Example sentences of "[n mass] [det] as [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All floras and many monographs need geographical information as part of their basic data — maps of distributions , gazetteer data , and environmental data such as soils , climates , geology , altitudes and aspects . |
| 2 | Activity data such as dates , slack and status can be selected and displayed . |
| 3 | This is useful for fields containing data such as passwords ( which are not echoed to the screen for security reasons ) where it is impossible to see if the field already contains characters . |
| 4 | A survey was commissioned to cover both raw data such as the proportion of women barristers at each stage of their career at the Bar , and also qualitative data such as attitudes towards careers for women barristers . |
| 5 | Some are concerned with eliciting comparable and highly schematized data such as word-lists or responses to subjective reaction tests ; for the moment , these will not be discussed ( but see chapter 8 ) . |
| 6 | On the one hand , data such as notifications by GPs to the Home Office , police arrests for heroin offences , referrals to Detoxification Units , and so on , not only reflect upward and downward trends in heroin use itself , but also external factors such as changes in official policy and availability of street heroin . |
| 7 | After that , the food chains ( see p 110 ) , can be very long ; fish such as sharks feeding upon fish , which feed on fish , which feed on fish that feed on plankton . |
| 8 | The Cleaner Wrasses ( Labroides spp ) can present such difficulties in a small aquarium and will stress nervous species of fish such as Tangs quite easily by their over-zealous attentions . |
| 9 | Black guillemots ( tysties ) have not been so badly affected , perhaps because they are not so dependent on the pelagic fish such as sand-eels and young gadoids ( whitefish ) but catch more bottom-living fish such butterfish and rockling . |
| 10 | I would imagine that fish such as Elephant-Noses and Knife Fish , which navigate and communicate by electrical impulses would also benefit , being especially sensitive to electricity . |
| 11 | Limestone , marble , and tufa are largely calcium carbonate which will make the water hard and alkaline , which would be fine for Rift Valley Cichlids , but not for community fish such as tetras , danios , gouramis etc . |
| 12 | The short-term lets often suit people such as students when the off-season coincides with their term , but for families the disruption of having to move out for the summer is frustrating . |
| 13 | The council tax is related to the number of people in a house , but it offers more generous treatment for people such as students , who will not add to the household bill . |
| 14 | Continuing that theme , would it not be right to say though that Plato only gave to come back into human form to those people such as philosophers and that most other people would come back as some other form . |
| 15 | France 's top tax level of 61 per cent , though fractionally higher than Labour 's top rate , only bites at £80,000 a year , so it does not usually effect people such as engineers , doctors , or middle managers . |
| 16 | Booth then cross-checked these impressions with those of other local people such as clergymen , and with the observations of his own investigators after a period of residence in a poor community . |
| 17 | Has my hon. Friend considered consulting people such as members of the Secondary Heads Association to see whether all the heads of comprehensive schoools in my constituency would relish the idea of paying an extra 9 per cent . |
| 18 | ‘ I am not so sure the awards were conceived for people such as sportsmen and businessmen who are paid to do their job . ’ |
| 19 | They employ large numbers of professional people such as teachers and social workers who practise their skills in providing a direct service to the public . |
| 20 | Similarly , people who at some time in the future will require foreign currency ( people such as importers , holiday makers , or those thinking of investing abroad or in foreign securities ) may prefer to wait before exchanging pounds into the relevant foreign currencies if they believe that the sterling price of these currencies is likely to fall ( the pound is likely to appreciate ) . |
| 21 | The Europe in which we are to live will in part be shaped by the ideas , negotiations , cultural translations and mis-translations which people such as MEPs bring to Strasbourg and Brussels , or which they learn there , and in which they engage . |
| 22 | But would I be right in saying that the everyday working horse , the sort of , general purpose working horse that people used years ago , people such as carriers , they would use horses which were crossbreeds would n't they ? |
| 23 | A representative and influential attempt was made by Plekhanov in his essay , The Role of the Individual in History , where he considers what effect the characters of prominent people such as kings and statesmen have on the course of events . |
| 24 | Some went indirectly to private industrial development by means such as subsidies . |
| 25 | Developments across the country are uneven , but the shape of things to come can be seen in the greater provision of minor surgery by general practitioners , the increase in health promotion work in general practice , the employment of staff such as physiotherapists and dietitians to work alongside general practitioners , the establishment of shared care arrangements for treating conditions such as diabetes and asthma , and the introduction of ‘ treat and teach ’ schemes , in which specialists carry out some of their consultations in general practitioners ' surgeries and develop the skills of general practitioners in the process . |
| 26 | It is backed by research chemists , biologists , etc. , and teams of professional and general ancillary staff such as radiotherapists , as well as by nursing staff . |
| 27 | London and the South East tend to have more psychiatrists , teachers , medical social workers , etc. , than other regions but shortages of lower-paid staff such as nurses and prison officers , largely because of inflated housing costs . |
| 28 | Certainly , there is a need for a substantial impact of additional resources , and the NHS will need to be more successful in attracting key staff such as accountants and computer staff . |
| 29 | In its north London sites , for example : 15 per cent of staff were professional/technical management ; 50 per cent professional/technical , e.g. programmers , engineers and systems analysts ; 17 per cent professional support staff such as accountants and administrators ; and 18 per cent non-professional support staff , including technical assistants , secretaries and clerks . |
| 30 | For example , a housing neighbourhood office manager may be responsible for budgets covering empty properties , rent arrears , maintenance , staff such as wardens , office expenses and income from garages ( Audit Commission , 1989a ) . |