Example sentences of "[noun] as the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a quite unique privilege as the list of clubs and organizations granted the right to wear special ensign was closed several years ago . |
| 2 | Nothing in the age of contentment has contributed so strongly to income inequality as the reduction of taxes on the rich ; nothing , as has been said , would so contribute to social tranquillity as some screams of anguish from the very affluent . |
| 3 | The data used above was presented as input to the semantic analyser , with the newly indexed CED definitions as the source of definitions . |
| 4 | Whereas his public appearances had been sporadic up to 1955 , and largely prompted by political events , the second half of the decade saw a notable increase in his activities as the opener of factories , electricity generating stations , reservoirs and housing schemes . |
| 5 | The panel of judges was selected from leading retailers , briefed to select the winner as the range of carpets which had the most originality and innovation with outstanding sales potential . |
| 6 | When talking about nutrition as the input of calories to the body , outputs and calorie usage must be discussed . |
| 7 | Whatever advantages there may be to the shareholders in the adoption of one or other of these goals as the object of directors ' duties , liability rules , as will be shown in more detail in section II , are too unsophisticated a control technique to make it possible in practice to discriminate between them . |
| 8 | The dilemma of those who evoke consciousness as the basis of phenomena was succinctly stated by Ronnie Knox in his limerick on idealism : There once was a man who said " God Must think it exceedingly odd If he finds that this tree Continues to be When there 's no one about in the Quad . " |
| 9 | The organ is described by its devotees as the King of Instruments , and it is certainly very versatile when properly designed . |
| 10 | Then the paper that had published the earlier report recognised her name as that of the rather hysterical women 's libber who was planning to expose PopCon as the enemy of women … and this seemed to clear the matter up . |
| 11 | This procedure was accepted by the foreign ministers of the other five states , serving in their capacity as the Council of Ministers of the ECSC . |
| 12 | Er I mean the er it 's er , course there are three orders that we are looking at tonight , it includes the er the third order er in relation not to boundaries but to the registration of overseas er voters to enable them to vote er in this , in this er election within U K constituencies and therefore that 's why the position that Mr David Robeddow as the chairman of Conservatives abroad er in Monte Carlo is relevant , er but also bec because of course the purpose of the European parliament for the first time as it will go through under these new boundaries , now is that they will be able to remedy some of that democratic deficit . |
| 13 | One way out is to use very low-power ‘ toy ’ walkie-talkies , licensed CB ( citizens band ) transceivers or a cordless telephone as the basis of experiments . |
| 14 | He goes on to link Lévi-Strauss 's idea of exchange as the mastery of women to Freud 's interpretation of his grandson 's game of fort/da as a representation of the alternation of presence and absence . |
| 15 | They had that smell of coarse soap that is asendemic to Russia as the smell of Gauloises and garlic to Paris . |
| 16 | The continuing scarcity of certain types of rural housing is now having as much effect upon shaping the English village community as the influx of newcomers . |
| 17 | Not based upon any consensus of content , nor the expectation that teachers will do the same thing with all the class , this takes seriously the concept of the teacher as the manager of pupils ' own learning instead of a purveyor of information and ideas . |
| 18 | They therefore defined the hazardousness of a place as the complex of conditions which define the hazardous part of a region 's environment . |
| 19 | His deification as the patron of craftsmen , but more importantly as a god of wisdom , medicine and healing , had occurred by the Late Period and he was thus identified by the Greeks with their god of medicine , Asclepios . |
| 20 | In the second debate , ‘ top-down ’ sees the state as a single agent responding rationally to its situation , whereas ‘ bottom-up ’ sees the state 's behaviour as the outcome of bargains ( and other manoeuvres ) among bureaucratic agencies . |
| 21 | The giver identifies strongly with Jesus as the servant of others . |
| 22 | The Exodus narrative , identifying the God of Israel as the worker of wonders such as those which led Pharoah to release the Israelites from Egypt , could easily be thought of as referring to one god among many . |
| 23 | The document used above was presented as input to the semantic analyser , and the CED used in place of the OALD as the source of definitions . |
| 24 | Historians have treated the emergence of the theory of evolution as the culmination of scientists ' efforts to explain this diversity in space and time . |
| 25 | However , attempts to reduce the proportion of voting rights as the size of holdings increased were doomed to failure since the requirement could be easily evaded by splitting holdings and vesting them in nominees . |
| 26 | Despite these problems , most LDCs are increasing their education expenditures as the lack of skills and knowledge acts as a barrier to economic progress . |
| 27 | This village , which is situated along the trail from Lukla to Everest Base Camp , has undergone tremendous changes as the number of tourists to Nepal has risen from less than 10 000 per year in 1960 to almost 250 000 in 1988 ; there are also plans to increase that number to c. 1 million by the year 2000 . |
| 28 | The theory of social classes , first comprehensively formulated by Marx , approaches the same problem from the other side by seeking to explain democracy as the consequence of changes in society . |
| 29 | This prayerful reminder of Christ as the sustainer of men in society is concluded as the Host is elevated . |
| 30 | Consumers , says Mintel , regard quality as the totality of attributes of the product or service which combines to meet their needs and expectations . |