Example sentences of "as a [noun sg] [prep] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ] . |
| 2 | As a route into Europe the Danube valley has been a funnel for migrating peoples since before history . |
| 3 | Moreover as a history of realism the book is concerned with larger matters than the detailed description of style . |
| 4 | This distinction was developed in Rylands v. Fletcher into the rule that as a prerequisite to liability the defendant must have brought onto the land something ‘ which was not naturally there . ’ |
| 5 | We shall not be mistaken in seeing that as a reference to God the Holy Spirit . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | T is awful I was taught as a child in catechism the labourer is worthy of his hire there are four sins that cry out to heaven for justice one of them is a oppressing the widow and orphan and the other is defrauding the labourer of his hire because the labourer is worthy of his hire that 's a sin that cries to heaven for justice , that 's what I was taught as a child . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The STEAM locomotive is about to make a comeback on railways in the US as a way to lesson the dependence of the national transport network on oil . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | As a statement of aims the detailed recommendations of the section on ‘ minimising danger and nuisance from non-access vehicular traffic ’ are exemplary . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | AR : Yes , it is the pineapple that Mr Monte , the plantation owner , brought as a gift for Inday the day that she died . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | As a matter of interpretation the only possible answer is that it can not . |
| 22 | For these reasons I conclude that as a matter of interpretation the powers of the Director do not cease , as regards the questioning of the person under investigation , when he is charged ; that the principle of common sense , expressed in the maxim generalia specialibus non derogant , entails that the general provisions of the Code yield to the particular provisions of the Act of 1987 in cases to which that Act applies ; and that neither history nor logic demands that any qualification of what Parliament has so clearly enacted ought to be implied . |
| 23 | The benefit which the taxpayers in this case received was the placing of their children in surplus places at the college , if as a matter of discretion the college agreed to do so . |
| 24 | ‘ In the light of the foregoing I would hold that as a matter of law the parental right to determine whether or not their minor child below the age of 16 will have medical treatment terminates if and when the child achieves a sufficient understanding and intelligence to enable him or her to understand fully what is proposed . |
| 25 | The question of remoteness of damage arises where causation in fact is established , but the court holds that as a matter of law the damage is too remote . |
| 26 | As a matter of history the case was retried later . |
| 27 | invites the Bar Council to support as a matter of urgency the need for the strengthening of the statutory remedies and sanctions in relation to racial discrimination and for the adoption of specific legislation to combat racial harassment ; |
| 28 | invites the Bar Council to consider as a matter of urgency the legal assistance it can provide to the families of the victims of racial murders ; and |
| 29 | ‘ As a matter of fact the man with the cleaver is one of the warders here . |
| 30 | In addition , the charge may be so all-embracing that it confers on the chargee as a matter of fact the exclusive right to supply the debtor company with credit . |