Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] as a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This situation makes it difficult to use basal colonic motility as a basis for comparisons and has led to the development of provocation tests in a controlled environment in an attempt to characterise differences between groups of patients . |
| 2 | Perhaps changing levels of transport provision can be regarded as part and parcel of rural change as a whole , as discussed in chapter 1 . |
| 3 | Inflation had been estimated as running at 100 per cent a year , and Yemen 's economic difficulties had reportedly been exacerbated by the withdrawal of some Gulf countries ' economic support as a consequence of the government 's pro-Iraq stance in the Gulf War . |
| 4 | Second , regional policies play an ideological role favourable to private capital : they present the economic recession as a problem of geographical distribution of jobs rather than what it is — a problem of simply insufficient jobs on a national level . |
| 5 | Chesterton 's views were to become increasingly obsessional from the 1930s onwards ; Williamson , as The Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight was to prove , particularly in its early volumes , regained a considerable measure of detachment and objectivity in his professional vocation as a novelist after the Second World War . |
| 6 | In 1732 Thomas Dover published a treatise in which he advocated metallic mercury as a treatment for a variety of medical complaints apart from syphilis and pointed out that , taken in this form , it did not cause the side-effects of other mercury compounds . |
| 7 | The possibility of controlling the monetary base as a means of influencing monetary growth is discussed in section 9.1 . |
| 8 | He puts forward the radical solution that the range be given almost total protection as a wilderness area or area of land where the hand of man is less evident . |
| 9 | As well as working for theatre , he has composed the soundtrack for Tranfer 's show ‘ The Time of Her Life ’ , Jon Lever has extensive experience as a composer for dance . |
| 10 | I have personally written to the chairmen of the country 's 100 largest companies urging them to regard prompt payment as a matter of best practice . |
| 11 | But the most famous and prestigious pilgrimage of all was that to Jerusalem itself which could be conceived at a literal level as a journey to the centre of the earth . |
| 12 | I would add that it can only be Linguistics-based , and that successful professional experience as a teacher , however desirable , is not in itself a sufficient preparation for lecturing and organising responsibility . |
| 13 | In addition , the student will acquire a detailed familiarity with the history , culture and contemporary situation of the selected country and a broad-based knowledge of the Scandinavian field as a whole . |
| 14 | There is a loud clatter as a stack of circuit boards comes tumbling down . |
| 15 | And veterans of the Battle of Britain cursed the fight they had lost — their bitter campaign to save the historic base as a tribute to heroes . |
| 16 | Instead of saying that in the absence of a community there can be no rules , we say that what is wrong with the solipsist 's rules is that they can not be set up in the way he pretends , by using a private experience as a sample . |
| 17 | Later , if the child takes a definite stand as a Christian , there will also be a deeper challenge to struggle to change at heart ; tackling inward dispositions as well as facing the difficult questions of faith . |
| 18 | Robert Schuman , the French foreign minister after July 1948 who had been raised on the Franco-German border , was attracted to European unity as a way to bring a rapprochement between the two countries . |
| 19 | The two patients who developed stent occlusion as a result of hyperplasia , already had abnormal hyperplasia one month after stenting . |
| 20 | North Korea 's proposals concentrated upon reducing military and political confrontation as a prerequisite to seeking improvements in the economic , cultural or social spheres . |
| 21 | Mr Lloyd , 39 , a councillor who works on the Ford assembly line in Southampton , is used to hopeless cases : his first political action as a child was to take the newsboys on his street out on strike . |
| 22 | Finally , the theory that attention is directed to the left or right side as a consequence of asymmetrical activation of the cerebral hemispheres ( Kinsbourne , 1970 ; 1973 ; 1975a ) predicts that in hemispherectomised patients attention should be directed almost exclusively to the side contralateral to the intact hemisphere . |
| 23 | This same feeling occurs in an individual who has renounced some instinctual pleasure as a result of an internal demand of the super-ego , as distinct from an external prohibition . |
| 24 | It is a place of restoration for a soul weary from low living as a victim of the mind 's continuous pulls and indiscretions of previous incarnations . |
| 25 | The objective in doing so is to identify their ‘ true ’ nature or ideal character and distinguish or highlight the corrupt forms which have entered modern political consciousness as a result of rationalistic errors . |
| 26 | Docherty 's prodigious talent as a footballer and a disciplinarian flowered in the late '40s during his National Service . |
| 27 | TOP pension fund managers are having to consider shifting funds into government gilt-edged stock as a result of the fall in the yield on UK equities brought about by changes announced in Tuesday 's Budget . |
| 28 | Against this background the government decided to bring forward its economic programme as a matter of urgency , adjusting prices as the first concrete step in the development of a free market economy . |
| 29 | One important role of such units , is that they provide a safe environment for mentally disturbed people , at the same time in severe cases , protecting members of the community from possible harm as a result of violence to persons or property . |
| 30 | The Review of Child Care Law stated an acceptance that the state should not intervene between parent and child simply because it could provide something better than the parents but only if parents were falling so far below an acceptable standard that their children were suffering harm as a result ( DHSS , 1985 ) . |