Example sentences of "[adj] as [noun] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Belgium is to impose a tax on beer , soft drink and mineral water containers by the end of 1993 as part of plans to curb packaging waste . |
| 2 | The course aims to foster pupils ' interest in the chemical nature of their environment through practical investigation of topics such as separation of mixtures , acids and alkalis , elements and compounds , air and water , carbon , CO2 and carbonates and reactions of metals . |
| 3 | The EEC does offer grants to academics for research on approved projects ; but so far it has been unable to help with the major problems of the academic researchers , such as shortage of jobs , lack of mobility of researchers and declining funds for research . |
| 4 | Englishmen undoubtedly benefited from the fact that the great war was fought mainly on French soil , where they could loot at will , and during periods of victory successful captains were rewarded with offices in conquered territories , such as custodianships of castles , or with grants of land . |
| 5 | Indexing is based on surrogates such as tables of contents rather than the full contents of a node . |
| 6 | Libraries have long co-operated in areas such as provision of materials and technical services , and also informally in the area of visits/exchanges by trainees , so that neither co-operative programmes nor co-operation in training is a particularly new phenomenon . |
| 7 | The point at which this happens depends on a number of factors such as complexity of requests in terms of Boolean conditions , speed of access of the medium in use , and size of data file . |
| 8 | Obviously it is not practical to have large bar codes on small products such as tins of peas . |
| 9 | How do you normally respond to conflict situations such as differences of opinions , or when your goals clash with another ? |
| 10 | The permission may still be subject to conditions such as choice of materials , access , turning space for vehicles and lines of sight . |
| 11 | Other sources of attribute data are published maps ( such as maps of soils and geology ) and publications associated with such maps . |
| 12 | Where progress of the job is solely within the control of the surveying practice , i.e. with jobs such as schedules of dilapidations , condition surveys , site surveys and design work , the detailed work programme should be regularly monitored for progress . |
| 13 | For example , research findings suggest that children of families under stress are more vulnerable to accidents , such as ingestion of poisons . |
| 14 | It includes many that have developed as a result of state intervention and which are only found within government , such as inspectorates of factories and public health professionals . |
| 15 | The term ‘ cloning ’ refers to a method of asexual reproduction , such as grafting of varieties of apples , whereby all offspring are exact genetic replicas of the parent stock . |
| 16 | It raises important questions about issues such as clarity of objectives , coordination and commitment , roles in teams , the value of planning techniques and of milestone monitoring . |
| 17 | FAB-MS has already made some impact as a probe for finding the composition of the surfaces of materials — now it is breaking into the business of measuring the molecular mass of large organic molecules , such as chains of peptides , the constituents of proteins . |
| 18 | Product-container compatibility includes all possible interactions between product and container such as absorption of constituents of the product by the container , leaching of constituents of the container by the product , corrosion or other adverse effects of the product on the container and the barrier properties of the container ; that is , its effectiveness in protecting the contents from the adverse effects of atmospheric oxygen and/or water vapour and in retaining water and other volatile constituents of the product . |
| 19 | This average conceals an important fact : many of the industries that tend to suffer most during recessions ( suppliers of consumer durables , transport and communications , for example ) have actually cut their debt-service burden since 1980 ; the biggest increases in debt service have been taken on by relatively stable industries ( such as producers of services and consumer non-durables ) . |
| 20 | The radar has a range of about 55 km and provides information such as movements of tanks and artillery . |
| 21 | There are other reasons such as commonality of components and , of course , shortage of imagination which lead to most design and development being a progressive iterative process . |
| 22 | The Foundation has also refined the Distributed File System to enable it to handle things such as groups of files instead of single lines of files , as well as getting rid of a number of Distributed File System bugs . |
| 23 | It has also refined the Distributed File System to enable it to handle things such as groups of files instead of single lines of files , as well as getting rid of a number of DFS bugs . |
| 24 | The agency 's own Concorde charters swooping over the Grand National , and personal gifts such as bouquets of flowers for customers have earned it an enthusiastic local following . |
| 25 | Other invitations to address groups of professionals such as associations of headteachers were offered and accepted . |
| 26 | The Agency will have powers to trace absent parents through Inland Revenue records and to enforce payments through measures such as attachments of earnings . |
| 27 | Presently , no entry relating to the section will be entered on the register if the land is already registered because a transferee of registered land made under a disposition without valuable consideration is subject to minor interests ( such as rights of creditors ) ( see Land Registration Act 1925 ss20(4) and 23(5) ) . |
| 28 | There was no furniture in the room other than a cupboard in the far corner in which were kept special foods such as plates of dates selected from the great storehouse or the enamel pots poured full of the sweet of the area . |
| 29 | This will not , however , address the deficiencies of local storage facilities on those occasions , such as immunisation of children at school , when vaccines need to be transported to other sites . |
| 30 | In theory , items can be devised to test the more sophisticated thought processes listed in Bloom 's Taxonomy such as knowledge of trends and sequences , or skills of analysis , but such item writing demands not only a high degree of skill , not often available , it also requires a considerable sophistication in language and comprehension skills which second language learners are unlikely to possess . |