Example sentences of "' [noun] of [noun] as " in BNC.

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1 Mickey Morris ' continued involvement in spite of his parents ' derision , Carlos Francis ' determination to defy his parents ' ridicule of football as a career , former British and European middleweight boxing champion Bunny Sterling 's refusal ‘ to let on to ’ his parents about his boxing : these are typical examples of black kids cutting themselves away from the strings of their parents and locating the vital , influential figures in their lives elsewhere .
2 I begin by examining the antiracists ' notion of racism as a form of irrationalism .
3 There was nothing capricious about Mendoros ' choice of Britain as the place to set up shop .
4 A at a guess I would think they would probably give you about three to six months ' worth of pay as compensation , if
5 The editor , a nervous man always conscious that none of his immediate predecessors had lasted more than two years in the job , held his readers ' adoration of royalty as an article of faith .
6 Three years ago , having worked as a psychologist for 10 years and become disillusioned with traditional psychotherapy , Sobchak opened Russia 's first Ladies ' School of Charm as an experiment .
7 The case was pleaded and argued before the Sheriff , and on appeal , on the basis that in addition to establishing the defenders ' breach of contract as a material breach , the pursuers also required to show that they were entitled to rescind the contract , leaving the system in an incomplete state .
8 Lacan adopts Saussurean structuralist linguistics ' view of language as a system of oppositions and differences .
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