Example sentences of "[v-ing] as a [noun] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The finding of normal concentrations of albumin , retinol binding protein , and triglyce ide among cancer patients , irrespective of the stage and tumour grade , excludes nutritional wasting as a cause of the hypocholesterolaemia . |
| 2 | Essentially , these express the number of deaths occurring as a proportion of the number of people at risk in each region in such a way that they take into account the fact that regions have different age and sex distributions ; their construction will be explained fully in chapter 14 . |
| 3 | President Ibrahim Babangida was forced to return early from the Commonwealth heads of government meeting as a result of the crisis . |
| 4 | She had been married only four years when her husband was murdered while serving as a member of the Canadian peacekeeping mission in Cyprus . |
| 5 | He was elected a member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1879 , and the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1881 , serving as a member of the council of the latter in 1894 . |
| 6 | After serving as a representative of the British Canoe Union on the Central Council of Physical Recreation , the largest federation of sport and recreation in the world , in 19877 he was elected Chairman of the Executive Committee . |
| 7 | But that did not prevent Salisbury from acting as a member of the commission charged with negotiating an agreement with Charles in the Isle of Wight in 1648 . |
| 8 | As I said , I think that this issue is of very considerable constitutional importance , because the effect of the judgment is to separate the activities of a Minister acting under his own name from those carried out while acting as a Minister of the Crown . |
| 9 | In 1274 he is to be found acting as a baron of the Exchequer . |
| 10 | In the above excluded instances the MAS team will remain an important member of the client 's team , acting as a catalyst/manager of the process , but the lead role as far as the public are concerned would fall to either a merchant bank or stockbroker with suitable experience in the public arena . |
| 11 | The swirling blood is thought to make the purring noise , the diaphragm acting as an amplifier of the vibrations . |
| 12 | At this stage he is thinking of something comparable with the Advanced Sea Kayak Club , perhaps operating as an offshoot of the Open Canoe Association of Great Britain in parallel with the Open Canoe Sailing Group . |
| 13 | Some press reports in January claimed that Sino-Soviet relations were deteriorating as a result of the upheavals in Eastern Europe [ see pp. 37104-10 ] . |
| 14 | One in three people will become a carer at some time in their life , and the figure 's rising as a result of the Government 's move to provide more care in the community . |
| 15 | We have got to be spot on with the depth to which we are digging — too much and the water will be too deep and the reeds will not grow — but I think the new reeds will be good and strong , not the spindly rubbish we are getting as a result of the dry conditions , ’ said Mr Macklin . |
| 16 | And still others have had the good fortune to find a role in those sectors of the joint venture free market which are not stuttering as a result of the policy paralysis . |
| 17 | When it goes , I mean I 'm speaking as a resident of The Stow and I know there 's lot 's of complaints and shop keepers and er people in the flats and that round you know the shops there and you do feel a bit intimidated if you walk through The Stow at night . |
| 18 | The current dip in farm spending as a proportion of the total EC budget merely reflects higher outlays on the Community 's regional and social programmes . |
| 19 | What would the Minister say to the pensioners outside that one area in Scotland who are suffering as a result of the bitterly cold weather and who can not receive payment if they are on income support ? |
| 20 | There is , in any event , growing evidence that all other public services are suffering as a result of the concentration of the Scottish Office budget on road building ( £500 million on the M74 alone ) . |
| 21 | It is a recipe for self-improvement through a process of continuous fine tuning rather than merely being shocked into learning as a result of the occasional mistake . |
| 22 | Fundamentally , many regard the ‘ conflict ’ over housing as an extension of the major divisions in society and argue that the allocation of housing is determined largely by the power that each group has come to possess in a society with a long history of class conflict ( Haddon 1970 ; Duncan 1976 ; Mellor 1977 ) . |
| 23 | They were well placed to exert political pressure , for in 1753 Captain Robert Cunningham was the candidate for the parliamentary seat for this district , avowedly standing as a friend of the Duke of Argyll . |
| 24 | When asked for their views on longer-term future applications the emphasis was again on the increase of information handling , with management applications falling as a percentage of the whole . |
| 25 | Rumour had it that it was he who brought it to the attention of Chamberlain , who became President of the Board of Trade at the same time as Plimsoll left the House , that numbers of lives lost at sea , after falling as a result of the Load Line Act , were now again on the increase . |
| 26 | On 8 May 1992 in the High Court , Judge Monier-Williams , sitting as a judge of the Family Division , had taken his seat in court in order to hear a wardship summons in proceedings in which M. was the plaintiff . |
| 27 | The numbers of people aged 65 and over grew from 1.7 million to 8.8 million between 1901 and 1991 , increasing as a proportion of the total population from 4.7% to 15.8% . |
| 28 | Between 1901 and 1981 the number of people in Britain aged over 65 rose from 1.7 million to almost 8 million , increasing as a proportion of the total population from less than 5 per cent to 15 per cent . |
| 29 | Also present is the concept of aesthetic pleasure emerging as a by-product of the successful ordering of complex data . |
| 30 | Compensation is calculated to a complex formula which includes a basic award related to gross earnings and length of service and a compensatory award which seeks to meet the employee 's actual and future losses arising as a consequence of the dismissal . |