Example sentences of "as a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In these circumstances there is little visible money to be made out of feminism as such , although there are specific financial benefits to be gained by institutions from the identification of women as a deprived minority . |
| 2 | We do not promote it as a deprived area where there are financial incentives ’ |
| 3 | ‘ It is a healthy environment — we do not promote it as a deprived area where there are lots of financial incentives . ’ |
| 4 | The writer of this sentence does n't know whether the reader is male or female , but has chosen to use " his " as a GENERIC to mean " male or female " , overriding the normal use of " his " as a gender-specific pronoun meaning " male " . |
| 5 | Your own speech as a speechreading aid |
| 6 | As a speechreading passenger , it is an easy matter to arrange a mirror on the visor so that you can see the passenger in front and chat in the ordinary way . |
| 7 | It is joined here by Kingsdale Beck which now gets an infusion of energy and turns away to earn acclaim as a principal contributor to the charm of the walk around the Ingleton waterfalls . |
| 8 | We need to ensure an ample and steady flow of mortgage funds at competitive rates as a principal service to our borrowers |
| 9 | They both liked it , and began going out together for about a month until he left to do summer stock in Fishkill , NY , and she went to Philadelphia where she was chosen as a principal dancer with the Pennsylvania Ballet . |
| 10 | Applicants should have , or expect to obtain , a good honours degree ( or its equivalent ) either in Physics or with Physics as a principal subject by that date . |
| 11 | The Halifax reckons there is more money to be made from acting as a principal than as an agent . |
| 12 | By the time of the Declaration of Arbroath he had attained sufficient eminence to be included as a principal signatory along with five earls . |
| 13 | The advantage over stratificational social class ( as in Labov , 1966 ) as a principal variable is the universality of the network concept : whereas stratificational social class theory can not be universally applicable to all historical states , to bilingual situations , or to language- ( that is , speaker- ) contact situations ( and all of these are relevant in historical description ) , all speakers at all times have had ties of some kind — weak or strong — with other speakers . |
| 14 | The Spycatcher principal outflanks this by holding that the ‘ third party ’ commits a contempt as a principal offender in its own right . |
| 15 | The ‘ Falklands factor ’ would be seen as a principal reason for the Conservatives ' unexpectedly good showing in the local council elections that year , and , too , for the return of Margaret Thatcher for a second term as prime minister at the General Election of 1983 . |
| 16 | Workers employed in the mills and factories of industrial areas took to the bicycle as a principal means of travel to work . |
| 17 | Core decline and peripheral growth is verified as a principal feature of the nation 's changing distribution of employment . |
| 18 | Hislop trained with Bratt and made his début as a principal singer at the Royal Swedish Opera , Stockholm , as Faust in C. F. Gounod 's opera on 12 September 1914 . |
| 19 | Such congenial rustication was unexpectedly disturbed by his appointment as a principal envoy of Henry V to the council of Constance on 20 October 1414 . |
| 20 | And accordingly they treat it , as if , in the present age , this were an agreed point , among all people of discernment ; and nothing remained , but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule , as it were by way of reprisals , for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world . |
| 21 | The Advisory Board for the Research Councils ( ABRC ) is responsible for science policy because of its role as a principal source of advice to the Secretary of State on the allocation of the DES science budget . |
| 22 | The Advisory Board for the Research Councils ( ABRC ) is responsible for science policy because of its role as a principal source of advice to the Secretary of State on the allocation of the DES science budget . |
| 23 | Widely regarded as a principal rival and potential successor to Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhaven , Chaovalit had given little indication of his likely response to the Cabinet invitation which had been made after he announced his intention to retire early from the Army command [ see also p. 37188 ] . |
| 24 | Analysts believed that the greatest fear in the region was that NAFTA " local content " and " country of origin " clauses would encourage the USA to increasingly look to low-wage Mexico as a principal source of imports . |
| 25 | e Traditional and non-traditional students and ‘ value added ’ — Many admissions tutors in institutions of higher education have traditionally used scores in Highers and A-levels as a principal means of rationing and allocating places . |
| 26 | All translators and commentators note , as a principal characteristic of the Horatian style , his " compactness " or " compression " . |
| 27 | When war broke out in 1914 , Harrison was sent to France to join the British Expeditionary Force and regarded this as a heaven-sent opportunity to move away from the subject of the venereal diseases . |
| 28 | If Lithuania are delayed the match could be ruled as a void fixture and that 's something the FAI do n't dare even think about . |
| 29 | Some of them are renegades from the Dwarf Engineers Guild which frowns upon innovation and regards much of the Empire 's new technology as a heinous break with ancient tradition . |
| 30 | They were greeted by the solid smell of furniture polish , blending with the mouth-watering aroma of melting cheese as a croque monsieur sizzled under the grill . |