Example sentences of "[noun pl] as a [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Howell stressed the TEC 's intention to improve appreciation of the benefits of training among Teesside employers as a major thrust of the TEC 's future operations . |
| 2 | Indeed , to date , 15 clubs have installed 44 acrylic surfaces as a direct result of LTA court surface policy . |
| 3 | As in England , the Scottish Commission identified large numbers of small authorities as a major weakness of the old system . |
| 4 | To focus upon income derived from protectionist policies as a major source of finance , is not compatible with the role of the EC as a significant participant in the world trading system . |
| 5 | Institutions which do produce more complex programmes as a regular feature of their work need to have someone in charge of the operation to ensure that proper planning is done . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , it is now clear that newspaper proprietors have successfully exploited the perception that there would be an abundance of new titles as a direct outcome of the ‘ new technology ’ whilst confidently bringing enormous structural changes to the industry . |
| 7 | Clearly something rubs off because you can observe people developing habits and behaviour patterns as a direct result of repetition . |
| 8 | Now , just as the long-standing debate had been settled , here was Kammerer adducing experimental evidence in favour of Lamarck 's discredited theory , for he was claiming that the pads had been ‘ re-evolved ’ in a few generations as a direct consequence of the parents being persuaded to mate once more in water ! |
| 9 | Federal Prime Minister Brian Mulroney described the proposals as a further stage of the consultative process and gave assurances that a " precise constitutional offer " would be presented to Quebec in mid-April . |
| 10 | Subject to that er amendment is it your wish that I should sign those minutes as a true record of that meeting ? |
| 11 | In the first place , almost the entire judgment was devoted to a consideration of whether or not the letters under the Great Seal were good and valid to impose the duty whereas the right to recover was dealt with in 10 words as a necessary consequence of invalidity . |
| 12 | There are also suggestions that multimedia computing will become widespread and commonplace in homes as a further wave of more mature computer application finds its way into the home market . |
| 13 | Rather , they will attract funds as a direct result of the contracts placed . |
| 14 | It is the recognition of this principle and its implications which is particularly characteristic of Labov 's approach to data : ‘ for the section of speech being examined all occurrences of a given variant are noted , and where it has been possible to define the variables as a closed set of variants , all non-occurrences in the relevant environments ’ ( Labov 1982a : 30 ) . |
| 15 | As we shall see , it is often difficult to specify ‘ relevant environments ’ and , even more fundamentally , to define the input to a given variable ; Labov 's suggestion that it might sometimes not be possible to define variables as a closed set of variants is particularly relevant to syntactic variation ( see chapter 7 ) . |
| 16 | One recent line of research has involved the investigation of pottery distributions as a possible indicator of a town 's market area , partly because of its abundance and partly because it has been observed that pottery was not normally dispersed through permanent retail outlets . |
| 17 | Appoint a systems manager from among the secretaries as a central point of contact between the firm and the supplier . |
| 18 | Coordinators of education management courses interviewed spoke of the difficulty this poses both for the curriculum balance of courses and for the image of the arts as a serious concern of education . |
| 19 | More needs to be done to popularise the arts as a focal attraction of regional life . |
| 20 | Conscientious objection to military service is recognised by the United Nations as a legitimate exercise of the right to freedom of thought , conscience and religion . |
| 21 | It is interesting to note that the Rooks which use elms as a high proportion of their nest sites in this region quickly move to other tree species when elms are removed . |
| 22 | There are no hard and fast rules for judging when a workshop qualifies for this accolade , any more than there are for conferring greatness on people and institutions in other forms of art ; but it is normally reserved for workshops which consistently produce outstanding items under the direction of a masterweaver , who is accepted by his peers as a pre-eminent exponent of his art . |
| 23 | Indeed , if transit passage could be held applicable to third parties as a general rule of international law of navigation rights through strategic communication routes , the United States has little to lose by refusal to become a party to the Convention . |
| 24 | Both are established firms which see STMs as a logical extension of their business . |
| 25 | Our research revealed that a significant number of such admissions were , in fact , perceived by the parents as a direct result of their requesting help , and that in such cases the parents actually welcomed the care order as an attempt to meet the needs of their children . |
| 26 | The IRF-1 gene encodes a transcription factor that functions as a transcriptional activator of interferon- , interferon- , and other interferon inducible genes . |
| 27 | Mr Farquhar said : ‘ Over recent times many have spoken of one set of killers as a mirrored image of the other . |
| 28 | LCCIEB has worked hard to increase the availability and take up of modern languages , both within the UK and overseas , and it views the developments in NVQs as a natural extension of this work . |
| 29 | LCCIEB has worked very hard in its purpose of increasing the availability and take-up of modern foreign languages both within the UK and abroad , and views the development in NVQs as a natural extension of this work . |
| 30 | The book 's origins as a special issue of the journal Women 's Studies International Quarterly are all too apparent and it offers a series of partial glimpses rather than a coherent overall picture . |