Example sentences of "[adv] as a [noun sg] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The naive inductivist account of science , which I will outline in the following sections , can be looked on as an attempt to formalize this popular picture of science . |
| 2 | Authority was never given for the benefit of the person in authority , but only as a tool to serve those under that authority . |
| 3 | The generic label ‘ poststructuralist ’ is here useful merely as a shorthand to designate those contemporary writers who share not a hostility to history as such but a distrust of simple historicisms . |
| 4 | just as a desire to understand absolute holism led us to analyse the substantive claims of Althusser and Poulantzas , so we must now consider work inspired by an attachment to concessive holism in order to reach a clearer view of its guiding interests . |
| 5 | Juliet went to the doorway and looked along the ward , just as a doctor left one room and entered another . |
| 6 | I have also campaigned for the Government to give AIDS greater recognition , not as a disease affecting specific sectors of the community , but as a social problem for which there must be adequate welfare provision . |
| 7 | I have also campaigned for the Government to give AIDS greater recognition , not as a disease affecting specific sectors of the community , but as a social problem for which there must be adequate welfare provision . |
| 8 | Against this background it is not surprising that the duty to benefit the company should be framed not as a duty to take specific actions or to achieve determinate results , but is instead concerned only with ensuring that the directors act in accordance with proper objectives . |
| 9 | This is not unreasonable , given that students have not as a rule experienced any other regime , but it can be misleading . |
| 10 | But I come here to address you , in all humility , because I am very interested in the subject of your conference ; and with the vanity of an old man I would like to take part , not as an outsider addressing budding scientists — a bit of ‘ general studies ’ thrown in for relaxation between the serious business — but as a fellow enquirer into the workings of the brain . |
| 11 | However , Mains regards himself more as a forward coach these days , and will obviously make his strongest impact there — especially if Brewer is there to help . |
| 12 | I heard him talking on the radio , in which he said he 'd tried several methods of winning on the football pools and in the end decided that the easiest thing to do was to put in the same numbers each week and so he was not exercising any skill in deciding whether one pair of teams were likely to enter into a score draw than another pair , but he just trusted that , say , number thirty seven would turn up as a score draw this week . |
| 13 | Similarly , if I treat someone 's urgent need of money solely as an opportunity to buy cheap from him , you may well doubt whether I am aware of more than the fact that he is in trouble , and try to rouse me from my callousness : ‘ How would you feel if I did that to you ? ’ |
| 14 | But what had started out as a dream come true had , within hours of their leaving England , turned into a nightmare . |
| 15 | WHAT STARTED out as a circular to keep former squadron members in touch was launched as a full-blown book at the Mosquito Aircraft Museum ( MAM ) during September . |
| 16 | Workfare was on the committee 's agenda but the committee has now been wound up and it is thought workfare has been pushed back as an idea requiring long-term consideration rather than implementation in the near future . |
| 17 | It is essential that the time limit is not seen purely as an opportunity to negotiate renewed permissions with upgraded environmental standards . |
| 18 | Three of the gates are used , the first pair , IC1a , IC1b , generating a series of positive pulses at a frequency of about 20kHz , with the third gate , IC1c , acting simply as an inverter to provide negative-going triggers to pin 2 of IC2 , the 555 monostable . |
| 19 | Sally Brass was rumoured to have been seen here as a Foot Guards private on sentry-go after her brother 's imprisonment , OCS 88 . |
| 20 | He did n't as a rule greet all his guests , but this was different . |
| 21 | I 'm an ordinary detective-inspector , and I do n't as a rule have direct dealings with the Home Office . |
| 22 | Others saw the project initially as an opportunity to buy more textbooks relevant to their particular teaching skills . |
| 23 | By s.5(4) : [ w ] here a person gets property by another 's mistake and is under an obligation to make restoration ( in whole or in part ) of the property or its proceeds or the value thereof , then to the extent of that obligation the property or proceeds shall be regarded ( as against him ) as belonging to the person entitled to restoration , and an intention not to make restoration shall be regarded accordingly as an intention to deprive that person of the property or proceeds . |