Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb -s] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result , the proportions of digested teeth declines as post-depositional breakage increases because the isolated teeth are usually more frequently digested than are the in situ teeth ( compare Table 3.12 columns 4 and 6 ) . |
| 2 | As we saw back in section 12.5 , the building-up of reserves counts as a deficit ( an outflow from the balance of payments account to the reserves account ) . |
| 3 | In addition , the effectiveness of certain other types of clause is limited by statute where one of the contracting parties deals as a consumer ; for instance , the Consumer Arbitration Agreements Act 1988 restricts the enforcement of an arbitration clause against a person who makes a contract as a consumer , unless certain conditions are fulfilled . |
| 4 | The involvement of parents to the extent which now obtains in the majority of our primary schools comes as something of a shock to teachers visiting English primary schools from overseas . |
| 5 | A fence at the bottom of a flight of steps works as an effective safety measure for infirm walkers . |
| 6 | In contrast H. isolonche in game birds occurs as a clinical entity . |
| 7 | May 12 Baker and Bessmertnykh meet over a working dinner in Cairo in what the Financial Times describes as an " against-the-odds attempt to " kick start " the … peace process " . |
| 8 | In the early 1980s detectors were becoming even more sophisticated and versatile , particularly in their ability to cut out ferrous metal and locate small coins ; the increase in the finding of Celtic silver minims and medieval hammered farthings stands as a good testimony to that . |
| 9 | The decision to continue follows what a joint press release from the two companies describes as ‘ fruitful talks ’ between the store and the bookseller . |
| 10 | And the Ode to Duty , with its opening lines sounds as if it might have been written by an Old Testament Prophet . |
| 11 | The sale of the Dowty companies comes as no surprise to workers but as Dowty has a 40 year history in Gloucestershire , employees say it 's sad to see the group being dismantled . |
| 12 | ‘ [ T ] he constructive trust in the insurance cases acts as a deterrent , discouraging the beneficiary who would be motivated to kill the insured by already in-place financial rewards flowing from the insured 's death . |
| 13 | Traditionally , a company of White Lions acts as the personal bodyguard of the Phoenix King in honour of the time they saved Caledor the first from Dark Elf assassins . |
| 14 | Traditionally , a company of White Lions acts as the personal bodyguard of the Phoenix King . |
| 15 | the income consists of annual payments made under a partnership agreement to or for the benefit of a former partner , or the widow or dependants of a deceased former partner , of the partnership , being payments made under a liability incurred for full consideration ; 2. the income is payable in connection with the acquisition of a partnership ; 3. the income arises under a settlement made by one party to a marriage by way of provision for the other after the dissolution or annulment of the marriage , or while they are separated under an Order of the Court or under a separation agreement or in such circumstances that the separation is likely to be permanent , being income payable to or applicable for the benefit of the other party ; 4. the income is from property of which the settlor has divested himself absolutely by the settlement ; 5. the income is income which under other provisions of the tax legislation is treated for the purposes of the Taxes Acts as that of the settlor . |
| 16 | The enrichment of forms and surfaces acts as a social catalyst . |
| 17 | The sub plot of Gloucester and his two sons acts as a parallel to the main and increases the effect of Lear 's family situation and experiences ; ‘ he childed as [ Lear ] fathered ’ . |
| 18 | Racehorses of 1985 encapsulated her appeal : ‘ Pebbles acts as a tonic to any race in which she competes . ’ |
| 19 | Pebbles acts as a tonic to any race in which she competes . |
| 20 | This mysterious alignment of metal-clad monoliths stands as a reminder of an earlier civilisation . |
| 21 | This got a reaction from the studio audience that these days counts as a whoosh . |
| 22 | Dusts acts as a thermal insulator which prevents efficient cooling of the components and results ultimately in failure due to overheating . |
| 23 | The Indian case suggests that the role of ‘ mediation ’ between propertied classes disappears as capitalist forms of property ownership become dominant . |
| 24 | He says that , ‘ DTX-2 , like its biogenetic relatives acts as an ‘ on-off ’ switch for certain phosphatase enzymes and could open a door in the cell for us to look inside and see what is going on ’ . |
| 25 | Yet all but a fraction of the carbon in living things originates as carbon dioxide in the atmosphere ; as we will discuss below , it is turned into organic molecules by plants by the process of photosynthesis . |
| 26 | At national level , the National Council for One Parent Families acts as a central organization drawing together the various statutory and voluntary bodies concerned and generally offers advice and information in this field . |
| 27 | Chief among these is the logical rectangle which Greimas sees as the ‘ structure élémentaire de la signification ’ ( Greimas 1970:160 ) . |
| 28 | Some adopt the server/client approach — where one or other of the machines acts as a sort of networked machine , and can be used only as a file and print server . |
| 29 | In this respect , a person acquiring goods deals as consumer only if the supplier makes the contract to supply the goods in the course of a business ( s12 of UCTA ) . |
| 30 | The experience of older workers seen in large firms shows how tenuous is the reality of lifetime employment and the working conditions in small firms serves as a reminder of the human costs of long tenure . |