Example sentences of "of [noun] as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The public interest would hardly suffer by the curtailment of temptations to give or accept credit which were likely to follow the abolition of so dubious a guarantee of honesty as furnished by the liability to imprisonment . |
| 2 | 6.2 Descriptions of these two instruments of assessment as given in the document The National Certificate — A Guide to Assessment , are : |
| 3 | This requirement is linked to the formative view of assessment as outlined above , and will clearly be of benefit to less academic pupils . |
| 4 | Use of rewards as opposed to punishments in childhood . |
| 5 | It stated that the private houses , which formed the Foreign and Colonial Offices , were ‘ inadequate to the present extent of public business , in parts unsafe , and generally in such a state of dilapidation as to render it inexpedient to expend any large sum in their substantial repair ’ . |
| 6 | Ruppia maritima or R. cirrhosa occurs in the Outer Hebrides as a species of brackish lochs , and perhaps not as a constituent of saltmarsh as referred to by Adams(1981) and in the NVC . |
| 7 | Despite this application of man power , it was not possible to achieve the same rate of progress as had been made in the Lowlands . |
| 8 | But Harrison sees the recent rise in awareness of values as following from the realisation that they are the key to a good , effective school , with strong exam results and happy children . |
| 9 | This was taken by a number of experts as showing that earlier estimates had been purposely conservative and that ultimately there will turn out to be far more oil in the North Sea than currently estimated . |
| 10 | While not many people have adopted Plato 's particular grounds for opposing democracy , the issue of expertise as opposed to supposed popular ignorance or incompetence has remained a central one in the debate about democracy . |
| 11 | 1.2 agrees to pay for the Licensed Software in accordance with the Pricing Policy as defined in Schedule 3 and with the Terms of Payment as defined in Schedule 4 . |
| 12 | Positive cytology was based on the presence of cells with established characteristics of malignancy as shown in Figure 2 . |
| 13 | The data manipulation unit is capable of performing any of a fixed set of operations as signalled by the control unit . |
| 14 | Gandhi would reject the eudaemonistic consequentialism of utilitarianism as limited in its objective and lacking in humanity . |
| 15 | I was more inclined to enjoy this type of drug as opposed to amphetamines , y'know , which at the time left you feeling a bit uncomfortable the next day . |
| 16 | Bob Cools , the town 's socialist mayor ( who spells his first name the ordinary way ) , complained about a show of Antwerp as seen by foreign photographers ; he said locals could have done the job better . |
| 17 | Robert Savage referred to it as a box-iron piece , a piece of land roughly the shape of an old fashioned box-iron used for smoothing linen ; and he related that the old ploughmen used to refer to the ploughing of this type of field as goring work . |
| 18 | The primary end points were ascertained at day 28 as ( a ) the investigator 's overall assessment of the patient 's condition compared with pretreatment , ‘ investigator 's assessment ’ , ( b ) the patient 's assessment of remission as recorded in the diary card , ‘ patient 's assessment ’ , and ( c ) the sigmoidoscopy score . |
| 19 | The purpose was not so much to reproduce the direction of artists as to circumvent the unnatural effect of ‘ music coming out of a hole ’ . |
| 20 | Most people think of artists as having to work totally alone , but I like to have someone there who does n't really disrupt what I 'm doing . |
| 21 | Most people think of artists as having to work totally alone , but I like to have someone there who does n't really disrupt what I 'm doing . |
| 22 | In the first instance Bukharin noted that the process of expanded negative reproduction was at work in agriculture just as in industry , but its material effects were mitigated by the very primitiveness of agriculture as compared to industry . |
| 23 | One result of this has been the pervasive influence of linguistic methodology upon such studies of objects as have developed in recent decades ; and while the rise of semiotics in the 1960s was advantages in that it provided for the extension of linguistic research into other domains , any of which could be treated as a semiotic system ( e.g. Eco 1976 : 9–14 ) , this extension took place at the expense of subordinating the object qualities of things to their word-like properties . |
| 24 | Martin Brundle put the Brabham-Yamaha into 12th place on the grid — despite not having the benefit of special fuel for qualifying and a rev limit of 12,000rpm as opposed to the 13,000rpm-plus enjoyed by other V12 users . |
| 25 | What the difference is between a real thing and a ‘ counterfeit ’ , one can not tell , but anyway the idea of perversion as opposed to creation comes over . |
| 26 | The chromatographic behaviour of the stimulating activity described here ( Fig.3 ) strictly correlates with that of hTFIIA as outlined by Waldschmidt and Seifart ( 12 ) . |
| 27 | It is not merely the study of dogmas as accumulated down through the centuries ( as in the Roman Catholic understanding of dogmatics ) , but their critical subordination to and testing by the primary and original dogma , which is nothing other than Jesus Christ himself . |
| 28 | To say that one does not believe in telepathy , or in ghosts , or in God is as much an act of faith as believing in them . |
| 29 | And if the Mass enacted the social reality of the body of Christ , it also enacted the recognised pattern of personal contemplative experience , moving as it did from confession , the recognition of the condition of sin and fallen man , through the articulation of faith as revealed in Scripture and Creed , to the offering to God of the God-given fruits of human labour through which the gift of his presence is made known . |
| 30 | The mystics understood the story of the Incarnation as the game of love in time , and the life of faith as engaging with , and extending it . |