Example sentences of "of [noun sg] as [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 The public interest would hardly suffer by the curtailment of temptations to give or accept credit which were likely to follow the abolition of so dubious a guarantee of honesty as furnished by the liability to imprisonment .
2 6.2 Descriptions of these two instruments of assessment as given in the document The National Certificate — A Guide to Assessment , are :
3 This requirement is linked to the formative view of assessment as outlined above , and will clearly be of benefit to less academic pupils .
4 Ruppia maritima or R. cirrhosa occurs in the Outer Hebrides as a species of brackish lochs , and perhaps not as a constituent of saltmarsh as referred to by Adams(1981) and in the NVC .
5 While not many people have adopted Plato 's particular grounds for opposing democracy , the issue of expertise as opposed to supposed popular ignorance or incompetence has remained a central one in the debate about democracy .
6 1.2 agrees to pay for the Licensed Software in accordance with the Pricing Policy as defined in Schedule 3 and with the Terms of Payment as defined in Schedule 4 .
7 Positive cytology was based on the presence of cells with established characteristics of malignancy as shown in Figure 2 .
8 Gandhi would reject the eudaemonistic consequentialism of utilitarianism as limited in its objective and lacking in humanity .
9 I was more inclined to enjoy this type of drug as opposed to amphetamines , y'know , which at the time left you feeling a bit uncomfortable the next day .
10 The primary end points were ascertained at day 28 as ( a ) the investigator 's overall assessment of the patient 's condition compared with pretreatment , ‘ investigator 's assessment ’ , ( b ) the patient 's assessment of remission as recorded in the diary card , ‘ patient 's assessment ’ , and ( c ) the sigmoidoscopy score .
11 In the first instance Bukharin noted that the process of expanded negative reproduction was at work in agriculture just as in industry , but its material effects were mitigated by the very primitiveness of agriculture as compared to industry .
12 What the difference is between a real thing and a ‘ counterfeit ’ , one can not tell , but anyway the idea of perversion as opposed to creation comes over .
13 The chromatographic behaviour of the stimulating activity described here ( Fig.3 ) strictly correlates with that of hTFIIA as outlined by Waldschmidt and Seifart ( 12 ) .
14 And if the Mass enacted the social reality of the body of Christ , it also enacted the recognised pattern of personal contemplative experience , moving as it did from confession , the recognition of the condition of sin and fallen man , through the articulation of faith as revealed in Scripture and Creed , to the offering to God of the God-given fruits of human labour through which the gift of his presence is made known .
15 It amounts , in short , to a rejection of the unmediated , dogmatic view of literature as preached by Stalin , Zhdanov , Radek and Stetsky in 1934 , the implication of which is that the task of literature is primarily to serve immediate propagandist ends , and the adoption of a more sensitive cultural perspective which distances literature from ideology , grants greater specificity to literary production , and in the process provides a richer , more complex and refracted view of social reality .
16 This would mean an amendment of Further Education Grant Regulations ‘ so as to give less prominence to the length of course as compared with other and equally important criteria ’ such as the quality of teaching and the amount of written work done by students ( Recommendation 10 ) .
17 Treatment of contract as repudiated
18 As far as the citizenship of entitlement as formulated by Marshall is concerned , Labour is opposed to the introduction of a Bill of Rights , for example , which would be one way of restoring the civil and political rights which have been eroded in recent years .
19 Little research exists on the difficult task of raising another person 's child in this situation or on the distinctive features and potential problems of step-parenting as opposed to adoption or fostering .
20 Here Althusser attempts to analyse the general form of ideology as opposed to theorizing particular ideologies ‘ which in whatever their form ( religious , ethical , legal , political ) , always express class positions ’ ( Althusser 1971 : 150 ) .
21 So far the concept of ideology as used by Marx is vague and does not lead to a formula of ideology as being ‘ false ’ knowledge or untruth .
22 In Rulfo 's Pedro Páramo , likewise , the frustration that embitters the eponymous protagonist 's life and the dashing of illusions that is the pattern of existence as depicted in the novel , are symbolized by an episode in which young Pedro and his lover climb a hill and fly a kite in the shape of a bird , only to see the string break and the kite fall back to earth , and the novel as a whole is punctuated by recurrent images of rising and falling which reiterate the central theme of the thwarting of human hopes and aspirations .
23 Mix half a packet of stuffing as directed but adding a little extra dried sage and dried onion and a good pinch of salt .
24 Mr Smith , erm , obviously you want to respond to that , but at the same time could I just press you towards your view and it 's really relevant to the districts surrounding York , that we know you can live with the figures of provision as set out by the County Council in the alteration , how ar are you aware of the figures which are being proposed by other participants in the discussion for Greater York ?
25 Recession — well , the classic definition of recession as quoted by John Major in Washington , is two successive quarters of reduction in production .
26 Above all , one must look to the requirements of Parliament as stipulated in the Statutory Instruments Act 1946 .
27 Statutes are only one of the means by which governments can achieve their policy objectives and there are , surprisingly , relatively few things which governments can do only with the approval of Parliament as expressed in the passing of a statute .
28 But in the field of statute law the judge must be obedient to the will of Parliament as expressed in its enactments .
29 Full name of applicant as shown on the register of foreign lawyers .
30 At best the idea of action as produced by the following of a rule is an icon or model of the process by which actions are really generated .
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