Example sentences of "an [noun sg] of [noun] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The goal of ‘ achieving wealth ’ , has the objective , ‘ to be achieving an income of £20,000 as head of my own department , within the next three years ’ . |
| 2 | Desertification is of course , at least in part , an instance of drought as an earth hazard . |
| 3 | Work by Tebby ( 1980 and 1982 ) supports an assessment of mosaicists as craftsmen of limited geometrical ability . |
| 4 | I advise the Government , however , not to take an indication of confidence as the same thing as money over the counter . |
| 5 | These responses could be organised under four general headings : first , those showing an appreciation of politics as a domain of representation of opposed class interests ; second , those viewing politics in terms of a ‘ simple representation of class interest ’ without any elaborated notion of conflict of interests ; third , those showing a simple ‘ cultural partisanship ’ without any definite conception of class interests being involved ; and fourth , those seeing no ‘ interest-related ’ or normative class content in party support . |
| 6 | Ignoring her own discomfort at hearing a grown woman use such childish titles , Loretta detected that Veronica 's last statement was not so much an act of defiance as a cry for help . |
| 7 | Occasionally the Lord Chancellor will publicly reprimand a judge , as happened in 1978 when Mr Justice Melford-Stevenson was rebuked for describing an Act of Parliament as a ‘ buggers ’ charter' . |
| 8 | Recent articles include a personal history of ICAA by Naomi Wray and ‘ Silent Voices of the Prophets ’ , an examination of art as the universal voice . |
| 9 | Wunis , a young oil company official , was to some extent moved by indignation about the deceitfulness of the government ; he was also perhaps self-consciously applying those notions of good efficient management which he had gained from his oil company training : decisions about expenditure have to be made in a context of opportunity costs , of an overview of expenditure as a whole . |
| 10 | It is not an adaptation of society as a whole , and , Marx and Engels argue , it therefore has to hide the exploitation on which the dominant class relies . |
| 11 | If we look at an array of words as a self-referential order , we may abstract certain regularities , such as rules of grammar , sentence construction , statistics on the relative frequencies of various letters , words , etc . |
| 12 | If God really has disclosed himself in a Son ; and if that Son was characterised by his possession of the Holy Spirit which he has passed on to his followers then we can not with t denying Christ maintain that God has revealed himself a much in Buddhism as in Christianity ; we can not make an amalgam of religions as if we were all honest seekers after a God who hides himself . |
| 13 | Numerous species of this species are preserved together , actually forming the rock — an example of fossils as rock builders . |
| 14 | The government in July 1992 proclaimed an area of land as the permanent possession of the Awa , but the land has still not been physically demarcated . |
| 15 | All the Faculty 's students will , by the time they graduate , have been trained to bring to their work an awareness of informatics as a key force in social change and economic advance . |
| 16 | Her work is an allegorisation of art as fashion ; entering the world of fine art she found many parallels with the world of fashion . |
| 17 | The canton of Glarus lies between this mountain barrier in the south and , in the north , the Walensee ( lake ) and the Linth Canal which in the short northern plain links Walensee with the eastern extension of Lake Zurich which is known as the Obersee , ( ie , Upper Lake ) The canal also drains former marshland between these two lakes Glarus , though one of the smallest cantons , is often described as an epitomy of Switzerland as a whole in that it has three geographical sectors : a vast area of mountain country , a moderate stretch of rolling upland plateau capable of settlement what the Swiss call Mittel-land ( literally , middle-land ) and a small area of real lowland . |
| 18 | The history of North Tyneside CDP and what it did can be found in the final reports of the project itself ( North Tyneside CDP , 1977 , 1978 a , b and c ) and an account of CDP as a national exercise is given in Loney ( 1983 ) . |
| 19 | The history of the theory of ideology within the Marxist tradition can be seen as the letting go of the materialist reduction that involved a differentiation between ideology and science as distinct modes of knowing , while retaining an account of ideology as a structural feature of society . |
| 20 | If one 's priority is an account of fiction as a cultural rather than as a logical phenomenon , the problem of how readers deal with Babar 's behaviour is worth considering , whereas the problem of the library resources available to Red Riding Hood is not . |
| 21 | The remedies available to the owner of the trade mark are the usual ones of injunctions , damages or an account of profits as an alternative to damages plus removal of offending marks . |
| 22 | Fuchs , in an analysis of women as mothers in the Hebrew scriptures , shows how women are considered entirely in relation to the male world . |
| 23 | See , for example , B. Friedman 's report to the Canadian Law Reform Commission which surveys the writing on the subject , and endorses an analysis of consent as a knowing action for the purpose of developing a legal doctrine concerning the assumption of risk . |
| 24 | Thus , the fragmented structure of The Green House , which changes in form , style , time , place and protagonists every few pages , conveys an image of Peru as a disunited nation , divided by geography , levels of development , culture , race and class , and of the world as a chaotic labyrinth in which disoriented individuals struggle in vain to find some coherence . |
| 25 | An image of God as a person like ourselves — for instance an old man on a cloud , or for that matter a young man from Nazareth — can , therefore , be deeply misleading . |
| 26 | But whereas the male version of Surrealism presents an image of woman as a being controlled by her childlike vision and magical powers , a priestess who is a powerless conduit between the known and unknown , in the work of woman Surrealists the female is in tune with , and at the helm of her powers . |
| 27 | Each story explores an aspect of woman as demon , be she enchantress , temptress or sorceress , and cunningly reworks the negative male weave of such images into a pattern that is more positive , or at least potentially so . |
| 28 | For this reason the Defense Department opposed the early conclusion of a peace treaty because of the basic uncertainties over Japan 's position at the end of the occupation : the generals were not attracted by an idea of Japan as an Asiatic Switzerland . |
| 29 | He can not form an idea of extension as such , which is ‘ neither line , surface , nor solid , nor has any figure or magnitude but is an idea entirely prescinded from all these ’ . |
| 30 | The initial idea of God as the one who led the people ‘ out of the house of bondage ’ , who freed the Israelite slaves from Egyptian control , develops into an idea of God as one who made the heavens and the earth . |