Example sentences of "of a [noun sg] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | A catenary is the locus of the focus of a parabola as it rolls on a straight line . |
| 2 | Vocational education is often thought of as the acquisition of knowledge and skills directly applicable to the job ; but in most posts what is required is not so much the acquisition of a skill as progressive development in the fields of human relations , of judgment , and of general educational standards . |
| 3 | They were as likely to have followed the lead of a gentleman as of an artisan . ’ |
| 4 | Probably we have in our mind 's eye something in the nature of a raffle as being a form of random sampling , and we are right in thinking of this as one method . |
| 5 | Mid-way , after a long , hard time , we stopped for a rest — at least , as much of a rest as you can get standing in knee-deep water unable to put down your rucsac . |
| 6 | Similarly , he has the rights and obligations of a buyer as against the person from whom he purchases his raw materials . |
| 7 | No , not enough of a clue as to whether these were the same depredations Johnson had deplored : Elgin had suffered marauders more than once . |
| 8 | I just did n't know it was as much of a tribute as it was until I was told … rather abruptly ! |
| 9 | Her own father had been as much of a weakling as her husband subsequently became ; Gustave supplanted him . |
| 10 | The relationship between the company and the market place is in the form of a loop as shown in Figure 6.1 . |
| 11 | The relationship between the company and the market place is in the form of a loop as shown in Figure 6.1 . |
| 12 | It ran upstairs and hid under a bed , then leapt on top of a wardrobe as Mrs Topliff confronted it with a broom handle . |
| 13 | The old case authorities suggest that the nature of a share as property does not prevent such a course , but the more modern cases seem to incline towards some restrictions upon the use of votes where there is a conflict of interest involved . |
| 14 | The price at which a participant may acquire ordinary shares in the Company ( ‘ shares ’ ) on the exercise of an option shall be determined by the Directors but shall not be less than the middle market quotation of a share as derived from the London Stock Exchange Daily Official List for the last dealing day before eligible employees are invited to apply for options ( or , if higher , the nominal value of a share ) , or , if certain specified conditions are satisfied , 85% of such figure ( ‘ Discounted Options ’ ) . |
| 15 | Charlie 's face reminded Giles Aplin of a weasel as his eyes darted here and there before replying . |
| 16 | The old order changeth , and how — back at the end of the 1970s , Ted Dexter and Honeywell Information Systems Ltd got together to propose to the British Broadcasting Corporation that television coverage of cricket could be enhanced with a little judicious computer intervention and the age of computer-aided sports broadcasting was born : for a decade and more a Level 6 minicomputer or successor followed the cameras and trundled around the cricket grounds of England and Wales in the back of a truck as Honeywell and successor company Bull HN Information Systems Ltd maintained the tradition — but with the first one-day match of the current series against Australia at Old Trafford yesterday , what was the legend at the bottom of the caption but ‘ Intel processing ’ . |
| 17 | A majority of climbing plants coil right handedly , in the direction of a woodscrew as it is driven into the timber . |
| 18 | Fourthly , we may single out what is ordinarily called an event or change , partly because of its brief duration , and thereby distinguished from what is called a standing condition — say the movement of a lever as against its tensile strength . |
| 19 | As in the context of improper purposes , the denomination of a consideration as relevant or irrelevant may involve the court in substituting its own views for those of the administration , a danger appreciated by Diplock L.J . |
| 20 | He saw the horse rise in the same fraction of a second as the recoil jabbed his cheek . |
| 21 | Where a court , or another authority or person makes an order for detention of a Member as being of unsound mind , or where a doctor recommends such detention , or where a Member is so detained , that court , authority , person , doctor or the head of the hospital , etc. where the Member is detained , must notify the Speaker . |
| 22 | They may range from a brief mention of a thirteenth-century tithe barn near the manor house , to a fully detailed true-to-scale plan of a building as it existed in earlier times , but which is now changed . |
| 23 | He was known to abscond from the ward — this was a bit of a nuisance as there were only two nursing staff on duty at any one time . |
| 24 | These coefficients are sensitive both to the difficulty of a test as well as its reliability ( consistency ) and so it is not easy to assess the latter . |
| 25 | What was probably most important to such an audience was not so much the unlikely explanation of a phenomenon as its very mention , reducing fears of the unknown and of apparently inexplicable events such as changes in female physiology during pregnancy . |
| 26 | 1ff ) and for the sin or guilt-offering of a commoner as opposed to that of a priest or ruler ( Lev . |
| 27 | He was shot with six bullets through the window of a hut as he slept . |
| 28 | There was some criticism among Burmans about the appointment of a missionary as DPR , but after a press conference or two and visits to key people , the criticism died down , and in a public lunch given by the Chinese to welcome their new Consul-General , I was asked to speak . |
| 29 | Pilibossian stares at visitors through powerful round spectacles and walks with the help of a cane as he tells his story . |
| 30 | His leather jacket was adorned with the face of a screaming woman symbolising , according to the caption below , Chaos , and his own blunt and pitted features suggested to Preston not so much those of a bird as of a pit bull terrier with acne . |