Example sentences of "[noun sg] as [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless the manifesto was in respect of nationalisation little more than an elaboration of the party 's one-term programme as accepted at the 1937 conference , with the addition of iron and steel , which had been included as a concession to a radical resolution proposed by Ian Mikardo at the 1944 conference and carried against the advice of the platform . |
| 2 | I see its loss as lying at the root of many current social problems . ’ |
| 3 | McEwan and Sylvester ( 1984 ) describe the work as beginning at the point where words fail by creating ‘ … evocations of mood and sensation more than visual records ’ ( p. 10 ) . |
| 4 | Soviet Persian language broadcasts described the Soviet Gulf plan as aimed at the defence of the Persian Gulf countries against any foreign intervention and at securing the self-determination of the regional nations , including Iran . |
| 5 | ‘ The question as stated at the beginning of his argument by Mr. MacDermot was whether a tenant against whom a final order for possession has been made is a tenant within section 12(1) ( g ) . |
| 6 | At its November meeting the Council failed to set a date for the next SAARC summit , originally scheduled for 1989 , after Sri Lanka formally declared its refusal , while Indian troops remained on its soil , to host the meeting as decided at the fourth summit in December 1989 in Islamabad , Pakistan [ for which see p. 36485 ] . |
| 7 | The truth as observed at the Royal Albert Hall on Wednesday is that it would be exceedingly foolish for admirers to think of Mason as better than a developing apprentice in a punishing trade . |
| 8 | Imagine the triangle was made into a square as shown at the side . |
| 9 | The UK Environment Secretary , John Gummer , has launched a consultation paper on how the country might move towards sustainability as envisaged at the Rio summit . |
| 10 | Please find enclosed a cheque for £250 from Nether Wyresdale Parish Council as a contribution towards the School Governors ' share of the cost of the new extension as mentioned at the recent Parish Council meeting . |
| 11 | It may again turn on the evidential issue of unsoundness as determined at the moment by the doctor . |
| 12 | He saw the theory as a way of uniting all sciences but the academic world did not readily accept the theory as presented at a philosophical seminar in Chicago in 1937 ( Holt-Jensen , 1981 ) . |
| 13 | In all the cases analysed , make has shifted to evoke an antecedent cause , and the to infinitive almost always evokes a state as arising at the end of a process of causation ( or of coming-to-be ) . |
| 14 | The basic outline as agreed at the planning meeting was enshrined in an operational order , No. 146 , issued by MEHQ and addressed to Stirling . |
| 15 | You may like to check yourself when you are relaxing on your back on the floor as suggested at the end of Chapter 12 . |
| 16 | On March 22 , 1990 , the EC Council of ( Environment ) Ministers approved the establishment of a European Environment Agency as envisaged at the December 1989 EC Strasbourg summit [ see pp. 37132 ; 37209 ] . |
| 17 | But in terms of his public image as seen at the time , he had been careful to distance himself from the unpopular anti Jewish terror of the Nazi mobs and had placed himself on the side of legality . |
| 18 | Table 10.2 provides a summary of total expenditure as outlined at the beginning of the appendix . |
| 19 | The two men came to an arrangement which means the group of sixteen will now be spending their summer holiday as planned at the chateau in Bordeaux . |
| 20 | If the official receiver has a number of general proxies given to him , it is usual for him to vote with these proxies in accordance with the wishes of the majority as expressed at the meeting itself or by virtue of special proxies lodged . |
| 21 | But it is the realm of production itself ( of paid employment ) which is seen by this perspective as lying at the heart of capitalism and uneven development . |
| 22 | With only a little imagination we can see the gene as sitting at the centre of a radiating web of extended phenotypic power . |
| 23 | Thus , there was still widespread damage in the superficial mucosa as seen at the light ( Fig 4C ) and scanning electron ( Fig 5E and F ) microscopic level . |