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Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] to [noun sg] as " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	This was true of the family vendetta , the resort to assassination as a political tactic , the systematic use of torture by the State .
2	Within this , the traditional manager has little part to play , but management becomes the key to success as all teachers carry out both operational and managerial roles .
3	The occasion for its appointment was the coming to office as Minister of Housing and Local Government of Mr Henry Brooke in January 1957 .
4	Added to which Lombroso — more famous for his theory about the physiognomic stigmata of criminality — interpreted his observations on genius in a similarly negative fashion , viewing social deviance and the propensity to creativity as alternative expressions of biological degeneracy .
5	The applicant sought relief on the grounds that ( 1 ) at the time the coroner took his original decision there was considerable evidence before him that the death would not have occurred but for delays experienced by the deceased 's family in contacting the ambulance service and later delays by the ambulance service in responding to repeated calls by the police for an ambulance to come to take the deceased to hospital as a matter of urgency ; ( 2 ) in reaching the conclusion that an inquest was unnecessary the coroner had misdirected himself in law for the reasons , inter alia , that ( i ) section 8(1) ( a ) of the Coroners Act 1988 required a coroner to hold an inquest where there was ‘ reasonable cause to suspect ’ that the deceased had died a ‘ violent or unnatural death ; ’ ( ii ) there had been clear and uncontradicted evidence before the coroner that avoidable and culpable delays by the ambulance service might have been the reason why the deceased 's asthma attack , which could have been treated in hospital , proved fatal , giving rise to a ‘ reasonable cause to suspect ’ that the cause of the deceased 's death was ‘ unnatural ; ’ and ( iii ) against that background , the coroner had erred in law in treating the pathologist 's conclusion as conclusive and had either misdirected himself as to the meaning of ‘ unnatural death ’ in section 8 of the Coroners Act 1988 or failed to apply the law properly to the facts of the case .
6	The other is the right to treatment as an equal , or , as Dworkin puts it ‘ the right to equal concern and respect in the political decision about how these goods and opportunities are to be distributed ’ ( Dworkin , 1978 , p. 273 ) .
7	The Parade Commander brings the parade to attention as the staff car draws up — the video cameras whir as fathers and brothers jockey for the positions with the best view .
8	Individual Unionists played important parts in the government and many Unionist policies were implemented in full , but the party as a whole never took the government to heart as its own .
9	Thus , although non-Muslim monotheists , like the Christians and the Jews , had not travelled as far along the road to truth as the Muslims , they were travelling in the same direction .
10	What are the main disadvantages of the yield to maturity as a measure of the return from holding a bond ?
11	Mosley justified the turn to fascism as the result of the increased disruptive tactics used by opponents of the New Party .
12	What for the insider might be the purification of a defensible religion by its exposure to scientific criticism , would for the outsider be one more step along the path to destruction as an inherently implausible account of human destiny was shown up for what it is .
13	Bashful Barry believes it was his failure with girls as a schoolboy that set him on the path to fame as a film buff .
14	The Spanish proposal envisaged the monetary institution established under stage two in the transition to EMU as a definite precursor to a full European central bank .
15	Only when this phantasy is well on the way to realization as a practical mode of government does the citizen begin to notice that the state 's omnipresence means the total bureaucratization and control of life , that its omniscience dictates the need for total state surveillance , and that its omnipotence can only come about as a consequence of the total impotence of its subjects .
16	Tony Garnett 's 1982 Handgun for instance , ends up celebrating gun lore , vindicating the vigilante ethos and subverting its heroine at every turn , finally implying that the way to redemption as a complete and fulfilled human being is through the absorbing and conquering of macho values .
17	The published Programme did still commit the party to communism as an ‘ historic perspective ’ , but this , as the Leningrad party leader Boris Gidaspov commented , was very much in the spirit of an ‘ epitaph on a tombstone ’ .
18	The following equations need to be estimated : , where P is the market price ( 310p ) , EX is the exercise or subscription price ( 255p ) , rf is the risk-free rate of interest ( 0.12 per cent ) , is the standard deviation of the security which in the case of Polly Peck is ( O.59 ) , t is the time to expiry as a fraction of a year ( 21/365=0.058 ) , C is the estimated value of the call which in this case is the value of a complete right , and e is the natural logarithm base ( 2.7183 ) .
19	The appeal to literacy as the basis for mental differences is apparent in her claim that the superior cognitive operations of schooled children amongst the Wolof were ‘ learnt through the training embodied in written language ’ ( ibid . ) .
20	There was no alternative to capitalism as a method of economic development , and at this period this implied both the realisation of the economic and institutional programme of the liberal bourgeoisie ( with local variations ) , and the crucial position in the state of that bourgeoisie itself .
21	Near the end of the period gold coin may have been used in commercial transactions , but the dwindling supply of gold in western Europe caused a switch to silver as the principal precious metal .
22	In this rather basic definition — which , be it noted , makes no reference to self-consciousness as such — the ego is clearly not uniquely human .
23	Blundell foresees equivalent advantages in transgenic plants for foods , fibres , energy products , pharmaceuticals , organic chemicals and construction materials — in short a return to agriculture as a major source of raw materials .
24	Plainly , there will be a very close connexion between the rules of change and the rules of recognition : for where the former exists the latter will necessarily incorporate a reference to legislation as an identifying feature of the rules , though it need not refer to all the details of procedure involved in legislation .
25	We could promote computer training for the D A Os enabling a move to computer as branch records , making branch administration efficient and streamlined .
26	Alternatively there may be a commitment to competition as the appropriate form of economic organization , either because competition is a good in itself , or because it delivers the goods .
27	The temptation is to view these publications and the exhibition as a proliferation of surfaces which are in a sense pretty vacant reminders that despite the essentially teleological nature of the Situationist project , it is now immobilised and its documents merely a contribution to culture as the spectacular remains of an abandoned revolutionary ideal .
28	Yet the sensitivities of both for the sufferings of men , women , and children drawn unwillingly into the war reflect something of the way in which thinking men asked themselves whether war was , in fact , not so much a way to peace as the prolongation of bitter conflict .
29	A programme of National Certificate Modules is being developed with a view to accreditation as a Level I SVQ .
30	The generic label ‘ poststructuralist ’ is here useful merely as a shorthand to designate those contemporary writers who share not a hostility to history as such but a distrust of simple historicisms .