Example sentences of "as an indication of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like many others in the industry , Miles points to the number of fast food outlets opening every day as an indication of the continuing popularity of deep-fried foods and adds that unhealthy frying is caused principally by poor frying practices . |
| 2 | It is most intrinsically valuable as an indication of the quality of relationships between the generations , and we have primarily interpreted it in that way . |
| 3 | Peter then approaches the blackboard on which he writes the date , 5 November : this is the cue for the jazz to take over from the calypso ( in more strident tones than before ) as an indication of the disturbing events which follow . |
| 4 | The degree of resistance to temptation was taken as an indication of the effectiveness of the punishment applied . |
| 5 | It is certainly not as good as capacity factors as an indication of the value for money the owner gets from the plant : each kilowatt hour the reactor produces helps to pay off the capital invested in the power station . |
| 6 | The Code of Conduct is primarily intended as an indication of the standards of behaviour expected of a member of the Association . |
| 7 | I wrote the above lines several years ago about a site which I visit regularly as an indication of the sort of way in which we might best approach sacred sites in the landscape . |
| 8 | An elicitation procedure is designed to provide a child with the opportunity to respond to a specific set of stimuli ; the relationship between a stimulus and the child 's response is then taken as an indication of the child 's mastery of a particular aspect of language . |
| 9 | Similarly , checklists completed by a teacher may not provide reliable information with respect to the child 's use of language at home and information provided by a parent , on the basis of the child 's abilities at home , ought not to be taken as an indication of the child 's performance in other settings . |
| 10 | It may be that these serve in some way as an indication of the quality of the male to the female . |
| 11 | Association with colleagues after working hours could be taken as an indication of the priority given to company matters but it may be reluctantly undertaken . |
| 12 | His observation , made in a characteristically matter of fact manner , was in no way intended as a put-down of his intellectual inheritors but simply as an indication of the fertility of that great harvest period . |
| 13 | Rather than calling this a paradox ( as others did ) the authors preferred to think of it as an indication of the incompleteness of quantum theory . |
| 14 | Principles ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) lead us to interpret this regular correlation as an indication of the existence of a local reality ; that is , being in a state unc or unc is a real property of A ( or B ) . |
| 15 | Or one may hope to use the quantifiable features of a text as an indication of the authorship of a text when this is in question . |
| 16 | The general shift in economic activity from manufacturing to services is taken as an indication of the emergence of a new type of economy , a post-industrial economy , in which services and not manufacturing is dominant . |
| 17 | For profit-orientated organizations accounting reports emphasize the measurement of profit as an indication of the success of the organization . |
| 18 | One might take the views of the promoters of a Bill as an indication of the intention of Parliament but any view the promoters may have about the questions which later come before the court will not often appear in Hansard and often those questions have never occurred to the promoters . |
| 19 | Whilst the zealous pursuit of the villains in the case is trumpeted as an indication of the Establishment 's hard line on corporate criminality , it should be remembered that the conspiracy was only discovered as a result of the work of the US Securities and Exchange Commission during their investigation of the Wall Street insider dealer Ivan Boesky . |
| 20 | I 'm told that in the States , the state of your nails is regarded as an indication of the state of your psyche . |
| 21 | As an indication of the partnership involved the Group agreed to accept invitations from the individual members to accommodate meetings . |
| 22 | That is , the rank assigned to the 260 target words that are common to each lattice is used as an indication of the performance . |
| 23 | Analysts regarded the arrest as an indication of the increasingly strained relations between the PBS and UMNO , following the former 's withdrawal from the National Front coalition in October 1990 . |
| 24 | Delegates including Western human rights activists and diplomats attended a human rights conference in Tehran on Sept. 9-12 , which was described by some commentators as an indication of the Iranian government 's desire to end its international isolation . |
| 25 | The annual fees can change markedly from year to year and so the figures which follow , for the session 1993–94 , must be used only as an indication of the minimum likely to apply in later sessions . |
| 26 | The fees can change from year to year and the figures appearing in section ( 2 ) of the table below headed ‘ Estimated Costs ’ must be used only as an indication of the minimum likely to apply . |
| 27 | There would seem to be no reason why the drafter should not recite the fact that the business 's insurance cover is limited in the standard terms , as an indication of the reason for the limitation . |
| 28 | He regards his appointment as an indication of the society 's determination to go-it-alone . |
| 29 | As an indication of the mood of the crowd , the fanzine seller before the game said : ‘ This is the sack Frank Gray issue . ’ |