Example sentences of "as [art] [noun sg] of [noun pl] of " in BNC.

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1 To his non-political contemporaries , however , Sparke was probably best known as the compiler of Crums of Comfort , a collection of prayers for such crises as death , poverty , and war , which went through forty-four editions from its first publication in 1628 to the last in 1755 .
2 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 .
3 In these Articles , the expression ‘ the Directors ’ means the directors for the time being of the Company or ( as the context shall require ) any of them acting as the Board of Directors of the Company .
4 In these Articles , the expression ‘ the Directors ’ means the directors for the time being of the Company or ( as the context shall require ) any of them acting as the Board of Directors of the Company .
5 This procedure was accepted by the foreign ministers of the other five states , serving in their capacity as the Council of Ministers of the ECSC .
6 Consumers , says Mintel , regard quality as the totality of attributes of the product or service which combines to meet their needs and expectations .
7 Herodotus can not bring himself to believe in a story which gives as the cause of centuries of rivalry ‘ nothing worse than woman-stealing on both sides ’ ( 42 ) , for he does not think the Greeks could possibly have gone to war over anything so trivial , and indeed he appears to concur with the Persian view that ‘ no young woman allows herself to be abducted if she does not wish to be ’ ( 42 ) .
8 The total area of lesions was calculated as the sum of areas of individual lesion .
9 This can be defined abstractly as the sum of values of both final goods and services and investment goods in a country .
10 The approach to finding exact solutions that has been taken so far has involved initially solving the field equations in the interaction region IV and then investigating the conditions under which these solutions can be considered as the result of collisions of plane waves .
11 As the result of years of breeding and cross-breeding specialised varieties have been attained specific to both size and colour .
12 It may be seen as the effective adaptation of policy to the needs of the public , or it may be seen as the manipulation of positions of power to distort policy towards stigmatization , discrimination and petty tyranny .
13 Several Squadron records were established during the Malayan Campaign , such as the delivery of 480,000lbs of bombs in a staggering forty sorties over four days .
14 In a paper written in 1905 , a few weeks before the famous paper on special relativity , Einstein pointed out that what was called Brownian motion — the irregular , random motion of small particles of dust suspended in a liquid — could be explained as the effect of atoms of the liquid colliding with the dust particles .
15 Gastric metaplasia was defined as the occurrence of foci of gastric epithelial cells containing apical PAS positive neutral mucin together with the absence of a brush border .
16 As the number of tenants of each sex was to be the same , Agnes Bolton and Margaret Tinkler were also chosen .
17 Second , three of the variables incorporated into it have negative signs , indicating that as the number of pixels of these types increases , so population decreases .
18 It is usually expressed as the number of moles of solute in one litre ( that is , one cubic decimetre ) of solution : where n(X) denotes the amount of solute X , Vdenotes the volume of solution and [ X ] denotes the concentration of solute X in solution .
19 Molality can be expressed as the number of moles of solute in one kilogram of solvent .
20 As the number of possibilities of selecting the cards and thus the number of bits of information involved increases , the amount of time taken to perform the task increases proportionally .
21 As a result , difficulties in the education service can be explained as the consequence of incidents of which they are probably the cause .
22 Philip Chappell , celebrated as a champion of rights of the individual investor , has died of a brain tumour at the age of 63 : he was chairman of ICL Plc through the firm 's gathering financial crisis of 1980 and 1981 after the retirement of Tom Hudson and resignation of managing director Geoff Cross .
23 One way to think of this is as a type of economies of joint production .
24 The price of wheat is frequently used as a measure of degrees of economic hardship by historians of this period ; not every family , it is true , was totally dependent upon wheaten bread , but the steep upward price curve which was to reach an undreamt-of high of 113s. 10d. per quarter of wheat in 1800 must be a fairly accurate barometer of the plight of the poor , especially in the 1790s .
25 Thus , prices are compared as a ratio of values of base quantities .
26 ( That is , a form expressed as a sum of squares of independent linear combinations of the components of average strain .
27 In view of the NUM 's capitulation this outlook assumes that coal will stay the main power station fuel with demand increasing marginally over the 1983 level by the year 2000 , with production probably falling slightly as a result of closures of high-cost pits and delays in bringing in new low-cost capacity .
28 Recall also ( from section 3.4 ) that the quantity of bank deposits changes , ceteris paribus , as a result of flows of new bank lending .
29 The argument that a small number of innocent people may be wrongly executed is far outweighed by the fact that thousands of innocent people are dying , being permanently maimed , or mentally scarred for life , as a result of acts of violence .
30 The said transactions and each of them were so entered into : – ( i ) in the course of the first defendant 's contravention of section 3 of the Act for the period ( July 1988 to March 1989 ) when the third to fifth defendants were knowingly concerned therein and/or ( ii ) as a result of contraventions of sections 47 and 57 in which the third to fifth defendants were knowingly concerned .
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