Example sentences of "[adv] as a [noun] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The relevance of his role as priest ( referred to by the expressions Priest , a dissident … priest , the priest 's ) is presumably as a priest of the Roman Catholic Church of which the Pope is Head . |
| 2 | All the indications are that the Hebridean flora and vegetation were more diverse than today , presumably as a result of the widespread more fertile , unleached mineral soils present immediately after deglaciation and the cessation of periglaciation . |
| 3 | That seems possible because in one of Jacob 's books , Cornet à Dés , there was a dedication to Modigliani in the edition published in 1917 which was deleted subsequently , presumably as a result of the mysterious quarrel over Beatrice . |
| 4 | A weaker protection is produced at GpA in ( ATT ) 4 CG(AAT) 4 suggesting that the weaker cleavage observed in this fragment is due to a lower affinity of the antibiotic for this site , presumably as a result of the structure imposed by the surrounding DNA sequence . |
| 5 | In terms of the concepts outlined above we could express Marx 's views thus : the economic class of proletarians ( propertyless sellers of labour power ) will necessarily become increasingly homogeneous in respect of income levels and conditions of life and work ; this will result in the increasing ‘ non-pertinence ’ of social collectivities based on branch of industry , religion , nationality , sex etc. , and the increasing pertinence of the social collectivity coterminous with the proletariat itself ; eventually as a result of the process of struggle this social collectivity will become organised into a corporate body — the trade union movement — and a political force : the communist movement or party . |
| 6 | This was interpreted locally as an endorsement of the plans of President Alberto Keinya Fujimori to return the country to formal democratic rule following his army-backed presidential coup on April 5 [ see pp. 38846-47 ] . |
| 7 | The people who will suffer most as a result of the Conservative election victory are not , by and large , readers of this magazine . |
| 8 | Exemptions likely to be encountered include vehicles not exceeding 10 cwt unladen specially adapted for invalids ; vehicles brought from abroad for a temporary stay are exempt not exceeding one year from date of importation ; vehicles going to or returning from a vehicle test or being repaired etc. as a result of the test , provided in all cases prior arrangements have been made . |
| 9 | Anniversary date for the periodic charge The Government think it right as a corollary of the introduction of these reliefs , that the first anniversary date on which the periodic charge under paragraph 12 of Schedule 5 to the Finance Bill will be payable is the anniversary date next after 31st March 1980 . |
| 10 | What has actually happened effectively as a result of the massive exchange movements of 1984 and early 1985 is that an American citizen can now go anywhere in the world and purchase goods for the same price abroad as he can at home . |
| 11 | John Stork — when in his mid-30s — became aware of headhunting when he found himself on the receiving end of a headhunter 's call for the first time ; in due course he became the successful candidate , but did not take the job , staying on as a member of the international Board of Masius Wynne-Williams advertising agency , where he had earlier been head of research . |
| 12 | This work shows that gastric acid secretion does not decline as a result of healthy ageing , but rather as a consequence of the development of atrophic changes of the gastric mucosa . |
| 13 | Contemporary feminist writers have seen her rather as a demonstration of the extreme body hatred and guilt that a patriarchal religion lays upon women . |
| 14 | Gramsci saw the dichotomy between the two not as a centre-periphery relationship but rather as an aspect of the way in which the interests of monopoly capital used the state to keep the undeveloped areas repressed and passive ; Gramsci describes the south variously as ‘ a semi-colonial market ’ , a ‘ source of savings and taxes ’ and a ‘ pool of cheap docile reserve labour ’ . |
| 15 | These entries are reminiscent of the leases mentioned in some probate inventories , the wording of which occasionally implies that they were valued on the basis of the number of years they still had to run , calculated perhaps as a proportion of the original fines . |
| 16 | Partly perhaps as a legacy of the risk-sharing of the old Poor Law ( R. M. Smith 1986 ) , British society preserved a more common interest and aspiration , without political parties embracing specific faiths or revolutionary ideals . |
| 17 | Perhaps as a result of the weakness of the French parliament , there is little sense of popular day-to-day involvement in politics . |
| 18 | The work of Leeds on Anglo-Saxon metalwork did not encourage other scholars to follow him immediately , perhaps as a result of the more spectacular possibilities opened by the birth of prehistoric studies at Edinburgh and Cambridge in the late 1920s and 1930s . |
| 19 | But this will scarcely work , for it was precisely in this year , and perhaps as a result of the failure of Archbishop Ralph 's letter to produce any effect at the papal court , that the Canterbury monks claimed that they had ‘ discovered ’ the long lost documents with all the essential primatial clauses in them . |
| 20 | Perhaps as a result of the unintended involvement in causal explanation the boundaries of ; and empirical support for , ‘ labelling theory ’ as a causal explanation were not systematically explored . |
| 21 | A recent archaeological find is illuminating : one Corinthian fishmonger , whose Carthaginian amphoras and exotic western Mediterranean merchandise ( the scales of the fish can be identified ) show that his was a high-grade shop , went out of business in the early years of the Peloponnesian War , perhaps as a result of the Athenian blockade of the Corinthian gulf ( Arch . |
| 22 | However , in so far as such social features are part of the meaning of utterances , they ought also to be treated in pragmatics ; yet within pragmatics , these social constraints on language usage and their systematic effects on language structure , have been very much understudied , perhaps as a result of the philosophical and linguistic bias ( no doubt reflected in this book ) towards what Buhler ( 1934 ) called the representational , and Jakobson ( 1960 ) the referential , function of language . |
| 23 | In the second chapel of the left aisle is another miraculous painting , a fourteenth-century fresco of the Madonna with Child called the Madonna of the Tears because it was seen to cry on 13 July in 1620 , perhaps as an omen of the plague . |
| 24 | Alcohol has edged down from 80 to 78 per mille , but leisure services have risen from 32 per mille to 62 , entirely as a result of the inclusion for the first time of foreign holidays , which are now deemed to account for 30 per mille ( 3 per cent ) of the cost of living . |
| 25 | They have been sent out together as a result of the recent meeting of the Board of Governors which discussed the selection of sports . |
| 26 | Many of the trees have died in recent decades , apparently as a result of the abandonment of traditional pollarding and grazing practices . |
| 27 | The first secretary of the Azerbaijan CP committee in the Nakhichevan ASSR , Gaidar Isayev , was removed from office on Jan. 3 , ostensibly on " health grounds " but apparently as a consequence of the border incidents . |
| 28 | While idealization of , or sentimentality about , the way of life of primitive peoples must be avoided , there seems to be no doubt that among the Siberian peoples in their original state a certain harmony with nature existed , if only as a reflection of the unavoidable conditions in which they lived . |
| 29 | If a given thing x is related to a given thing y , it is argued , this must be seen as having to do with the intrinsic nature of x , and the intrinsic nature of x can , in the final analysis , be fully understood only as a feature of the whole to which it and everything else belongs . |
| 30 | In 1839 this political credo was given definitive form in the Idées Napoléoniennes , which served not only as a resumé of the history of his uncle but sketched , in some detail , a possible future regime . |