Example sentences of "which [verb] as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old nineteenth-century role of Parliament as a body which chose the government , maintained it and could reject it , which operated as an intermediary between the electorate and the executive , has gone . |
| 2 | ( i ) Liability for negligence.In Phillips Products Ltd v Hyland [ 1987 ] 2 All ER 620 the Court of Appeal upheld a finding that a clause in a plant hire contract requiring the hirer of an excavator to indemnify the owner against liability for loss caused by the driver 's negligence , which operated as an exclusion , was unreasonable . |
| 3 | The star attraction was a model of the Princes of Wales 's head which doubled as a playhouse , with her tongue as a slide ! |
| 4 | In the second chapter of his work , Simmel traces the manner in which coinage as the medium used for money gradually loses any intrinsic value , and becomes exclusively a symbol for all other relationships . |
| 5 | Of all the multiplicity of middle-class organizations which arose as a response to the dislocation of war and the perceived threat of socialism in Great Britain , the distinguishing feature of the Britons Society was its crude and obsessional anti-semitism . |
| 6 | The second difficulty which arose as a result of the legal model 's reliance on the contractual conception of the company was the increasing artificiality of this analysis as the size of companies grew and the shareholders became increasingly passive investors . |
| 7 | Yes , the life span of a junior international is a short one and it seems that it 's the back ends of rinks which suffer as a result . |
| 8 | Robert Cripps is a director of Cohere Limited , which holds as an investment 1,963,528 shares in Velcro — or 65%/ of the share capital . |
| 9 | There is a virus called Q-beta which lives as a parasite of the gut bacterium Eschenchia coli . |
| 10 | The overthrow of the gentile constitution , which occurred as a result of technological changes , and as a result of the presence of the pairing family , is , according to Engels , the beginning of history as understood by Marx : the exploitation of one class by another and the resulting class struggles . |
| 11 | Table V shows the main changes which occurred as a result of this activity . |
| 12 | The term epeirogeny was in fact first coined by G. K. Gilbert in 1890 to describe the isostatic uplift which occurred as a result of the evaporation of Lake Bonneville in Utah in the western U S A ( leaving the much smaller Great Salt Lake of the present day ) . |
| 13 | According to the liquidator of the stockbroking firm which crashed as a result of the Farrington Stead failure , the summons for her arrest was issued late that year . |
| 14 | There she wept for her sins and her tears washed away the blood ; The form in which this sermon harnesses the pressure of fear as well as the promise of comfort , provides a recognisable cultural context for the form of Margery Kempe 's initial vision of salvation and witnesses to the high esteem in which tears as a sign of spiritual grace were held in the fifteenth century . |
| 15 | Circuits which oscillate as a result of suitable positive feedback being applied deliberately round an open-loop amplifier are termed oscillators . |
| 16 | A word which has as an element either a past participle or a present participle , eg airborne , weatherbeaten , self-taught . |
| 17 | It is important that as Christians we conceive of the corporation as a community which has as an objective more than just profit maximisation . |
| 18 | One reason for this is that , unlike lions , which hunt as a pride and can therefore support each other , all tigers are loners . |
| 19 | By harvest time the grain has become a mass of spores , which spread as a cloud of dust . |
| 20 | But it was the main bedroom which came as a surprise and a shock . |
| 21 | The Budget measures , which came as a surprise to many offshore operating companies , include a reduction from 75 to 50 per cent in petroleum revenue tax ( PRT ) on existing oilfields and abolition of the charge on new fields . |
| 22 | On Friday , though , Alesi had been the top man as he claimed the overnight pole , but he lost any chance of keeping it with a wall-bashing incident , which came as no surprise to anyone who had watched his outrageously extrovert efforts . |
| 23 | The products evolved are then related to the ‘ change in maturity ’ which occurs as a result of heating . |
| 24 | The subsidence which occurs as a result of the mining in any event is very limited and has been able to be taken into account quite adequately on other developments within the Selby District . |
| 25 | ( 3 ) Glandular setae — Grouped under this heading are those setae which function as the outlet for the secretion of epidermal glands ( see p. 263 ) . |
| 26 | HP 's automatic software distribution system , OpenView Software Distributor , formerly known as Software Distribution Utilities , which features as a component of the Open Software Foundation 's Distributed Management Environment , will follow in August priced at £4,000 . |
| 27 | As trustees we have a responsibility to respect the natural world , which acts as a constraint on even our need to pollute it to keep costs down . |
| 28 | Both of these novels contain in their opening pages a narrative sequence which acts as a kind of generating cell for the rest of the text — the process of textual production foregrounded in Leçon de choses . |
| 29 | The Department of the Interior , which acts as a kind of colonial office , has been investigating the local government . |
| 30 | Nevertheless Rolle concludes this chapter with a song which acts as a kind of rite of passage — an enabler for the reception of this gift . |