Example sentences of "['s] [noun] [prep] [noun] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | There seems to be a struggle , which Milton perhaps did not intend , between the reader 's response to Satan as a powerful and convincing character and the way in which one should react to such a malevolent force . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , Coventry City manager Bobby Gould has slammed West Bromwich Albion 's board of directors as the row over his banning from The Hawthorns rumbles on . |
| 3 | COVENTRY CITY manager Bobby Gould has slammed West Bromwich Albion 's board of directors as the row over his banning from The Hawthorns rumbles on . |
| 4 | Whaling and jute were two of the chief sources of Dundee 's rise to prominence as a port . |
| 5 | Baldwin 's rise to power as the Conservative leader and prime minister in 1923 and 1924 — 9 was ruled by two considerations : first , the need to tame the Labour party and to force it to accept the conventions of parliamentary politics ; and second , to ensure that Lloyd George be kept out of office at all costs . |
| 6 | Members can draw an important lesson from the hon. Lady 's rise to office as a junior Minister in the Department . |
| 7 | It is already known that Strauss worked to a system of keys associated with particular characters and situations , but Professor Gilliam identifies his primary concern in Elektra as ‘ establishing a sense of motivic continuity in the orchestral line ’ , thus lending extra point to Strauss 's description of Salome as ‘ a symphony in the medium of drama ’ . |
| 8 | The Microelectronics Revolution , an edited collection of papers providing one of the earliest and most comprehensive overviews of the impact of new technology , opens with the editor , Tom Forester , quoting Sir Ieuan Maddock 's description of microelectronics as ‘ The most remarkable technology ever to confront mankind ’ ( Forester 1980 , xiii ) . |
| 9 | See Dentdale in summer when the hay meadows are on fire with wild flowers and the roadsides are crowded with the pale lilac of the bell flowers and you will find it hard to disagree with one early writer 's description of Dentdale as " an earthly paradise " , even if it does have a vampire buried in its churchyard . |
| 10 | The true aim of the martial arts is to avoid conflict ; it is best summed up in one commentator 's description of aikido as ‘ the honourable art of getting the hell out of the way ’ . |
| 11 | FORMER Irish premier Garret FitzGerald will deliver a public lecture at Queen 's University in November as part of its revamped Historical Society programme . |
| 12 | Your reviewer recommends Gombrich 's Story of Art as a viable alternative . |
| 13 | My last post , however , was in the Department 's Division of Radiocommunications as Director of Radio Technology . |
| 14 | It comes as no surprise to learn of NASA 's resistance to Sanskrit as a language for AI . |
| 15 | Researchers at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in the United States and at the Medical Research Council Unit for Applied Psychology in Cambridge simultaneously identified the tasks sensitive to the effects of even one night 's loss of sleep as those which were not self-timed , which went on for at least ten minutes and which were not intrinsically motivating . |
| 16 | Like Multitude and Solitude , it is an early exploration of the quest-adventure , man 's search for beauty as an ideal in human form , which Masefield was to bring to fruition in two later novels , Sard Harker and Odtaa . |
| 17 | Much of this now forms part of Africa 's stock of debt as the recipient countries have been unable to service their export credits , and has become a burden on the export credit guarantee agencies of the EC governments . |
| 18 | Schumpeter 's redefinition of democracy as a method has been extremely influential . |
| 19 | On the school 's noticeboard , religious notices have been taken over by election literature and copies of the government 's exhortations to take part in today 's vote for parliament as a ‘ religious and political duty ’ . |
| 20 | However , the omission can not affect the validity of the decision of 30 October 1990 , and Mr. Collins did not seek to impugn the propriety of S.I.B . 's recognition of Lautro as a self-regulating organisation . |
| 21 | With the recovery , though , came a boom that confirmed America 's coming of age as an industrial and financial power . |
| 22 | This is Spain 's first ever win against the Romanians in over 30 years of mutual contact and could signal Spain 's coming of age as a rugby power in Europe . |
| 23 | Such a view differed markedly from Beveridge 's characterisation of marriage as a ‘ partnership ’ of equals with different but complementary talents . |
| 24 | Politics and knowledge have worked according to the same Hegelian dialectic , with its ‘ phallo-logocentric Aufhebung ’ — whether it be Marxism 's History , Europe 's colonial annexations and accompanying racism or orientalist scholarship , or , in a typical conflation of patriarchy and colonialism , Freud 's characterization of femininity as the dark unexplored continent ( ’ within his economy , she is the strangeness he likes to appropriate' [ 68 ] ) . |
| 25 | But paradoxically , the phrase ‘ une absence qui signifie ’ is also used to designate her conception of herself as being without identity ( which corresponds to Freud 's characterization of femininity as a ‘ lack ’ or symbolic castration ) . |
| 26 | Using the bus wherever he goes , the Rev Harper travels to 24 old people 's homes in Darlington as a chaplain . |
| 27 | Aiming , then , to avoid both voluntarism and economism , Poulantzas adopts Althusser 's conception of society as a whole structured in dominance . |
| 28 | There is not detailed remembering of the book , but even the full title , Primitive Culture : Researches into the Development of Mythology , Philosophy , Religion , Language , Art , and Custom , shows that Tylor 's conception of culture as all embracing is one of the keys to Eliot 's work . |
| 29 | One particularly interesting example is Kleinig 's conception of consent as ‘ an act in which one person tends to facilitate the initiative of another ’ in a manner which makes him a participant in that initiative who shares responsibility for it . |
| 30 | Of paramount importance were Paracelsus 's conception of disease as a specific entity , taking up its residence in localised sites and possessing a distinct natural course , and the hypothesis that a specific remedy could be applied to counteract such an intrusion . |