Example sentences of "[coord] [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 | Colonic transit was similarly assessed with the four colonic segments and effluent as the fifth segment . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | In the first place it was necessary to establish and constantly confirm an appropriate canon and pantheon as the basis for scholarly work . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | The governments of Eastern Europe have deprived individuals of both motive and freedom as the price of a supposed social planning . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | DEC also announced NAS support for Sun and NAS Advantage — a higher level of conformance with DEC 's Network Application Support architecture , with SAS and Progress as the first applications to win the brand-level . |
| 23 | According to the report , the Doctrine of the Mean , the Golden Principle of the Confucian School , had replaced socialism and communism as the MPRP 's guiding ideology . |
| 24 | ( With the privilege of hindsight , some may see here an anticipation of the modern emphasis on transactions and interaction as the basic nexus of symbolic life . ) |
| 25 | There are few aquarium fish which are so uniformly peaceful and easily-maintained as the rasboras . |
| 26 | The survey — carried out in the UK , Germany and Spain — found that unions felt that blood-borne hazards outranked back injuries and strains , occupational stress , chemical exposures and assaults and violence as the main occupational risk causing greatest concern to workers . |
| 27 | I have so many indelible impressions of that day : of cutting a soldier 's clothes off his body with scissors as he screamed with pain ; of a young man seizing my hand with an iron grip as he groaned ‘ I 'm dying — I ca n't bear the pain ’ ; of a baby girl less than two years old just staring ahead as the blood soaked into her clothes ; of the terrible vacant look caused by shell-shock on the faces of teenage soldiers ; of the stench of human excrement , urine and blood as the nurses and nuns struggled to clean up the patients . |
| 28 | Shannon 's sherry-coloured eyes danced with a mixture of amusement and pleasure as the short , rather portly director gave the classic command . |
| 29 | But , thanks to the sunny summer , many of the topmost specimens on my tree are as flushed with orange and pink as the imported stock from Australia . |
| 30 | The quartzo-feldspathic gneiss contains quartz , feldspar and hornblende as the principal minerals , variable though small amounts of biotite , and with iron ores and apatite as the common accessory minerals present . |