Example sentences of "as a [noun sg] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Innocent asserted his paternal protection of Frederick and the position of Sicily as a fief of the papacy . |
| 2 | possibly Count Raymond offered to do homage to Henry and to hold Toulouse as a fief of the duchy of Aquitaine . |
| 3 | Mr Kewley is acting as a spokesman for the family . |
| 4 | As a member of the Territorial Army Reserve he held the rank of Lt Colonel and served a period as a co of the OTC . |
| 5 | For such conditioning to occur , the animal must learn to respond to a mild stimulus which would not normally cause the withdrawal in the same way as if it were a strong one , such as a shock to the tail , which does cause withdrawal . |
| 6 | Our first trek , up Gunung Mulu , was the hardest of the whole expedition and came as a shock to the system . |
| 7 | The demand for subject access may have come as a shock to the library profession but , more importantly , it raised a very fundamental issue : that is , the role of the catalogue in providing access to the library collection . |
| 8 | Even earlier , as a diplomat in Beijing and at the United Nations in New York in the 1950s , then as a high-flyer at the elbow of two heads of the Foreign Office , he was marked for big things . |
| 9 | Unlike a probation order , which was not regarded as a sentence of the Court , a suspended sentence ranked not merely as a sentence , but as a sentence of imprisonment , with a condition attached which activated the element of custodial confinement only if another offence was committed within a stated period of not less than one year nor more than two ( originally three ) years . |
| 10 | The sentence A beaver hit the log and knocked the turtle into the water was falsely identified as a sentence from the passage . |
| 11 | 19ff ) ; one of the earliest attested acts of faith centred upon the near sacrifice of a human being ( Isaac , son of Abraham ) , replaced at the last moment by a substitute ram which was given as a burnt-offering ( Gen. 22 ) ; and the first redemption of the embryonic nation Israel involved the smearing of the blood of the Passover lamb on the doorposts and lintels of the Hebrews ' homes in Egypt as a sign to the Angel of Death to leave them in safety ( Exod. |
| 12 | Besides attempting to say what it was about a sensation which served as a sign of the location of whatever had given rise to it , adherents of the local sign theory had also to say in what way the reference to a part of the body was made — whether in the form of visual imagery , or of a judgement , or of something else . |
| 13 | Instead of furthering a process of " national understanding " as Collor had hoped , the presentation of the new package served to deepen the rift between himself and the majority of the Congress who interpreted it as a sign of the government 's weakness . |
| 14 | Saris are seen as a sign of the wearer being progressive . |
| 15 | It is difficult not to notice that the ‘ bundle of sticks ’ is reminiscent of the Roman fasces , the bundle of rods with a protruding axe-head , carried before Roman consuls as a sign of the state authority of Rome , and adopted by Mussolini as a symbol of the movement he led to power in 1922 , whence the word ‘ fascist ’ . |
| 16 | People point to the success of the German Bundesbank as a sign of the strength of the German economy . |
| 17 | The abrupt decision in June 1991 to ban all casinos , despite the involvement of erstwhile Premadasa associates in the rapidly expanding gambling industry , was seen by many observers as a sign of the President 's confidence in his own authority , and thus as a contributory factor in precipitating the unsuccessful attempt , launched in August , to impeach him [ see pp. 38440 ; 38534 ] . |
| 18 | As a sign of the future , Ernest Bevin , Minister of Labour , and one of the senior Labour Party ministers , said his party had rather different views on the matter , but would accept the general proposals for the time being . |
| 19 | She takes their practice of representing a feminine gendered component of meaning as [ -male ] as a sign of the fact that women in language are relegated to ‘ negative semantic space ’ . |
| 20 | Thirty years later , I can still recall particular images — Alan Breck 's silver button set on a wooden cross and placed as a sign in the window of a but and ben ; redcoats prodding the heather with their bayonets while Breck and David Balfour sweltered out the day on the top of a huge granite boulder ; Breck lowering his belt so that Balfour could scramble up ; a chieftain 's hide-out somehow built using the trees . |
| 21 | In these new discursive wars , feminism as well as anti-feminism sacrificed the idea of women as inherently passionate ; sexual pleasure as a sign in the flesh of reproductive capacity fell victim to political exigencies . |
| 22 | Mr Moore had been displaying the Spitfire for nine years before the accident , and was regarded very highly as a master of the machine |
| 23 | He had never thought of himself as a master of the understatement , but his message to Hayman was something of a gem . |
| 24 | The Tokyo gubernatorial contest was seen as a threat to the position of Ichiro Ozawa , the LDP 's general secretary who was frequently tipped as a future Prime Minister . |
| 25 | This relationship has been a concern , however , of those who perceive the growth of central government financing as a threat to the independence of local government . |
| 26 | The agreement provoked an outcry in Hong Kong where both the Law Society and the local bar association condemned it as a threat to the independence of the judiciary and contrary to the 1984 Joint Declaration . |
| 27 | As deputy chief of Sabah 's Institute for Development Studies , whose activities were viewed by the central government as a threat to the integrity of the Malaysian Federation , Ongkili had been held for 59 days under the Internal Security Act on suspicion of carrying out actions prejudicial to national security . |
| 28 | But it will reduce the likelihood of those forces re-emerging as a threat to the West and favour a better military balance between the former Soviet republics . |
| 29 | The impetus behind the NBA was the problem in Victorian times of widespread and severe price cutting in the retail book trade , which was seen as a threat to the viability of booksellers and publishers . |
| 30 | External control , whether from abroad or from the South , was widely seen again in the later 1980s as a threat to the North . |