Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [conj] as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Firstly , when one thinks about using computers in schools , one tends to think of technology , and you think of people with white coats and dials and sort of science and technology and so forth , whereas I think in schools the big interest is in using a microcomputer as a teaching aid and as a support to other services and other ways of doing things , so it is just as relevant in a primary school as a secondary school .
2 He now insists on his own shampoo , conditioner and styling products and as a result , the male hair care market is ever-increasing .
3 There are so many colourful characters within the jazz spectrum and as a form it really demands that you get in touch with your own personal self ; if you do n't have your own sound in jazz then basically it 's nothing .
4 This might be regarded either as a kind of dune slack or as a type of poor fen .
5 Where the user takes advantage of the voluntary vision screening programme and as a consequence of vision defects at the viewing distances used specifically for the display screen work concerned is recommended to have a full eyesight examination by an ophthalmic optician , then during this interim period , the user will be permitted to use an ophthalmic optician of their own choice .
6 In this case , as in the poems discussed by Green , no addressee is mentioned or seems to be present within the evoked setting , so that the poetic persona can be imagined either as a thinking mind or as a speaker talking to himself in a solitary environment .
7 This can serve both as a briefing meeting and as a discussion group .
8 A few moments later they were under the silver birches and as the sun rose , striking flashes of red and green from the drops on ferns and twigs , they scrambled through the hedge , across a shallow ditch and into the thick grass of the meadow .
9 At first it looked like a perfectly routine maintenance operation but as a precaution those in the tunnel were evacuated and the heavy steel doors at the eastern end barred and locked .
10 They had a special role in relation to stock-rearing and stock health and as the confidante and sounding board for the farmers ' problems .
11 The winner will automatically be booked to appear on a paid basis at a later Gong Show and as a support to one of the visiting star acts .
12 Site overheads may be included in the tender sum in various ways , for example in the preliminaries , in a balancing item and as a percentage of rates across some or all of the items .
13 She found that she gradually became prone to weight gain and as a result experimented with several different diets .
14 Not just as squeaky clean , boring Ewan Famber but as a man .
15 One sort of explanation sees such practices as permanent employment and seniority wage systems as being related to Japan 's unique cultural traditions and the carry-over to modern industry of patterns of social relationships and obligations which characterised feudal Japan.7 Other , perhaps more convincing , approaches ( as these practices are not characteristic of smaller-sized firms ) see them as an employer response to the exigencies of the labour market and as a control device to elicit and reward loyal workforce behaviour ( Jacoby , 1979 ) , since lifetime employment is not a practice of very long standing in Japan .
16 Now that ambulatory manometry has become available , it is necessary to identify these patterns if perfectly normal oesophageal migrating motor complex activity is not to be interpreted as a sign of oesophageal motility disorders or as a cause of oesophageal chest pain .
17 Apply coarse nose down trim with each attitude change and as the speed increases .
18 The US deficit also enabled most West European central banks to accumulate dollar reserves and as a consequence most of their currencies became fully convertible for non-residents after December 1958 , which further facilitated the international transfer of funds .
19 Clearly there 's no systematic structure in those residuals , right , if the residuals were moving in a cyclical manner erm that would imply that we are missing an important explanatory variable in our model and its systematic effect has been just thrown into the error term and as a result we are picking up that systematic effect in , in residuals .
20 ‘ Broad ’ money refers to money held both for transactions purposes and as a form of saving .
21 The purpose of making notes is primarily to set out , in a shortened but logical form , information that you have gathered from a variety of sources on a particular topic so that it can be used for revision purposes and as an aid to memory .
22 At present several attempts are being made to devise performance indicators which would enable schools to be graded , and serve both as a management tool and as a guide to parents in choosing a school .
23 He is married with two children , lives in South Croydon and as a hobby , is a keen fisherman .
24 The latter falls off more rapidly , indicating that the turbulence changes in a way that makes it relatively less efficient as a heat transfer mechanism than as a momentum transfer mechanism .
25 The conditions in which verbal report becomes useful in clarifying problem solving strategy and as a source of information for improving the diagnostic performance of novices .
26 The second hypothesis is that profitable entry has been deterred by the existence of barriers to entry which have arisen either as a result of actions by the incumbent public sector supplier or as a result of the technical characteristics of electricity supply .
27 Although an accomplished politician he was hampered by his background as a member of the South Korean Central Intelligence Agency and as a graduate of the Korean Military Academy .
28 Opals occur in several parts of North America but as a rule these are only of common , non-precious character .
29 Thus , the demand for money ( MD ) depends : ( a ) directly on national income ( as a rise in national income will reflect a rise in the total value of transactions and so will increase the demand for money to finance these transactions ) ; and ( b ) inversely on the rate of interest ( as a rise in the rate of interest will make it more attractive to hold financial assets , and less attractive to hold money , whether as part of an individual 's wealth holdings or as an outcome of a speculative activity ) .
30 On Feb. 20 the assembly of the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) accepted the resignation of Guy Deluz as ICRC Director-General and as a member of the ICRC 's executive board .
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