Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb -s] as a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The eventual aim ’ , wrote Alexander Cockburn in Student Power ‘ is the cementing of a revolutionary bloc with working-class forces ; but the immediate power of the student lies in his university , his college , where he works as a student . ’ |
| 2 | Or , again , space figure differently in the socially responsible naturalism of a public service system , where it figures as a representation of a real environment , than it does in the ‘ market ’ realism of entertainment television where it functions as a scene for action . |
| 3 | Minton must have recognised its truth for he bequeathed it in his will to the Royal College of Art where it hangs as a memorial to him . |
| 4 | Varroa originated in the Far East where it lives as a parasite on the Apis cerana species of honey bee . |
| 5 | Or , again , space figure differently in the socially responsible naturalism of a public service system , where it figures as a representation of a real environment , than it does in the ‘ market ’ realism of entertainment television where it functions as a scene for action . |
| 6 | The object also acts to integrate the representative individual within the normative order of the larger social group , where it serves as a medium of intersubjective order inculcated as a generative practice through some version of ‘ habitus ’ . |
| 7 | It was an extraordinary development in an extraordinary saga and striker Gary Bull said : ‘ This has taken us all by surprise , although nothing comes as a shock at Barnet anymore . |
| 8 | Lisa B says again and again that she knows as a model going into music she has to prove herself . |
| 9 | The first point to make is that because all the possible histories for the universe are finite in extent , any quantity that one uses as a measure of time will have a greatest and a least value . |
| 10 | Chlorinated trisodium polyphosphate is the combination of a strongly alkaline phosphate and chlorine and therefore has a significant cleaning capability although it suffers as a disinfectant through its low chlorine content . |
| 11 | Although it appears as a contradiction , just like some of the stated motives of those leaving , I believe it is a form of adaptive behaviour . |
| 12 | I do not see the theological basis on which we can go on saying that the human species is of such overwhelming and unique and colossal significance that it justifies as a matter of course the institutional exploitation of billions of other species . |
| 13 | Boulestin 's writing still seems so fresh and original that it comes as a shock to realize that these happenings occurred over forty years ago , and that his first cookery book Simple French Cooking for English Homes appeared in 1923 . |
| 14 | The palazzo looks so much like a 1950s cinema ( or is it a small-town railway station ? ) , with its curves and ornate super-structure , that it comes as a surprise to learn that it is seventeenth-century . |
| 15 | No , I mean that it comes as a surprise when you first experience it , and then after that you ca n't change the course of events . |
| 16 | The acrylic is then mixed in the stay-wet palette with a damp sponge , and the moisture in the sponge dilutes the acrylic paint so that it reacts as a watercolour . |
| 17 | So that it works as a spring at the moment , just No you need something finer than this . |
| 18 | A different approach might aim to show that our perception of ourselves as intentional subjects has not always existed , and might then suggest that it arises as a feature of capitalist ideology . |
| 19 | Reforms aimed at refashioning the welfare state , so that it acts as a floor on which the underclass can build by their own efforts , rather than a ceiling through which it is impossible for them to pass , are considered in Part IV . |
| 20 | Japan 's dense network of wholesale and retail distribution has been a contentious issue among overseas producers who claim that it acts as a barrier in their attempts to increase sales . |
| 21 | The idea behind a water staircase is that it appears as a staircase of sparkling , silvery water . |
| 22 | For instance , at ‘ Pope John Paul ’ the Head of Music expressed the strongly held view that he operates as a practitioner involved in education rather than the transmission of an established body of knowledge . |
| 23 | A leader of one group is also a subordinate member of a group higher in the hierarchical structure , so that he acts as a link between his subordinates and a higher authority . |
| 24 | In conventional crime there is no such similar fracture ; a person is charged with the consequences of his/her action ; if someone dies as a consequence of being stabbed , the assailant is more likely to be charged with a homicide offence rather than ‘ carrying an offensive weapon ’ . |
| 25 | if somebody comes as a resident to one of the developments that you now presently run are they there normally for years or for months ? |
| 26 | In this way three different groups were used , each linking with the other — the teacher who is both an opinion former and a consumer , the child who learns about the manufacturer and may become a potential future customer and who acts as a messenger to the mother who is the manufacturer 's prime commercial and marketing target . |
| 27 | Mr Welch wants GE to be an enterprise where : ( a ) internal divisions blur , and everybody works as a team ; ( b ) suppliers and customers are partners ; ( c ) there is no segregation between foreign and domestic operations , and each GE business is just as much at home in South Korea and Paris , France , as it is in South Carolina and Paris , Texas . |
| 28 | He is my wife 's brother and he works as a journalist with a newspaper in Hue . |
| 29 | This is a public right of way for walkers and it continues as a track alongside Loch Coulin , where camera enthusiasts are often fortunate to find a moored rowing boat posing for the foreground of a perfect picture . |
| 30 | The canons ' tower is still there ; indeed the citizens — by a strange romantic gesture — built it yet higher in the nineteenth century ; and it stands as a monument to the forces and struggles which made Milan at once a centre of intense parochial jealousies , and of international fame and meaning , in the eleventh and twelfth centuries . |