Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] as a [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Town planning was neither strong nor coherent enough as a discipline and profession for it to stake a claim and take over other intellectual territory ; as a movement it was too inwardly diverse to be sufficiently self-willed to embark on aggrandizement in its remit . |
| 2 | I state this only as a general and not as an invariable premise because of the possibility of cases in which the court would not authorise treatment of a distressing nature which offered only a small hope of preserving life . |
| 3 | I have never been able to subscribe to the extreme schools of thought which see this either as a sin or as an act of brave defiance . |
| 4 | Nykrog , for instance , suggested the morals were a redundant , fossilized feature inherited by the fabliaux from twelfth-century precursors that were fables ; Ménard sees the moral largely as a façade and Charles Muscatine is most inclined to see the moral simply as a convenient , traditional way of closing a text . |
| 5 | Fetal material is transplantable either as an organ or as a cellular suspension . |
| 6 | It was agreed that the key strategy for the next 18 months — two years was to produce a network of interested people who would be valuable both as a resource and as a means of disseminating ideas and information . |
| 7 | One side without the other is likely to create problems and it may be better not to make an appointment than to settle for someone who is seriously inadequate either as a musician or as a leader . |
| 8 | The sensual Margaret Tudor very quickly stirred up trouble by taking a second husband , the sixth Earl of Angus — a Red Douglas , who proved to be a greedy bully and unsuitable either as a husband or a stepfather . |
| 9 | ‘ I was chubby even as a baby and it was n't helped as a child by the fact that my mum believed in always feeding me up and rewarding everything with sweets . |