Example sentences of "as its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following the Harmel Report members agreed that NATO should have a political role , negotiating for détente with the eastern bloc , as well as its traditional defence role . |
| 2 | While software house MMT Computing Plc is still ticking over , it believes that attempts at broadening its skills base to cover open systems as well as its traditional mainframe business will help restore margins to pre-recession levels . |
| 3 | Early Punk clothing mixed up every youth style since the war and joined them together with safety pins ; as its radical content faded , this was to supply a rich compost for new styles to grow , as each constituent part — Mod , Ted , skinhead — was unravelled in a series of revivals . |
| 4 | Stanfords map and travel bookshop in Covent Garden , London , has installed a computer system to manage its day-to-day sales and stock as well as its worldwide mail order operation and catalogue production . |
| 5 | The five-part Mass Fera Pessima — as its mutilated manuscript superscription should probably be read , though certain scholars have tried to dub it A Pessinuntia ( on account of its saturation in the dark Phrygian mode ) or even A Pestilentia ( speculatively linking it with an outbreak of plague in Stirling , where Carver might , or then again might not , have been living , in the 1940s ) — seems freely based on a plainsong of the Sarum rite derived from Chapter 37 of the Book of Genesis : ‘ Jacob … rent his garments . … |
| 6 | The word reverberated round the church and as its final syllable faded on the air another ‘ Dayenu ’ came close on its heels . |
| 7 | Fig 1 is a printout direct from the Creation 6 screen , but should be much too large to transfer direct to the console as its total number of bits is 180 × 176 = 31,680 , twice as large as the number of bits available in stitch pattern area memory . |
| 8 | As well as its apparent willingness to take on board proven independent software technologies , the company is also making its own products available on other platforms . |
| 9 | Will my right hon. Friend take no lectures from the Labour party on short-termism , as its short-term policies will last only as long as the election and change for every by-election — |
| 10 | But none can be as fulfilling as its humanitarian role . |
| 11 | The monitoring network has become known as the radioactive incident monitoring network ( RIMNET ) and has , as its prime responsibility , the detection of abnormal increases in radiation levels within the UK of the kind that might arise from an overseas nuclear accident . |
| 12 | Serialism has as its prime objective an organized way of composing with all the twelve notes contained within the octave . |
| 13 | Perhaps the most useful distinction is to think of other disciplines as studying something else through discourse ; whereas discourse analysis has discourse as its prime object of study , and though it may take excursions into many different fields , must always be careful to return to the main concern . |
| 14 | There is at present no academic discipline which sees it as its specific project to examine the nature of artefacts as cultural forms . |
| 15 | Initially , the vignerons in the south and south-west of France had tried to ignore the louse , but as its crippling devastation spread throughout the vineyards of the major wine regions various methods of eradication were attempted . |
| 16 | So long as China has the PLA as its powerful back-up , attempts by ( Western ) hostile forces are doomed to failure , and there is absolutely no way for the socialist system to be abolished on the earth . ’ |
| 17 | The biochemical evolution of the Earth , including the creation of the reptiles , dinosaurs and the mammals , has as its sole purpose the ultimate evolution of intelligent beings capable of under-standing the laws of physics , and thus able to speculate about the origin and density of the universe . |
| 18 | It did , nevertheless , develop a theology of marriage in which procreation was no longer seen as its sole purpose , but conjugal love was recognized as of equal importance , and this inevitably placed the issue of contraception in a somewhat different light . |
| 19 | Parties represented in Parliament include the right-wing Conservative Party ( Andries Treurnicht , l. ) , the largest opposition party in the white House of Assembly and committed to opposing De Klerk 's reforms ; the liberal opposition Democratic Party ( Zach de Beer , elected as its sole leader at its first national congress in September , replacing the " troika " of de Beer , Wynand Malan and Denis Worrall ) ; and the Labour Party ( Rev. Allan Hendrickse , l. ) , which has its basis in the coloured community . |
| 20 | On Aug. 21 Syed Shahabuddin , the Lok Sabha member for the Janata Party , formed a new party , with himself as its sole MP , called the Insaf ( Justice ) Party . |
| 21 | The emphasis on LAN Manager as its primary networking facility ignores the state of networking in the real world . |
| 22 | Pacific Telesis Group Inc 's Pacific Bell unit named Northern Telecom Ltd as its primary vendor for its five-year $650m project to deploy Synchronous Optical Network equipment : the Canadian will supply S/DMS TransportNode OC-3 , OC-12 and OC-48 network equipment to handle local loop and inter-office communications requirements and the equipment will also be incorporated into Pacific Bell 's Asynchronous Transfer Mode broadband network ; the Baby Bell said that the investment in fibre optics and associated electronics advances its plans for a statewide all-digital network . |
| 23 | This is clearly an approach which takes the communicative function of language as its primary area of investigation and consequently seeks to describe linguistic form , not as a static object , but as a dynamic means of expressing intended meaning . |
| 24 | Seligman and Yellen take the theory further , in mapping the psychological reality of dreaming on to contemporary neurophysiological evidence of brain functioning during sleep , accounting for the emotional quality of dreaming as well as its visual content . |
| 25 | The Constitution provided for an independent judiciary , with a Supreme Court as its highest body , and for a bill of rights ( including rights to fair trial and cultural and religious freedoms ) entrenched against amendment . |
| 26 | NCD will continue to offer PC-Xview as its X Windows-on-DOS product . |
| 27 | From the 16v down , the three-door ZX is every bit as excellent an all-rounder as its five-door parent . |
| 28 | Can we claim then that the vector potential is as useful as its scalar counterpart in electrostatics ? |
| 29 | On the very same day as its official launch , three environmental groups — Friends of the Earth , Greenpeace and Cumbrians Opposed to a Radioactive Environment — presented their own solution to the waste dilemma . |
| 30 | The coastal tribe probably called itself the Regini ( ‘ The Proud Ones ’ , but later Romanized to the Regni ) , with Bosham Harbour as its chief port , and was also probably an ally of Rome . |