Example sentences of "[to-vb] the [noun sg] of [noun] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our main concern has been to promote the concept of self-evaluation as a tool for management and improvement of services . |
| 2 | However , because of their desire to promote the idea of history as a scientific discipline , the Annales school have not been equally well disposed to all aspects of the past . |
| 3 | On the other hand , there were people like Spaak and the Italian premier , Alcide de Gasperi , who were prepared to accept things for what they were , to see the Council of Europe as a first step in the right direction , not an end — and a direction which they believed to be merely inevitable . |
| 4 | Second , her refusal of the counterposition of text and reality and determination to see the work of art as a ‘ sensory thing ’ , was simultaneously an insistence that this already overloaded signifier was in fact not very different from a referent . |
| 5 | Fitzgerald and Sim seem to see the existence of secrecy as a ‘ crisis ’ in itself . |
| 6 | We tend to see the history of art as an ordered succession of works appreciated for and judged by their conceptual content . |
| 7 | The United States wished to discharge its debts to those with whom it had fought during the war ; but it also came to see the volume of refugees as a kind of continuing proof that it had waged a just struggle against evil forces . |
| 8 | The United States wished to discharge its debts to those with whom it had fought during the war ; but it also came to see the volume of refugees as a kind of continuing proof that it had waged a just struggle against evil forces . |
| 9 | First , there may be a view that consultation may do little but depress and demoralise the work-force which is bound to see the implementation of redundancies as a fait accompli . |
| 10 | That is to say , the majority of those who had domestic power in Libya were inclined to see the emancipation of women as a threat to their interests . |
| 11 | The IWC meeting took place against a background of growing acrimony , with the pro-whaling nations arguing that those opposed to commercial hunting on ethical grounds were : i ) interfering unacceptably with the economic livelihoods of whaling communities ; and ii ) misinterpreting the charter of the IWC , which was set up to regulate catches , not to debate the morality of whaling as such . |
| 12 | The Languages Lead Body is moving towards completion of the standards , and Awarding Bodies are , in parallel , being asked to plan the introduction of languages as additional units to NVQs . |
| 13 | One line of research which does appear to support the idea of arousal as an important psychological construct while simultaneously making empirical tests of its effects more complex is the work of H. J. Eysenck on individual differences ( H. J. Eysenck , 1967 ; H. J. Eysenck & M. W. Eysenck , 1985 ) . |
| 14 | In the early stages , however , Commodore believes that it needs to ensure a broad range of titles are available both to support the positioning of CDTV as a family leisure platform and to generate the initial installed base which will itself encourage the third party publishing on which the future of CDTV depends . |
| 15 | That children early in language acquisition produce isolated acts of reference , seems to support the view of reference as a speech act ( see Chapter 5 ) that is prototypically " demonstrative " ( Lyons , 1975 ; Atkinson , 1979 ) . |
| 16 | the was posted to France and Belgium as part of the British Expedition Force , in the first few months of the outbreak of the war in 1939 , and he realised then that the British Army was not nearly professional enough , compared with the German Army , and he noticed that many of the British Commanding Officers continued to treat the waging of war as some kind of game . |
| 17 | Huxley had been suspicious of evolutionism because he could see no plausible explanation of how species might change , and he welcomed Darwin 's theory with open arms because it offered a new hypothesis that confirmed the scientist 's right to treat the origin of species as a problem susceptible to natural explanation . |
| 18 | They will have to make a conscious effort to treat the assessment of need as a separate exercise from consideration of the service response . |
| 19 | He also sought to promote the local iron industry , and to continue the development of Whitehaven as a planned town along lines laid down by his father in the 1680s . |
| 20 | Welsh and English farmers whose land borders the Dee between Holt and Worthenbury are concerned about proposals to designate the section of river as a Site of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSI ) . |
| 21 | The Soviet leadership had long hoped to persuade the West to accept the division of Europe as the price of détente . |
| 22 | But when one sees the whole lot in full flower all at once in one individual or in the whole family , one comes to accept the concept of denial as a prime component of " the family illness " in which the family member is addicted to self-denial and caretaking for primary sufferer and even ( amazingly and hotly denied ) addicted to the continuation of the status-quo despite all its desperate features , just as the primary sufferer is addicted to the continuation of his or her own drinking or drug use despite its desperately damaging consequences . |
| 23 | In the cynical world of F1 , we tend to accept the number of noughts as a driver 's way of keeping score , but the local bricklayer has an acute realisation of what he could afford to buy with £6,000,000 ! |
| 24 | Yes , Clinton told the world 's press , he was personally committed to maintaining the ‘ special relationship ’ , and he was pleased to accept the advice of Major as the elder statesman . |
| 25 | The Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church , the Moderator of the Presbyterian Church , the Archbishop of the Church of Ireland and the President of the Methodist Church asked to meet the secretary of state as a deputation . |
| 26 | And , to the extent that it comprises a certain body of knowledge and a certain set of principles for systematic enquiry , any theory of literature is likely to establish the study of literature as a science . |
| 27 | A cup from Locri ( fig. 111 ) with a satyr attacking an unperturbed maenad is by the Pistoxenos Painter , whose career seems to begin about the time of the Persian invasion , and one of whose earliest cups is the last to bear the name of Euphronios as potter . |
| 28 | Under their Chairman , Arthur Allen , the District 's committee raised a series of questions about the negotiated settlement and were unbending on the issue of retention of the District 's autonomy in all its affairs and highly critical of the failure to secure the appointment of Jacques as a joint |
| 29 | The easy availability of funds has led many Mozambican officials to view the formation of NGOs as a way to tap donor money . |
| 30 | In this way erm starting from logical indefinables of maximum simplicity , and by rigorous logical construction of the rest of its contents on that basis , he 'd be able to exhibit the whole of mathematics as a perfectly systematic and unquestionable structure . |