Example sentences of "as a [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | possibly Count Raymond offered to do homage to Henry and to hold Toulouse as a fief of the duchy of Aquitaine . |
| 2 | Innocent asserted his paternal protection of Frederick and the position of Sicily as a fief of the papacy . |
| 3 | Henderson made his reputation as a spokesman for the working classes of Belfast against the economic policies of the Unionist governments of the 1930s . |
| 4 | As a spokesman for the UK surfing community , Chris Hines is increasingly well-informed , so much so that he is now a worthy opposition in the corridors of power . |
| 5 | Although the Slovene economy developed during the nineteenth century as a satellite economy to that of Austria , at the end of the eighteenth century it had a sufficient degree of autonomy to sustain a self-reliant , Slovene-speaking middle class which could act as a spokesman for the national movement . |
| 6 | He was among the politically active officers of 1647–9 , serving on the small standing committee to which Sir Thomas Fairfax ( later third Baron Fairfax of Cameron , q.v. ) handed over control of issuing all commissions , and acting as a spokesman for the high command in their successive dealings with the Parliament , the king , and the radicals in the army itself ( the Agitators and their Leveller allies ) . |
| 7 | His continued appearance on the public platform and his considerable oratory skills gave Williams the opportunity to enhance his growing reputation as a spokesman for the ‘ common man ’ . |
| 8 | As a spokesman for the US State Department declared at an American chiefs of mission meeting in London in September 1957 : " The United States — United Kingdom relationship is at the core of the NATO alliance and is an important element in SEATO and the Baghdad Pact . " |
| 9 | Mr Kewley is acting as a spokesman for the family . |
| 10 | As a member of the Territorial Army Reserve he held the rank of Lt Colonel and served a period as a co of the OTC . |
| 11 | Our first trek , up Gunung Mulu , was the hardest of the whole expedition and came as a shock to the system . |
| 12 | Emergence of difference is often experienced as a shock to the whole system , a sudden puncturing of the illusion of sameness . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , with repeated French insinuations that they had neither the means nor the intention of reconquering Vietnam , it obviously came as a shock to the US to discover that this was exactly what France seemed to have in mind . |
| 14 | For such conditioning to occur , the animal must learn to respond to a mild stimulus which would not normally cause the withdrawal in the same way as if it were a strong one , such as a shock to the tail , which does cause withdrawal . |
| 15 | The demand for subject access may have come as a shock to the library profession but , more importantly , it raised a very fundamental issue : that is , the role of the catalogue in providing access to the library collection . |
| 16 | It all came as a shock for the 63-year-old Governor . |
| 17 | Even earlier , as a diplomat in Beijing and at the United Nations in New York in the 1950s , then as a high-flyer at the elbow of two heads of the Foreign Office , he was marked for big things . |
| 18 | Unlike a probation order , which was not regarded as a sentence of the Court , a suspended sentence ranked not merely as a sentence , but as a sentence of imprisonment , with a condition attached which activated the element of custodial confinement only if another offence was committed within a stated period of not less than one year nor more than two ( originally three ) years . |
| 19 | The sentence A beaver hit the log and knocked the turtle into the water was falsely identified as a sentence from the passage . |
| 20 | 19ff ) ; one of the earliest attested acts of faith centred upon the near sacrifice of a human being ( Isaac , son of Abraham ) , replaced at the last moment by a substitute ram which was given as a burnt-offering ( Gen. 22 ) ; and the first redemption of the embryonic nation Israel involved the smearing of the blood of the Passover lamb on the doorposts and lintels of the Hebrews ' homes in Egypt as a sign to the Angel of Death to leave them in safety ( Exod. |
| 21 | As a sign of the future , Ernest Bevin , Minister of Labour , and one of the senior Labour Party ministers , said his party had rather different views on the matter , but would accept the general proposals for the time being . |
| 22 | Saris are seen as a sign of the wearer being progressive . |
| 23 | It is difficult not to notice that the ‘ bundle of sticks ’ is reminiscent of the Roman fasces , the bundle of rods with a protruding axe-head , carried before Roman consuls as a sign of the state authority of Rome , and adopted by Mussolini as a symbol of the movement he led to power in 1922 , whence the word ‘ fascist ’ . |
| 24 | I find it very useful as a sign of the differences between recreational and competitive paddlers . |
| 25 | The break-up of the old world was seen as a sign of the last times . |
| 26 | In those days , an animal was offered in sacrifice to God , and its blood was sprinkled over the people as a sign of the one blood of life shared between God and his people . |
| 27 | She takes their practice of representing a feminine gendered component of meaning as [ -male ] as a sign of the fact that women in language are relegated to ‘ negative semantic space ’ . |
| 28 | Besides attempting to say what it was about a sensation which served as a sign of the location of whatever had given rise to it , adherents of the local sign theory had also to say in what way the reference to a part of the body was made — whether in the form of visual imagery , or of a judgement , or of something else . |
| 29 | At the time , I took this decay merely as a sign of the times ; I was comfortable with decay . |
| 30 | People point to the success of the German Bundesbank as a sign of the strength of the German economy . |