Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Announcing storm-damaged figures and government plundering of its profits that left nothing over for investment , Deutsche Bundespost Telekom yesterday said that following its move to set up its cellular operations as a separate company as a first step to privatisation , it was also considering privatising the unit it has created to look after large customers . |
| 2 | Nigerian-born John Salako came up through the Palace 's Junior ranks as a pacy winger who could also score goals but , since The Eagles ' last return to the 1st Division , John has shown himself' capable of fulfilling other roles , by performing splendidly at left-back in the latter stages of the 1989–90 season , notably in the FA Cup semi-final against Liverpool and in the Wembley Finals . |
| 3 | In 1978 , total taxes as a percentage of the GNP exceeded 40% in Germany , France , and the Scandinavian countries ( it was 60% in Sweden ) . |
| 4 | The PLO , of course , saw its often murderous operations as a sacred duty ; they were fighting the occupying power that had taken away the land of the Palestinians . |
| 5 | To focus upon income derived from protectionist policies as a major source of finance , is not compatible with the role of the EC as a significant participant in the world trading system . |
| 6 | Despite this somewhat shilly-shallying attitude , Bukharin was very clear in one respect : ‘ We can see the new course of our economic policies as a mighty strategic operation … intended to last for a number of years . ’ |
| 7 | The General Confederation of Labour ( Confederación General del Trabajo — CGT ) , which had traditionally formed the power base of Peronism , was split broadly into those for and those against the secretary-general , Saúl Ubaldini , who regarded the government 's economic policies as a betrayal of Peronism . |
| 8 | Might it not be better to bow to the inevitable , as Tocqueville had suggested long before , and accept democracy in its limited representative forms as a framework within which as much as possible of the traditional structure of power and values should be preserved ? |
| 9 | The fragrance of flowers which we find so alluring acts as a magnet to bees . |
| 10 | In the autumn of 1989 , therefore , the evidence for a permanent revolution in British public and private attitudes as a result of ten years of Mrs Thatcher 's rule was far from conclusive . |
| 11 | liquid products as a measure of liability to crystallize or cloud ; |
| 12 | That 's right , so implications there for developing countries , who are typically very dependent on agricultural exports as a source of export earnings . |
| 13 | The TAR region binds these cellular proteins as a single stranded stem which is part of a stem-loop structure which the RNA can form . |
| 14 | The essential function of the Masai was to provide the perfect opportunity for the British to display what they believed to be their finest characteristics as a ruling race : the ability to understand and to gain the respect of proud traditional peoples , the self-discipline to treat them with courtesy , and the moral authority to guide and control them without resort to brute force . |
| 15 | An alternative explanation here tested is that while many of the key-types are of great antiquity , the majority of so-called local designs were fixed and standardized in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as a result of inter-firm competition based on product differentiation and changes in the methods of marketing and distribution . |
| 16 | Hankin said : ‘ I had 18 fabulous months as a player at Peterborough . |
| 17 | Since in practice power concentrates , greater the fewer the contenders , the last of these solutions has strong attractions as a more generally attainable second-best . |
| 18 | Hill must have been typical of many mid-Victorian medics who reorientated their social and political allegiances as a result of a shift in class and professional status . |
| 19 | Later that same day the opposition rejected these concessions , insisting on the legalization of political parties as a precondition to negotiation . |
| 20 | Dating back to the late 1960s when the announcement of the Wilson government Urban Aid programme followed swiftly on the heels of Enoch Powell 's predictions of rivers of blood flowing through British cities as a result of racial conflict , there has regularly been a connection between the fear of ( racially based ) civil unrest and the implementation of high profile symbolic palliatives for inner city malaise ( Sills , Taylor and Golding , 1988 ; Solomos , 1988 ) . |
| 21 | When Norman gave him some canvases as a birthday present , Minton was astonished for he was unused to having his generosity returned . |
| 22 | At the end of the century the Franks appear in the Latin panegyrics as a maritime people , causing trouble in the Channel . |
| 23 | We have the president of the board of trade and industry making a stirring speech and saying that four hundred and forty proposals as a result of the booklet called cutting red tape were either being implemented or under active consideration and he talked about the explanatory guide to the bill , the new scrutiny committee that might be set up in each house , he spoke about the business task forces that had made over six hundred recommendations the debate I thought heralded was er er I thought the debate heralded er er a new age where over zealous officialdom would be a thing of the past . |
| 24 | British exports as a whole have , in fact , continued to rise throughout the period , both in value and volume terms . |
| 25 | Ms Anne Izza , press officer for NBT , said she had fielded about 300 calls as a result of the Mail on Sunday 's article . |
| 26 | A post as professor — known for historical reasons as a ‘ chair ’ — may be established or personal . |
| 27 | Using Osgood 's ( 1957a ; 1957b ) theoretical views as a starting-point , Kirk et al . |
| 28 | Birth rates began to decline for all social groups as a consequence of changing attitudes towards economic conditions and opportunities . |
| 29 | Now , just as the long-standing debate had been settled , here was Kammerer adducing experimental evidence in favour of Lamarck 's discredited theory , for he was claiming that the pads had been ‘ re-evolved ’ in a few generations as a direct consequence of the parents being persuaded to mate once more in water ! |
| 30 | Nevertheless , a start needed to be made somewhere to build a cumulative and objective body of knowledge of the relationships between the properties of social phenomena as a prelude to the formulation of substantial theoretical laws . |