Example sentences of "[noun pl] as the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The data used above was presented as input to the semantic analyser , with the newly indexed CED definitions as the source of definitions . |
| 2 | Whereas his public appearances had been sporadic up to 1955 , and largely prompted by political events , the second half of the decade saw a notable increase in his activities as the opener of factories , electricity generating stations , reservoirs and housing schemes . |
| 3 | Whatever advantages there may be to the shareholders in the adoption of one or other of these goals as the object of directors ' duties , liability rules , as will be shown in more detail in section II , are too unsophisticated a control technique to make it possible in practice to discriminate between them . |
| 4 | The organ is described by its devotees as the King of Instruments , and it is certainly very versatile when properly designed . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Despite these problems , most LDCs are increasing their education expenditures as the lack of skills and knowledge acts as a barrier to economic progress . |
| 7 | This village , which is situated along the trail from Lukla to Everest Base Camp , has undergone tremendous changes as the number of tourists to Nepal has risen from less than 10 000 per year in 1960 to almost 250 000 in 1988 ; there are also plans to increase that number to c. 1 million by the year 2000 . |
| 8 | The bourgeoisie became a source of state functionaries as the sale of offices increased to pay for the ever-growing cost of armies . |
| 9 | The idea that femaleness is part of the definition of the word wife seems relatively reasonable ; but questions arise when one considers that — as we noted above — gender seems to be a conceptual component in many unrelated lexical items ; and that oppositions often function covertly as hierarchies , which means it may not be a neutral fact that this system represents women as the negative of men . |
| 10 | Terms such as NICs and OPEC explained in this chapter will re-surface in subsequent chapters as the interdependence of nations and the world 's financial system are unravelled . |
| 11 | The second and opposing view treats political events as the result of forces inherent in human nature . |