Example sentences of "as an [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I do n't think I should be saying , if I was working as an advisor on your behalf , I do n't think you should be making big transfers at this stage , because it 's always dodgy . |
| 2 | Gamble had been the master of William Hogarth [ q.v. ] , who trained as an engraver on silver , before turning to copperplate engraving and painting . |
| 3 | Forward rates are quoted as an adjustment on the spot rate by banks and are published daily in the financial press of most non-Communist countries . |
| 4 | The poison strychnine acts as an antagonist on the receptors of the neurotransmitter glycine , inducing fear . |
| 5 | It also approved the Democracy and the Individual review , proposing : To replace the House of Lords with an elected second chamber ; Devolved assemblies for Scotland , Wales , and the regions of England ; Unification of Ireland only by consent of the majority in the North ; A Freedom of Information Act ; A Ministry for Women ; A Department of Legal Administration to run the courts ; Extend legal aid ; A statutory duty on local councils to provide integrated child care services for the under-fives ; A Children 's Commissioner to act as an ombudsman on childrens ' rights ; Firm opposition to reform of the voting system for the House of Commons . |
| 6 | The actuarial valuation on initial adoption of SSAP 24 showed a surplus of £200m , and the company elected to incorporate it as an asset on its balance sheet . |
| 7 | However , if there is a clearly defined project , the related expenditure is clearly identifiable , and if there is a reasonable expectation of sufficient future benefits at least to cover all the costs , development expenditure may be carried forward as an asset on the balance sheet and amortized over the period(s) expected to benefit . |
| 8 | David Payne had supported the Palace from the Whitehorse Lane terraces as a boy and joined the club as an apprentice on 1 January 1964 . |
| 9 | So I got in to Gib n as an apprentice on the second of August , nineteen twelve I think . |
| 10 | The Edinburgh Review ( Oct. 1807 ) was openly abusive : ‘ If the printing of such trash as this be not felt as an insult on the public taste , we are afraid it can not be insulted . ’ |
| 11 | I er and I put that in solely as er as an update on the on the county council position as I expressed er earlier in the week . |
| 12 | First commissions could be obtained through political interest , and this would appear to have been the situation of Philip Hay , whom Admiral Lord Keith managed to place in the 11th Foot as an ensign on the strength of imaginary past service , though his patron remarked that ‘ if his father can not get at old General Grant or Lady Sutherland he may not be confirmed . |
| 13 | If " these " is taken as an indicator of physical distance , the resulting context of utterance is a fictive war scene , with the speaking persona acting as an observer/commentator on the inhumanity of the soldiers ' deaths . |
| 14 | Though a foul is not intended , the referee will nevertheless regard the technique as an attack on the opponent 's joint and the competitor may face a penalty . |
| 15 | When Mr Baker quoted Henry 's words before Agincourt — ‘ He which hath no stomach to this fight , let him depart ’ — it was seen , not as an attack on Labour , but a slight on the Chancellor who had decamped from the conference for Blaby . |
| 16 | In Parliament , opposition spokesmen condemned the proposals as an attack on the welfare state and a break with the consensus . |
| 17 | After all , when racism takes the form of violence , they ca n't fail to recognise it as an attack on themselves , and part of a value system they can not go along with . |
| 18 | In 1951 Burgess and Maclean fled to Moscow ; Aneurin Bevan and Harold Wilson resigned from the Labour government in protest at the imposition of charges within the National Health Service , which they saw as an attack on the principles of the Welfare State . |
| 19 | They saw it as an attack on feminine intelligence , it so obviously was n't and the argument is , by now , nothing but hearsay . |
| 20 | Some serious incidents occurred during this period on the Broadwater Farm Estate , such as an attack on police by youths which resulted in one officer sustaining a bad head wound , and there was also a series of attacks on an Asian-owned supermarket . |
| 21 | For a country that almost defines itself in terms of its distinctive education system , such changes are seen as an attack on the Scottish way of life . |
| 22 | This should not be seen as an attack on a balding old Pole but on the institution he leads — ie the hierarchy of the Catholic Church , whose attitudes towards gays , women and other oppressed groups belong in the dustbin of history as do those of most religious hierarchies . |
| 23 | All the evidence shows that Anselm would have resisted this development with all his power as an attack on the rights of Canterbury . |
| 24 | Marxist humanists still often consider structuralism simply as an attack on Marxism ; this theory would be more persuasive if so many structuralists had not also been Marxists . |
| 25 | The orthodox Catholic Church disapproves of the use of contraceptives and regards the state family planning programme as an attack on moral decency and a licence for sexual promiscuity . |
| 26 | The Public Utilities Holding Companies Act was also seen as an attack on big business ; this gave powers to the Securities Exchange Commission to dissolve the giant holding companies that between them controlled over 90% of the nation 's electric power output . |
| 27 | Whilst other sections of the population are clearly severely affected by these government policies , disabled people experience these particular ‘ reforms ’ as an attack on their human right not to be incarcerated without trial and conviction , in so far as it renders it in some cases impossible to live outside institutions . |
| 28 | More clearly , Hume 's argument might be interpreted as an attack on the assumption that a distinction between numerical and qualitative identity can be reliably and unambiguously drawn on the basis of certain empirical criteria . |
| 29 | If interpreted in this light , the argument becomes not so much an onslaught on the idea of identity as an attack on the idea of empirical things as basic particulars . |
| 30 | Not only had he resigned at a particularly sensitive historical moment , it was also a political fact of life that the Cold War situation literally demanded that no concessions be made to anyone venturing to attack the party ; and the attempt to rehabilitate the " police spy " Nizan was undoubtedly perceived as an attack on the party . |