Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] [noun pl] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | These characteristics are similar to the characteristics of Nottinghamshire practices as a whole . |
| 2 | A number of Conservative councils in the late 1960s began to introduce programme budgeting or its variants under the generic title of corporate planning , often on the recommendation of management consultants as a way of achieving greater efficiency . |
| 3 | Bestway Arts and Crafts is a small business in Hayle , dealing mainly in craft stuff ; they carry a stock of art materials as a sideline . |
| 4 | Meetings of the Working Group in Prague in August 1990 and Athens in October 1990 were attended , and a proposal for a research project to evaluate the usefulness of floodplain sediments as a low-density geochemical sampling medium was drawn up . |
| 5 | In his speech , the Minister referred to the Corporation 's ‘ year of fulfilment ’ and included the TBC 's activities in his review of Information Services as a whole , pointing to their ‘ valuable work … in the publicising and classifying of the momentous political changes which have taken place ’ . |
| 6 | The proliferation of shopping excursions as a relief from domestic captivity is recognized : |
| 7 | Individual risk is defined by The Institution of Chemical Engineers as ‘ the frequency at which an individual may be expected to sustain a given level of harm from the realisation of specified hazards ’ . |
| 8 | But the elevation of style functions as a distancing device , especially needful when , as in the passage quoted , Paul 's death scene is still fresh in the mind . |
| 9 | The large-scale youth unemployment coincided with a collapse in apprenticeship schemes as industry , in recession , withdrew its support for the part-time vocational courses that were the stock-in-trade of the further education colleges , many of whom had evolved from the old mechanics institutes . |
| 10 | The NAC meeting of 7 November called on the Communist Party to give guarantees of non-interference in ILP affairs as a condition for continuing the United Front . |
| 11 | Chris Hampson sees the key to quality programmes as the definition of customer requirements . |
| 12 | NEC Corp expects personal computer shipments in 1993-94 to increase by 10% to 1.37m units as a result of the government 's increased spending on computers for schools and public institutions : according to Reuter , NEC sees its personal computer sales rising in the second half of the fiscal when public institutions start to introduce the machines ; in the year to March , NEC 's personal computer shipments were down by 5% . |
| 13 | The national immunization campaign failed to achieve any commendable coverage because of the fragmentation of health services as a result of the Buntustan system . |
| 14 | In April 1992 the IRA bomb in St Mary Axe which destroyed the Baltic Exchange and caused about £300m damage led to the preparation of contingency plans as a result of which the consequences of this April 's bomb in Bishopsgate were to some extent mitigated . |
| 15 | These pressures are valuable if they lead to early considerations of teacher skills in BSL , pupils ' needs for BSL and manual English , and assessment of achievement levels as a result of the use of BSL . |
| 16 | A Ford spokesman said : ‘ I refute we 're trying to take advantage of price reductions as a result of the abolition of the car tax . |
| 17 | Thus , while not abandoning the other studies advocated by Citron , a comprehensive trial of M vaccae as an immunising agent as well as an immunotherapeutic one would seem highly desirable . |
| 18 | When we come to consider the activities of insurance companies as a form of financial intermediation this distinction between the two types of business will be crucial . |
| 19 | ERR also described new regulations aimed at cutting emissions of nitrogen oxides as " a temporary fix " . |
| 20 | Whereas Britain took it as axiomatic that the objective of these negotiations was to reduce the general level of tariff barriers as a matter of good economic principle , her partners in Europe have viewed the matter from the other end of the telescope . |
| 21 | By contrast , the 1987 intake included a mere nineteen MPs who were farmers or landowners , and only twenty-four who listed any kind of field sports as a recreation , a far cry from the party of thirty years earlier . |
| 22 | Under this Government , the income of retirement pensioners as a whole has increased more in each year than it did throughout the Labour Government 's administration . |
| 23 | Furthermore , according to a MIDEPLAN [ state planning ] study , 41.7 per cent of wage earners were poor ( i.e. not able to meet basic needs to some extent ) in 1980 , and this proportion rose to 56.4 per cent in 1981 and 70.7 per cent in 1982 , indicating the impoverishment of wage earners as a result of the crisis and the adjustment . |
| 24 | The mythical story of Cassandra functions as an allegory for the fate of alternative forms of language use ; truthful but ‘ unheeded and unhinged ’ ( 12,144 ) , the figure of Cassandra is an example of the extreme to which women 's frustration at not being heard can push them . |
| 25 | Therefore this simple technique of counting vessels as an assessment of angiogenesis does provide us with additional prognostic information and is good for patients . |
| 26 | Research carried out in 1985 showed that 20–25 per cent of hotel guests cared sufficiently about fitness to view the provision of leisure facilities as a major determinant in selecting a place to stay ( Lodging Hospitality , Feb. 1985 ) . |
| 27 | Their general reverence for nature spirits as the ‘ masters ’ of forest , rivers , mountains , and so on , took a very characteristic form in the cult of the supreme animal — for most Siberian peoples the brown bear . |
| 28 | Hindustan Lever , Unilever 's Indian subsidiary , introduced compulsory rural work for graduate trainees as part of their induction programme . |
| 29 | However , attempts to reduce the proportion of voting rights as the size of holdings increased were doomed to failure since the requirement could be easily evaded by splitting holdings and vesting them in nominees . |
| 30 | Jarvefelt was an actor in Stockholm for five years before he got into opera , and — like many theatre people — he was disinclined to challenge the presumed limitations of opera singers as actors . |