Example sentences of "as the [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lamming on Dexy's-clones Big Sound Authority : ‘ wait till you see this man sweat ’ — sweat as the tangible proof of authenticity , commitment . ) |
| 2 | This originated during the reign of Henry VI in London , where the two leading churches were Westminster Abbey , officially listed as the Collegiate Church of St Peter , and St Paul 's Cathedral . |
| 3 | I demonstrated in the previous chapter that the use of discursive metaphor causes simultaneity and association to replace causality and linear chronology as the compositional principles of the novel , allowing changes of scene in mid-sentence and the coexistence of a number of often incompatible signifieds in a given signifier . |
| 4 | Traditionally , the right of States to remain aloof from conflict between other States , and to have that stance recognised as the legal status of neutrality , was the most developed third party right . |
| 5 | The ‘ Act for the Abolition of Imprisonment for Debt , for the Punishment of Fraudulent Debtors and other purposes ’ , to give it its full name , was , said Wetherfield , a very short , simple and sweeping measure , ‘ a great innovation upon what we have become accustomed to as the legal relations of debtor and creditor . ’ |
| 6 | With landfalls in places like Rüdesheim and Koblenz , and Cologne as the final port of call , this is a unique and very special cruise . |
| 7 | The application can , at this point , hand back any structure it chooses to , to serve as the final output of CLE-I . |
| 8 | Under new proposals expected to be brought in by the IAAF , starters are likely to lose their power as the final judges of what is a false start . |
| 9 | So the victim of the tom-cat 's sexual frustration may now be eaten , as the final act of this gruesome misfiring of the feline reproductive sequence . |
| 10 | For Wolf was " the first to present a systematic description of the vast fabric that he called by the name of Altertumswissenschaft , to arrange and review its component parts and to point to a perfect knowledge of the many-sided life of the ancient Greeks and Romans as the final goal of the modern study of the ancient world . |
| 11 | On Oct. 26 , 1989 , the House of Lords , sitting as the final court of appeal , ruled that while the ITC and its members had a moral responsibility to its creditors , the creditors had no contractual claims under English law against the 22 member states of the ITC . |
| 12 | Assuming that students will still regard Associate Membership of the Institution as the final accolade of professional ability , the members , through the Test , will remain the final arbiters on entry to their profession . |
| 13 | The 1930s nadir is usually regarded as the final maturity of the new trend towards small family size which began in the marriage cohorts of the 1870s . |
| 14 | Forming the chord of this arc lay the so-called Oosttaverne Line , some 4km/2½mls in length the German trench system that had been selected as the final objective of Plumer 's attack . |
| 15 | The Menai suspension bridge linking Anglesey with Holyhead was built by Thomas Telford ( q.v. ) from 18 19–26 as the final part of his great work of re-aligning the road from London to Holyhead . |
| 16 | We might expect , however , that it would more typically occur as the final sentence of a paragraph , not as a climax , but as describing an action which culminates a series of actions . |
| 17 | Tendring District Council believes a decision would be premature as the final version of the district plan — the area 's blueprint for future development — is not completed . |
| 18 | The broad difference was between those who advocated some form of centralised planning and those who wished to see the government as the final umpire of a largely free market . |
| 19 | In other areas too , it seems that the case for Woodchester as the final pavement of a sequence of elaborations " cuts with a double-edged blade " : at the beginning of the sequence , for example , it is difficult to understand how a twenty-five year long period of development had no other local influence . |
| 20 | Here the problem lies in the generality of the terms " description " and " analysis " , as well as in the anti-climactic phrase " entertaining prose " as the final words of the piece . |
| 21 | As the final item of business in the parliament of 1555 , the queen 's advocate got up to present her act of revocation to the regent and the three estates , signed with Mary 's own hand and sealed with her privy seal at Fontainebleau on 25 April . |
| 22 | On the other hand , he regarded Khrushchev 's initiatives in Berlin and , later , in Cuba as the final flings of a conflict that was drawing to a close . |
| 23 | Rather , to adopt the method involves accepting that there is a ‘ reality ’ , which is as it is independently of what anyone may think of it , but which suitably organized inquiry is fated to discover eventually ; around the early 1870s Peirce speaks of reality as the final cause of inquiry . |
| 24 | As the final paragraph of the Report 's chapter on the universities makes clear , this mission is seen as extending well beyond the boundaries of England . |
| 25 | In the nuclear power plant design they are also used as the final stage of pre-construction design evaluation ( Williams and Story , 1987 ) . |
| 26 | It is misleading to regard the Soviet withdrawal from the Porkkala base in 1955–6 as the final stage of a phased withdrawal of Soviet troops from Finland when Soviet troops had at no stage occupied Finnish soil . |
| 27 | When they had decisively defeated the Gauls in the battle of Telamon in 225 B.C. they had commemorated the victory by a temple on the site , in which the Celts appears as the modern counterpart of the Seven against Thebes . |
| 28 | The random production might be regarded as the normal state of affairs , periodic production occurring through a rather special mechanism . |
| 29 | ‘ … to regard negligence as the normal requirement of responsibility in tort , and to look upon strict liability as anomalous and unjust seems to … mistake present values as well as past history . |
| 30 | No action is specified as the normal consequence of discovering this class of ‘ pollution ’ . |