Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Initiated in 1989 and subsequently entrusted to a royal commission for drafting [ see pp. 37053 ; 37392 ] , the national charter also reaffirmed Islamic law or sharia as the basic source of legislation and Arab Islamic civilization as the foundation of national identity . |
| 2 | For example , non-Christian religions were developed in more detail , and in many places a user was able to treat his own country or religion as the preferred category . |
| 3 | All students take French as the major language and choose either Spanish or German as the minor language . |
| 4 | The taking into account of the interests of the children need not , for article 13 purposes , treat their interests or welfare as the paramount consideration , as would be necessary under section 1 of the Children Act 1989 . |
| 5 | This made the limitations clause even more interesting , for the older man ( and no doubt his ancestral assumer ) had quite obviously used not a swepe or balista as the charge , but an almost identical engine of war known as a mangonel , in witty and canting allusion to the family name as used by them . |
| 6 | There are many important questions which emerge in relation to comparative study which employs place or locality as the frame of reference and explanation . |
| 7 | The girls bringing in the parcel could dress up like the bridegroom-to-be , taking his work or hobby as the theme , or like any male characters such as footballers , policemen or policewomen wearing sunglasses , gorillas with cigars , city gents in bowler hats , or a spoof pop group of boys in short trousers and caps singing , ‘ Will you still need me when I 'm sixty-four ? ’ . |
| 8 | Beneath the surface , the model in Pius XII 's time had not greatly changed even if communism had , understandably enough , replaced either Protestantism or liberalism as the chief immediate foe . |
| 9 | Under the 1919 Act local authorities were permitted to establish such bodies , and they could be either advisory or executive as the constituent authorities wished . |
| 10 | This could decide our extinction or survival as the human race . |
| 11 | There is no suggestion that Christians today view mental illness or epilepsy as the result of being possessed by evil . |
| 12 | The pulse code modulated recorder , using either plastic or steel tape or wire as the recording medium , soon became known as the ‘ second generation ’ type of FDR , and in due course the USA introduced American versions in some of their wide bodied jets and called them DFDRs — digital flight data recorders . |
| 13 | Natural history had been based in the museum , and in the field ; but the newer science of biology , named by a Frenchman and a German and prominently pursued by these two nations , became increasingly a laboratory science with experiment rather than description as the key . |
| 14 | This is conceptually similar but not identical to the phenomena described by Matza ( 1964 : 33–68 ) as the subculture of delinquency : both consist of ‘ precepts and customs that are delicately balanced between convention and crime ’ ; both ‘ posit objectives that may be attained through ( crime ) but also other means ’ ; both ‘ allow ( crime ) but it is not demanded or necessarily considered the preferred path ’ ; and both consist of ‘ norms and sentiments ’ which are ‘ beliefs that function as the extenuating conditions under which ( crime ) is permissible ’ . |
| 15 | Are they going to take area rather than population as the criterion now ? |
| 16 | But it is the theory of democracy as the right of the majority to rule which is seen as central , rather than democracy as the preservation of minority rights . |
| 17 | The discharge plasma produces a blue glow which may interfere with luminescence observation , particularly with meagre emitters such as quartz : this problem may be overcome by using helium rather than air as the leak gas . |
| 18 | There is , however , another version of what is happening to the UK economy , one which looks towards services rather than manufacturing as the basis upon which the economy will be re-established . |
| 19 | Suppose there exists a gravity-opposing agency with negative energy , which grows in strength faster than gravity as the object contracts . |
| 20 | The main thrust of Thatcherite social and economic philosophy was far from clear when she took office in May 1979 , so entrenched were key figures of the Heathite past in the party ; but the general thrust would clearly lie in pursuing the monetarist approach of the Chicago economist , Milton Friedman , in which control of the money supply through M3 indicators , and identifying inflation rather than unemployment as the central enemy , were the fundamental themes . |
| 21 | The edges of mirrors can be smoothed with a carborundum stone but using water rather than oil as the lubricant . |
| 22 | Colonic transit was similarly assessed with the four colonic segments and effluent as the fifth segment . |
| 23 | This is why he calls the object of his study ‘ narrative discourse ’ , which he defines as ‘ the oral or written discourse which undertakes to tell of an event or a series of events ’ , and which he distinguishes from narrative as series of events ( story ) , and narrative as the act of narrating . |
| 24 | Its passage through the House considerably enhanced the reputation of the Secretary of State as a skilled parliamentarian and strategist as the November proposals emerged almost intact the following summer . |
| 25 | An example of this approach is provided by the Ministry of Agriculture 's ‘ Agricultural Land Classification ’ maps which use rainfall , transpiration , temperature and exposure as the key climatic indices ; altitude , slope , and surface irregularities as the key relief indices ; and wetness , depth , texture , structure , stoniness and available water capacity as the key soil indices ( Agricultural Land Service , 1966 ) . |
| 26 | In the first place it was necessary to establish and constantly confirm an appropriate canon and pantheon as the basis for scholarly work . |
| 27 | For the inaugural Raid Gauloises in New Zealand in November 1989 , Fusil chose running , rafting , canoeing , climbing and horse-riding as the modes of transport for a 250-mile race for teams of five ( including at least one woman ) . |
| 28 | The governments of Eastern Europe have deprived individuals of both motive and freedom as the price of a supposed social planning . |
| 29 | Almost the first experiments I had made with the passive avoidance model after completing the work with Marie , and even before we had located IMHV and LPO as the sites of change , looked at the effects of training on protein synthesis in general , using the precursor techniques that have already been described in earlier chapters . |
| 30 | With Niki well back and holding an honourable third place on a circuit unsuited to the Ferraris , only three points separated champion and aspirant as the FI family headed for Japan . |