Example sentences of "of [noun] [noun] [verb] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even where the company is viewed as a purely private phenomenon , however , there is no justification for regarding the quality of management decision making as a matter that is ‘ private ’ in relation to the shareholders . |
| 2 | In war it was only the poor who were expected to die and so the death of Earl Patrick came as a great shock to everyone . |
| 3 | The publication of Humani Generis came as an especial shock to the Catholic world because the theological developments it criticized had passed largely unnoticed . |
| 4 | The village of Inverinate is bypassed and the head of Loch Duich reached as a green strath opens up ahead . |
| 5 | The generosity of machine knitters comes as no surprise to us — it is one of the first things one notices about them . |
| 6 | Similarly Hughes , Wikeley and Nash ( 1990 ) investigated what parents of infant children perceived as the characteristics of a good primary school . |
| 7 | Congruent Corp licenses XIE for the RS/6000 from $500 , and licensees wil receive free of charge software upgrades as the standards process progresses . |
| 8 | The ANUFLOOD system requires locational and building type data on individual properties , stage-damage curves relating the average damage that would result from overfloor flooding to differing depths for each property type , and lastly , flood frequency in terms of flood height expressed as a probability . |
| 9 | It is possible to knit a bias strip of mesh lace to use as a collar . |
| 10 | A third area of earthquake activity extends as a rather diffuse belt from the Mediterranean region , through the Himalayas and into Burma . |
| 11 | Click Mill , an old corn mill , north-east of Dounby off the B9057 on Mainland , the largest and chief island of the Orkneys , is a fascinating survival of the type of water mill known as a Norse mill . |
| 12 | In 1813 a gang of student body-snatchers known as the Patent Leather Club or Brotherhood of the Knife were found to be stockpiling spare limbs in tubs of salt water in secret rooms off the High Street . |
| 13 | In his alternative biogeography Gersmehl ( 1976 ) also focuses upon the circulation of mineral elements modelled as a system of compartments and transfer pathways . |
| 14 | When Beveridge addressed the different primary causes of need he distinguished what he saw as the ‘ problem ’ of age from the needs created by disability : the former being concerned with retirement from work as a result of age and the latter concerning the inability of a person of working age to work as a result of illness or accident . |
| 15 | The late 1970s ' level of manufacturing investment stood as a record until 1987 . |
| 16 | The tops of the tall trees in the garden of Buckingham Palace thrashed as the heavy Wessex helicopter passed over them to set down . |
| 17 | He did not foresee that his own introduction of the Hattersley automatic loom to the islands would enable the weaving of Harris Tweed to flourish as a cottage industry , serving a world-wide market , sixty years after he was dead . |
| 18 | Lovers of Italy will know that the resort is linked with the famous Villa Carlotta and the lovely old town of Tremezzo by a huge avenue of plane trees known as the ‘ Via del Paradiso ’ . |
| 19 | the research library network , consisting of the entire set of national and research libraries and other kinds of information resources acting as a cooperative and integrated whole in support of scholarship . |
| 20 | THE RISE of sea level predicted as a consequence of global warming has been the subject of some spectacular doom-mongering since the greenhouse effect leapt to prominence . |
| 21 | Wynkyn de Worde printed Hilton 's Scale at the command of Lady Margaret Beaufort and carefully arranged selections from the Book of Margery Kempe known as A shorte treatyse of contemplacyon . |
| 22 | Mr Fitch a former barman had Korsakoff 's disease , a kind of brain failure occurring as a result of alcoholism . |
| 23 | City Square was a cheerless park , with arrangements of black , white and grey flowers in beds , grey stretches of grass , and a monumental , black , floodlit statue of Truro Daine dressed as a Roman emperor , fiddle tucked under his chin , bow poised to saw down . |
| 24 | Local wildlife includes a species of swallowtail butterfly known as the gifucho ( Luehdofia japonica ) , and the endangered Iwasuge Himalayan bear . |
| 25 | He was a licentiate in law of Hanoi University working as a history teacher . |
| 26 | Along with the thousands of appeal letters sent as a result of Amnesty 's campaign , perhaps the clearest direct pressure is being exerted by the Sri Lanka Aid Consortium , made up of donor governments and multi-lateral institutions . |
| 27 | The peasant was witnessing members of an informal group of earth scientists known as the International Crustal Research Drilling Group ( ICRDG ) during the early stages of an intriguing and seemingly paradoxical research venture : probing into a mountain range to learn a good deal about the ocean floor . |
| 28 | I WAS surprised that the exposure of Thomas Courtney practising as a Harley Street gynaecologist without specialist qualifications caused such outrage . |