Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [adv] [verb] as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sits as a judge in the House of Lords , where he also acts as Speaker ; he is a cabinet minister and advises on constitutional issues ; and his department , established in 1885 , is our nearest approach to a Ministry of Justice and has responsibility for many aspects of the legal system . |
| 2 | But there is some duplication in the figures of government revenues , because in the years covered by the table about half of the gross revenues of the republics and provinces was transferred to the federation ( where it again appears as revenue ) . |
| 3 | Whether one believes that ideas of morality determine the content of criminal law or that they instead serve as justification for the state or a social class to exert economic and political control , the relationship between law and morals is important . |
| 4 | But if workers regard the social security benefits that they now receive as part of their total wage package , and this is fully taken into account in their labour supply decision , then the supply curve will shift back to S1 ; wages and employment returning to their original level . |
| 5 | It is essential for his reputation that he again walk as Manager into the Branch which he managed as if he had never been dismissed . |
| 6 | He has already allowed friends to put it around that he only stayed as Chancellor after Black Wednesday because Mr Major begged him to . |
| 7 | These inducing molecules , the first to be characterized , are proteins that are , surprisingly , identical to growth factors ( Chapter 11 ) that operate at late stages in development and which also act as signal molecules in the adult . |
| 8 | Since 1979 Brian has managed to combine all his other duties with that of being a Cheshire magistrate and he also serves as chairman of the Cestrian Trust for kidney dialysis . |
| 9 | He bought a country estate at Knowle , Warwickshire , for £10,000 and he twice served as mayor of Warwick , in 1713–14 and 1728–9 . |
| 10 | There are , of course , instances in other areas of the law where such opinion is ignored , and where one searches in vain for a reasoned articulation of justification based on sound policy , but they usually serve as food for the argument that in so doing the law becomes an ass . |
| 11 | But he later acted as agent for the chief minister , Robert Cecil , first Earl of Salisbury [ q.v. ] , over private bills , and supported the great contract to put government finances on a sounder footing . |
| 12 | Helen Jones of Paul 's Lane , Southport , said she had met Kirk three years earlier when they both worked as care assistants at the Godfrey Ermine Home for the Blind . |