Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] as a [noun] " 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 | The student demonstrations against corruption occurred because of illegalities exposed as a result of his high standards of probity . |
| 6 | Reserve team versus Coventry last Wednesday postponed — Tinkler and Weatherall comebacks after injury/illness delayed as a result . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He had had a congenital right inguinal hernia repaired as a child . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Spokesman Andrew Ball says it is ‘ smuggling the computer into people 's homes disguised as a CD player . ’ |
| 17 | In the North East of England the waterways developed as a network linked to the wide rivers Aire , Calder , Ouse and Trent . |
| 18 | According to Le Monde of Nov. 22 the number of asylum seekers ( who came especially from eastern Europe ) had risen to 1,700 per month , and a new law to speed the processing of asylum applications stipulated that these should be processed within two months , after which an applicant recognized as a refugee could take up provisional residence while waiting for a definitive decision . |
| 19 | They 're coming in on a starship disguised as a Boeing 747 so that the locals wo n't suspect until it 's too late , but when they land at London Heathrow their baggage gets lost ; all their heavy weaponry ends up in Miami and gets mixed up with the luggage of some psychiatrists attending an international symposium on anal-fixation after death , and : Freudians take over the world with the captured high-tech . |
| 20 | Results showed that the amount of time subjects spent reading each group of three words varied as a function of clause and sentence boundaries . |
| 21 | The Fascists claimed that their name derived from the fasces , bundles of rods carried as a symbol of power by victors of the Roman Empire . |
| 22 | The inquiry focussed on the deaths of four young addicts picked as a cross section of the scores who 've died in recent years . |
| 23 | Recommendations : the action recommended as a result of the review |
| 24 | ‘ The DUC operated as a kind of umbrella organization and there was a little group in all the different localities where uranium prospecting was going on … and each of these groups had their own little committee of two or three people who were feeding back information to the DUC and it was a real grassroots organization then . ’ |
| 25 | A story-board is a script presented as a series of drawings , so that the composition of each shot , and the flow of images from shot to shot , can be designed into a movie from the earliest stages . |
| 26 | Initially the programme operated as a project and was evaluated in relation to its specific aims and documented in relation to some of its wider effects and implications . |
| 27 | Aerospace officials , however , are hoping to change the government 's mind by pointing to the new activist policies of and by citing evidence that the US government is spending considerably more than the three per cent of turnover accepted as a limit under a trade agreement signed with the European Commission last July . |
| 28 | The quality of the research suffered as a result . |
| 29 | Other winners in the awards ceremony seen as a pointer to the Hollywood Oscars which are announced next week included Silence of the Lambs star Anthony Hopkins . |
| 30 | To take a simple example , joint action decided as a matter of foreign policy may be reflected in measures adopted by the Community : this is envisaged in the second paragraph of Article C of the Maastricht Treaty , which provides that ‘ the Union shall in particular ensure the consistency of its external activities as a whole in the context of its external relations , security , economic and development policies ’ . |