Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] as a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said , ‘ I am older than you , sir ( how easily that polite ‘ sir ’ crept in as a mode of address ! ) — old enough to discover that finding out often leads to less pleasurable states of mind than mere ignorance ! ’ |
| 2 | The coaching committee in fact , had originally settled for four boxers but then included a fifth and Crowley then got in as a result of tremendous pressure from the body of the floor . |
| 3 | For fifty years since the posthumous publication of Henri Pirenne 's Mahomet et Charlemagne ( 1937 ) scholars have been debating what they have labelled its ‘ thesis ’ : that the ancient rhythms of an undivided Mediterranean civilization had enough tenacity to survive Germanic invasions and settlements , and were disrupted and transformed only as a consequence of the spread of Muslim power , cutting the Mediterranean in half . |
| 4 | The ash swelled slightly as a result of the wetting and set hard round the corpses , making perfect natural moulds of them , and in some cases preserving even the imprint of clothing and the details of facial expressions . |
| 5 | We can see from Table 16.4 that between 1964 and 1970 the total receipts from all taxes ( including National Insurance ) rose sharply as a proportion of GDP . |
| 6 | This situation changed radically as a result of the ‘ merger boom ’ of the period 1957–69 , which saw the national brewers ' share of net output rise from 18 per cent to 64 per cent . |
| 7 | Which he described incidentally as a bit of a damp . |
| 8 | These questions arose largely as a consequence of EC membership , which necessitated a phased withdrawal of ‘ protection ’ from the Spanish home market . |
| 9 | Both the sun and the air as wind were essential to human life and in Amun-Re came together as a coalescence of creative elements . |
| 10 | The work on show , produced by none recently graduated women artists , demonstrates an unmistakable commitment both to engage and challenge the painterly and formal conventions of modernism. 2 The group originally came together as a result of a set of interviews and articles coordinated by Rebecca Fortnum and Gill Houghton , published in a special issue of the Women Artists ' Slide Library Journal in 1989. 3 |
| 11 | Mostly it came over as a matter of feeling hard done by — self-pity rather than bravado ; or a habitual , weary tinkering to save a bit here and there . |
| 12 | The investment , back of house , at the hotel came partly as a result of consultation with local environmental health officers . |
| 13 | I preferred doing what we call off-diary stories , not the councils and the jobs that came up as a matter of routine . |
| 14 | Sysmin 's rules of application were extended to cover situations where a country 's export earnings suffered substantially as a result of disruption of production without necessarily affecting viability . |
| 15 | He often came out as a bit of a bighead and , accused of this at the time , took a tape-measure and agreed that his head had indeed expanded by one-eighth of an inch since leaving Wales . |
| 16 | I came out as a result of sexual frustration and a desire to be honest with myself . |
| 17 | I know some young women rightly feel that they came out as a result of their own strength — and of course many of them do come out without any youth work involvement . |
| 18 | The legislation that came out as a result of that then was absolutely sure , you know that it was copper bottom insurances given given that er legislation would prevent accidents of that nature again . |
| 19 | According to them the capitalist representation of labour , the idea that labour is a thing which can be bought and sold , came about as a result of certain economic and technical developments in medieval towns . |
| 20 | There was the huge extension of state activity in other areas of social life that came about as a result of the ‘ warfare means welfare ’ principle of the 1940s . |
| 21 | The emphasis on Christianity in this part of the Act came about as a result of a House of Lords amendment to the Education Reform Bill originally tabled by Baroness Cox and finally presented in a more pragmatic form by the Bishop of London after extensive consultation with interested parties . |
| 22 | It was one of the three schools which came about as a result of pressure from adult deaf societies . |
| 23 | The eventual collapse of the adjustable peg system came about as a result of intensification of the pressures that had developed during the 1960s . |
| 24 | The development of a separate Montenegrin political and cultural entity came about as a result of the forcible separation of Zeta from the main body of the Serbs after the death of Tsar Dušan in 1355 . |
| 25 | Both talks came about as a result of requests from friends who attended the same BSc course as Philip and are now teachers . |
| 26 | Their detection normally came about as a result of the appearance of a child ! |
| 27 | It is a new legal framework for child care and came about as a result of lessons learnt from Lord enquiry into child abuse in Cleveland in 1987 . |
| 28 | His involvement with Derry council came about as a result of last year 's highly successful cultural festival Impact 92 , which he believes laid the foundations for the city 's redevelopment . |
| 29 | That all erm came about as a result of the Marie Rivers case |
| 30 | A number of writers have drawn attention to the fact that although Rameau 's name was never quite forgotten during the century after his death , the Rameau ‘ revival ’ came about as a consequence of the Franco-Prussian War . |