Example sentences of "as [noun] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charlemagne used his womenfolk indirectly as safety-valves for the resentments of male kin , and directly as props to his own authority . |
| 2 | In 1483 John Howard duke of Norfolk made William Boleyn his deputy as admiral for the coasts of Norfolk and Suffolk , and it is possible that Boleyn had initially held the post as Gloucester 's deputy . |
| 3 | In 1483 John Howard duke of Norfolk made William Boleyn his deputy as admiral for the coasts of Norfolk and Suffolk , and it is possible that Boleyn had initially held the post as Gloucester 's deputy . |
| 4 | Page & Moy offer you a unique opportunity to see the spectacular Bolshoi Ballet perform Tchaikovsky 's Nutcracker at the Bolshoi Theatre on New Year 's Eve , as well as take in the sights of one of the world 's greatest capitals , Moscow . |
| 5 | I shall start with a misunderstanding which the method of explanation adopted here is likely to give rise to among readers used to philosophical explanations of concepts such as authority being presented as accounts of the meanings of words . |
| 6 | The swastika lozenge ( at North Hill and Box ) or swastika in a tilted square ( Culver Street ) is a common motif ; as are triangles ( hollowed at Rapsley and North Hill ) , reversed and used as fillers for the spaces between lozenges . |
| 7 | These discs are for shock absorption as well as protection of the bones from rubbing against each other during movement . |
| 8 | SIR — Following the Conservatives ' election victory may I , as chairman of the governors of a large rural comprehensive school , make a threefold plea in respect of the future of state education . |
| 9 | The conference unanimously elected President Blaise Compaore of Burkina as chairman of the heads of state conference for a period of two years , and Antonio Alberto do Rosario , Cape Verde Minister of Rural Development and Fisheries , as CILSS minister co-ordinator . |
| 10 | He breathed heavily as images of the fates of previous presidents replayed themselves in his mind . |
| 11 | It is not impossible , for example , that Abdulkerim and Molla Arab served successively as Mufti in the years between Fahreddin Acemi 's death and Molla Husrev 's return from Bursa . |
| 12 | Thus , Stevie Wonder and Al Green are just as likely to be cited as influences alongside the likes of Soul II Soul or Public Enemy . |
| 13 | It was important for us to ensure that parents understood what ANDES position was , as the mass media was so intent on branding us as Communists in the hands of the Soviets . |
| 14 | What lay behind Eadwine 's assault on the kingdom of Gwynedd is never made clear , but Aethelfrith had campaigned as far afield as Chester against the men of Powys and the Anglian attack on the north Britons was a continuing process . |
| 15 | In particular , a mechanism was required to channel funds to the UK as compensation for the effects of CAP , from which other member states benefited disproportionately . |
| 16 | An allowance is made as compensation in the rates for family credit , but the amount allowed varies from 45 pence to 60 pence a day , whereas the average price of a meal in primary schools is 65 pence . |
| 17 | In 1843 , in a series of lectures at the Orthopaedic Institution ( published in 1855 as Lectures on the Deformities of the Human Frame ) he described what became known as ‘ Little 's disease ’ , a spastic paralysis of both lower limbs secondary to infantile cerebral palsy . |
| 18 | Common law constitutes the law and customs of ancient lineage that have been upheld as law by the courts in cases decided before them . |
| 19 | Held , dismissing the applications , that prior to 1873 judges sitting as visitors to the Inns of Court to hear appeals by barristers who had been ordered to be suspended or disbarred were acting as judges and performing judicial duties which were an essential part of the administration of justice in their courts ; that the disciplinary jurisdiction of the visitors in respect of fitness of persons to become or remain barristers , was a jurisdiction which was transferred to the High Court by section 16 of the Judicature Act 1873 and retained there by section 18 of the Judicature Act 1925 and section 10(3) ( b ) of the Supreme Court Act 1981 ; and that , accordingly , there was no jurisdiction to hear the applications for judicial review ( post , pp. 1007D–E , G — 1008A , 1010B ) . |
| 20 | read the following judgment of the court , prepared by Brooke J. In these two cases we have been invited to determine , as preliminary issues , the capacity in which judges of the High Court are acting when they sit as visitors to the Inns of Court to determine appeals against orders by which barristers are to be disbarred or suspended from practice by their Inns . |
| 21 | 212 ) , and submitted that when High Court judges sit as visitors to the Inns of Court on disciplinary appeals they were merely acting as the final tier in the same disciplinary process . |
| 22 | It was common ground that when High Court judges sit as visitors to the Inns of Court they are not sitting as a court of law : In re S. ( A Barrister ) [ 1970 ] 1 Q.B . |
| 23 | It was common ground that if the pre-1873 jurisdiction of the judges as visitors to the Inns of Court in disciplinary appeals was a jurisdiction exercised by them sitting elsewhere than in court or chambers , when acting as judges in pursuance of any statute , law or custom , then the jurisdiction was vested in the High Court and exercised by judges of that court sitting as such and was not amenable to judicial review . |
| 24 | This analysis of the history of the visitors ' jurisdiction before 1873 makes it quite clear , in our judgment , that when the judges were sitting as visitors to the Inns of Court to hear appeals by barristers who had been ordered to be suspended or disbarred they were acting as judges and performing judicial duties which were an essential part of the administration of justice in their courts . |
| 25 | Since we are satisfied that by the operation of the Judicature Act 1873 and its successor statutes High Court judges are sitting as the High Court when they exercise their jurisdiction as visitors to the Inns of Court in disciplinary matters , there is nothing in Lord Diplock 's speech in that case which derogates from the proposition that they are not susceptible to judicial review , which is available , as Lord Diplock said , at p. 384 , as a remedy for mistakes of law made by inferior courts and tribunals only , and not for mistakes of law made by the High Court itself . |
| 26 | They took one look at him and scampered over the fence as quickly as rats over the timbers of a sinking ship . |
| 27 | These reports are now published separately and not , as previously , treated as appendices to the reports of the Public Accounts Committee or the Appropriation Accounts . |
| 28 | Unfortunately , when such influences are considered as explanations of the results of free-running experiments , the following problems have never been satisfactorily dealt with . |
| 29 | Copies also hang as decoration on the walls of the Alexander Wilson Suite in the Town Hall , and within the carpet and bird motif , copied from one of the drawings is a major feature of the striking border that surrounds the newly decorated reception room . |
| 30 | If a few Ukrainians suffered as individuals at the hands of the Nicholaevan regime , Jews , like Poles , suffered collectively . |