Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] [verb] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly the number of offspring that a male may sire as a result of reciprocating coalitions will be greater than if he did not participate , while his lifespan is probably only slightly affected by such activity . |
| 2 | Having established the presence of money as pure symbol and medium of abstract and relational thought , Simmel goes on to address several major features of such a state and to show how money may stand as the quintessence of each . |
| 3 | The induction of apoptosis by p53 following genotoxic insult may act as a defence mechanism to protect the organism from the propagation of cells that have sustained mutation . |
| 4 | Failure to understand the distinction between PPD skin test reactivity and active TB may serve as a further disincentive to PPD testing . |
| 5 | The most interesting developments in the law relating to qualified privilege may come as a result of Article 10 of the European Convention of Human Rights ( see p3 ) . |
| 6 | The developer or his land buyer should act as the catalyst in such situations . |
| 7 | For a given herbivore pressure , the advantage of defence should increase as the potential maximum growth rate declines . |
| 8 | The judge said the long sentence should serve as a warning to others tempted to join the illegal trade in exotic birds . |
| 9 | If training is to meet the demands of the market place then training and training provision must change as the demand changes . |
| 10 | In other words , an inquiry into the meaning of existence should begin as an " existential phenomenology " ; with the existential self-knowledge being the primary objective . |
| 11 | ‘ Then his son-in-law must act as a son and care for the land that 'll one day be his . ’ |
| 12 | Elemental ( aminoacid based ) diets were initially introduced as primary treatment of active Crohn 's disease because of their hypoallergenicity , because it was considered that whole protein may act as a dietary antigens and increase the immune stimuli to the gut . |
| 13 | The most obvious conclusion to be drawn from his study , although not at all what he intended , was that an embryonic rightist consciousness may emerge as an authentic , meaningful response to the contradictions of capitalism . |
| 14 | ‘ … a more meaningful and relevant physical geography may emerge as the product of a new generation of physical geographers who are willing and able to face up to the contemporary needs of the whole subject , and who are prepared to concentrate on the areas of physical reality which are especially relevant to the man-oriented geography It is in the extinction of the traditional division between physical and human geography that new types of collaborative synthesis can arise . ’ |
| 15 | The remedy may come as a liquid potency when the dose is one drop , as granules when the dose is 10 or 20 grains ( like sugar grains or the ‘ hundreds and thousands ’ used to decorate cakes ) or , most commonly as tablets when the dose is one tablet . |
| 16 | With the continuing growth of specialisation in medicine , the survival of general practice may appear as a paradox to be explained . |
| 17 | Thus a certain sales figure may remain as the target but the spending habits of the income group from which the sales were to come may have shifted . |
| 18 | In order that tables can be joined , the value of the foreign key must exist as a primary key in another relation or be null ( this is a rule of relational modelling known as referential integrity ) . |
| 19 | The experience of the EC with member state aids to attract foreign direct investment should serve as a warning that EC rules are not always sufficient to prevent member states from taking unilateral steps to improve their national economies at the expense of others . |
| 20 | His mind must act as a filter . |
| 21 | Only about 12 per cent of companies might be termed ‘ high-tech ’ , although this figure should rise as a higher proportion of post-designation companies fall into this classification . |
| 22 | Public and private institutions could , it decided , act in ignorance , and great harm could flow as a consequence , and succession and family law arrangements could potentially be prejudiced . |
| 23 | Those who carried their counties or their countries to victory are featured to the exclusion of all else , and the result could serve as a visual aid to motivation . |
| 24 | Such effects could take place at a number of different levels within the political system : an individual 's relationship to another could change as a result of the media just as an individual 's relationship to an institution could change as an outcome of media work , and so on . |
| 25 | It means that this type of analysis lights upon a particular aspect of social life and social change ( and an aspect of life with which Chicagoans were immediately concerned in the 1920s ) without attending to what Castells or a structuralist Marxist would see as the principal underlying processes affecting people 's lives , especially economic processes and those related to the social relations of production . |
| 26 | But do you know what the , what a typical dictionary would give as the definition of quality ? |
| 27 | This characterisation of review would come as a surprise to many commentators in this country . |
| 28 | The general idea underlying this discretion seems to be that a court should not award a judicial review remedy if to do so would cause ( query , serious ) damage to the ‘ public interest ’ such as would outweigh the injury which the applicant would suffer as a result of refusal of a remedy . |
| 29 | Such a change of rule would act as a great deterrent to those guilty of such offences on a regular basis . |
| 30 | And his loss would come as a big blow to new boss Crosby who is bidding to take the club into the Premier League next season . |