Example sentences of "of [pron] [noun] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , more importantly , I have learnt not to see any stage of my life as the final one . |
| 2 | ‘ Leeds were always at the back of my mind as the side I would like to join if I came back to England , ’ said the 6ft 2in , 16 stone Iro . |
| 3 | In September 1981 the magazine duly appeared , coinciding with the start of my office as the sabbatical Deputy President of the students ' union at the RCA . |
| 4 | The other is the idea of political equality which presupposes that ‘ the weaker members of a political community are entitled to the same concern and respect of their government as the more powerful members have secured for themselves , so that if some men have freedom of decision whatever the effect on the general good , then all men must have the same freedom ’ ( Dworkin , 1978 , p. 199 ) . |
| 5 | This idea of political equality , he suggested , presupposed that ‘ the weaker members of a political community are entitled to the same concern and respect of their government as the more powerful members have secured for themselves , so that if some men have freedom whatever the effect on the general good , all men must have the same freedom ’ . |
| 6 | My difficulty is compounded by the succinctness and cogency of the Official Solicitor 's submissions which were made with obvious distaste , but in the due and proper fulfilment of their duties as the guardian ad litem of this disabled girl . |
| 7 | Delaney took the lead , carefully raising his head above the edge of their cover as the Russian , eyes still warily on him , followed suit . |
| 8 | The very few working class women who have left a record of their conscious decision to limit their families usually mention the plight of their mothers as the decisive factor . |
| 9 | Parents who have watched their children grow and develop are just as likely to have insights into the development of their child as the teacher who has taught for a couple of years . |
| 10 | General practitioners will be concerned that purchasing pressures will disturb the doctor-patient relationship , and doctors ' perception of their role as the patient 's friend and ally . |
| 11 | When Gaitskell met the chairmen on 22 July 1948 , however , he mercilessly exposed many of their arguments as the specious reasoning of bigoted men . |
| 12 | Winchester were entitled legitimately to conduct their investment business only by reason of their status as the authorised representative of Norwich . |
| 13 | They may have been scared out of their wits as the mob moved towards their hotels but they were not harmed . |
| 14 | What 's more , the engine is much the same as that in the 1935 15-series cars , and Citroen 's engines were never as far ahead of their time as the rest of the car . |
| 15 | At crossroads the gibbets provided plump carrion for the hungry crows and ravens ; landless men turned out of their fields as the great lords changed to tending sheep rather than raising crops . |
| 16 | Since the loss of their monopoly as the ruling party , the communists now accounted for half the Politburo ; the rest represented the different parties who now shared power . |
| 17 | Just when they were about to ask Brussels to impose the fruits of their labour as the official standard for European direct-broadcast satellites , someone at the French foreign ministry leaked a report which argues that their technology , called D2 MAC , is already out of date . |
| 18 | Somehow it conjures images of smuggling days , perhaps because of its standing as the chief gathering place for the seafarers of former times . |
| 19 | The operating software is available in modular fashion , with Encina having been selected for the transaction processing software , on the basis of its position as the de-facto transaction processing standard , as NEC sees it . |
| 20 | The operating software is available in modular fashion , with Encina having been selected for the transaction processing software , on the basis of its position as the de-facto transaction processing standard , as NEC sees it . |
| 21 | Secondly , it conjures the Wild West by virtue of its position as the middle of a line of three forts , Fort William to the south , and Fort George to the north . |
| 22 | The 80-strong standing orchestra , the many-acred hats department and all the job-for-life people are as much a part of its history as The Blue Angel and Metropolis . |
| 23 | Essentially , the domestic firm will know the response of its competitor as the foreign firm 's reaction function will be kinked where the quota is binding . |
| 24 | There is some partial evidence of its existence as the expenditure estimates of gross national product ( based on the Family Expenditure Survey ) regularly exceed the estimates from the income side . |
| 25 | Despite Savimbi 's Nov. 17 commitment , UNITA failed to attend the multiparty talks on Nov. 21 , describing the meeting as a " circus " and citing fears for the security of its officials as the reason for its absence . |
| 26 | After the 1935 election , the LNU , aware of its potential as the biggest non-party organization in Britain , edged towards a more direct political challenge to the Government . |
| 27 | In that year the UK imported more manufactured goods than it exported ; it appeared to mark the end of its role as the workshop of the world . |
| 28 | At the same time , the rise of the Greens has robbed the National Front of its role as the main anti-establishment , protest party . |
| 29 | So one of the great figures of mid sixteenth-century France was emphatically reminding Mary of her position as the crucial link between Scotland and France ; for that was where her importance would really lie even if she spent most of her life in France , and knowledge of Scotland therefore mattered greatly . |
| 30 | Nathalie Sarraute has consistently defended the narrative structures of her texts as the only possible means of representing , in fictional form , the psychological interactions between consciousnesses which she describes as ‘ tropisms ’ — the depiction of subtle intersubjective activity involves the creation of a more fluid narrative discourse . |