Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] as [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It followed repeated requests by successive Canadian governments for US action to reduce the emissions of pollutants which travelled across the frontier to fall as acid rain in south-eastern Canada . |
| 2 | Recent developments in a field of study known as Chaos Theory has focused attention on elements in natural shapes called ‘ fractals ’ . |
| 3 | The State of California shall provide a child welfare building to serve as day care centres for single parents . |
| 4 | The course was from Jimmy 's dock on Key San Paul , round Key Canaka and back , with the local brewer 's fifty-foot motor yacht acting as Committee boat . |
| 5 | Light microscopic assessment of the damage showed that , immediately after ethanol perfusion , about 25% of the sections displayed injury of grade 0 whilst about 60% of the sections was covered by superficial damage rated as injury grade I ( Fig 2 ) . |
| 6 | The particular characteristics of a school — time and timetables , fact and figures , books and writing , tests and class orders — belong to a category of ideas which are separate from those in the village and which both the teacher and the parent accept as school business . |
| 7 | To the north of this island is a pinnacle-shaped stack known as Sail Rock because it looks somewhat like a ship under sail . |
| 8 | As will be seen in the remaining chapters , a particular form of Irish catholicism known as monopoly catholicism has assisted in the concrete success of the mix of the beliefs with economic beliefs in capitalism , ownership of land , and inheritance , helping to bring the elements to an explicit formulation in the 1937 Irish constitution , which has ever since shown considerable resistance to reformulation . |
| 9 | Typically , the nutrients added are limited to sources of ammonia , nitrogen and orthophosphate , while the electron acceptor is often molecular oxygen delivered as hydrogen peroxide . |
| 10 | Since Pu acts like U , the end result is quite like the low-enriched uranium used as reactor fuel . |
| 11 | Once more the liveried waiters appeared with the Don Perignon , while the teenage Crown Prince acted as disc jockey on the balcony . |
| 12 | Named BSc degrees and honours degrees in environmental biology , human biology ( awarded retrospectively from July 1981 ) , earth sciences ( replacing double field in geology & environment ) , and physical sciences introduced ; also new fields in accounting & finance , and cartography ; food & nutrition field retitled as food science & nutrition . |
| 13 | For example , the company now has a contract with the Body Shop to utilise as plant food the complex emulsions emitted from its cosmetics factory . |
| 14 | On the town side of it , downhill , was an establishment known as Dairy Farm , and on the other was a large Victorian church and rambling graveyard . |
| 15 | The effect of stimulus generalisation is balanced by a process known as stimulus discrimination . |
| 16 | Most financial intermediaries are thus involved in a process known as maturity transformation whereby deposits generally have a shorter term than have their loans . |
| 17 | These plate margins are of three types : ( 1 ) divergent , where crustal material moves apart , under the oceans by a process known as sea-floor spreading ; ( 2 ) convergent , where one plate plunges down into the underlying mantle ( also known as subduction zones ) ; ( 3 ) transform faults , where one plate slides laterally with respect to its neighbour , crust being here neither created ( 1 ) nor destroyed ( 2 ) ( Fig. 18.1 ) . |
| 18 | But a nucleus can in other circumstances emit an electron in a process known as beta decay , which occurs via the weak nuclear interaction ( figure 1a ) . |
| 19 | As the overlying strata are gradually removed by erosion and these rocks reach the surface they undergo expansion or dilation — a process known as pressure release — which promotes the development of joints . |
| 20 | The most active Liberal associations are keen on stirring up interest in purely local issues — a process known as community politics . |
| 21 | Ablation of area 17 leads to almost total loss of cells in the dorsal lateral geniculate body , a process known as retrograde degeneration . |
| 22 | Order 6 , r 5 provides that in mortgagee possession actions — that is where the plaintiff claims payment of money secured or possession of the property mortgaged — the particulars of claim must state : ( 1 ) the date of the mortgage ; ( 2 ) the state of the account , giving particulars of the amount of the advance , the periodic payments required , the amount of any interest in arrear , the amount of the unpaid instalments , the amount of any costs or fines or insurance unpaid ; the daily rate of interest and the amount remaining due under [ and required to redeem ] the mortgage ; ( 3 ) what proceedings ( if any ) the plaintiff has taken against the defendant in respect of the money secured by the mortgage or the mortgaged property and , where payment of such money only is claimed , whether the plaintiff has obtained possession of the property ; ( 4 ) where the plaintiff claims possession of the property , whether or not the property consists of or includes a dwelling house within the meaning of s 21 of the County Courts Act 1974 ; ( 5 ) where a plaintiff claims as mortgagee possession of land which consists of or includes a dwelling house , he shall state , in his particulars of claim , whether there is any person on whom notice of the action is required to be served in accordance with s 8(3) of the Matrimonial Homes Act 1983 and , if so , he shall state the name and address of that person and shall file a copy of the particulars of claim for service on that person ( Ord 6 , r 5(1A) ) . |
| 23 | Most manufacturers describe their exterior wall paints as masonry paint . |
| 24 | The linguistic transformation known as object deletion is used to ensure that instances of police aggression are rendered more palatable . |
| 25 | The model can explain a pattern of acquired dyslexia known as surface dyslexia which is characterized by poor reading of irregularly spelled words such as ‘ yacht ’ or ‘ colonel ’ . |
| 26 | Having steadily reduced the preparation from organism to circuit , the stage was set for the final reduction ; Kandel 's colleague Samuel Schacher dissected out the specific sensory and motor neurons and incubated them together in a dish ( a procedure known as tissue culture ) . |
| 27 | Another ingredient was E110 , an azo dye known as sunset yellow , which is now banned in both Norway and Finland . |
| 28 | The daddy 's daily tabloid served as fire lighter and bottom wipe . |
| 29 | If he has not been appointed to act , he should deliver a certificate that he is a fit and proper person to act as guardian ad litem and has no interest adverse to the defendant . |
| 30 | Kevin Ellis of Bridgend flew to the south of France last night to act as emergency cover for the Wales B team 's scrum-half Andrew Booth . |