Example sentences of "as an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Charles Medawar points out in his seminal study , Power and Dependence ( Social Audit , £10 ) , it was not until the 1980s that benzodiazepine dependency became recognized as an iatrogenic problem , a disease caused by medicine itself . |
| 2 | The proposal for Leapor 's subscription conveys a similar idea of Leapor as an uneducated genius given , nonetheless , to considerable reading : |
| 3 | Lesley Faragher is Britain 's top lady rodeo star yet is decidedly feminine , quiet , petite and at the same time of writing possesses the warm glow as an expectant mother . |
| 4 | Industrial assurance began in the 1850s as an entrepreneurial response to the need for working-class burial insurance . |
| 5 | Regard them as an annoying incident , a mere ripple on the pool — do not drown in it , it is not the end of the world . |
| 6 | Hirschi treats the question of what ‘ bonds ’ individuals to conformity as an empirical problem . |
| 7 | If he could adopt that standpoint , he might describe himself as an empirical realist but a transcendental idealist ; but , since he can not adopt that standpoint , he is just a ‘ realist ’ . |
| 8 | He derives from MP his holism in the theory of meaning , but insists that we can not account for language learning as an empirical activity , unless we allow that some sentences have a determinate meaning and are therefore independently ( strongly ) verifiable . |
| 9 | If this value of fv is substituted in the Doolittle expression for viscosity we find An equation of this type had already been suggested by Williams , Landel & Ferry as an empirical way of combining data derived at different temperatures into one master curve . |
| 10 | What constitute the elements of a structure , its units , never seems to be a problem for the structuralists because they are taken as an empirical property of the medium of signification ( the text ) . |
| 11 | For a decade until the late 1930s , people could do no better than to regard the electron as an empirical fact . |
| 12 | As an empirical observation , that is normally the case ; that set of shared norms is part of the culture of institutions of higher education . |
| 13 | It is a moot point whether TGAT 's ‘ rough speculation ’ should be seen as an empirical prediction , or a design criterion for the system . |
| 14 | While it is not easy to establish as an empirical matter what the current income-wealth distribution is , even if it could be established , the question of what degree of inequality should be the trigger for government policy remains . |
| 15 | Primarily a political tract , it can in no sense be regarded as an empirical analysis of society . |
| 16 | An unblinded design was necessary for this study , since artemether is commercially available only as an intramuscular injection , but intravenous quinine remains the treatment of choice for cerebral malaria in children . |
| 17 | Professor Davis noted that the industries which expanded before 1780 did not transform themselves in the dramatic way we have come to know as an industrial revolution . |
| 18 | Britain underwent what has been popularly referred to as an industrial revolution in the period from the middle of the eighteenth century to the middle of the nineteenth . |
| 19 | Fears of recession which heightened the perception of silver as an industrial metal and heavy over-supply over an extended period , caused prices to plummet to below $4.00 a troy ounce in mid-December for the first time in fifteen years . |
| 20 | Another feature of the new approach is that the software industry has been exempted from the licensing provision of the Industries Act : there are no constraints on the setting up of software houses , and programming is not treated as an industrial activity . |
| 21 | The Town and Country Planning ( Minerals ) Act of 1981 recognised the unique nature of mineral working as an industrial activity and created mineral planning authorities to oversee the process and ensure the restoration of the land after its mineral resources are exhausted . |
| 22 | When the original phase of the development of the airfield as an industrial park was revealed , the provision was for 150 acres , building was not to extend near to the valuable runway , but it was considered to be a deterrent to property sales , so the runway would be removed . |
| 23 | Local residents in Wootton have become increasingly worried that high-intensity paint spraying will bring unpleasant smells and health hazards to the area , and they 've been backed up by local M P , John Patten as well as the Vale of White Horse District Council , whose planning committee have voted to stop Hartwells expanding their Wootton site into what they described as an industrial park . |
| 24 | Given its origins , the NUR saw itself as an industrial union ; originally it organized most groups of BR workers , and it continues to be recognized by BR as representing all grades of staff other than management . |
| 25 | But it was an era when Belfast was building its reputation as an industrial centre . |
| 26 | At Wapping Wharf is a steam crane with a curved jib , built in 1875 and now preserved as an industrial exhibit — the only one of its kind left . |
| 27 | Thus land development was important for capital when North Shields was being put together as an industrial town and it seems to be important again when its industrial base is being taken apart . |
| 28 | Most Dutch filling stations already supply LPG and there is a considerable market for its use as an industrial heating fuel . |
| 29 | One of the things I found out about this one , is that , welder 's lung is still not recognized as an industrial disease er of all this time , and yet , if you have welder 's lung by er using stainless steel , it is , but it comes under asthma , so that 's something that we feel that should be being pushed by the G M B. |
| 30 | It aspired to the reconstitution of the socio-economic order on what he regarded as a moral basis : in short , as an industrial democracy . |