Example sentences of "as the [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Protestant reformers were strongly opposed to practices such as the wearing of relics and talismans , and the sprinkling of homes and fields with holy water to ward off evil spirits . |
| 2 | What is certain is that as the relationship between doctors and their patients becomes less paternalistic , so must the manner in which we seek to obtain their consent for treatment . |
| 3 | However , attempts to reduce the proportion of voting rights as the size of holdings increased were doomed to failure since the requirement could be easily evaded by splitting holdings and vesting them in nominees . |
| 4 | And , to this end , he stressed the importance of the internal arrangement and design of buildings , of features such as the size of rooms , the location of doors , passages and staircases , and the availability of lighting . |
| 5 | Amongst the deities who had great general appeal were Hapy , god of the Nile , a fertile figure with a papyrus plant on his head ; Taurt , a hippopotamus goddess , connected with the domestic life as the protector of women in childbirth ; and Bes , an ugly dwarf often wearing a lion 's mane and tail carrying knives , who was guardian and genius against any evil and helped to ward off danger at the birth of a child . |
| 6 | Opening up the printing trade to women could be seen either as the unscrupulous recruitment of low-paid labour or as the expansion of opportunities for educated working-class girls . |
| 7 | This leads to a simple way of stating the amount of distortion : as the ratio of harmonics to fundamental . |
| 8 | As with men 's share of unpaid household work , indicators such as the ratio of women 's to men 's rates of pay , plotted in figure 10.2 , and women 's share in household earnings , have shown some changes but still display a gulf between the sexes . |
| 9 | I was present , of course both in a capacity as future commander and as the reporter of events for " Coastlines " . |
| 10 | [ … ] However the problem with regulation , as US experience testifies , is that the regulatory agency can become captured by the political interests of the industry it is regulating and fail to act as the guardian of consumers ' interests . |
| 11 | US officials reportedly expressed concerns that the Soviet side had drawn back from previously agreed elements of the START treaty , and that at the same time it appeared to be adopting a less conciliatory stance on other arms control and disarmament issues , such as the ceiling on troops in Central Europe and the outline of an " Open Skies " treaty agreed in February [ ibid . ] . |
| 12 | Wilkins took the silence of the Bible , on a question such as the plurality of worlds , not as a ban but as an invitation to entertain the notion . |
| 13 | If we have the content primarily in mind , and are willing to strain language somewhat , consciousness can be described as the existence-for of contents , or their existence-to . |
| 14 | The publishers object to practices such as the reinforcing of paperbacks , and photocopying ( especially the activities of the British Library Document Supply Centre ) . |
| 15 | Aspects of the ‘ crisis ’ , such as the separation of children from their family homes , worried and frightened them , and the possibility that the doctors were wrong brought welcome relief from the pain of child sexual abuse and precipitated denial and anger in the community . |
| 16 | These were published in April 1985 as the Invitation to Promoters which asked for submissions by October of the same year . |
| 17 | To his non-political contemporaries , however , Sparke was probably best known as the compiler of Crums of Comfort , a collection of prayers for such crises as death , poverty , and war , which went through forty-four editions from its first publication in 1628 to the last in 1755 . |
| 18 | Lyotard 's definition of postmodernism as the subversion of metanarratives , then the nouveau roman can be said to have rejected the totalizing metanarrative of existentialism , even if only to have replaced it with a literary-historical metanarrative of its own . |
| 19 | Ever-changing bulges and deficits in different age groups — such as the shortage of school-leavers which Britain is about to experience — will present problems and opportunities for businesses , Mr Hobbs said . |
| 20 | Janis argues that this applies to cases such as the Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961 , the Vietnam War , and the Korean War . |
| 21 | This small but central incident might serve as a model for Del Giudice 's representation of knowing — the broad sweep , an outline superimposed on a subterranean reality ; the naming of things in a concentrated and satisfying way ; these as the preparation for meetings that are both intellectually passionate and composed , without possibility or need of further elaboration . |
| 22 | If he has rendered a service or engaged in an activity such as the manufacture of goods , the profit will have arisen or derived from the place where the service was rendered or the profit making activity carried on . |
| 23 | Although the chromatography eluants used in this study are particularly suited to detecting tobacco related carcinogens — and will miss some small molecular weight adducts altogether — it is unlikely that smoking can account for the increased adduct levels found as the percentage of smokers in the truncal vagotomy group ( 54% ) was very similar to that of the highly selective vagotomy patients ( 52% ) . |
| 24 | The porosity of a deposit is expressed as the percentage of voids in a given volume of rock . |
| 25 | Suppose we measure smoking concordance as the percentage of cases where if one twin has the smoking habit then so does the other . |
| 26 | Sentence length is the number of words per sentence , word length Bjornsson defines as the percentage of words with more than six letters , and lix is simply an abbreviation of the Swedish word for readability index . |
| 27 | The aggregates formed were fixed with formol and the results expressed as the percentage of platelets aggregated compared to a reference platelet count performed before the agitation . |
| 28 | The one notable feature in his face were the eyes ; they were brilliant blue , recognised as the colour of gentians by those who had travelled to the Swiss mountains in summer . |
| 29 | For our purposes , measurement can be characterised as the assignment of numbers to some property in such a way as to effect a one-to-one correspondence between the character of the numbers and the characteristics of the property being measured . |
| 30 | There is a tendency when first writing objectives to limit them to simple forms of behaviour , such as the reproduction of facts and the demonstration of skills ; but if we , as teachers , are to offer our students anything more than simple training , we must be able to devise objectives that describe more complex operations . |