Example sentences of "as the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Protestant reformers were strongly opposed to practices such as the wearing of relics and talismans , and the sprinkling of homes and fields with holy water to ward off evil spirits . |
| 2 | Much of the discussion at the meeting was about issues not directly related to cycling , such as the wearing of rear seat belts . |
| 3 | Stamford became the capital of a huge kingdom extending right across central England ( it is still referred to as the capital of the Fens ) and King Penda ( c.577–655 ) , the last pagan King of Mercia , had his palace here . |
| 4 | In our May 22nd issue , we referred to Portland as the capital of Oregon . |
| 5 | Major Iron Age stronghold , but much better known as the capital of the Ancient Nabataeans , fourth century BC to sixth century AD . |
| 6 | Traditionally looked upon as the capital of the former Visigothic kingdom of Aquitaine it seemed therefore to belong to Aquitaine . |
| 7 | Undismayed , Aarau carried on with the building of the Laurenzenvorstadt to house its responsibilities as the capital of the canton . |
| 8 | The Palestinians of East Jerusalem , who had overwhelmingly refused Israeli citizenship , had equally firmly demanded the city as the capital of a future State of Palestine . |
| 9 | The popes regarded the city as the capital of their duchy . |
| 10 | Its foundation as the capital of Scotland in the late eleventh century , and its development in the following centuries into a distinctive city crowded on a hill within a defensive wall can be traced through its buildings . |
| 11 | As the performance of the two is relatively similar and inverted files are more widely used in their own right , most of this chapter deals with serial and inverted files . |
| 12 | The reader will not , however , begrudge the author 's serendipity which , especially at election time , succeeded in extracting for him the following from Smollett 's Humphrey Clinker ( 1771 ) : I know nothing so abject as the behaviour of a man canvassing for a seat in Parliament . |
| 13 | As the size of barbel in a shoal becomes larger , so the number of fish in that shoal will be fewer . |
| 14 | Details of the exact nature of the writing tested , such as the size of the script , the quality of script , the speed it was written , the pen type , tablet resolution and so on are often sadly lacking in research papers . |
| 15 | A third strategy used to manage and motivate employees as the size of industrial enterprises increased has been the development of bureaucratic personnel policies . |
| 16 | As the size of many businesses grew , the number of employers was reduced . |
| 17 | Children generally spent less time working and more time distracted as the size of their work groups increased from one to twenty . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Although not explicitly referred to in this statement , issues such as the size of a united Germany 's armed forces and its relationship to NATO were expected to be discussed under this umbrella , dubbed the " two-plus-four " formula ( that is , the two Germanies plus the four allies ) . |
| 20 | Free volume dissimilarities become increasingly important as the size of one component increases with respect to the second , as in polymer solutions , and when these differences are sufficiently large , phase separation can be observed at the LCST . |
| 21 | It also hypothesises that reaction time increases as the size of a set from which an object must be identified increases . |
| 22 | And , to this end , he stressed the importance of the internal arrangement and design of buildings , of features such as the size of rooms , the location of doors , passages and staircases , and the availability of lighting . |
| 23 | One was the inflow of pounds into the Exchange Equalisation Account as the counterpart of the loss of reserves . |
| 24 | Jesus is also pictured as consorting with women tabooed because of their sinful or their gentile status or the combination of the two , such as the healing of the daughter of the Syrophoenician woman ( Matt. |
| 25 | The Constitution of Cadiz was always represented by conservatives as the handwork of a radical minority , divorced from any representative opinion in Spain . |
| 26 | Treating speech as the paradigm of communication he says that ‘ myth is a type of speech ’ but one not confirmed to the utterance of words : |
| 27 | Although positivists treat scientific knowledge as the paradigm of all knowledge ( implicit in the expression ‘ hard sciences ’ ) , in practice the criteria for judging the development or fruitfulness of bodies of knowledge in higher education seems to be relative to those bodies , and each field is judged largely on its own terms by those who work in it , although outsiders may have other and sometimes more sceptical views . |
| 28 | We can describe this historical situation as the beginning of an era of mass movements , among which , in the latter part of the nineteenth century , the labour movement appeared as the paradigm of a social movement . |
| 29 | De Man places the image firmly on the side of the inner world , a metaphor that functions as the paradigm of the synthetic power of Marcel 's imagination . |
| 30 | As the clarity of the perception of youth as a problem sharpened , so new images emerged . |