Example sentences of "as [art] [noun sg] of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amongst the deities who had great general appeal were Hapy , god of the Nile , a fertile figure with a papyrus plant on his head ; Taurt , a hippopotamus goddess , connected with the domestic life as the protector of women in childbirth ; and Bes , an ugly dwarf often wearing a lion 's mane and tail carrying knives , who was guardian and genius against any evil and helped to ward off danger at the birth of a child . |
| 2 | Opening up the printing trade to women could be seen either as the unscrupulous recruitment of low-paid labour or as the expansion of opportunities for educated working-class girls . |
| 3 | This leads to a simple way of stating the amount of distortion : as the ratio of harmonics to fundamental . |
| 4 | I was present , of course both in a capacity as future commander and as the reporter of events for " Coastlines " . |
| 5 | Aspects of the ‘ crisis ’ , such as the separation of children from their family homes , worried and frightened them , and the possibility that the doctors were wrong brought welcome relief from the pain of child sexual abuse and precipitated denial and anger in the community . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Although the chromatography eluants used in this study are particularly suited to detecting tobacco related carcinogens — and will miss some small molecular weight adducts altogether — it is unlikely that smoking can account for the increased adduct levels found as the percentage of smokers in the truncal vagotomy group ( 54% ) was very similar to that of the highly selective vagotomy patients ( 52% ) . |
| 8 | The porosity of a deposit is expressed as the percentage of voids in a given volume of rock . |
| 9 | Sentence length is the number of words per sentence , word length Bjornsson defines as the percentage of words with more than six letters , and lix is simply an abbreviation of the Swedish word for readability index . |
| 10 | The one notable feature in his face were the eyes ; they were brilliant blue , recognised as the colour of gentians by those who had travelled to the Swiss mountains in summer . |
| 11 | For our purposes , measurement can be characterised as the assignment of numbers to some property in such a way as to effect a one-to-one correspondence between the character of the numbers and the characteristics of the property being measured . |
| 12 | When certain assumptions are challenged , such as the ordination of women to the priesthood , suddenly tradition is seen as an inviolable and fixed form of living truth which compels the Church for ever to say ‘ no ’ to the ordination of women . |
| 13 | FRS 3 will also effectively kill off extraordinary items — the ASB is adamant that any geographical or political event happening within a company 's environment should be counted as part of normal business risk — and reduce what ASB chairman David Tweedie has seen as the abuse of earnings per share . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Recreational projects such as the development of watersports on estuaries and industrial work including mineral and peat extraction are having an increasing impact on the environment . |
| 16 | He goes on to link Lévi-Strauss 's idea of exchange as the mastery of women to Freud 's interpretation of his grandson 's game of fort/da as a representation of the alternation of presence and absence . |
| 17 | At the other extreme you could set up giant screens to show large images of the speaker as we do in larger conferences such as the Institute of Directors at the Royal Albert Hall . |
| 18 | Tenure differences may become sharper in time as the proportion of households in each tenure changes . |
| 19 | The one certainty , however , that confronted the Cabinet committee was demographic : if you left SERPS as it was then the eventual bill would become greater and greater as the proportion of contributors to pensioners declined . |
| 20 | Tension in the south escalated from Jan. 29 to Feb. 5 as the firing of rockets into the " security zone " along the border with Israel was countered by Israeli forces and the Israeli-sponsored South Lebanese Army ( SLA ) . |
| 21 | It is possible to see each monastery and castle , then , as the centre of operations within its area . |
| 22 | Lying in wait for the industry are further pressures from environmental issues such as the level of nitrates in water and continuing EEC attempts to tackle the problem of its Common Agricultural Policy . |
| 23 | The prevalence of chronic radiation enteritis , defined as the persistence of symptoms beyond 3 months of the completion of radiation treatment , is , however , uncrtain . |
| 24 | Indeed , Lord Plowden ( who was at the time a civil servant engaged in economic planning and subsequently the chairman of a public corporation ) has recently suggested that the blueprint laid down in the Act was arguably too detailed , and that questions such as the division of powers between the centre and Area Boards could rationally be placed within the purview of nationalised industry management rather than of Parliament . |
| 25 | As the subject of funds for British Rail has been mentioned , will my right hon. and learned Friend have a look at two points quickly — |
| 26 | The imperative for a writer of a chronological survey is that a defined period of time is covered ; this may be linked with a theme , such as the history of styles in Gombrich 's case , but it is unlikely to be linked solely with a spotlight on quality . |
| 27 | I should suppose that it is deliberately not so expressed , for I can not think that so simple an expedient as the transfer of assets to a company resident in the United Kingdom and the immediate removal of that company outside it would not occur to the draftsman . |
| 28 | The concepts were developed to conceptualize problems which arose in therapeutic work — problems such as the resistance of patients to being well at all , and not merely to particular interpretations offered to them by Freud in his role as analyst . |
| 29 | However , the introduction of these crops often had serious consequences for soil conservation such as the cultivation of groundnuts in Mali and Niger ( Franke and Chasin 1980 ) , and pure stand maize cultivation and cotton . |
| 30 | Er , we have some points that we want taken on board such as the relevance of CPMs in the primary care team each team and that sort of thing but I do n't think they are fundamental differences , they are , as I say , dialogues towards consensus . |