Example sentences of "as the principal " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their role as the principal form of money for over two millennia means they can tell us about economies for which we have little or no written evidence , and the fact that they were mass-produced and have survived in such large numbers offers the opportunity to approach the economic history of some societies in a quantitative way . |
| 2 | A straw poll in Richmond yesterday showed that , of 53 women who favoured the Liberal Democrats , only two mentioned Mr Ashdown as the principal reason for their choice . |
| 3 | The quartzo-feldspathic gneiss contains quartz , feldspar and hornblende as the principal minerals , variable though small amounts of biotite , and with iron ores and apatite as the common accessory minerals present . |
| 4 | In her anxiety not to ‘ assist ’ the nationalistic bourgeoisie of Poland , Rosa Luxemburg , by her denial of the right of secession in the programme of the Russian Marxists is , in fact , assisting the Great Russian Black Hundreds ( extreme Right ) ; she is in fact assisting … the nationalism of the Great Russians … the most formidable at the present time : it is precisely the one that is less bourgeois and more feudal , and it is precisely the one that acts as the principal brake on democracy and the proletarian struggle . |
| 5 | In 1911 Fort Station was developed as the principal Colombo station . |
| 6 | In the lead-up to MIPCOM , the tele-trade papers were full of dire warnings of the perils of MIPCOM for small independents — astronomical costs loomed as the principal concern . |
| 7 | McColvin 's early work Theory of book selection for public libraries , which postulated demand as the principal criterion for provision , is repudiated in an article he published some 30 years later . |
| 8 | Although LMS sees LEAs transfer much of their powers , authorities still have a key role to play as the principal source of advice on the complexities of employment law and on fair procedures for appointment , discipline , grievance and dismissal . |
| 9 | In Servan-Schreiber 's theory , the next generation of cheap personal computers , accessible to ordinary conversation in hundreds of different languages , would begin to replace cars and radios as the principal vectors of cultural exchange and development . |
| 10 | Several dozen mathematics texts have appeared that use problems as the principal teaching technique . |
| 11 | James Paul saw the National Deaf and Dumb Society as the principal backers of establishing a network of missions for the deaf throughout the country , and the Society did indeed succeed in establishing the Ayrshire Mission to the Deaf at Kilmarnock in 1881 , with Paul himself as missioner , and the Stockton-on-Tees Mission in 1882 . |
| 12 | Regularly presented as the principal policy medium for the resolution of these two problems , the impact of urban policy on either has been as minor as the significance they have had for the formulation and legitimation of policy has been major . |
| 13 | For example , medical explanations of the ‘ blues ’ tend to favour as the principal causative element biochemical changes taking place in a woman 's body during pregnancy and immediately after birth . |
| 14 | Rhetorically and strategically , the war was in full swing before crack was identified as the principal enemy . |
| 15 | The rebuilt merchants ' houses in East Grinstead have already been noted , but there were similar examples to be found in Petworth ; North Street in that town served as the principal thoroughfare and the more prosperous tradesmen expanded their accommodation when individual and urban fortunes allowed . |
| 16 | It will be the first time that he and the Princess of Wales have attended together as the principal guests . |
| 17 | Tables 3 and 4 clearly identify the ICAEW as the principal regulator in arguably the most important audit market — certainly in terms of the public interest . |
| 18 | In the immediate postwar period as the franchise was again extended , and as Labour emerged as the principal opposition , so Conservatives retrained their guns . |
| 19 | Near the end of the period gold coin may have been used in commercial transactions , but the dwindling supply of gold in western Europe caused a switch to silver as the principal precious metal . |
| 20 | Some feminists see biology as the principal field of struggle . |
| 21 | These developments reflect the government 's acceptance of the importance of education as the key instrument in the liberation of human talent and as the principal agent of the country 's economic regeneration . |
| 22 | Poulantzas identified the rise of authoritarian statism as the principal trend in contemporary liberal democratic politics , and defined it as ‘ intensified state control over every sphere of socio-economic life combined with a radical decline of the institutions of political democracy , and with draconian and multiform curtailment of so-called ‘ formal ’ liberties ' ( Poulantzas , 1978 , pp. 203 — 4 ) . |
| 23 | The ready response on this occasion no doubt did much to establish the contract system as the principal method of raising armies during the war with France . |
| 24 | We decided to focus on the women with endometriosis as the principal diagnosis since this group would be least influenced by selection bias . |
| 25 | Without bargaining skills , a president will be a nonentity in the White House , unable to control other political leaders and incapable of meeting his responsibilities as the principal public policy-maker . |
| 26 | The supporters of fiscal policy as the principal macroeconomic policy defend their position by arguing that changes in government expenditure have a direct effect on economic activity . |
| 27 | Accordingly , the prices objective became more important in most economies , and by the middle of the 1970s it had replaced full employment as the principal objective of the UK government . |
| 28 | Originally intended as the principal thoroughfare in the New Town designed by James Craig in 1765 , George Street was lined with not very distinguished buildings . |
| 29 | From the 1920s to the 1940s he acted as the principal representative of the provisional administration in Washington , having given up the presidency . |
| 30 | The appointment of Dulles could not have been welcome to him , for Dulles carried great weight in the Republican Party and would rival his own authority as the principal expert on Japan . |