Example sentences of "[noun sg] 's [noun sg] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new constitution , which was based on that of the NCCL , emphasised the association 's character as a body which would make representations on the broad issues of civil liberties and would also take up individual cases of discrimination and ill-treatment . |
| 2 | This is manifestly evident in the often quoted passage from a ‘ Scout 's duty as a Citizen ’ which warned : |
| 3 | In Wilsher there were a number of different possible causes of the plaintiff 's blindness and the plaintiff had not been able to establish the defendant 's negligence as the cause . |
| 4 | The result might have been different if there had been a notice attached to the goods making it clear that these goods had nothing to do with the defendant 's business as a dealer in second-hand goods but had come from his home and that the sale of the goods was to be a private transaction . |
| 5 | Mixing after 20 seconds the next sequence is also a piece of film on a second playback machine , recorded from Waris Hussein 's last episode : a recapitulation of the previous episode 's cliff-hanger as the TARDIS 's radiation counter edges into the Danger Zone . |
| 6 | Even the prospect of taking on Milan , for whom Hateley played between 1984 and 1987 , does not concern the 30-year-old former England striker , despite the Italian club 's billing as the clear favourites . |
| 7 | But the director of the museum decided that the car 's importance as a cultural relic was more than offset by its lack of uniqueness — for there were still thousands of such convertibles in use . |
| 8 | a legendary monster said to have been born to a wealthy lady who had referred to a beggar 's child as a nasty pig . |
| 9 | Whereas Aristotle did not enquire into the mental process by which we perceive time , because he believed that our minds must necessarily conform to the time of the physical universe , St Augustine took the mind 's activity as the basis of temporal measurement . |
| 10 | This image stays in my mind 's eye as the unequivocal focus of attention . |
| 11 | At Donald 's inquest the coroner , Daniel Thompson , described the young soldier 's death as an ‘ appalling attack of savagery motivated by the hatred of the past . ’ |
| 12 | By a notice of appeal dated 23 April 1992 the Treasury Solicitor appealed on the grounds that ( 1 ) on a true construction of the Evidence ( Proceedings in Other Jurisdictions ) Act 1975 the court was precluded from making the order for examination ; ( 2 ) the deputy judge had erred in law in making the order and in holding that ( i ) it was possible to interpret section 9(4) of the Act so as not to preclude the order sought , ( ii ) the exclusion contained in section 9(4) was restricted to cases where the actual capacity in which the witness was called on to give evidence was a Crown capacity and that the fact that the evidence sought was acquired in the course of the witness 's employment as a servant of the Crown was not of itself sufficient to bring the case within the exclusion , ( iii ) the fact that the witness was now retired from his position was relevant to the question whether the exclusion in section 9(4) applied , ( iv ) if some other interpretation were possible , it would be unacceptable to approach section 9(4) as requiring the court to refuse to make the order that a witness who was competent and compellable within the United Kingdom should give evidence for foreign proceedings , ( v ) there was nothing in the material sought to be given in evidence which it could have been the policy or intention of the Act to have prevented being explored ; ( 3 ) the deputy judge had erred in law in approaching the question of capacity by concentrating on the position of the witness at the time that the evidence was to be given as opposed to the position of the witness at the time that he acquired the information which was the subject matter of the evidence and the nature content and source of such evidence ; ( 4 ) the judge had wrongly ignored the fact that the Crown as a party to the Hague Convention was in a position to give effect to it and to provide evidence to foreign courts in accordance with it without recourse to the court ; and ( 5 ) the judge had wrongly approached section 9(4) on the footing that it most likely addressed prejudice to the sovereignty of the state . |
| 13 | But the difficulty with taking the Nun 's Priest 's Tale as a successful harmonization of instruction and entertainment is the fact that within the tale any explicit approaches to didactic seriousness are continually subverted . |
| 14 | The initial application was for : ( i ) Madame Bihi to be joined as a party to the proceedings as a representative of the Democratic Republic of Somalia ; ( ii ) paragraph 3 of the order of Saville J. not to be brought into effect , ( iii ) the court to direct letters to be written to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office asking what state in Somalia was recognised by Her Majesty 's Government as a foreign sovereign state and with what entity , if any , therein Her Majesty 's Government had any dealings of a governmental nature ; and ( iv ) the court to request the Attorney-General to appoint an amicus curiae . |
| 15 | But it is clear that she has no diplomatic status in the United Kingdom and has no recognition from Her Majesty 's Government as a representative of the Republic of Somalia in this country . |
| 16 | The government condemned the opposition 's move as an obstacle to economic modernization , given the dependence of increased foreign investment and multilateral loans on privatization and deregulation . |
| 17 | It has been effectively argued that live performance before an audience can be the most crucial part of a popular musician 's growth as an artist . |
| 18 | Two volumes of collected essays by Clement Greenberg document the critic 's emergence as the most influential champion of modernism during its American ascendance after World War II : volume 3 of The Collected Essays and Criticism is titled Affirmations and Refusals , 1950–56 , volume 4 Modernism with a Vengeance , 1957–1969 ( each £23.95 , $29.95 ) . |
| 19 | But the bias towards defence and security ( which have historically been natural right-wing issues ) might well persist and offset Labour 's advantage as the incumbent government , unless the 1989 Year of Revolutions in Eastern Europe ushers in a new era of world peace and tranquillity . |
| 20 | His decision at the outset of the election campaign to disclose his Budget plans drew intense Conservative fire and reinforced Labour 's reputation as a high-taxation party . |
| 21 | On the other hand the bookies rank Labour 's candidate as the outsider in the Cheltenham race at 33 to 1 . |
| 22 | The adoption of the War Aims Memorandum was a key moment in Labour 's emergence as a genuinely independent political party , destined to replace the Liberals as the chief alternative to Conservatism . |
| 23 | What became known as the Naythuyein Mass Meeting heard Aung San speak about the Burmese contribution to the Allied cause ; he saw Labour 's victory as a sign that imperialism was on the way out and he affirmed that ‘ 99 per cent of the PBF would be unwilling to serve in the fighting forces of a country that was not free ’ . |
| 24 | This animated spirit , however , was less evident in Labour 's programme as the immediate postwar idealism and optimism began to be replaced by more pragmatic demands . |
| 25 | 3.2 THE HOTELIER 'S LIABILITY AS AN OCCUPIER OF PREMISES |
| 26 | Last week two nurses were sacked for dressing a pig 's head as a patient and parading it in front of acutely disturbed women . |
| 27 | I expect that I shall think of the term 's work as a preparation for the second teaching practice . |
| 28 | Scientists were aware of gallium 's potential as a semiconductor 30 years ago but come the computer revolution it remained largely ignored . |
| 29 | The EAT had a great deal of sympathy with Mr Bowles and considered the employers rather harsh , but nevertheless , the employee 's resignation as a result of his refusal to go to Scotland was neither a termination of contract by the employer nor constructive dismissal . |
| 30 | ( 2 ) Conflict with the general practitioner 's role as the patient 's advocate — Fundholding gives general practitioners an explicit and visible responsibility for rationing the health services made available to their own patients . |