Example sentences of "[noun sg] as [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To devote resources to the training of young people may be , au fond , as much entitled to be considered a process of investment as devoting resources to directly productive capital goods . |
| 2 | The American Pharmaceutical Association as awarded Dr M. H. Abraham , CChem , FRSC , of University College , London , the 1992 Ebert Prize . |
| 3 | In Cookstown , the SDLP 's Patsy McGlone won his first council seat as did Mrs Anne McCrea , wife of DUP MP the Rev William McCrea . |
| 4 | As sense of humour and what is regarded as acceptable changes , traditional cards , liberally sprinkled with glitter and sugary prose , take a back seat as titillating varieties , sometimes extremely rude , find increasing space on the shelves . |
| 5 | Revocation by the principal , his death , and in some cases his insanity , put an end to the agent 's authority , though in general a revocation will be inoperative as against those to whom the principal has held out the agent as having authority , and who have no notice of the revocation . |
| 6 | As we have said , when bereavement care is thought of , it is usually the spouse that we have in mind as needing support , and indeed they are likely to be the ones asking for care . |
| 7 | Not so much fear as knowing Conker would n't do what he wanted . |
| 8 | Kidnap fear as racing donkey disappears |
| 9 | Because we associate beacon fires with the rapid communication system of the Elizabethans , Watkins maintained , we had overlooked their equal usefulness as surveying instruments . |
| 10 | The Netherlands and Italy produced a worse result as did Ireland , although the latter performed satisfactorily . |
| 11 | They further describe research as covering quality , distribution , accessibility , outcome , and effectiveness , as applied to professional health care ( self care or public health activity ) . |
| 12 | UK importer authorises his bank in UK to pay $10 000 to US exporter as named beneficiary via named US bank . |
| 13 | Initially , we had interpreted the rule as requiring production of the Report itself . |
| 14 | Our Church officer , Mr Moore , again gave a week of this holiday to Christian Aid as did Miss Donaldson . |
| 15 | Since no firm of solicitors can ever afford to retain the services of any employee or partner whose conduct tends to reflect ill on the reputation of the practice , and since the circumstances may rarely be so clear cut as to secure withdrawal from the firm by consent , thorough consideration must be given at the outset to the conditions for expelling partners . |
| 16 | The crisis within the coalition had arisen during the previous week when Reynolds on Oct. 27 accused O'Malley of " dishonest " testimony to a parliamentary inquiry into fraud in the beef export industry as regards Reynolds 's handling of export credits for Iraq while Industry and Commerce Minister in 1987-88 . |
| 17 | We have already seen that white-collar staff were introduced into the engineering industry as programming adjuncts to CNC machine tools . |
| 18 | Although the extent of expression varied between different mutant proteins the extracts contained between 20 and 50% of total protein as met repressor . |
| 19 | The purpose was to make applicable to building societies the composite rate system which had been in force as respects bank interest since the Finance Act 1984 . |
| 20 | In particular it eased the task of hollowing vessels , executing decorative designs in high relief and undertaking such tours de force as making vessels with pendant rings , sometimes with lids attached by chains , all carved from the same block of nephrite.26 A key device was the rotary lathe operated by a foot treadle , which left the hands free . |
| 21 | When there is nothing above your head but the bracing T-bar — fitted as much to provide body rigidity as to anticipate US safety regulations that did not materialise — so much the better . |
| 22 | Le Monde of May 10-11 characterised the purge as replacing officers by younger men educated in " nationalism not Titoism " . |
| 23 | With chairman Eddie Tonks overseas these landed in the legal lap of John Dowling , the deputy chairman , in what was virtually his first major test as acting leader of the union . |
| 24 | It was found that these control subjects performed just as well in the test as did subjects trained initially to make different verbal responses to the stimuli . |
| 25 | It sees the practical development of its work as taking place mainly at local level , and to this end encourages the formation of autonomous local groups which can respond to needs in their own area . |
| 26 | Godfrey Thomson , who had most effectively established intelligence tests as a means of identifying children with potential for a grammar school education through Moray House tests , saw his life 's work as establishing equality of access to further education for all children . |
| 27 | It seems likely that the Settlement Laws were not so much preventing migration as inhibiting distance . |
| 28 | As a body they upheld the interpretation of canon law as prohibiting women from this ceremony . |
| 29 | The governor 's thing is coming about quite useful tonight because we 've been talking about the law as regards governors and parents ' rights and what you 're supposed to ask parents |
| 30 | To understand a Fregean representation is to know how to interpret it so as to establish what it is referring to , basically by the method described by the logician Frege as applying functions to arguments . |