Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pron] [noun] as an " in BNC.
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| 1 | War is in some sense a feature of life that loses its distinction as an element of malice . |
| 2 | Rather than use his apartment as an extension of the office , Milton did things the other way round . |
| 3 | Now , there 's an , there 's an alternative being put forward as a compromise , but a a compromise is n't a compromise , the compromise as it looks er involving us , and we 're all Party members , as already indicated , as individuals and saying top up , let's top up , we 're already paying are n't we , the political levy , let's pay a bit more , right , is actually one that reduces our input as an organization . |
| 4 | An approach that considers your people as an integral part of the system , right from the start . |
| 5 | For all those years Adolph Brückner had guarded his bloody loot and built his reputation as an art lover around it . |
| 6 | In the aftermath of Suez , Britain had no other option but to try to repair the damage done to her trans-Atlantic anchor cables and to accept her position as an offshore island of the United States . |
| 7 | Licensed to preach whilst in Edinburgh , he was ordained by 1727 , and began his ministry as an assistant to his father , at the time minister of the Presbyterian meeting-house at Leather Lane , Hatton Garden , London . |
| 8 | Cherine Woolwich describes how she established and developed her role as an emergency nurse practitioner at St Mary 's Hospital , London |
| 9 | The pope despatched two pallia in June 634 ( HE 11 , 18 ) , but the death of Eadwine in battle in Hatfield Chase against combined Welsh and Mercian forces , either in October 633 or more likely October 634 , and the subsequent collapse of the ecclesiastical community at York with the flight of Paulinus to Kent ( HE 11 , 20 ) ( see below , p. 83 ff. ) , terminated this phase in the history of the church of York and arrested its development as an archiepiscopal see for a hundred years . |
| 10 | This practical middle aged surveyor with a wife and new baby left the relative security of surveying , at which he had already achieved some distinction ; turned his back on London and its opportunities , and took his chances as an artist in Ambleside . |
| 11 | While machines could do the work of muscle , ‘ the labourer is needed to guide the machines , and to take his place as an intelligent factor in the complex system of modern industry ’ . |
| 12 | But when bad debt provisions , the lost opportunities and the thousands of management hours were taken into account , it became apparent that the Crocker episode had cost the bank more than £1.5bn and destroyed its pretentions as an international force . |
| 13 | The Crocker episode had cost the bank more than £1.5bn and destroyed its pretentions as an international force |
| 14 | From January 1983 he became an active member of the library committee but described his role as an " executive " or " coordinator " of what the committee decided as policy . |