Example sentences of "as [art] [noun sg] of [noun] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm certain that those of us who heard Mike Save The Children 's overseas director on the Today programme or our field director in Angola on the evening television news yesterday , can have hold nothing but pride , what they had to say of Save The Children 's work in that country , a country described as the heart of darkness a country with the world 's worse infant mortality rate . |
| 2 | The income which in fact is the income of B is to be treated for income tax purposes as the income of A. The purpose is notionally to transfer B's income to A , so that A may be charged to tax on the aggregate of his own and B's income . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Taste is then seen principally as the cause of ‘ classism ’ , which can be defined as the kind of distaste the middle and upper classes feel for the vulgar in fun fairs , cheap commodities , artificial copies , or lack of style , and the contempt working people feel for the pretentious , cold and degenerate middle and upper classes . |
| 5 | History is essentially to do with personal development in that it takes as the object of study the roots and origins of groups and those of individuals and examines how they have changed over time . |
| 6 | As the result of excavations a certain amount has been discovered about life in the pre-historic era , and much has been published . |
| 7 | As the result of excavations a certain amount has been discovered about life in the pre-historic era , and much has been published . |
| 8 | It must not rely on the measurement of subjective impressions such as the number of times a child annoyed a parent ; it must be concerned with observable behaviour . |
| 9 | The symptom index was calculated as the number of times the symptom occurred when the pH was below four , divided by the total number of times the symptom was reported ; this quotient was then multiplied by 100 to give the percentage of symptoms associated with reflux . |
| 10 | Brookes introduced the concept of ‘ periodical utility ’ , which he defined as the number of references a paper could be expected to attract in its particular library context during the period it remained in the library . |
| 11 | As the party of property the Conservatives had to cope with an electorate dominated by the propertyless , the advent of British socialism and the apparent threat to property posed by a reform-minded Liberal party . |
| 12 | Adopting as a mark of defiance the name golani ( " tramps " ) , as Iliescu had disparagingly described them , they claimed that the NSF had " stolen " the revolution and had only won the May 20 general election by deceit and intimidation [ see pp. 37441-42 ] . |
| 13 | Moreover as a history of realism the book is concerned with larger matters than the detailed description of style . |
| 14 | The pueblo was a moral , economic , and governmental unit : as a centre of government the larger municipalities could rule a surrounding area as large as a small English county . |
| 15 | Thus , provided as a question of fact the payment is made for unfair dismissal and not in circumstances where unfair dismissal is contrived , the Revenue confirms that the ‘ golden hand-shake ’ provisions will apply ( see the Law Society Gazette , 36 , p 42 ) . |
| 16 | On this rendering of alienation as a state of mind the most usual form of this would be as an attitude scale consisting of a series of statements judged to express alienative feelings , and to which subjects have to respond in terms of their agreement or disagreement . |
| 17 | As far as their usefulness as a measure of performance the conclusion that should be reached is that none is superior as we can only measure performance by comparison . |
| 18 | If it 's expressed as a percentage of patients the bar on the left side represents those sites who performed more than one hundred cases during the audit period . |
| 19 | The pain of the individual 's sense of loss is so great that he withdraws from relating to any object he perceives as having authority as a way of masking the pain . |
| 20 | A recruiting sergeant wore as a badge of office a plume of coloured ribbons in his shako ; when a young man had been persuaded to enlist he was handed a shilling to bind the contract . |
| 21 | As a statement of aims the detailed recommendations of the section on ‘ minimising danger and nuisance from non-access vehicular traffic ’ are exemplary . |
| 22 | Without history as a form of mediation the differences return as the problem , and it was this which , according to Foucault , The Order of Things was really trying to address . |
| 23 | Perhaps he was just in the kind of trance he went into as a matter of course every time illness was discussed . |
| 24 | Most of the men who wished to keep the age of consent at 12 and 13 accepted as a matter of course an outlook in which young girls from the working class were perceived to be easy sexual targets . |
| 25 | I do not see the theological basis on which we can go on saying that the human species is of such overwhelming and unique and colossal significance that it justifies as a matter of course the institutional exploitation of billions of other species . |
| 26 | While the physical interface , in one form or another , is supplied as a matter of course the user is still forced to communicate with the system by means of a very artificial language . |
| 27 | The twin city of Ankh-Morpork , foremost of all the cities bounding the Circle Sea , was as a matter of course the home of a large number of gangs , thieves ' guilds , syndicates and similar organisations . |
| 28 | In my judgment , as a matter of principle the colore officii cases are merely examples of a wider principle , viz. that where the parties are on an unequal footing so that money is paid by way of tax or other impost in pursuance of a demand by some public officer , these moneys are recoverable since the citizen is , in practice , unable to resist the payment save at the risk of breaking the law or exposing himself to penalties or other disadvantages . |
| 29 | Where once you would have had as a matter of necessity a plot with at its heart some intricate deception , often unlikely , now your plot will arise from the characters you want to write about . |
| 30 | As a matter of interpretation the only possible answer is that it can not . |