Example sentences of "as the [noun sg] of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its foundation as the capital of Scotland in the late eleventh century , and its development in the following centuries into a distinctive city crowded on a hill within a defensive wall can be traced through its buildings . |
| 2 | As the size of barbel in a shoal becomes larger , so the number of fish in that shoal will be fewer . |
| 3 | Well can one imagine Knobelsdorf , swept along by ambition , seeing himself as the organiser of victory at Verdun , exalted to become the Ludendorff of the Western Front . |
| 4 | Amongst the deities who had great general appeal were Hapy , god of the Nile , a fertile figure with a papyrus plant on his head ; Taurt , a hippopotamus goddess , connected with the domestic life as the protector of women in childbirth ; and Bes , an ugly dwarf often wearing a lion 's mane and tail carrying knives , who was guardian and genius against any evil and helped to ward off danger at the birth of a child . |
| 5 | Opening up the printing trade to women could be seen either as the unscrupulous recruitment of low-paid labour or as the expansion of opportunities for educated working-class girls . |
| 6 | As the discussion of power in Chapter 2 showed , pluralist approaches have explicitly rejected the notion that one can derive a causal explanation of policy outcomes based upon the congruence of the policy outcome with the interests of a particular group or class — that the congruence between the policy outcome and the interests of a group offers strong evidence to support ascribing power to the group . |
| 7 | This leads to a simple way of stating the amount of distortion : as the ratio of harmonics to fundamental . |
| 8 | Aerodynamic costs are expressed as the ratio of drag/lift at 5° angle of attack and 5ms -1 freestream velocity . |
| 9 | I was present , of course both in a capacity as future commander and as the reporter of events for " Coastlines " . |
| 10 | Divided into six chronological sections which plot Gris ' activity from the winter of 1910 , when he began to create Cubist pictures under the inspiration of Picasso , until his death in 1927 , the exhibition challenges the traditional view of the artist as the logician of Cubism by revealing him to be a more unpredictable and experimental artist . |
| 11 | One of these effects can be what Britton ( 1981 ) refers to as the phenomenon of re-enactment as an unwitting professional response to the dynamics of a child 's situation , the difficulty that exists for professionals not to re-enact — and thereby aggravate — what the child already experiences , and the ease with which they may collude with his sense of hopelessness and negative feelings . |
| 12 | It is no wonder that Christians later interpreted the message of the Song of Songs as the love of Christ for his bride , the church . |
| 13 | In his interpretation of the Gītā Gandhi refers to the battlefield of Kurukshetra as the heart of man in which the two natures of selfishness and unselfishness are engaged in combat . |
| 14 | Aspects of the ‘ crisis ’ , such as the separation of children from their family homes , worried and frightened them , and the possibility that the doctors were wrong brought welcome relief from the pain of child sexual abuse and precipitated denial and anger in the community . |
| 15 | Insofar as Kuhn recognizes the role played by a paradigm in guiding the search for and interpretation of observable phenomena , he accommodates most of what I have described as the theory-dependence of observation in Chapter 3 . |
| 16 | To his non-political contemporaries , however , Sparke was probably best known as the compiler of Crums of Comfort , a collection of prayers for such crises as death , poverty , and war , which went through forty-four editions from its first publication in 1628 to the last in 1755 . |
| 17 | Although the chromatography eluants used in this study are particularly suited to detecting tobacco related carcinogens — and will miss some small molecular weight adducts altogether — it is unlikely that smoking can account for the increased adduct levels found as the percentage of smokers in the truncal vagotomy group ( 54% ) was very similar to that of the highly selective vagotomy patients ( 52% ) . |
| 18 | The porosity of a deposit is expressed as the percentage of voids in a given volume of rock . |
| 19 | As a result of tight every-day control costs other operating charges at seventy eight point seven million have fallen as the percentage of sales by point nine per cent to twenty four point six per cent and depreciation in the period has fallen by two point three million to eight point four million . |
| 20 | Sentence length is the number of words per sentence , word length Bjornsson defines as the percentage of words with more than six letters , and lix is simply an abbreviation of the Swedish word for readability index . |
| 21 | Similarly , he proposes the study of ideology in relation to the professions ; ideology is seen as the interpenetration of distortion into processes of applied knowledge . |
| 22 | Furthermore , the purposes of assessment , defined earlier in the paper as the assessment of quality of life and risk , offer a means of helping the assessment to identify a focus for managing this stage of the process , when a wide range of complex information from a variety of different sources has to be summarized . |
| 23 | The one notable feature in his face were the eyes ; they were brilliant blue , recognised as the colour of gentians by those who had travelled to the Swiss mountains in summer . |
| 24 | For our purposes , measurement can be characterised as the assignment of numbers to some property in such a way as to effect a one-to-one correspondence between the character of the numbers and the characteristics of the property being measured . |
| 25 | When certain assumptions are challenged , such as the ordination of women to the priesthood , suddenly tradition is seen as an inviolable and fixed form of living truth which compels the Church for ever to say ‘ no ’ to the ordination of women . |
| 26 | Civilization is most commonly defined not as greater efficiency in crop-growing and manufacture , but precisely as the preservation of distance from these activities . |
| 27 | Iran 's Prime Minister Moussavi was pressing for the dollar to be discarded as the unit of account for pricing oil , in favour of indexation to a basket of stronger currencies . |
| 28 | This notion , that gender inequality is thus almost irrelevant for mainstream sociological theorizing , has met with an onslaught of criticism by writers who have argued that it is inappropriate to take the family as the unit of analysis in such a way . |
| 29 | There is no very compelling reason , however , why foreseeability should not be utilised as the test of remoteness in cases where it is irrelevant to the initial determination of liability : ‘ granted that an escape takes place , albeit unforeseeably , what would a reasonable man regard as the foreseeable consequences of such an escape ? ’ |
| 30 | FRS 3 will also effectively kill off extraordinary items — the ASB is adamant that any geographical or political event happening within a company 's environment should be counted as part of normal business risk — and reduce what ASB chairman David Tweedie has seen as the abuse of earnings per share . |