Example sentences of "as [art] [noun] of [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | [ … ] However the problem with regulation , as US experience testifies , is that the regulatory agency can become captured by the political interests of the industry it is regulating and fail to act as the guardian of consumers ' interests . |
| 2 | They are likely to be revised as the circumstances of mothers ' lives change through the 1990s . |
| 3 | But government is indirectly involved as the provider of taxpayers ' money ; and through its duty to set standards for publicly and privately provided care . |
| 4 | Not based upon any consensus of content , nor the expectation that teachers will do the same thing with all the class , this takes seriously the concept of the teacher as the manager of pupils ' own learning instead of a purveyor of information and ideas . |
| 5 | It is often suggested that ‘ the members ’ as the beneficiaries of directors ' duties means ‘ the present and future members ’ . |
| 6 | From this point of view , societal characteristics can not be explained as the product of actors ' choices , since these choices are themselves the product of socialisation . |
| 7 | Whatever advantages there may be to the shareholders in the adoption of one or other of these goals as the object of directors ' duties , liability rules , as will be shown in more detail in section II , are too unsophisticated a control technique to make it possible in practice to discriminate between them . |
| 8 | However , Hope , by that time , clearly regarded himself as the embodiment of blacks ' ambitions . |
| 9 | Historians have treated the emergence of the theory of evolution as the culmination of scientists ' efforts to explain this diversity in space and time . |
| 10 | The vote was widely seen as a test of voters ' attitude to greater integration into western Europe . |
| 11 | What was significant about the Banstead strategy in this respect was that offering continued inpatient care to ‘ decantees ’ was presented by psychiatrists as a protection of patients ' rights , particularly the right to stay in hospital where , they argued , ‘ many resist any suggestion that they should leave the hospital and also become more ill when such suggestions are made … to press such a matter against the patients ’ will would certainly not be in their best interests ' . |
| 12 | I thought of myself as a connoisseur of girls ' good looks ; and I knew that this was one to judge all others by . |
| 13 | NARAL is asking readers of the New York Times to see a loss of women 's rights as a loss of Americans ' rights , thus implying that this is a novel way to look at the matter . |
| 14 | Bilingual children offer opportunities to explore language in a novel context , and a study of the different ways in which different languages convey and produce meanings should feature as an element of teachers ' schemes of work , wherever this is practicable . |
| 15 | The intention therefore is significantly different although both are concerned with presenting oneself as an object of others ' attention and finding a public language to do so . |