Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Groups formed as a result of a parent company , such as Matsushita Electric , spinning off its own operating divisions to form separate companies within the same field to act as suppliers , distributors and even retailers . |
| 2 | It is realistic when one considers the number of new operations developed as a consequence of medical research . |
| 3 | The schoolmaster 's appointment was at times treated as a sinecure for the vicar of Evenley , a Magdalen living . |
| 4 | In the case of land , statutory provisions may give priority to a later contract registered as a land charge even if entered into with knowledge of an earlier , unregistered transaction , but it seems that this affects only proprietary rights and does not bar an action in tort based on interference with the earlier contract . |
| 5 | ‘ This controversy has been tainted by racism parading as a concern for the adolescents ’ welfare , ’ says Boudjema . |
| 6 | The student demonstrations against corruption occurred because of illegalities exposed as a result of his high standards of probity . |
| 7 | Reserve team versus Coventry last Wednesday postponed — Tinkler and Weatherall comebacks after injury/illness delayed as a result . |
| 8 | ‘ I am taking this matter up with the DoE Roads Service as a matter of urgency , ’ said Alderman Hugh Smyth . |
| 9 | Errors of principle — A purchase treated as a sale ; a receipt treated as a payment ; returns in treated as returns out ; an asset treated as an expense . |
| 10 | After his demobilisation from the Navy he was accepted by the railway authorities to train as a signalman . |
| 11 | Its origins are lost in antiquity but the Rock has probably ben used as a fortress from the Iron Age . |
| 12 | All too rarely is the building considered as a whole : the shopfront is applied without a thought as to whether it clashes or blends in colour , proportion , materials or design with the building above . |
| 13 | In the old South , for example , Duke University stands as a bastion of what Hollander would call ‘ anti-American ’ thought . |
| 14 | And third , how has the central system for planning and controlling spending in Whitehall changed as a consequence of the ‘ hard times ’ ? |
| 15 | They were only a matter of metres away but , due to the insulation which separated every portion of dock superstructure — a provision designed as a safeguard against just the kind of occurrence which had threatened Rostov — both had been safe from danger . |
| 16 | Swindon say as a player he is worth a million pounds , and they should be compensated accordingly . |
| 17 | On the other hand , where the contract redefines as a warranty a term which would otherwise be a condition , its effect is to exclude a remedy ( the right to reject goods and/or terminate the contract ) which would otherwise be available to the innocent party , and it will then be regarded as an exclusion clause . |
| 18 | The priest , highly regarded in educational circles , was transferred from his school position by church authorities to work as a curate in a country parish over the summer . |
| 19 | He had had a congenital right inguinal hernia repaired as a child . |
| 20 | Pancreatic pseudocysts are localised collections of pancreatic secretions occurring as a result of pancreatic inflammation and ductal disruption . |
| 21 | When all this was going on I left my job as a bank clerk to work as a messenger . |
| 22 | According to Dr John Topping , of Washington 's Climate Institute , subsidence could more than double the local sea level rise expected as a result of thermal expansion due to the greenhouse effect . |
| 23 | If the vendor has the benefit of warranties given as a result of that eariler acquisition and they are assignable , then the purchaser could seek such an assignment . |
| 24 | The PLO failed as a leadership , not as an idea . |
| 25 | Having dealt with the general principles of the UCTA it is now possible to analyse its effect in detail on various contractual relationships using as a framework the definitions and different combinations of the factors set out above in the section devoted to the basic rationale of the UCTA . |
| 26 | The award compensates the employee for any loss sustained as a result of the dismissal itself and the employer 's actions but each employee is under a duty to mitigate the loss and the tribunal will make a deduction if the employee 's actions contributed to the dismissal . |
| 27 | The woman of the future would be far more than a nurse or consoler , she would have a positive religion to realize as a high-priestess of health . |
| 28 | One is that the investigator needs to know the rules , conventions , and context governing the action — the meaning of the action regarded as a move in a socially defined ‘ game ’ . |
| 29 | Uttley , Britain 's over-40 Ergo champion ( the Ergo is a form of torture disguised as a rowing machine and beloved of masochists everywhere ) , was in the States to compete in the World Championships . |
| 30 | Spokesman Andrew Ball says it is ‘ smuggling the computer into people 's homes disguised as a CD player . ’ |