Example sentences of "[verb] as the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rather tacky set , the lucklustre performances , the script from David Straun and Heather Williams that lurches from trite audience participation to over-the-head jokes ( would any primary-school child get the one about water privatisation ? ) , all did n't seem to matter as the company of four scampered around with their well-intentioned tale of how the white man destroyed the American Indians . |
| 2 | By that time the information contained in the audited accounts would be so out of date that it would not reasonably be foreseen as the basis for a business judgment concerning the extension of credit to Berg or the discounting of bills . |
| 3 | Community Health Councils will remain as the link between authorities and the consumer , and the working papers mention consulting consumers in audit of services . |
| 4 | Although Terminal courses would probably remain as the bulk of provision — ‘ the breadth of the base of the movement amongst ordinary folk ’ — ‘ the Tutorial Class must be the demonstration that real understanding , whatever the purpose , requires sustained effort ; and a significant expansion of activity at this level is the true index of a significant expansion of a genuinely informed public . ’ . |
| 5 | Alternatively , Exminster could remain as the hospital for elderly mentally ill patients , allowing a planned closure of Digby Hospital after short-stay beds had been established in Torbay and North Devon . |
| 6 | An extrapolation of this responsibility saw Hermes designated as the conductor of the souls of the dead to HADES , as well as being a god of sleep and dreams . |
| 7 | However , whatever balance between sectors one would like to see as the basis for community care policy , the private sector is here to stay and likely to expand . |
| 8 | This rationality it came to see as the basis of a universal culture ; the justification for its claim to define universal values , to define its values as universal . |
| 9 | If the match at the County Ground is anywhere near as fast and lose as the game at London Road , then the Swindon fans are in for a thriller . |
| 10 | I can see you are as addicted to knitting as the rest of us , by the fact that you say Murphy 's Law operates every day ! |
| 11 | In Braque 's l'Estaque landscapes of the previous year , the two-dimensional surface of the picture is retained partly by allowing the eye no way of escape beyond the mountains , buildings and trees , and here the same effect is achieved by the concrete treatment of the sky , which is as elaborately and solidly painted as the rest of the canvas , and which is fused with the landscape below by the extension into it of all the main compositional lines . |
| 12 | Labour , which wanted mandatory comprehensive schooling , was painted as the party of central control and uniformity . |
| 13 | Showmanship was to remain as the hallmark of the movies . |
| 14 | As a result of tight every-day control costs other operating charges at seventy eight point seven million have fallen as the percentage of sales by point nine per cent to twenty four point six per cent and depreciation in the period has fallen by two point three million to eight point four million . |
| 15 | Observation of one of these signs — cyclical changes in cervical mucus — has been developed as the basis of a method capable of anticipating ovulation . |
| 16 | The 56-acre former Navy mine depot was given local nature reserve status after a fight to prevent it being developed as the site of 600-inmate prison . |
| 17 | Anthropology has in fact developed as the science of the evolution of human society and many early anthropological works take the form of natural histories of mankind . |
| 18 | It was a diamond shape , flown as the Flexi-kite for some years before the patent application was made , and it heralded the concept of a lifting surface with two cones which could be controlled as a parachute or kite . |
| 19 | For DNA aneuploid samples a DNA index was calculated as the ratio of the abnormal G /G 1 mean peak channel number to the diploid G /G 1 mean peak channel number . |
| 20 | The labelling index was calculated as the ratio of Ki-67 positive to negative cells per crypt . |
| 21 | A total labelling index was calculated as the ratio of labelled cell to total cell numbers for each column . |
| 22 | After subtraction of background cpm values , the percentage of shielding was calculated as the ratio between the shielded cpm and total counts without shielding . |
| 23 | ‘ Income ’ for the purpose of this figure was was calculated as the sum of the net ( after tax ) incomes from all sources for all the members of the household . |
| 24 | The oral hygiene index was calculated as the sum of the debris and calculus indices . |
| 25 | Total change is calculated as the sum of natural change and net international migration and excludes other changes such as movements of Armed Forces , the effects of changes in the definition of population , and other statistical adjustments . |
| 26 | The total area of lesions was calculated as the sum of areas of individual lesion . |
| 27 | Total bile acid concentration was calculated as the sum of all gas liquid chromatography detected individual bile acids . |
| 28 | Volume of total gastric juice in basal and under pentagastrin infusion was calculated as the sum of four 15 minute samples in each period ( Table ) and the hourly output of each substance ( platelet activating factor : pg/hr ; lyso platelet activating factor : µg/hr ; AAGPC : µg/hr ; acid : mmol/hr ; pepsin : pepsin unit UP/hr ; NANA : µg/hr ; choline : µg/hr ) was calculated as the sum of four 15 minute rates of secretion ; each 15 minute rate having been determiend by multiplication of concentration by the volume of gastric juice aspirated during 15 minutes . |
| 29 | Volume of total gastric juice in basal and under pentagastrin infusion was calculated as the sum of four 15 minute samples in each period ( Table ) and the hourly output of each substance ( platelet activating factor : pg/hr ; lyso platelet activating factor : µg/hr ; AAGPC : µg/hr ; acid : mmol/hr ; pepsin : pepsin unit UP/hr ; NANA : µg/hr ; choline : µg/hr ) was calculated as the sum of four 15 minute rates of secretion ; each 15 minute rate having been determiend by multiplication of concentration by the volume of gastric juice aspirated during 15 minutes . |
| 30 | A joint life charge will calculated as the sum of the individual charges , we looked at that earlier , the maximum age at which waiver of premium can be added to a new policy is fifty five , next birthday . |