Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] ['s] [noun sg] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | MUCH attention has been given to the Prisoners ' Dilemma as a metaphor for the problems surrounding the evolution of cooperative behaviour . |
| 2 | This is not because of class affiliation to the ‘ class in charge ’ rather than the hegemonic class , but because of the bureaucracy's ' character as a specific category through the intermediary of its relation with the state ’ . |
| 3 | The suitability of candidates is assessed , in part , by those who already sit as judges how make their assessments on the basis of the candidates ' ability as an advocate and since those advocates come , in the County Court in the main and in the Crown and High Court exclusively , from the ranks of the barristers it is they who are selected . |
| 4 | Your Lordships are invited to construe that benevolently in the defendants ' favour as a claim to invoke the privilege against self-incrimination on the ground that the order called upon him to disclose material which might be used in furtherance of criminal proceedings against him . |
| 5 | In fact , the tensions between the Church Commissioners and General Synod have as much to do with the Commissioners ' function as mediators between Church and State . |
| 6 | Vic Wilcox scuttled into the Directors ' Lavatory as if into a place of sanctuary . |
| 7 | Burma 's generals have condemned the laureates ' mission as interference and refused to let them into the country . |
| 8 | ‘ But you have only used the cottagers ' convenience as an argument , ’ said Duncan . |
| 9 | The two men had become increasingly resentful of the circle around the king , and their rebellion was specifically directed against the ‘ covetous rule and guiding ’ of this group , identified in the rebels ' manifesto as the family of queen Elizabeth Woodville , the earls of Devon and Pembroke , John lord Audley and Sir John Fogge . |
| 10 | The two men had become increasingly resentful of the circle around the king , and their rebellion was specifically directed against the ‘ covetous rule and guiding ’ of this group , identified in the rebels ' manifesto as the family of queen Elizabeth Woodville , the earls of Devon and Pembroke , John lord Audley and Sir John Fogge . |
| 11 | Labour and student leaders welcomed the banks ' decision as a victory for common sense . |
| 12 | After the Nobel announcement , Novy Mir 's letter of rejection of two years before was hastily published to lend justification to Pasternak 's expulsion from the writers ' union as a traitor : ‘ The spirit of your novel is that of non-acceptance of the Socialist Revolution , that it brought the people nothing but suffering and destroyed the Russian intelligentsia … that the Revolution was a mistake and that all that happened afterwards was evil . ’ |
| 13 | The linguistic echoes of the Miller 's Tale in the Reeve 's are intense , and , usually , located near the very heart of the tales ' character as fabliaux . |
| 14 | While supporting the practitioners ' role as proxy for the patient in purchasing , there is a need to recognise the limitations of this , and wherever possible we should be seeking the opinion of the public . |
| 15 | … neglect of the occupational culture of teachers … has led us to underestimate the significance of the teachers ' culture as a medium through which many innovations and reforms must pass ; yet in that passage they frequently become shaped , transformed or resisted in ways that were unintended and unanticipated . |
| 16 | She was an eloquent speaker , with a beautiful voice , and drew an enthusiastic response which was to lead to the official recognition of the Mothers ' Union as a diocesan , national , and international organization , with Mary Sumner as its leader . |
| 17 | Regional spice monopolies were bitterly fought for , claimed and lost again by Portuguese , Spanish , Dutch , French and English adventurers , who spilled as much of the locals ' blood as each other 's in the process . |
| 18 | But it is easier to show that the Aquitanians ' identity as a people was imposed on them rather than felt by them in Carolingian times . |
| 19 | In the past where fee disputes have arisen following an M&A engagement we have always been able to establish our position to the lawyers ' satisfaction as a result of a clear and comprehensive engagement letter agreed to in writing by the client . |
| 20 | A potential source of an unfair offence stemmed from the pupils ' position as ‘ pupils ’ as opposed to ‘ teachers ’ where , by definition , teachers hold the ultimate authority . |
| 21 | It did not look as if women would ever be part of the Edinburgh Typographical Society ; but in fact , the women compositors did finally gain first admission to the men 's union as a subordinate section and finally control ( within limits ) of their own affairs . |
| 22 | The bad debt problem had its roots in a complicity of fatalistic acceptance and in viewing the debtors ' ledger as a single balance sheet entity which needed to be financed , rather than a composite of unsecured risks of many colours . |
| 23 | Because these theories stressed social structural features such as inequality of opportunity , proposing cures involved entering into political debate , endangering the theorists ' stance as objective scientists ‘ just giving the facts ’ . |
| 24 | When considering the long-term effects of the social debate on evacuation , therefore , we must recognise that , as well as helping to construct an ideological climate favourable to welfare legislation , it also boosted a conservative , behaviouristic analysis of poverty that viewed the root cause of the children 's condition as family failure , poor parenting and general social inadequacy . |
| 25 | Mugabe is over-reacting to the ‘ threat ’ of the students ' rebellion as the symptom of great disunity . |
| 26 | Industrial relations and collective bargaining in BR and RENFE have been profoundly conditioned by the railways ' status as a major state-controlled public service . |
| 27 | The Board ordered that they be received into the vagrants ' ward as a temporary measure , and went on to instruct the medical officer to vaccinate all the other unprotected inmates of the workhouse . |
| 28 | Identified by Hobsbawm as The Age of Capital , in the history of Co-operation in the United Kingdom the period 1848 to 1875 is marked by the emergence of the Consumers ' Movement as a major feature of retail trade , the exposure of the antithesis between it and Producers ' Co-operation and , as a result , the virtual abandonment of the latter as an expression of democracy . |
| 29 | Then came the forward rush to the Barbarians ' line as lock Phil Davies , prop John Davies and flanker Stuart Davies helped push the score to the half-century mark . |
| 30 | Steve Martin 's manically over-conscientious dad steals the show , whether the news that his small , diffident young son needs psychiatric help or chewing the pitch as his offspring fumbles at baseball , and entertaining at a kids ' party as an unconvincing cowboy . |