Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun sg] [adv] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was neither Jew nor English nor white , or even a proper Indian or a proper Pakistani ; but my travels through Europe and stay in the USA and my near acceptance there as a living entity capable of suffering pain and enjoying pleasure had temporarily given me a sort of quasi-human status , further aggravated by those willing to be my sexual partners ; I had become spoilt and pampered . |
| 2 | On the whole this is a matter of the teacher exercising her professional judgement both as a nurse and a teacher , but there are a variety of ideas available to help her in devising objectives . |
| 3 | In a sense , the shunt element behaves in its stabilising work rather as a Zener diode behaves , but the analogy must not be pressed too far . |
| 4 | TOKYO 's stock market continued its free fall yesterday as a wave of late selling wiped out early gains . |
| 5 | They employ their poisonous saliva primarily as a weapon against their prey . |
| 6 | But if the being of an individual woman is sufficiently strong and well-developed , then , knowing that light to be there deep within her , she can allow it to permeate the whole of her presence , refining and changing her very substance rather as a lamp when it is lit makes an apparently opaque glass shade appear translucent . |
| 7 | If Marek was right , Tatyana had taken her own life less as a result of the news of the murder Blanche had brought , than of her son 's dreadful confession . |
| 8 | ‘ If he went now he would see all his previous life here as a waste of time , and in a way he is wreaking vengeance on his mother by being embittered and something of a failure — saying , look what you 've done to me . ’ |