Example sentences of "of [noun sg] as a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some women would want to link this with the consolidation of black consciousness and with the reclassification of lesbianism as a political and sexual choice rather than a congenital affliction . |
| 2 | I regret the fact that I was not in the Chamber for the speech of the hon. Member for Pudsey ( Sir G. Shaw ) , but my hon. Friend the Member for Durham , North-West ( Ms. Armstrong ) , who was here , told me that he made a heavily veiled criticism of Government policy for its lack of recognition of progress as a key measure of the effectiveness of schools , and expressed concern about the morale of teachers who , he said , were not sufficiently recognised by society . |
| 3 | I mean here the notion of differentiation as a crucial component of the restructuring of the working class as part of the restructuring of the capitalist system of production in these last decades of the twentieth century ( see Byrne and Parson , 1983 ) . |
| 4 | We have to visualize the process of change as a gradual one , with progressive forays from the water , until the first animal with true limbs developed ( the bony elements of the limb are present in the fish fin ) . |
| 5 | Accordingly , the LTQ programme was conceived of as a series of structural realignments and common processual techniques which is embedding a culture of change as an everyday and on-going process rather than for a specific , limited period . |
| 6 | The development of Champagne as a sparkling wine |
| 7 | Other than this exchange , and a desultory extension of it , in which Boswell tried to get his Bear to perform by raising the quality of genius as a conversational topic , lunch and its aftermath proceeded to a dull conclusion . |
| 8 | The same meeting approved voting rights to Retired Members , providing there was a continuous and unbroken record of payment as a Full Member for at least 25 years . |
| 9 | Many historians have commented on the decline of nonconformism as a political force in the early twentieth century . |
| 10 | The Korean War marked the spread of the Cold War beyond Europe and the Atlantic : henceforward the US government saw the containment of communism as a global task . |
| 11 | Unfortunately he took her lack of fight as a sudden sign of submission . |
| 12 | Nevertheless it is not common practice to consider the man-machine allocation of function as an isolated design decision . |
| 13 | A study in COLOMBIA found that an integrated service with proper medical back-up cost four times as much per person-year of protection as a straight female sterilisation drive and led to a wide-ranging cost-cutting exercise . |
| 14 | The identification of racism as a capitalist ploy ( D ) draws on a particular kind of political rhetoric which under some conditions may mobilize sections of the left or the labour movement in defence of the black community . |
| 15 | What often begins with a vision of racism as a global force of evil often becomes focused down into a conspiracy directed against a chosen people in a way which invests their suffering and sacrifices with a special redemptive meaning . |
| 16 | Above all , however , it makes it possible to yoke together a generic model of racism as a global ideological form with a highly differentiated notion of its relational properties , in a way which makes its enactment or sufferance the monopoly of specific individuals or groups . |
| 17 | ‘ My share of responsibility as a Senior Assistant Solicitor is to provide legal advice on social services and employment law . |
| 18 | An Indonesian-registered freighter , the Perintis , carrying 32 containers of toxic pesticide , sank on March 15 , 1989 , in an area of the English Channel described by the UK Ministry of Defence as a conventional explosives dumping ground . |
| 19 | Much of the improvement in survival has resulted from the now routine use of cyclosporin as an immunosuppressive agent . |
| 20 | It should be emphasised that in India metaphysics , or that which is beyond the measurement , and therefore clarification of physics as a scientific discipline , is never merely abstract speculation but serves as a theoretical framework supporting a body of spiritual discipline . |
| 21 | Probably think of bleach as a nice drink now . |
| 22 | Here I focus on the genealogy of two aspects of discrimination already addressed by this study , namely displacement between the political and the sexual , and the idea of perversion as an inimical absence . |
| 23 | As we saw with the pre-sexological theories of perversion , condensation and displacement are strangely enabled by the view of perversion as an inimical threatening absence . |
| 24 | Naturally enough , this view of faith as a divine gift rather than the product of a human effort was used to mark off the believers from the unbelievers . |
| 25 | Many of the elaborate theses on English Literature produced by American students for their Doctorate , and afterwards published , were monuments of misdirected effort ; in short , a true sense of literature as a living thing was lost , and in its place was substituted an investigation after the worse pattern of German ‘ research ’ , deadening alike to those who wrote and those who read it . |
| 26 | Because philosophy and science now occupy the secondary position that was previously ascribed to literature , it makes no sense to speak of literature as a special kind of language . |
| 27 | Nizan was evidently committed to the idea of literature as a high moral adventure played out between reader and writer . |
| 28 | It is not perhaps since Romanticism that there has been so much discussion , and underlying uncertainty , about the market of literature , and it is no accident that recent years have seen an expansion of the sociology of literature as an academic discipline , alongside increased research into reading habits , the best-seller and how to write it , and the levels of writing that appeal to different strata of the public . |
| 29 | And also of course as a far as local people are concerned . |
| 30 | To recognize the transfer of contractual rights necessary for negotiability , the common law had to overcome the concept of property as a tangible object and of contract as a personal relationship . |