Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though both are still being briefed , there are indications that they would like to use the shock of the Tiananmen massacre as a negotiating tool with which to recover some of the concessions made by their predecessors in respect of Hong Kong . |
| 2 | Having , say , opted for different income groups as the unit of analysis , a calculation along the following lines can be performed for each group : |
| 3 | Nothing in the age of contentment has contributed so strongly to income inequality as the reduction of taxes on the rich ; nothing , as has been said , would so contribute to social tranquillity as some screams of anguish from the very affluent . |
| 4 | The Organization of African Unity and the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) signed in Geneva on May 4 a co-operation agreement which formalized the longstanding collaboration between the two organizations and allowed the ICRC to participate in all OAU meetings as an observer . |
| 5 | In April 1992 the IRA bomb in St Mary Axe which destroyed the Baltic Exchange and caused about £300m damage led to the preparation of contingency plans as a result of which the consequences of this April 's bomb in Bishopsgate were to some extent mitigated . |
| 6 | The two sides accepted the need to cut the budget deficit as a way of tackling inflation , to improve living standards and to reduce Poland 's $38-billion foreign debt . |
| 7 | These theories point to the fundamental importance of T 2 as a true second-order transition temperature and to the experimental T g as the temperature governed by the time scale of the measuring technique . |
| 8 | Further , there was no automatic loss of rate support grant as a result of introducing the scheme . |
| 9 | For example a curriculum leader in a small primary school leads a small group to scrutinise a selection of pupils ' work from different year groups to examine progression and continuity and their relation to the National Curriculum a department in a secondary school reviews its curricular provision ; assesses the implications of the National Curriculum for that subject ; analyses policies and practice on pupil assessment ; analyses examination/test results ; reviews pupils ' written work to check on progression and continuity a team considers relations with parents and the wider community the head , a deputy or a senior teacher leads a working party on topics such as cross-curricular issues , curriculum provision as a whole , pupil attendance , school documentation the staff development or INSET co-ordinator leads a working party to review staff development , INSET provision and dissemination , teacher appraisal , care of probationer teachers ( DES 1989e:8 ) . |
| 10 | ‘ In this way , the centre is not treating the grant funding as a crutch , but is concentrating on making its training programmes more commercially attractive to customers . ’ |
| 11 | For this reason it is usual to report an electronic absorption spectrum as a list of peak positions and extinction coefficients , or as a list of the extinction coefficients at various wavelengths . |
| 12 | A number of news agencies gave the French Minister of the Interior Philippe Marchand as the source for the report which they carried on Feb. 7 to the effect that Tedjini Haddam had left the five-member HCS in order to continue his duties as head of the Islamic Institute attached to the Paris mosque . |
| 13 | Several studies have characterised the young social drug user as an adolescent who is alienated from school and who is more involved with peer group activities than activities centred around the home . |
| 14 | The singing actress , now 57 , plays Anna with Gandhi star Ben Kingsley as the King of Siam . |
| 15 | MOREOVER , individual examples of bias , such as the one I detected when Paddy Ashdown was allowed to get away with the ridiculous notion that he might do a deal with John Major just as easily as with Neil Kinnock , need to be balanced against the election coverage as a whole . |
| 16 | The government estimates that about 50,000 lone parents will come off income support as a result of the new scheme ( DSS , 1990a , para. 5.35 ) . |
| 17 | More than 300,000 more families are on income support as a result of the economic mismanagement and incompetence for which the Government and the Chancellor are responsible . |
| 18 | Centuries ago the birds themselves chose Low Island as a sanctuary and the droppings over the years made it rich in guano — a fertiliser . |
| 19 | Few things are as instantly heart-stopping to a computer user as the time when his machine starts to behave erratically . |
| 20 | The new VMSclusters fully supports the use of FDDI as a network backbone interconnecting clusters nodes , and support for native FDDI adaptors as a cluster interconnect is promised . |
| 21 | Let's see if he does , he comes Chapel now , to bowl to him and he hoicks that away on that leg side , that 's the area you 're gon na try and hit it , that 's four runs , anywhere near it , so making intentions plain , he 's going for that leg side boundary , that was a real power shot , hit with a spin , this is exactly the way he played at Hove , he got away with it there , he moves on to twelve , I think there 's going to be a field change as a result of that and quite rightly so . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , the low sea level would have killed existing corals , which do not survive above low tide level as a rule , so that there ought to be discontinuities in the reefs , and , if those who believe in progressively lower interglacial sea levels are correct , the reefs should exhibit a terraced or stepped form . |
| 23 | Reports from the US suggest that Covia 's software will also be snapped up by Sun Microsystems Inc , which could OEM CI as an add-on to its Open Networking Computing environment . |
| 24 | alkali , calcium oxide as the base , calcium itself as the metal , calcium carbonate as the carbonate . |
| 25 | Deng 's developmentalist stance had not always endeared him to Mao , but had aligned him to some extent with Premier Zhou , who also saw overly radical , leftist policies as a threat to China 's economic and social development . |
| 26 | The ill-fated Stirling , Central plant closed by Wang Laboratories Inc and taken over three years ago by Compaq Computer Corp as a repair and service centre , is to close again with the work going to Erskine . |
| 27 | Her clients ( mainly wealthy women seeking rejuvenation ) reported dramatic improvement in their skin condition as a result of her treatments . |
| 28 | Using national and state curriculum guidelines as a basis parallel texts are devised in both English and Yoruba , children in Yoruba medium streams being taught English as a subject from Class I — in the experimental school by specialist teachers , in the expansion classes by the regular class teacher . |
| 29 | Easter alternative AS AN alternative to chocolate eggs , try a simnel cake , said to be an Easter favourite since the time of Edward the Confessor . |
| 30 | This determination to prevent the manufacturers exploiting a sellers , market induced Self to ask Smith to stay on and establish a Contracts Department as a step towards firmer financial control over the engineers . |