Example sentences of "[adv] as [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since in the epi-classical period the differences between legacies and trusts persisted there is no reason to suppose that the publisher of Scaevola 's works would have used the terms interchangeably as a matter of deliberate policy . |
| 2 | For example , where pragmatics is construed as the study of grammatically encoded aspects of context , we might want to say : ( 18 ) f(s)=c where c is the set of contexts potentially encoded by elements of S i.e. f is a theory that " computes out " of sentences the contexts which they encode Or , alternatively , where pragmatics is defined as the study of constraints on the appropriateness of utterances , we could say : ( 19 ) f(u)=a where A has just two elements , denoting the appropriate vs. the inappropriate utterances i.e. f is a theory that selects just those felicitous or appropriate pairings of sentences and contexts — or identifies the set of appropriate utterances Or , where pragmatics is defined ostensively as a list of topics , we could say : ( 20 ) f(u)=b where each element of B is a combination of a speech act , a set of presuppositions , a set of conversational implicatures , etc. i.e. f is a theory that assigns to each utterance the speech act it performs , the propositions it presupposes , the propositions it conversationally implicates , etc . |
| 3 | There he met Mohandas K. Gandhi , and spent much of the next 20 years acting as a conciliatory intermediary between Gandhi 's Congress Party and the British Government , latterly as a member of Gandhi 's entourage . |
| 4 | Part-time work seems to be a prerogative of women presumably as a consequence of their central role in the home . |
| 5 | Even though a proposed fourth game against Canada has been dropped — presumably as a gesture of appeasement — The tour runs from June 5-19 , deep into the summer break — and George Graham , Alex Ferguson , Graeme Souness and others believe their clubs should not be put at a disadvantage at the start of the following season . |
| 6 | The relevance of his role as priest ( referred to by the expressions Priest , a dissident … priest , the priest 's ) is presumably as a priest of the Roman Catholic Church of which the Pope is Head . |
| 7 | All the indications are that the Hebridean flora and vegetation were more diverse than today , presumably as a result of the widespread more fertile , unleached mineral soils present immediately after deglaciation and the cessation of periglaciation . |
| 8 | However , by 7700 B.P. Calluna heaths expanded , presumably as a result of soil acidification and podsolisation . |
| 9 | That seems possible because in one of Jacob 's books , Cornet à Dés , there was a dedication to Modigliani in the edition published in 1917 which was deleted subsequently , presumably as a result of the mysterious quarrel over Beatrice . |
| 10 | It was presumably as a result of this that Palmerston wrote to the Treasury in May 1836 , explaining his views on the new accommodation . |
| 11 | A weaker protection is produced at GpA in ( ATT ) 4 CG(AAT) 4 suggesting that the weaker cleavage observed in this fragment is due to a lower affinity of the antibiotic for this site , presumably as a result of the structure imposed by the surrounding DNA sequence . |
| 12 | I am thinking of domestics , porters and maintenance staff , who are grossly underpaid and who are suffering badly as a result of administration of hospital trusts and the attempts to break away from the national negotiating machinery . |
| 13 | Considering the number of PFK readers who would like to see their Puffers inflate just once ( though arguably as a sign of stress this is n't such a great idea ) many marine fishkeepers would have been thrilled . |
| 14 | His deification as the patron of craftsmen , but more importantly as a god of wisdom , medicine and healing , had occurred by the Late Period and he was thus identified by the Greeks with their god of medicine , Asclepios . |
| 15 | Rectal discharge may occur rarely as a result of infection of the back passage , but again infection of this site is usually asymptomatic . |
| 16 | The emergency ward was over-flowing with casualties , mostly as a result of police assault . |
| 17 | The redundancies come on top of five hundred already announced by the firm over the past eighteen months , mostly as a result of cutbacks in defence spending . |
| 18 | The major Western degenerative diseases do n't happen in an instant — like infective diseases — but appear to creep up on us slowly as a result of years and years of bad eating . |
| 19 | In terms of the concepts outlined above we could express Marx 's views thus : the economic class of proletarians ( propertyless sellers of labour power ) will necessarily become increasingly homogeneous in respect of income levels and conditions of life and work ; this will result in the increasing ‘ non-pertinence ’ of social collectivities based on branch of industry , religion , nationality , sex etc. , and the increasing pertinence of the social collectivity coterminous with the proletariat itself ; eventually as a result of the process of struggle this social collectivity will become organised into a corporate body — the trade union movement — and a political force : the communist movement or party . |
| 20 | This was interpreted locally as an endorsement of the plans of President Alberto Keinya Fujimori to return the country to formal democratic rule following his army-backed presidential coup on April 5 [ see pp. 38846-47 ] . |
| 21 | The people who will suffer most as a result of the Conservative election victory are not , by and large , readers of this magazine . |
| 22 | For example Eleutherococcus senticosus is used widely as a tonic in the USSR , and is available in Soviet hospitals for people undergoing surgery , chemotherapy or radiotherapy , to improve their resistance and aid their recovery ( New Scientist , vol 87 , p 576 ) . |
| 23 | Tutoring ideas could be used much more widely as a way of helping both older and younger students , for example with older pupils helping younger ones in their own schools . |
| 24 | They therefore need to gain insight into what language is and what it can do , insights which bilingual children intuitively possess ’ , and ‘ Whilst we recognise that they [ bilingual pupils ] need to gain access to standard forms of English — used widely as a vehicle for implementing the school curriculum , we recognise the value and importance of their own dialects and languages . |
| 25 | But Finn came and sat beside her and gave her another cream bun , which she accepted gladly as a token of friendship , although she did not want it . |
| 26 | The Commander rubbed his chin vigorously as an aid to thought . |
| 27 | Exemptions likely to be encountered include vehicles not exceeding 10 cwt unladen specially adapted for invalids ; vehicles brought from abroad for a temporary stay are exempt not exceeding one year from date of importation ; vehicles going to or returning from a vehicle test or being repaired etc. as a result of the test , provided in all cases prior arrangements have been made . |
| 28 | Some connection having been made in his mind , he began to rebuke her for a belief in the reality of Noah 's Ark , which he referred to sarcastically as the Myth of the Deluge . |
| 29 | The vote for the neo-Fascist Movimento Sociale Italiano-Destra Nazionale ( MSI-DN ) slipped back from 5.9 per cent in 1987 to 5.4 per cent — giving it 34 seats in the Chamber of Deputies — in spite of the fact that Alessandra Mussolini , the 28-year-old granddaughter of Benito Mussolini , stood successfully as a candidate for the MSI-DN in its Naples stronghold . |
| 30 | ‘ But along with change is a commitment to the values that have kept us operating successfully as a group for over 200 years — service , quality , innovation — all these things and more . |