Example sentences of "as the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | FRS 3 will also effectively kill off extraordinary items — the ASB is adamant that any geographical or political event happening within a company 's environment should be counted as part of normal business risk — and reduce what ASB chairman David Tweedie has seen as the abuse of earnings per share . |
| 32 | It may seem incredible that they could have been remembered accurately for many decades , but the construction of skaldic verse was complex , and features such as the binding of pairs of lines by allit-eration , and rhyme and consonance within lines , perhaps facilitated the correct transmission of individual words . |
| 33 | Although in a world under divine guidance their actions can be said to actualize the Lord 's will , these actions can also be seen as the expression of women 's resentment and rebellion . |
| 34 | He cites Deffenbacher ( 1985 ) as suggesting that many of the outcomes of the helping process such as the development of goals and plans , happen inadvertently , with the most important focus being the client/helper relationship . |
| 35 | If he gets the job , Lust can be expected to follow German policy and steer the agency towards scientific and technical research rather than commercial projects , such as the development of communications satellites . |
| 36 | Recreational projects such as the development of watersports on estuaries and industrial work including mineral and peat extraction are having an increasing impact on the environment . |
| 37 | The giver identifies strongly with Jesus as the servant of others . |
| 38 | A Northern force faced with several desecrated graveyards and missing bodies in 1986 found it easier to describe it as the work of vandals . |
| 39 | The slogans were in ill-formed , illiterate script and Owen at first put it down as the work of children ; not the children who went to the kuttub , who were infants , but older youths . |
| 40 | The organ is described by its devotees as the King of Instruments , and it is certainly very versatile when properly designed . |
| 41 | To the Yogis he is venerated as the King of Serpents — the possessor of the ultimate wisdom — the Great Guru . |
| 42 | They have much more to say on less apocalyptic matters , such as the treatment of persons who are in the hands of the adversary . |
| 43 | In cases where continuing clinical improvement was taking place , such as the treatment of ascites , randomisation was deferred until the patient had reached an optimal state of health . |
| 44 | He goes on to link Lévi-Strauss 's idea of exchange as the mastery of women to Freud 's interpretation of his grandson 's game of fort/da as a representation of the alternation of presence and absence . |
| 45 | Most women are not convinced by the Prime Minister 's new role as the champion of women 's rights , not least because he was the first Prime Minister in 25 years to fail to appoint a woman to his Cabinet . |
| 46 | Pressman and Wildavsky have made a tentative attempt to draw attention to what may loosely be described as the mathematics of implementations the way in which the mere quantity of agreements necessary may , even when all parties are committed to a policy , undermine or delay effective action . |
| 47 | This chapel , also known as the Chapel of Miracles ( Capela dos Milagres ) , is situated on the eastern side of the river which divides the city of Machico . |
| 48 | Measures directly towards the amelioration of these conditions might be expected to contribute to the prevention of attempted suicide , although other factors — such as the availability of drugs , cultural attitudes , and the level of services available — might have a more immediate effect . |
| 49 | For this reason , management is not so much the exercise of power as the empowerment of others . |
| 50 | A programme of short courses , conferences and workshops provides opportunities for professional , community and other groups to further their knowledge in particular fields such as the formation of cooperatives or local history . |
| 51 | But with the push towards fostering , adoption , and family care , the problems facing carers in the residential sector have increased as the majority of residents are older with varying degrees of behaviour and emotional problems , an issue the government acknowledges . |
| 52 | Unsuccessful searches will always be faster in a multi-way tree than in a binary search tree , which suits our purpose as the majority of strings being searched for will not be in the word list . |
| 53 | It would be possible for it to be installed in Canterbury as the majority of calls coming into London are usually transferred to Canterbury anyway . |
| 54 | As the majority of vehicles are propelled in this manner , this point speaks for itself . |
| 55 | Licence revenue has proved unreliable as the majority of listeners do not bother to purchase a licence , and radio stations have had to look elsewhere for funds . |
| 56 | They should be protected by law from moral persecution as the majority of men mean no harm . |
| 57 | Yet in practice this view was not extended to take in the case of gender : the advances made as a result of the critique of behaviourism and pluralism did not go on to question the assumptions and mechanisms that continue to define politics as the affair of men . |
| 58 | At the other extreme you could set up giant screens to show large images of the speaker as we do in larger conferences such as the Institute of Directors at the Royal Albert Hall . |
| 59 | A survey was commissioned to cover both raw data such as the proportion of women barristers at each stage of their career at the Bar , and also qualitative data such as attitudes towards careers for women barristers . |
| 60 | Proportions , as we have said , can be interpreted in terms of chances : the probability of an individual attending a selective school can be quantified as the proportion of children attending such a school . |