Example sentences of "[adj] [be] [adv] as a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My fears in this are also as a father with a daughter in P6 . ’ |
| 2 | This is partly as a means of enhancing control , permitting the field man to transmit his concern about the effluent to the discharger , the props of sampling conferring a certain sense of gravity and the act of sampling carrying with it the clear implication that the discharger is under scrutiny . |
| 3 | The most efficient predators may take animals as large as or larger than themselves , but this is usually as a result of communal hunting , for example amongst the mammalian carnivores . |
| 4 | This was largely as a consequence of his undoubted materialism , according to which all that exists is matter in motion . |
| 5 | This was largely as a result of Eliot 's own initiative ; and what we knew of it was derived from the works of Jacques Maritain , which were largely the source , I suspect , of Eliot 's own knowledge . |
| 6 | This was partly as a safety measure , but also as a result of a campaign by local councillors , who have been told about several near misses at Ruswarp . |
| 7 | This was partly as a result of inherited policies , but was also because of the council 's desire ‘ to be seen to be doing something ’ to support its traditional political base of the skilled manual working class . |
| 8 | Now it seemed to me that one thousand six hundred was initially as a result of survey work or shall we say investigation into the housing waiting list carried out by the York housing department , and I have to say that I have a certain respect for the York housing department , and they have a certain reasonable and good reputation within the region as a housing department , and so there seems to me that there is a gr a there is a potential to underestimate er the the affordable requirement that 's been put to you , another point erm I 'd just like perhaps to seek a little clarification from Mr Curtis , was was unfortunately I was looking something else up or my attention was diverted when he gave some figures for Ryedale and Selby , I think he said , and I 'll happily stand corrected on this , that if you take away the York requirement figure from his ten thousand four hundred for Greater York , then the remainder he would apportion to Selby and Ryedale , so that Selby got four thousand two hundred , sorry , so that Ryedale got four thousand two hundred and Selby got one thousand seven hundred , erm that does n't add up to ten thousand four hundred and I I I in total , and I I wondered where the rest was coming from , if I the point correctly . |
| 9 | The war was apparently in the way , but that was more as a result of misunderstanding than anything else . |