Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adv] as an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ it came into being not as an essential part of a theory of the law of contract but more or less fortuitously as an expedient adopted in order to determine when persons injured by the breach of a promise ought to be allowed to bring an action ’ ( paragraph 18 of the 6th interim report of the Law Revision Committee , 1937 Cmd. 5449 ) |
| 2 | ( One might subtract the perception of the past from the perception of the future and smooth that once more as an index of optimism over time . ) |
| 3 | For an object to exist in an ontological sense is to exist in its own right and not merely as an object of thought , but it is not to exist independently of the conditions under which it may be thought of and identifyingly referred to as that particular object and no other . |
| 4 | In Chapter 2 I argued in a similar vein that the concept of an ontological existent involves the idea of non-arbitrariness , in the sense that by positing something as an ontological existent , i.e. as existing in its own right and not merely as an object of someone 's thought , we are by implication positing this something as a potential subject of a nun-arbitrary subset of predicates from among an indefinite number of meaningful predicates . |
| 5 | Deaf people in particular aggrieved and angered by centuries of neglect and the slowness of their advance in more recent times , were beginning to demand changes in their conditions as their right and no longer as an act of grace . |