Example sentences of "as a [noun] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mark 's address to an international audience at Trinity College , Dublin , came as a shock to European Commissioners , Government Ministers and their academic advisers . |
| 2 | Evidence of American interest in drawing together new alliances in areas of regional tension in the Third World in the early 1980s and of extending the competence of existing ones came , therefore , as a shock to Soviet leaders . |
| 3 | The first sight of the Princess on a rainswept quayside in Wales came as a shock to royal watchers . |
| 4 | It may come as a shock to most men , but pre-adolescent boys are more likely to have a higher orgasm rate than the mature members of their sex . |
| 5 | Jean Marie Le Pen denounces Maastricht as a plot by European fédérastes , as he homophobically calls them , to penetrate French identity and take over Paris from Brussels . |
| 6 | As that course had not been taken , the sentence of three years ' detention took effect , by reason of Criminal Justice Act 1982 , 5.1B(S) as a sentence of 12 months ' detention , and the excess of the sentence over 12 months ' was remitted . |
| 7 | The appellant had been sentenced to a term of detention which took effect as a sentence of 12 months ' detention in a young offender institution , and the Court 's powers were limited to declaring that that was the effect of the sentence passed by the Crown Court . |
| 8 | We heard it yesterday from the hon. Member for Dagenham , who referred to the community charge register as a threat to civil rights . |
| 9 | Employers , therefore , had less reason to associate for defensive purposes since although trade unionism did represent a challenge to employers ' power to manage ‘ it was manifest as a threat to specific employers in specific industries at specific times and places rather than as a general threat to employers as a class ’ ( Adams , 1981 , p. 286 ) . |
| 10 | Among the Paracelsians there had been an emphasis on inner illumination , which could be perceived as a threat to established forms of religion . |
| 11 | Whether or not the likes of Richard Neville were accurately described in this manner by Mrs Whitehouse and other members of what Neville and his associates perceived to be the ‘ establishment ’ , or whether they could genuinely be described in Cohen 's ( 1988 ) terms as ‘ folk devils ’ , ‘ persons emerging to become defined as a threat to societal values and interests ’ , it is clear that , for Mrs Whitehouse , they represented a grave threat to all that she held dear . |
| 12 | A condition , episode , person or group of persons emerges to become defined as a threat to societal values and interests ; its nature is presented in a stylised and stereotypical fashion by the media ; the moral barricades are manned by editors , bishops politicians and other right-thinking people ; socially accredited experts pronounce their diagnoses and solutions ; ways of coping are evolved or ( more often ) resorted to ; the condition then disappears , submerges or deteriorates and becomes more visible . |
| 13 | A condition , episode , person or group of persons emerges to become defined as a threat to societal values and interests ; its nature is presented in a stylized and stereotypical fashion by the mass media ; the moral barricades are manned by editors , bishops and politicians and other right-thinking people ; socially accredited experts pronounce their diagnoses and solutions ; ways of coping are evolved , or ( more often ) resorted to ; the condition then disappears , submerges or deteriorates … |
| 14 | They arouse protectiveness in women and are not seen as a threat by other men . |
| 15 | Secondly , the struggle between Keynes and ‘ orthodoxy ’ has been depicted too much as a battle of theory , not enough as a conflict between rival conceptions of the art and duty of government . |
| 16 | In his public statements on the dispute Lal portrayed it both as a factional struggle , between himself and members of Janata Dal who had come from the Prime Minister 's Jan Morcha group , and as a conflict between urban politicians and a representative of rural India . |
| 17 | Ten years ago , evidence of the gap between organisations and members was generally hailed , on the left , as a conflict between stodgy bureaucrats and heroic workers ; today , the left is likely to be on the receiving end of complaints about unresponsiveness , paternalism and manipulation . |
| 18 | Naturally this enforcement pattern could be justified by the inspectorate who see their primary function not as a kind of industrial police force , but more of a pastoral mission rounding up wayward factory owners and showing them the light and contentment to be gained from compliance with current standards of safety , health , and welfare required by law . |
| 19 | As a change from wet feet and sightseeing I was smuggled into an English-language class where we drank home-made slivovitz and one of the students , a lugubrious-looking individual called Miroslav who played the bassoon in the Moravia Philharmonic Orchestra , invited me to a concert the following evening . |
| 20 | Just as a change in liquid assets may lead to little or no change in credit , so a change in credit may occur with little or no change in liquid assets . |
| 21 | Firstly , when one thinks about using computers in schools , one tends to think of technology , and you think of people with white coats and dials and sort of science and technology and so forth , whereas I think in schools the big interest is in using a microcomputer as a teaching aid and as a support to other services and other ways of doing things , so it is just as relevant in a primary school as a secondary school . |
| 22 | He has just returned from working as a photographer for six months on the Russian liner Karelya . |
| 23 | In terms of the use of multimedia generally , the visual impact of HDTV may heighten interest in using multimedia across a broad range of applications , most obviously as a component of HDTV-based POS and POI terminals . |
| 24 | In summary these are the introduction of : changes to the format of the p&l account , including an analysis of the results of continuing operations , acquisitions ( as a component of continuing operations ) and discontinued operations ; changes to the calculation of , and disclosure requirements regarding , earnings per share ; a note of historical cost profits and losses ; and a statement of total recognised gains and losses . |
| 25 | As in the opening stages of the civil war in Croatia , the army says it has intervened to protect its soldiers and facilities and act as a buffer between warring sides . |
| 26 | In later years Barcelona and the region to the north formed part of the kingdom of Arragon , and acted as a buffer against Saracen invasions into the rest of Europe . |
| 27 | In a longer perspective Austro-Russian rivalry in the Balkans had superseded the old Straits question as a detonator of European explosives . |
| 28 | Some might see this as a mirror for familiar aspects of human life . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The new classical macroeconomics , which we shall examine in greater detail in Chapter 7 , can , to a considerable extent , be viewed as a return to pre-Keynesian methods of analysis , particularly in their treatment of the operation of the labour market . |