Example sentences of "as an [noun sg] of [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of them was John Stuart Mill who feared , however , that the reform of them which was taking place in the 1840s was being taken as an affair of humanity only , not of justice . |
| 2 | In many cases , the state of destination will either accept the classification of the state of origin , or waive any right it may have to reject the document under Article 4 , or simply serve the document as an act of goodwill even if the Convention is regarded as not strictly applicable . |
| 3 | A factor which could be regarded as an act of God now intervened . |
| 4 | Alfred Molina 's Shannon comes over as an assemblage of mannerisms rather than a man whose behaviour arises from dissipation and anguish ; Frances Barber is too young , too wiry and too busy for the over-ripe Maxine ; Robin Bailey , though he believably slips in and out of awareness , is too sturdy for the ancient poet , and he sounds and gestures just like colonel Hall on Sergeant Bilko . |
| 5 | His Lordship then considered whether the decision of the Court of Appeal could be justified as an exercise of review rather than appeal . |
| 6 | It is obviously important that we should have some clear idea about the nature of the phenomenon as an aspect of language not just as a preliminary but as a prerequisite for determining how it should figure in pedagogy . |
| 7 | Cuckoos came into the discussion as an example of parasites not living inside the bodies of their hosts . |
| 8 | Just as History involved the legitimation as knowledge of certain forms of political power , so the production of the subject by the human sciences as an object of knowledge also enabled a new form of political control : ‘ The individual is not a pre-given entity which is seized on by the exercise of power . |
| 9 | Substitution of the to infinitive gives a somewhat different impression : the events seem to be evoked in a much more resultative fashion — as the fact of having been made to scream , the state of Byron 's feelings — that is , as an object of reflection rather than a recall of actual experience . |
| 10 | This serves as an explanation of changes already made and as a warning of those still to come . |
| 11 | The underlying structure of the international system , crucial for Neo-Realism , is offered as an explanation of behaviour so strong that it no longer matters how , or even whether , the actors understand the world about them . |
| 12 | Shifting from a position of criticism of Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait , public opinion has swung to the other extreme , of hero worship of Saddam Hussein , not so long ago viewed as an ally of India rather than of Pakistan . |