Example sentences of "as [noun pl] to [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In the summer of 1372 an English fleet was defeated by Castilian galleys off the port of La Rochelle , and many Englishmen were taken as prisoners to Spain . |
| 2 | Miss Bellamy gave examples of projects supported by the initiative team such as improvements to grassland areas which could be turned into wildlife areas if managed correctly leaving uncut grass around recreation areas will encourage wild flowers , which will attract insects , birds and small mammals . |
| 3 | One can assume that the leaders of the Revolt were eliminated , removing the upper levels of tribal society , and also that the lands and possessions of the tribes would have been seized by the state to be retained as agerpublicus , sold off to speculators or given as rewards to loyalists . |
| 4 | Their pay in paper money was so bad and came so late that unless they had peasant relatives who could supply food , they were reduced to making shoes , singing psalms in church , or hiring themselves out as labourers to peasants . |
| 5 | The Brazilian automobile assembly industry was created in the 1950s to replace imports by using investment allowances and protection as inducements to foreigners to invest . |
| 6 | Yet though disco has never been short of ‘ Push push in the bush ’ and ‘ Ring My Bell ’ sentiments , voices of doom , correction , ‘ positive ’ lifestyle and spiritual inspiration have always reacted as counter-insurgents to disco 's erotic , dervish thrust . |
| 7 | In the communist world in the long years before collapse all concessions to the market were resisted as concessions to capitalism ; they were inconsistent with the accepted principles of socialism . |
| 8 | Bishops in every diocese in France could be seen sorting out conflicts in ecclesiastical organization according to its principles ; parish priests and laymen were drawn into the processes , whether as parties to disputes or as witnesses . |
| 9 | The most active rebel leaders and warriors were brought as captives to Charles on his command ; 4,500 men were bound and taken by their countrymen to a camp at Verden on the River Aller . |
| 10 | Some may prefer to be presented with a prescribed set of facts and skills , whilst others may learn best by being encouraged to discover things for themselves , often as solutions to problems . |
| 11 | The Education Act of 1902 brought about the establishment of secondary schools with 25 per cent of places going as scholarships to children who had passed an exam at the elementary schools . |
| 12 | On 31 July 1991 his appeal against the tribunal 's findings and sentence was dismissed by three High Court judges sitting as Visitors to Lincoln 's Inn . |
| 13 | This will not always be used as visits to departments or ward rounds may form part of the programme . |
| 14 | They have to be inferred usually from some form of verbal behaviour , such as responses to attitude scales , or to questionnaire items . |
| 15 | There is often a kind of tension between them : the stances for some forms of status ( for example , for masculinity ) may act as barriers to affection . |
| 16 | These are not necessarily forces for continuity but they may act as barriers to government attempts to impose a new line of policy . |
| 17 | The White Paper ( see p2 for detailed news coverage ) addresses a number of the structural issues which AEA has identified as barriers to innovation in the UK . |
| 18 | Thus , for instance , Jeremy Lever QC in a recent article referred to ‘ the lack of recitals to United Kingdom legislation and the rule that reports of parliamentary debates are inadmissible as aids to construction , in consequence of which there may be no way in which the objects of United Kingdom legislation can be readily ascertained by our courts . ’ |
| 19 | The aim is to simplify and streamline existing techniques , and also to explore the use of expert systems as aids to decision making in this area . |
| 20 | Formal risk assessment and evaluation methods should be used as aids to judgement , not as substitutes for it . |
| 21 | A hot bath , sex , a warm drink and alcohol also figured prominently as aids to somnolence . |
| 22 | The work provided the foundation for the vaginal use of gels containing organic mercurial compounds as aids to contraception . |
| 23 | As in the study of domestic politics , political scientists use models as aids to understanding . |
| 24 | One of the many ways in which grown-ups take a mean advantage of the innocence of childhood is by creating bogies as aids to authority . |
| 25 | A variety of tempers were used as additives to clays ; whether the choice was conscious or not has yet to be studied , although it has already been observed that the same clay was used with different tempers in certain places . |
| 26 | At London 's Middlesex Hospital , for instance , surgeon John Scurr runs a pioneering day-care unit where hernias are repaired under local anaesthetic with woven nylon threads or Teflon patches as alternatives to polypropylene mesh . |
| 27 | The last group contains letters from Sir William Hamilton , Richard Payne Knight , Sir Joseph Banks , John Nash , Piranesi , Reynolds , Benjamin West and Zoffany , and from Gavin Hamilton and Thomas Jenkins who acted as dealers to Townley . |
| 28 | But they are interested in the subversive power of unconscious sexuality , recognize the explanatory value of unconscious processes , and see psychoanalytic descriptions of psychosexual development as contributions to socialization accounts of dominant gender roles . |
| 29 | monies owed by the company as contributions to pension schemes ; |
| 30 | Similarly , since there are very few reported cases of sexual assault by women , save occasionally where they are acting as accomplices to men , few defendants would be female . |