Example sentences of "[adv] as a [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though a proposed fourth game against Canada has been dropped — presumably as a gesture of appeasement — The tour runs from June 5-19 , deep into the summer break — and George Graham , Alex Ferguson , Graeme Souness and others believe their clubs should not be put at a disadvantage at the start of the following season . |
| 2 | However , by 7700 B.P. Calluna heaths expanded , presumably as a result of soil acidification and podsolisation . |
| 3 | I am thinking of domestics , porters and maintenance staff , who are grossly underpaid and who are suffering badly as a result of administration of hospital trusts and the attempts to break away from the national negotiating machinery . |
| 4 | Considering the number of PFK readers who would like to see their Puffers inflate just once ( though arguably as a sign of stress this is n't such a great idea ) many marine fishkeepers would have been thrilled . |
| 5 | His deification as the patron of craftsmen , but more importantly as a god of wisdom , medicine and healing , had occurred by the Late Period and he was thus identified by the Greeks with their god of medicine , Asclepios . |
| 6 | Rectal discharge may occur rarely as a result of infection of the back passage , but again infection of this site is usually asymptomatic . |
| 7 | But Finn came and sat beside her and gave her another cream bun , which she accepted gladly as a token of friendship , although she did not want it . |
| 8 | The Commander rubbed his chin vigorously as an aid to thought . |
| 9 | If it were possible to unfold the entire long history of the world 's religions in such a manner that it could be scrutinised , assimilated and judged in a single all-embracing operation , the verdict would be that it had strayed so far from the basic human need , and so far from the intentions of those good and sincere people who have throughout that history struggled to maintain its integrity , that it might well be condemned outright as a story of failure unmatched by anything else that has ever happened on earth . |
| 10 | everything basically comes down to numbers , er see , when I was talking to you earlier about about canvassing , right , I said basically you work on key words right now you do n't need you , one , one of the things that I talked to you about canvassing is that if you notice the difference between a good canvass and a bad canvass , at least we did n't in fact activity sort of work to do in it , now if you take a , take a activ activity as being , being a key word and you discuss activity with them , right , you can then look at , at activity right as a variation on activity as there is on to action , right , now sit and do my script and talking to a customer , right , and mouthing and mouthing and mouthing and mouthing and saying your bit to a customer , you 've got to sound like a parrot , now I know the way you canvass , the centre of action between you and the cu and the punter , do you see what I mean ? |
| 11 | The principal adviser said that any factual errors would be put right as a matter of course and if there was a professional disagreement they could perhaps discuss how to change the wording of the report . |
| 12 | Because such structures are ‘ conventional , and hence culturally variable ’ ( van Dijk and Kintsch 1983:16 ) the language learner , in order to be able to operate effectively as a participant in discourse , needs to be able both to identify what type of discourse he or she is involved in , and to predict how it will typically be structured . |
| 13 | Nearly 100,000 TR6s were built over the next 7 years and 90% went to America , where it caught on as a winner on road and track . |
| 14 | Nearly 100,000 TR6s were built over the next 7 years and 90% went to America , where it caught on as a winner on road and track . |
| 15 | He can stay on as a sort of pensioner up at Framwell . ’ |
| 16 | Philip was taken on as a sort of pupil-teacher , helping with the children and also furthering his own education . |
| 17 | She feels sorry for smokers — ‘ Nowadays , I think it is looked on as a sort of disability ’ . |
| 18 | In May of 1920 , a new Minute Book was started , so complementing the newspaper reports from now on as a source of information . |
| 19 | If anyone have seen pictures from our game against Poland he came on as a substitute for Fjortoft as lone attacker — and he played brilliantly for the 20 minutes he was on . |
| 20 | Dan Jackart , the other capped prop , went off with a damaged shoulder in the first half against North Harbour but came on as a replacement for Szabo . |
| 21 | I WAS told this story of a young single mother , and I pass it on as an example of life in this grand country . |
| 22 | The Hulton Deutsch People disk is a intended for use commercially as a point of reference for professionals . |
| 23 | All observers agree that here know does not express the mere awareness of a fact , but functions rather as a verb of perception ( Jespersen 1940 : 282 ; van Ek 1966 : 104 ; Palmer 1988 : 200 ) ; that is to say , here I have known means " I have actually experienced , seen , or heard " ( cf. |
| 24 | The British crown lacked power ; Alexander III of Russia described it as ‘ hardly to be counted as a monarchy , but rather as a Crown by election ’ . |
| 25 | Thus — and this is a critical point — refusal of consent is seen not as an assertion of will , but rather as a symptom of unsoundness of mind . |
| 26 | Even at close hand it remained ill formed and shadowy , rather as a cloud of mist apparently disappears on examination . |
| 27 | In the latter part of Elizabeth 's reign Burghley began a reform of the system of purveyance , partly perhaps as a response to criticism , partly in an effort to direct the profits of purveyance away from the officials and towards the Crown . |
| 28 | While such beliefs enjoy a certain vogue in fringe cults in our own contemporary society , our dominant scientific tradition has persistently dismissed them as ‘ irrational ’ superstition , based upon an essentially mistaken view of the world , and thus quite unintelligible , except perhaps as a confession of ignorance . |
| 29 | But the regime allows the church itself considerable freedom , perhaps as a kind of safety valve . |
| 30 | But even when no contrast has been injected into the gland , pancreatitis may occasionally occur , perhaps as a consequence of manipulation of the ampulla . |