Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] [prep] [noun] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Charles could technically be King and head of the Church of England as a divorced man , it is unlikely . |
| 2 | During his time as Bishop of Woolwich , responsible for an area stretching from the inner-city boroughs of South London to the Surrey commuter belt , David Sheppard conducted a survey of 150 parishes to show the electoral roll members of the Church of England as a percentage of the total population . |
| 3 | Ken was rediscovered in the nineteenth century by the Oxford Movement , for whom his idea of the Church of England as part of the Universal Church and his ascetic character had a great appeal . |
| 4 | He entered the ministry of the Church of Scotland as a licentiate at New Street church , Edinburgh . |
| 5 | They followed widespread criticism of Keating in the British tabloid press , which accused him of insulting Queen Elizabeth during her 12th state visit earlier in February for the 150th anniversary of the proclamation of Sydney as a city . |
| 6 | What purported to be a parliament , called in the name of the Prince of Wales as keeper of the realm , and presided over by Isabella and Mortimer on the prince 's behalf , met in January 1327 , having been postponed nearly a month while some doubts and difficulties were resolved . |
| 7 | Thus a very simple view of the operation of language as a coding system can be represented as follows : The broken line in this diagram indicates that although phonology is not actually realized in a written text , it is there " by implication " . |
| 8 | Or slapped her gently , until a scent that was perfumed with tea sang through the real air to her and she identified one of the sea of aches as thirst . |
| 9 | My theme then is the dialectic between ( a ) the fact of the unity of man as a species , ( b ) the fact of the disunity of man as a social being , and ( c ) the mixed up ideology of equality and inequality . |
| 10 | Adam 's main work , the Ars Disserendi , was a textbook of logic , novel in its approach and in its use of the newly translated Topics and Sophistical Refutations of Aristotle ; it stressed the importance of the mastery of language as a safeguard against sophisms . |
| 11 | Furthermore , what is true of the phenomenon of celibacy as a metaphor of an appropriate form of apartness and of integration is also true of individual members of a group such as a religious community . |
| 12 | ‘ I love Harvey , ’ and little noises came out of the sphere of hair as if a canary was eating a hearty meal of seeds . |
| 13 | Before the storm broke he fell into a sleep so peaceful and deep that he heard nothing of the thunder crashing overhead or of the rush of waters as the lake filled and spread and crept and grew like a living thing . |
| 14 | Yet , given their potential influence , few outstanding sportsmen have used their position to challenge the notion of the legitimacy of sport as a way out and a method of social mobility , and few have pointed out that blacks ' continued domination of sport is more a reflection of limitations in other areas of a society permeated with racism than of blacks ' talent . |
| 15 | The book of Exodus is the story of the birth of Israel as a nation . |
| 16 | ‘ We may thus think of the subordination of women as the result of three different kinds of victimisation. 1 . |
| 17 | We can date the beginning of the disillusionment with agriculture as a force for rural conservation fairly precisely : the publication of Rachel Carson 's Silent Spring in 1962 . |
| 18 | promote the teaching in any maintained school of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship . |
| 19 | This prohibits local authorities from intentionally promoting homosexuality or publishing material ‘ with the intention of promoting homosexuality ’ , or promoting ‘ the teaching in any maintained school of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship ’ . |
| 20 | We do not wish to change that in any way , shape or form , but we are anxious about the word ‘ acceptability ’ later in the Clause' [ A local authority shall not promote the teaching in any maintained school of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship ] . |
| 21 | This included an amendment ( Section 28 ) forbidding local authorities to ‘ promote teaching in any maintained school of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship ’ . |
| 22 | The main effort in this theory is concentrated on exposing the logical superfluousness of the idea of substance as a " metaphysical substratum " , which still lingers on in — and complicates — Leibniz 's conception of the monad . |
| 23 | At another , black students ( but only blacks ) are paid for improving their grades , a Pavlovian training in the mentality of entitlement and a perpetuation of the idea of blacks as victims . |
| 24 | EVOLUTION and the transmission of cultural forms , topics much discussed in Eliot 's youth , continued to concern him in much of his later work , and he retained a profound distrust of the idea of evolution as progress . |
| 25 | The fact that this is indeed found to be the case powerfully corroborates the theory of development being advanced in these pages and demonstrates that the apparent absence of the latency phenomenon as we know it among primitive people like the Australian aborigines is no proof of the falsity of the idea of latency as such . |
| 26 | Even more than Morrissey and his bad memories , Cave 's vision is the antithesis of the idea of pop as a remaking of yourself . |
| 27 | As we have seen , the seed of the idea of Franco as the providential saviour and guardian of the " true " Spain had been planted in his and his admirers ' minds during his time as the Director of the Military Academy in Zaragoza . |
| 28 | The slow growth of the idea of diplomacy as a distinct profession meant that appointments could still , down to the French revolution , sometimes be made in a remarkably haphazard way on the basis of family connections and sheer luck . |
| 29 | This account of the formation of nation states in Western Europe , and of the development of the sense of nationality as a fundamental social bond , is far more comprehensive and thorough than the rather abstract and historically restricted theories which purport to explain modern nationalism and the emergence of new nations in terms either of a reorientation of European thought , or of some general process of industrialization . |
| 30 | While our discussion in this chapter is of the doctrine of neutrality as such , Rawls ' treatment of it will serve to illustrate the problems involved . |