Example sentences of "as a [noun] to [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wolves were hunted to extinction in the 1920s , at the request of ranchers who regarded them as a threat to cattle . |
| 2 | The MEPs ' anger focuses on remarks in the Commons by Mr Maude and the drive by the Employment Secretary , Mr Norman Fowler , against the charter as a threat to jobs . |
| 3 | needless to say , was with the welfare feminists , viewing women workers as a threat to men 's jobs and the male family wage — not to mention the sexual division of labour under capitalism . |
| 4 | And veterans of the Battle of Britain cursed the fight they had lost — their bitter campaign to save the historic base as a tribute to heroes . |
| 5 | The Tigers boycotted elections in November last year for the North-Eastern Provincial Council , the new body set up as a compromise to demands for self-rule , saying that it did not fulfil the aspirations of the Tamil people . |
| 6 | As a service to customers buying equipment |
| 7 | Data Protection : as a service to readers , we occasionally make dispatch lists available to carefully screened companies whose products or services we feel may be of interest . |
| 8 | On the one hand for environmental reasons , for their environmental reasons I should say , and on the other hand so as not to come as a nuisance to residents of existing communities . |
| 9 | Ticket touts who try and sell City Tour tickets as a profit to visitors to Oxford , could soon be barred under local bye-laws . |
| 10 | The state has actively sought to develop tourism , both to attract foreign visitors and to act as a counter-magnet to holidays abroad for Britons . |
| 11 | He could have side-stepped the issue completely , but he chose to give a frank response , dismissing as ‘ garbage ’ a Federal Bureau of Narcotics ' pamphlet which described marijuana as ‘ a powerful narcotic in which lurks murder , insanity and death ’ , words that might well have been taken as a reference to events in Hollywood , because they were almost identical to words used by the mass media in descriptions of Manson . |
| 12 | Hopefully a five-year sentence will act as a deterrent to others . ’ |
| 13 | Certainly the acquisition of hard parts as a deterrent to predators is a compelling hypothesis . |
| 14 | Lavender bags were not merely intended for perfuming household linen and blankets in the days of Elizabeth I — they acted as a deterrent to moths , fleas and other unwanted pests ; and the stems were once burnt as a fumigant in sick-rooms . |
| 15 | The negligence action acts as a form of compensation for a negligently injured patient and as a deterrent to doctors . |
| 16 | The system of awarding punitive damages as a deterrent to manufacturers or operators falling below acceptable standards of safety totally ignores the huge bureaucracy of regulation and control that exists to preserve those standards . |
| 17 | As a disincentive to landlords wishing to rid themselves of " sitting tenants " , Parliament inserted into the Housing Act 1988 a strengthening of harassment remedies . |
| 18 | The letter continues : ‘ Any increase in connection and rental charges above the RPI will act as a disincentive to pensioners — since the state pension is uprated only in line with the RPI . |
| 19 | If it were abolished , it would act as a stimulus to exports and the Government would find Britain 's ‘ alarming ’ trade deficit reduced . |
| 20 | This leads him to see the growth of the wage-allowance scheme as a response to problems of unemployment and underemployment which , while they became more visible in years of high food prices , were inherent in social and economic changes taking place in the Speenhamland counties . |
| 21 | One of the explanations for the dolphin 's superb streamlining seems to be that while they are swimming their skin surface shifts in folds or ripples , caused not by muscular action but as a response to changes in pressure on different parts of the body . |
| 22 | This is because of the widespread development of partial resistance to penicillin and other antibiotics by the gonococcus , due to its evolution as a response to changes in its environment . |
| 23 | Contracting out by local authorities has increased under the Conservative government — partly voluntarily and partly as a response to changes in the law requiring them to do so for certain activities . |
| 24 | Both these mountainside systems had been developed as a response to communities being forced by hostile forces ( the Masai in the case of the waChagga , and the Nguni in the case of the waTengo ) to live in a restricted area . |
| 25 | For example , the Functionalist-based theories see crime and delinquency as a response to frustrations arising from lower social position and status . |
| 26 | It may be more useful to try to consider behaviour , on the one hand , as a response to factors within the system and , on the other , as a response to factors outside the system — i.e. , from the user 's perspective . |
| 27 | It may be more useful to try to consider behaviour , on the one hand , as a response to factors within the system and , on the other , as a response to factors outside the system — i.e. , from the user 's perspective . |
| 28 | Surgical procedures may trigger a transient rise in serum CRP as a response to cytokines which are secreted in response to trauma . |
| 29 | First , he argued that it is highly artificial to construe all consumption as a response to needs ; while this approach may seem illuminating when it is applied to the consumption of individuals , it can not plausibly be extended to productive consumption , which has to be treated as ‘ the consumption which satisfies the needs of production ’ , if the theory is to be sustained . |
| 30 | As a response to events and ideas , economic life has become increasingly politicised and the workings of a modern mixed economy effected by a social contract between government , the corporate sector and the trade unions . |