Example sentences of "its [noun] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Singapore is building on its base as the world 's biggest container port , which it won from Hong Kong two years ago , and is offering tax incentives to shipping companies which move there . |
| 2 | There is some partial evidence of its existence as the expenditure estimates of gross national product ( based on the Family Expenditure Survey ) regularly exceed the estimates from the income side . |
| 3 | Private Members ' Bills not only preserve an important margin of policy initiative for backbench MPs , but Westminster 's increasing role as a centre for interest lobbying also strengthens its function as the crucible of interest representation in political life . |
| 4 | It is that the Fund , through lack of accountability , has failed over the past year to fulfil its function as the main conduit for aid to Russia . |
| 5 | Its interest lies in its function as the creed of a reforming élite , confronted with the difficulties of a state-sponsored economic revival in an under-developed economy , a revival that had to contend with the resistances of the traditional structure and the misrepresentations of a peculiarly narrow Catholic conservatism . |
| 6 | The report on the dedication of this memorial in the Loughborough Church for the Deaf by the Bishop of Leicester is printed in the first number of The British Deaf News , which made its debut as the BDDA 's official organ in January 1955 . |
| 7 | But , despite Einhard 's assertion that he loved barbarian poems , he would surely have been disconcerted by the evolution of the Poitevin court under William IX as a centre of troubadour poetry , its prince as the most distinguished poet of all . |
| 8 | This led to careful study of the school 's management structure and its labelling as the ‘ collaborative school management cycle ’ . |
| 9 | The Forestry Commission 's ( FC 's ) annual report for the year to March 1992 , the last year before its reorganization as the Forest Enterprise and Forestry Authority , shows that private owners planted 10,781 hectares of new woodland and restocked 7,106 hectares during the year , aided by FC grants totalling £17.2 million . |
| 10 | Each minor modification of the CAP has been hailed by its authors as the definitive reform . |
| 11 | ( The US government avoided using the word " blockade " at this time , preferring to describe its intention as the " interdiction " of sanctions-breaking . ) |
| 12 | Despite its attractions as the basis for scientific explanation , classical atomism had the drawback of having its roots in Epicurus ' materialistic atheism . |
| 13 | This approach has been described by its supporters as the ‘ uniquely logical ’ method of attempting to establish CETI . |
| 14 | In an effort to make the bill more acceptable , its Democratic sponsors included a provision which specifically prohibited the establishment of quotas , defined by its supporters as the hiring of a fixed proportion of minority workers regardless of their qualifications . |
| 15 | Having formed the first phrase and its complement as the first sentence of our theme , we must turn to the problem of what to do in the second sentence . |
| 16 | These results have recently been confirmed in a prospective study and show the superiority of the methotrexate containing regimen , leading to its recommendation as the gold standard for all future gastric carcinoma trials . |
| 17 | His main concern was to understand social order and its maintenance as the older institutions of control ( for example , the family and religion ) were undermined . |
| 18 | The cheap TV rocked on its legs as the man grabbed at it in an over-eager embrace , and Joe turned to the woman on the bed . |
| 19 | For , in its guise as the Parliamentary Labour Party , British Empirical Socialism can not be said to have intended , when governing the country , to have replaced private ownership of industry wholly by public ownership . |
| 20 | In 1980 a majority of the member countries of the Organization of African Unity ( OAU ) recognized the Polisario as the rightful government of Western Sahara , which took its seat as the SADR at the 1989 OAU summit , whereupon Morocco , which had become increasingly isolated in the Maghreb region over the issue , resigned from the OAU in protest . |
| 21 | Around this time , the scalp 's sebaceous glands start producing less of the oil that provides healthy shine , and hair begins to lose its hue as the production of melanin ( the pigment that also colours skin and eyes ) slows down . |
| 22 | Reith was the true successor of the Victorian headmaster , rapidly establishing a range of sporting events which the BBC in its capacity as the sole arbiter of airways deemed to be of national significance . |
| 23 | It is in a strong position to provide sound advice , given its close links with institutions in the financial system and in its capacity as the collector of financial statistics from the banks . |
| 24 | In other words , the demands on the state in its capacity as the focus of the system 's legitimacy were increasing over time . |
| 25 | Now , working from sketches ( often of a type relating to the work of 1909 and early 1910 ) Picasso uses the outlines or the main directional lines of the body and its limbs as the starting point for his compositions . |
| 26 | One of the features of the cerebral hemispheres is that they have more extensive interconnections from one part to other parts than is usual in sensory centres , and perhaps this was the feature , inherited from its origin as the smell-brain , that made it useful for other modalities as well ; global pattern recognition requires taking into account large chunks of sensory information , not just localised patches . |
| 27 | For this blow the Orders never forgave liberalism : they preached against its constitution and its philosophy as the ‘ ultimate , supreme grade of evil ’ . |
| 28 | The organ is described by its devotees as the King of Instruments , and it is certainly very versatile when properly designed . |
| 29 | On present trends , Mexico City 's population will expand to 26 million by the end of the century , retaining its place as the world 's biggest mega-city . |
| 30 | If one takes everything into account — the shifts in climate which might well remove the United States from its place as the leading ‘ food power ’ and affect the Soviet Union as well , the limited prospects for increased yields , desertification and the steady increase in the global population — it is clear that in the next century large sections of the world 's population will have a very narrow margin between them and starvation . |