Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This controversy has been tainted by racism parading as a concern for the adolescents ’ welfare , ’ says Boudjema . |
| 2 | Over more than ten years there have been negotiations between Kent County Council ( which originally intended to retain West Malling as a general aviation aerodrome ) and the local planning authority that intended to build all over it . |
| 3 | Pancreatic pseudocysts are localised collections of pancreatic secretions occurring as a result of pancreatic inflammation and ductal disruption . |
| 4 | Having dealt with the general principles of the UCTA it is now possible to analyse its effect in detail on various contractual relationships using as a framework the definitions and different combinations of the factors set out above in the section devoted to the basic rationale of the UCTA . |
| 5 | But the synopsis that he offers of his tale : is unmistakably that of a fabliau , and with the target figure appearing as a regular element within the fabliau it is understandable that the Reeve , a carpenter , should anticipate an attack upon himself : Fabliaux are thoroughly suitable textual weapons for the two churls , the Miller and the Reeve , to beat each other over the head with . |
| 6 | Article 26 of the 1983 UCP enabled banks to accept freight forwarders ' bills of lading when letters of credit required marine bills of lading if the freight forwarders ' bills of lading indicated that they were issued by a ‘ freight forwarder acting as a carrier , or the agent of a named carrier . ’ |
| 7 | Article 25 d. of the 1983 UCP provides that banks will reject a transport document issued by a freight forwarder ‘ unless it is the FIATA Combined Transport Bill of Lading approved by the International Chamber of Commerce or otherwise indicates that it is issued by a freight forwarder acting as a carrier or agent of a named carrier . ’ |
| 8 | Particles of pellets have polluted the tank , the gravel acting as a reservoir of pollution , despite the water changes . |
| 9 | The impact is often profound , with the MIS acting as a catalyst for developing a milieu in which the quantitative and qualitative aspects of approaches to systematic review can be balanced and integrated . |
| 10 | Former BDO Binder Hamlyn national managing partner Chris Swinson has finally decided to settle down after six months acting as a freelance trouble shooter and litigation expert . |
| 11 | Furthermore , should the level of perception of a toxic substance be lower than its TLV , then the odour is in effect acting as a warning to the workforce . |
| 12 | The tube was then introduced up to the sigmoid colon with the endoscope acting as a guide When the balloons were inflated with air , two 8 cm long segments were established ( Fig 1 ) ; one in the rectum ( rectal segment ) and another in the sigmoid colon ( sigmoid segment ) . |
| 13 | Helplessly she gazed at him , seeing how his pupils dilated as awareness flared , her own eyes darkening as a shivering sigh escaped her . |
| 14 | Although indentation testing as a measure of elastic modulus is not well known as a laboratory test method it is the basis of many hardness tests used in industry particularly for softer materials such as rubbers , where the indentation made under a standard load is large enough to be easily measurable . |
| 15 | Next time you watch a wildlife film , look out for animals feeding as a result of other animal 's activities . |
| 16 | In the other camp were the advocates , who characterised arts funding as a fundamental department of any civilised nation , and pointed out with some embarrassment that most Western countries devote ten times the per capita budget supported represented by the NEA 's $175 million ( £100 million ) budget . |
| 17 | In regard to the first , for example — that kasabat kadis did not normally enter or re-enter the medrese stream-two caveats must be entered , the first of which is that one must explicitly exclude two areas in which movement between kadiliks and medreses was not uncommon : first , the kadiliks and medreses below the level at which the hierarchy began to operate , whose holders received perhaps five , ten or fifteen akce a day ; and second , those at the top of the hierarchy , since it was not uncommon for holders of mevleviyet kadiliks to go back to medrese teaching as a form of either temporary or permanent retirement from service as a kadi or a kazasker . |
| 18 | ‘ In these circumstances it is not fair and reasonable for building societies and valuers to agree together to impose on purchasers the risk of loss arising as a result of incompetence or carelessness on the part of valuers ’ , he said . |
| 19 | Also present is the concept of aesthetic pleasure emerging as a by-product of the successful ordering of complex data . |
| 20 | ‘ … but we were betrayed by a British Secret Service agent posing as a Fenian officer . |
| 21 | Compensation is calculated to a complex formula which includes a basic award related to gross earnings and length of service and a compensatory award which seeks to meet the employee 's actual and future losses arising as a consequence of the dismissal . |
| 22 | In this vein , Swans are astonishing , the ruthlessly dehumanized mechanism of their rock functioning as a perfect analogue of their argument — that social life is enslavement . |
| 23 | Basic machines use the slip stitch setting as a method of knitting Fair Isle . |
| 24 | In the market , a person who can perform certain activities more efficiently may be able to take over a firm and capture the rent accruing as a result of greater efficiency . |
| 25 | Some clergymen had been approached by a journalist masquerading as a man in distress about his sexuality . |
| 26 | ‘ If a company is serious about stress then it has to address the issues raised , ’ commented , a chartered clinical psychologist working as a consultant with KPMG Peat Marwick , especially if it emerges that certain internal working practices and management are the major factors in staff stress levels . |
| 27 | If one is to present a credible case for investment planning as a progressive development one has to consider the problems raised by the choice of criteria of operation for a national investment bank . |
| 28 | My arguments concerning the broad possibilities and constraints given by the present structure of capitalist property are not supposed to have the status of a ready-made political programme , and in discussing the possibilities for investment planning as a fruitful avenue for socialist argument I make no pretence to have identified the means of conversion of ‘ social reason into social force ’ ( to use Marx 's formula ) . |
| 29 | This , in brief , is the framework of political calculation within which I have found it useful to investigate the idea of investment planning as a means of appropriating within socialist argument the changing structure of capitalist property in Britain . |
| 30 | In the light of the discussion above , it is possible to present the objectives of investment planning and enterprise democracy not merely as desirable from a socialist point of view , but as potential means of tackling the basic problems reflected in the sorry history of party politics since the '60s : investment planning as a means of breaking through the conservative/speculative mode of calculation of the financial institutions and restructuring industry ; enterprise democracy as a means of transforming the ‘ veto power ’ of the working class into a positive influence over the direction and management of enterprises . |