Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun prp] as the " in BNC.

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1 Ltd v. Heller & Partners Ltd and Anns v. London Borough of Merton as the authorities which give rise to this proposition .
2 THE COPIOUS volumes of records acquired each year by the Scottish Record Office are to be housed in a new repository on the outskirts of Edinburgh as the famous domed building on Princes Street is full .
3 Salmin Amour was elected President of Zanzibar as the sole candidate following the decision in August of Idris Abdul Wakil ( President since 1985 — see pp. 34149-50 ) not to stand again .
4 In fact , despite the common characterization of Cambridge as the home of the Eliot-Richards-Leavis modernist and New Critical " revolution " , it is noteworthy that T. R. Henn , a prominent member of the English faculty , referred in 1933 to " the vulgarity of most of Eliot 's work , all the more pernicious since cloaked by an austere and pseudo-learned style " , comments which would have rested easily in the review section of the Review of English Studies .
5 In his interpretation of the Gītā Gandhi refers to the battlefield of Kurukshetra as the heart of man in which the two natures of selfishness and unselfishness are engaged in combat .
6 It was Thomas Paine who is said to have suggested United States of America as the name for the new country but he is perhaps best known for abolishing slavery in Pennsylvania 1780 and for his important written works including ‘ The Rights of Man ’ .
7 It is helpful to approach the spiritual continuum which in fact unites them by way of the teaching of the thirteenth-century Franciscan Bonaventura 's description of the light of God as the sun of his divinity and the moon of his humanity .
8 Stressed monosyllables enforce the recognition of Jesus as the goal of longing : " I have soght " .
9 The Duke of York is on naval duties which left the Queen , the Duke of Edinburgh and the Duchess of Kent as the only Royal Family members at Ascot .
10 The Duke of York is on naval duties which left the Queen , the Duke of Edinburgh and the Duchess of Kent as the only Royal Family members at Ascot .
11 Another momentous occasion in the Convocation Calendar has been the INSTALLATION OF THE DUCHESS OF YORK AS THE NEW CHANCELLOR of the University in September 1991 amidst much pomp and ceremony and with many distinguished guests .
12 Mr Maude : I am not sure that I regard the nation states of Europe as the lower orders .
13 77 and 78 , from London ; Neal 1981 , no. 52 , from Gloucester ) , this is the only instance of Bacchus as the focus of such an arrangement .
14 But that was perhaps not enough , and he went on to explain to the congregation and to the Prince of Wales as the new President that there was a ‘ more searching question ’ to be asked about validation :
15 The Sotheby sale in 1936 made the contents of Newton 's Portsmouth papers much better known and gave rise to Lord Keynes 's famous description of Newton as the ‘ last of the magicians ’ .
16 This is the knowledge which redeems man and is the basis for the contemplative experience of God as the final transforming reality in which joy and sorrow are perceived as harmony not discord .
17 The Soviet leadership had long hoped to persuade the West to accept the division of Europe as the price of détente .
18 Sartre never broaches the question of the other crimes committed by Stalin ( which is just as well in view of the way the argument is going ) nor does he address the obvious problem that his own identification of Stalin as the practical Marxist of specificities against Trotsky 's abstract universalism runs directly counter to the fact that Stalinism produced the most clear-cut example of a Marxism which internalized an abstract schema within itself .
19 Certainly Chester , which was the successor to the Diocese of Lichfield as the ecclesiastical authority for Stockport , offered great opportunities .
20 Whereas Gregory had tended to see the malign influence of Fredegund as the origin of many of the problems of his own day , for Fredegar Brunhild was the evil genius of the period from 575 to 613 .
21 Chichester , with a population approaching 2,000 , also had its substantial merchants , yet its wealth was matched by that of the prosperous farming community of the coastal strip and the South Downs , despite £5,850 coming yearly into the city from all corners of Sussex as the income of the cathedral dignitaries ; almost certainly the moveable wealth of the clerical establishment was proportionately every bit as high as in Exeter , where it equalled one-sixth of aggregate lay wealth .
22 This hairstyle is modelled on that of actors and musicians , and is derived from that on statues of Apollo as the lyre-player .
23 Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni , elected to succeed President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt as the organization 's Chairman for the coming year , said after the summit that Africa should be allowed to develop its own response to pressure for political change .
24 If I had to describe the contents of Zettel as the answer to one question I think the question would have to be : What is the relevance , for our understanding of ‘ psychological ’ concepts such as understanding , thinking , expecting , intending , imagining , seeing , dreaming , knowing , believing , doubting , pretending , remembering , and feeling , of that account of meaning which distinguishes the later from the earlier writings of Wittgenstein ?
25 To raise the profile of Scholl as the experts on footcare , with a range of products that can solve and treat every problem , and prevent further problems .
26 Interox , jointly owned by Solvay and Laporte , has selected the east German town of Bernberg as the site for its new 50 000 t pa hydrogen peroxide plant .
27 She came to England to stay with a sister , went to acting school in London and through a teacher who knew how to persuade Emlyn Williams , was all but smuggled into The Last Days of Dolwyn as the sixth girl extra ‘ when only five had been budgeted for .
28 This prayerful reminder of Christ as the sustainer of men in society is concluded as the Host is elevated .
29 The emergence of Griffith as the most important director of feature films in America was related to so many of the forces that characterized the Progressive era .
30 Palestine disappeared from the map and Arab nationalism over the next twenty years emphasized the recovery of Palestine as the foremost duty of every Arab state .
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