Example sentences of "of [noun pl] as [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Baker said that the United States would not recognize Slovenia or Croatia as international subjects , but spoke in favourable terms of the idea of Yugoslavia becoming a loose alliance of states as in the Izetbegovic-Gligorov compromise proposal [ see above ] , and warned , at the end of his visit , of the tragic consequences of Yugoslav instability .
2 Here is a purely personal set of preferences as to the parameters that should be included in the new editorial guidelines .
3 There is the matching and retrieval capabilities of information retrieval systems , the document segmentation and word indexing of free text products , the display of mark-up languages , the layouts and layers to be found in the Office Document Architecture , the use of metadata for data exchange , and the application of a body of rules as in the field of AI and expert systems .
4 These complications have led to a whole variety of views as to the composition of the middle class and its place in the social structure .
5 This diversity of view is manifested in Smith v. East Elloe Rural District Council in which their Lordships adopted a variety of views as to the meaning of ‘ not within the powers of this Act . ’
6 This may consist either of views as to the proper policy-making procedures — the way things are to be done — or of particular sets of policies that are perceived to be in the best interests of the nation .
7 Indeed , Spurgeon and Barwell ( 1990 ) have raised a number of queries as to the appropriateness of utilising management processes relevant to one situation in a totally different context .
8 ( d ) Post-dissolution profits Section 42 of the Partnership Act is concerned with the rights of outgoing partners in certain cases to share profits made after dissolution : ( 1 ) Where any member of a firm has died or otherwise ceased to be a partner , and the surviving or continuing partners carry on the business of the firm with its capital or assets without any final settlement of accounts as between the firm and the outgoing partner or his estate , then , in the absence of any agreement to the contrary , the outgoing partner or his estate is entitled at the option of himself or his representatives to such share of the profits made since the dissolution as the Court may find to be attributable to the use of his share of the partnership assets , or to interest at the rate of five per cent per annum on the amount of his share of the partnership assets .
9 In the lower part of the great still life , sketchily blocked in , we see the same configuration of legs as in the studies on paper .
10 On the other hand , it is necessary for the applicant for judicial review from the start to give at least as much attention to questions of remedies as to the question of whether the respondent has committed a legal wrong .
11 ‘ Though the agreement be void by the Statute of Frauds as to the duration of the lease , it must regulate the terms on which the tenancy subsists in other respects , as to the rent , the time of year when the tenant is to quit , etc .
12 The danger of injury or death arises less from fights between rival groups of fans as from the panic that actual or threatened attacks provoke amongst the general public .
13 We are considering the rights of individuals as against the rights of the state and of corporate bodies .
14 ( The effect of different kinds of mutes as in the case of the trumpet might , however , be profitably studied with a view to new and subtle tone-colours .
15 Concrete vaulting supported the tiers of seats as in an amphitheatre and under the vaults were corridors lit by outer arcades .
16 Within this , the Soviet of the Union ( elected by the whole population from constituencies of equal population size ) would be subordinate to the Soviet of the Republics : the latter would be elected from the republican parliaments retaining the same number of seats as in the current Soviet of Nationalities but with a single block vote for each republic .
17 The full-backs spread out to mark opposing wingers , instead of inside-forwards as under the old style , while the half-backs marked the inside-forwards instead of wingers .
18 The Court emphasised the importance of that element of the English practice that entrusts the execution of an order to the plaintiff 's solicitors and requires them to give a series of undertakings as to the manner of execution and the use made of the information or documents obtained .
19 But the mapping of this fictional-real opposition onto the worldly-divine dichotomy raises a number of questions as to the status and role of fictional constructs , given that we have access here and now to this world alone .
20 One of the major risks stems from an ‘ information asymmetry ’ ( Dixon 1989 ) where the knowledge of investors as to the prospects of companies is extremely low .
21 Any spreadsheet can include more than one page and you can use commands and formula between and across pages — for example you can write a sum that adds the contents of the same cell in a number of pages as in the example shown here where the fourth page of the spreadsheet summarises three month 's sales collected on the three previous pages .
22 Section 226 imposes on the directors of every company the duty to prepare for each financial year of the company a balance sheet and a profit and loss account ( its ‘ individual accounts ’ ) and section 227 imposes a like duty on directors of a company which is a parent company additionally to prepare a consolidated balance sheet and profit and loss account ( ‘ group accounts ’ ) The basic and over-riding principle is that the balance sheets must give a true and fair view , in the case of individual accounts ‘ of the state of affairs of the company at the end of the financial year ’ and in the case of group accounts ‘ of the state of affairs as at the end of the financial year of the undertakings included in the consolidation as a whole , so far as it concerns the members of the company . ’
23 The issue between the Roman and the Celtic clergy , however , turned at this time as much if not more on the question of the validity of orders as on the date of Easter or the shape of the tonsure .
24 The committee was impressed by the testimony of doctors as to the unexpectedly high rates of previously untreated illness among women .
25 It was also recognised that an ‘ information gap ’ existed in relation to the knowledge of entrepreneurs as to the sources of finance available to small firms .
26 God needs his nourishment , his daily fix of souls as by the million every day we drop off the perch , and so Bernard and Apricot — renamed Ellen as a condition of marriage — if they 're to do God 's will , must reproduce till the cows come home , though nowadays of course the cows never leave home in the first place , they 're linked up permanently to milking machines .
27 So the same kind of stark opposition grew up between orthodoxy and rationalism on the matter of miracles as on the authority of the Bible ; and the issues raised then have surfaced again in a number of forms since .
28 The relationship between them is essentially one of contract , and section 44 contains a number of requirements as to the contents of such a contract .
29 If you have not kept up with the nursing journals or have been out of practice for a long time then you will have to trust to luck or the recommendations of others as to the relevance and value of any course you choose to attend .
30 A present-day scene , with the same type of trams as in the previous view rebuilt out of all recognition !
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