Example sentences of "[adj] as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Philip 's comments provide an ironic commentary on other ( younger ? ) readers who identify strongly with the B. A. He suggests the possibility of using the text to bolster the male reader 's own claims to superhuman strength even as he simultaneously dismisses this as fantasy . |
| 2 | North Adams mayor John Barrett , who chairs MASSMoCA 's Cultural Development Commission , interprets this as license to take as much time as he needs to find the additional funds . |
| 3 | Some critics have interpreted this as evidence that he finds the human body disgusting , but the opposite is true . |
| 4 | Brown ( 1980 ) takes this as evidence that there is a range of language contexts and that these may be influenced rather differently by these aspects of motivation . |
| 5 | Walking into the ISDN User Show at Wembley , North London the other day , the first four stands belonged to communications magazines : cynics might see this as evidence that the technology is still at the hype and talk stage , but most exhibitors seemed pleased by the degree to which visitors ' questions had progressed past the ‘ what is ISDN anyway ’ stage to the ‘ how much does this box cost ’ phase ; some 900 visitors attended on the first day , the second seemed rather busier and at some of the conference sessions , notably British Telecommunications Plc 's ‘ where are we now ’ presentation , it was standing room only … |
| 6 | Liberals saw this as evidence that the dominions were more interested in going their own way , but Unionists retorted that Canada like Britain had been led astray by a radical government and that Canada 's decision was the result of Britain 's failure to offer preference . |
| 7 | Chung found that only 7% of the mispricing signals indicated an underpricing of the future , and he interpreted this as evidence against the presence of a tax timing option ( see Section 5.3.4 ) , which would lead to an increase in the number of underpricings . |
| 8 | Those undertaking health promotion saw this as evidence that sexual behaviour could be changed and that educational messages about safer sex had been heeded by homosexual men . |
| 9 | As Butler and Stokes point out , " It is difficult not to see this as evidence of the acceptance of the view that British society is divided into two primary classes . |
| 10 | ‘ He presented this as evidence at our investigation on Thursday and the action we took was as a direct consequence . ’ |
| 11 | It was only natural that we should interpret all this as preparation for release , that we would go home looking fit and not too pale . |
| 12 | To describe this as sewing is perhaps slightly flattering to the bird , for the silken thread is never used for more than one stitch at a time . |
| 13 | The report interprets this as society granting landowners monopoly access to a common property resource , and it points out that , with this privilege , comes the moral responsibility to manage the resource for the benefit of society . |
| 14 | Using this as collateral the partners secured and bought the stock for Hyndland Street 's Clan Skates . |
| 15 | I 'm writing a report on her former colleague , because suspicions have been voiced that she is the agent of some foreign power — though , I hasten to add , I personally regard this as nonsense , and am convinced he died simply because she somehow … |
| 16 | The difficulty in determining the motive for Baldwin 's decision is that he was himself as contradictory about this as lie was clear about where and how he took it . |
| 17 | In the triangle I can see now this as apex , that as base — now this as apex , that as base . |
| 18 | In the triangle I can see now this as apex , that as base — now this as apex , that as base . |
| 19 | — Clearly the words ‘ Now I am seeing this as apex ’ can not so far mean anything to a learner who has only just met the concepts of apex , base and so on — But I do not mean this as empirical proposition . |
| 20 | Using this as radius , circular arcs are drawn from the apex through the other corners of the triangle to produce the form of a fish . |
| 21 | To begin with , your mother should n't oversympathise with her when you go out , as the dog will regard this as approval of her nervous behaviour . |
| 22 | ‘ We are treating this as murder , but we are not looking for anyone else in connection with it , ’ an RUC spokesman said . |
| 23 | For example , when an adult asks them to decide whether two amounts are ‘ the same ’ , they may interpret this as meaning ‘ look the same ’ . |
| 24 | Meek as milk ! |
| 25 | white paint , glossy as Brilliantine |
| 26 | Platelet activating factor , first described in 1972 as platelet activating factor has been identified as 1–0-alyl-2–0-acetyl- sn -glycero-3-phosphocholine . |
| 27 | Thus ‘ Somebody Knockin' ’ would have sat happily on ‘ Exile On Main Street ’ ( as would ‘ Cutting The Rug ’ and half the rest of the album ) , ‘ Time Gone By ’ has all the shambling grace of The Faces and everything is beef with tunes , guitars with feeling and amplifiers with revolvers and somehow it all sounds fresh as dew . |
| 28 | Mozart always sounded effortless , fresh as paint . |
| 29 | IRMA LA DOUCE promises to be just as vital and exciting as Century Theatre 's fabulous production of CABARET last year . |
| 30 | This did not mean that the play itself was not exciting as drama , but it meant that for Eliot , intent on his search for a vital relation between ritual and art , this play would not suffice . |