its aspect as a trading area whose purposes , in expansion and profit , may often be in conflict with otherwise dominant political and cultural authorities , and its aspect as a mechanism for commodities in this especially sensitive field , where inherent calculations of profit and scale may impose tensions with other conceptions of art and , at a different level , impose its own new forms of commercial controls ; and ( iii ) the uneven and changing relations between a received and always to some extent recuperated ‘ popular ’ ( largely oral ) culture and the new forms of standardized and increasingly centralized production and reproduction .
29 A Democrat representing Wisconsin , he served in Congress for 22 years , during which time he built a reputation as a defence expert who was particularly resistant to Defence Department waste .
30 Although Dalgliesh knew of Alice Mair 's reputation as a cookery writer he had never read any of her books and had no idea to what culinary school , if any , she belonged .
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