Example sentences of "[adj] as a [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps underused as a source of prospects , the press is nevertheless important . |
| 2 | The sort of behaviour that , in sunny costa del bovver , labelled the British as a nation of hooligans and had the Tories publicly screaming for passport controls and privately considering drowning every male working class child at birth . |
| 3 | No quiffed greaser icon is left unturned as a succession of characters — from Bill Haley to Eddie Cochrane , Gene Vincent to the Beach Boys — is paraded . |
| 4 | ( ii ) It follows immediately from 1.3.9 that if a ε Z and if unc then a is expressible as a product of primes , one of which is negative . |
| 5 | It follows that unc [ which shows that m is expressible as a product of irreducibles after all ] . |
| 6 | Class 2 contributions are payable at a flat rate while Class 4 contributions are payable as a percentage of profits . |
| 7 | Despite heavy government intervention aimed at warding off a further crash in prices , trading continued to be nervous as a result of fears that Mehta would dump holdings to clear his bank debts , which included Rs6,200 million ( about US$214,000,000 ) to State Bank of India , the largest commercial bank . |
| 8 | Where this is the case , their members will not be affected and can not expect to receive anything extra as a result of LPI . |
| 9 | In some respects , it serves an as abbreviated index without the page and volume references and might have been more helpful as a kind of contents list . |
| 10 | Firstly , my children and older grandchildren want copies and , secondly , the writings may be not only entertaining but useful as a framework of speeches for others at a loss for what to say . ’ |
| 11 | This book is particularly useful as a reminder of areas where the reader may have become rusty , and as an update of the very good ongoing R&D work in the field of corrosion inhibition . |
| 12 | Though her outstanding achievement is undoubtedly the composition of the first original poetry by a woman to be published in the seventeenth century , a volume of religious verse entitled Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum ( 1611 ) , she has become notorious as a result of attempts made to identify her as the ‘ dark lady ’ of Shakespeare 's Sonnets ( 1609 ) , on the conjectural grounds of her racial colouring , musical ability , and promiscuity . |
| 13 | In recent decades biomass has become increasingly important as a source of fuels such as biogas and alcohol . |
| 14 | Also , the history of sculpture includes some account of the abortive plans for sculpture , just as the history of architecture is incomplete as a history of ideas without a knowledge of rejected proposals . |
| 15 | Later in his career , when his delicate health forced him to give up racing , he took over the Danebury stables from John Day , and became renowned as a trainer of steeplechasers as well as flat racers . |
| 16 | As part of their representations on the 1981 Finance Bill , the Law Society recommended that income should not be " relevant income " to the extent that it was paid away to some person other than the recipient of the relevant benefit either before or after the receipt of the relevant benefit as it had by then ceased to be available as a source of funds out of which the relevant benefit could be paid . |
| 17 | Only within the last 20 to 25 years has there even been an identifiable cohort of ageing disabled adults ; first , life expectancy for many types of impairments prior to this was low ; second , people who became disabled as a result of injuries received during the Second World War are now entering older age ; third , many children and young adults disabled as a result of the polio epidemics of the late 1940s and early 1950s are now in their 50s or older . |
| 18 | By virtue of the Congenital Disabilities ( Civil Liability ) Act 1976 a child who is born disabled as a result of injuries suffered en ventre sa mρere has a cause of action inter alia in respect of pain and suffering . |
| 19 | The Palestinians , many of whom are desperate as a result of roots in the poverty of the refugee camps , hold few cards other than their determination not to be subdued and the ‘ armed struggle ’ through which this determination is sometimes expressed ; what they seek is recognition of some form of statehood on Palestinian soil . |
| 20 | It was a grim sort of place , and Bunting felt uneasy as a group of workmen began to stare at them and murmur ominously . |
| 21 | She passed a grove of birch trees , their limbs mottled and elegant as a herd of giraffes . |
| 22 | Controlling aggregate demand through controlling interest rates is made even more difficult as a result of fluctuations in the demand for money . |
| 23 | But if research is so unreliable as a source of solutions , what good is it ? |
| 24 | our fingers icy as a bunch of keys . |
| 25 | The effect of this decision is to reverse the trend that was evident from the preceding cases in which there had been a gradual tendency to expand the range of third parties to whom accountants might be held to be liable as a result of errors in financial statements . |