Example sentences of "it [vb -s] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some theorists regard the discipline it imposes as the only truly effective constraint on managerial discretion and therefore consider its operation to be crucial to the efficiency of the private enterprise economy . |
| 2 | Intonation helps to produce the effect of prominence on syllables that need to be perceived as stressed , and in particular the placing of tonic stress on a particular syllable marks out the word to which it belongs as the most important in the tone-unit . |
| 3 | It counts as the 20th Ecumenical Council . |
| 4 | It stands as the view that an action is wrong if its consequences , in terms of pain promoted and pleasure prevented , outweigh its consequences in terms of pleasure promoted and pain prevented , and that other actions are right , even if not the best possible . |
| 5 | Accordingly , the factors to be taken into account in deciding whether a government exists as the government of a state are : ( a ) whether it is the constitutional government of the state ; ( b ) the degree , nature and stability of administrative control , if any , that it of itself exercises over the territory of the state ; ( c ) whether Her Majesty 's Government has any dealings with it and if so what is the nature of those dealings ; and ( d ) in marginal cases , the extent of international recognition that it has as the government of the state . |
| 6 | On such occasions the airline needs to know at the earliest possible moment whether there is something inherently wrong with its equipment , procedures or training , and therefore the official investigators should keep the airline fully informed of the factual material it establishes as the investigation proceeds . |
| 7 | ‘ Once labour is formally subordinated , then its real subsumption has to follow — it occurs as the realisation of capital 's ‘ essence ’ : the ‘ inversion ’ at the heart of capitalist society imposed by the logic of competition . |
| 8 | The inductance variation is present in all Stepping motors : in variable.reluctance types it occurs as the teeth on the rotor and stator move into and out of alignment ; in permanent-magnet types it occurs as the rotating magnet flux changes the saturation level in the stator teeth ; and in hybrid types both effects contribute to the inductance variations . |
| 9 | This is an opportunity to be built on when it occurs as the insurer 's preference for its own panel members is bound to be an initial issue ; at the same time as asserting the client 's right to choose , panel membership can be discussed . |
| 10 | With much-ballyhoo , Scottish Mutual has announced the introduction , from December 1 , of what it describes as the first ‘ risk-graded ’ Personal Equity Plan . |
| 11 | The government plans to announce shortly what it describes as the most far-reaching legislation since 1938 ( Editorial , Glasgow Herald 1989 ) . |
| 12 | The British Labour Party has launched its " Green Right to Know " campaign , attacking what it describes as the government 's contemptuous attitude to the provision of environmental information to the public . |
| 13 | Accordingly I consider that the degree of international recognition of an alleged government is a relevant factor in assessing whether it exists as the government of a state . |
| 14 | The mission of Waltham , Massachusetts-based Kendall Square Research Corp is to bring what it sees as the benefits of highly parallel computing to the commercial market , and the company is on its way with the signing of its first two customers , airline operator AMR Corp and direct marketing services company Neodata Inc . |
| 15 | Though the 1988–1991 welfare reforms , particularly those in Education and the NHS , have tended to remove some of that discretion , nevertheless central government pays somewhat selective attention to the issues which it sees as the most politically pressing . |
| 16 | The mission of Waltham , Massachusetts-based Kendall Square Research Corp is to bring what it sees as the benefits of highly parallel computing to the commercial market , and the company is on its way with the signing of its first two customers , airline operator AMR Corp and direct marketing services company Neodata Inc . |
| 17 | Central to the manifesto is the party 's commitments to increase education provision and halt what it sees as the erosion of social services in the county . |
| 18 | The government still believes the enabling authority is the model of the future — a move away from what it sees as the tired , sterile and unresponsive provider-centred , municipal socialism of the past . |
| 19 | But in a society where the official rate of unemployment doubled between 1979 and 1981 , from 5.3 per cent to 10.4 per cent and reached over 3.5 million or nearly 15 per cent during 1986 , where the Government , in the name of the market , is committed to weakening the ability of workers to defend their jobs , where the Government , in its desire to break what it sees as the ‘ dependency culture ’ , has systematically set about dismantling the welfare provisions which protected the poorest and weakest in society , where the Government , as part of its programme to establish a new thrusting entrepreneurial society , has encouraged a widening of differentials in income and wealth , we would expect the societal tensions produced to be expressed in , among other things , rising levels of crime . |
| 20 | It acts as the sole broker in the bargaining and competition for resources between bureaucratic organizations . |
| 21 | The Bank of England has a pivotal role in the London money market in that it acts as the main banker to both the central government and the clearing banks . |
| 22 | History is essentially to do with personal development in that it takes as the object of study the roots and origins of groups and those of individuals and examines how they have changed over time . |
| 23 | In the final collected edn. of SB it appears as the last of the seven items grouped under the title ‘ Our Parish ’ to form the first section of the book . |
| 24 | It appears as the instrumental introduction ( and two instrumental interludes ) , it comes four times in each of the two choruses , and it is still going when the song fades out . |
| 25 | One of the more fascinating changes has been the introduction of word processing equipment , whereby someone who types his article can just send off something like a floppy disk to his publisher , and without much intervention it appears as the printed article . |
| 26 | One of the more fascinating changes has been the introduction of word processing equipment , whereby someone who types his article can just sent off something like a floppy disk to his publisher , and without much intervention it appears as the printed article . |
| 27 | The decision whether or not to exercise this power , and to serve a notice before hearing the persons to whom it is directed or whom it will affect , must be one which the board must balance against what it regards as the interests of investors . |
| 28 | It apparently remained in continuous use throughout medieval times ; it figures as the main road from Oxford to Banbury in Ogilby 's road-book ( 1675 ) ; it was turnpiked in the eighteenth century and it still follows its original course after some three thousand years . |
| 29 | This is a clear example of the third basic kind of doubt , a kind so common that it qualifies as the twentieth-century doubt par excellence . |
| 30 | It also rejects what it perceives as the present Conservative Government 's narrow view of health : |