Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same is done when religion is reduced to ethics , or treated simply as a movement within history , to be explained and defended , or even proved , by historical research and demonstration . |
| 2 | Whether this charm was involuntary , or used deliberately as a mask to hide his real feelings , she could only guess . |
| 3 | This section covers additional accommodation and travel expenses incurred in reaching the overseas destination or returning home as a result of the failure of public transport services in getting the insured to his departure port or airport by the time stated in the itinerary . |
| 4 | If you are married or living together as a couple , you should only make one joint claim ( any other members of your household should make a separate claim ) . |
| 5 | Ambiguous words spoken in anger , or intended merely as a reprimand , may in your eyes amount to words of dismissal , even if there is no constructive dismissal . |
| 6 | Although presented mainly as a measure of penal reform that was desirable for its own sake , officials were more sanguine that parole might lead to the hoped for reduction in the prison population than the dubious promise of the suspended sentence . |
| 7 | Today that interior decoration forms part of the museum itself , rather than acting merely as a backdrop to the works of art on display . |
| 8 | It was a great honour for the Association to take part in this National occasion , an occasion which provided an opportunity to pay a tribute to those who fought the Battle of Britain , and to remember the welfare needs that exist today as a result of that Battle . |
| 9 | ALLERTHORPE HALL has always stood apart and important on the flat plain beside the Roman road that runs straight as a die from Borough Bridge to Catterick , and on the bendiest of bends in the River Swale . |
| 10 | There were very few groups that stayed together as a unit all the time ; you just got together and played what were current country hits , current pop hits , with whatever instrumentation you had . |
| 11 | Instead , in 1947 it was organised as a politically autonomous territory in an economic union with France , and treated almost as a colony . |
| 12 | The individual gives to the group as an undifferentiated whole , and receives only as a member of a larger group . |
| 13 | For fifty years since the posthumous publication of Henri Pirenne 's Mahomet et Charlemagne ( 1937 ) scholars have been debating what they have labelled its ‘ thesis ’ : that the ancient rhythms of an undivided Mediterranean civilization had enough tenacity to survive Germanic invasions and settlements , and were disrupted and transformed only as a consequence of the spread of Muslim power , cutting the Mediterranean in half . |
| 14 | one solution … is to use subjectivity rather than try to push it aside … and [ so ] it might well be included in analyses and used consciously as a research tool . |
| 15 | The original Company depot was built in Copse Road , and used largely as a store for surplus cars . |
| 16 | A general strike called by the UDF-affiliated Podkrepa trade union began on Nov. 26 and spread quickly as a result of sympathetic media coverage ( a strike and sit-ins by students protesting against the government had been under way since Nov. 5 ) . |
| 17 | Discrimination can be institutionalized and done procedurally as a matter of course behind the scenes or it can be out in the open with insults to your face , but the result is the same . |
| 18 | Failure to act may be due to reactive inhibition which results from pain or fatigue and acts either as a barrier to repetition of the act or as a drive strengthening any activity associated with its reduction , such as rest ( Rivers 1964 pp 171–2 ) . |
| 19 | A discharge small in volume may be judged polluting if its watercourse is also small ; if the stream is large , however , the effluent overlooked ( 'You take no action when your flow is piddling small' ) or , at least , considered insignificant and postponed indefinitely as a job to be tackled . |
| 20 | The former exists throughout the process of perception ; the latter , however , has no existence before being conceived by the mind , and exists only as a conclusion which arises as a result of , after , the mental operation of inferring that the state of affairs it describes is true . |
| 21 | After these simple substitution drills are mastered separately they can be placed alongside each other ( as above ) and drilled across as a system drill . |
| 22 | She was asked to read a passage , told " You " ll do " , and started immediately as a reading girl . |
| 23 | He played in ten Hampden finals and went home as a winner eight times . |
| 24 | However that may be , it is a sturdy example of a defensive town house of the period , and serves today as a repository for souvenirs of the queen ( some of dubious authenticity ) , including a replica of her death mask , the Communion plate she used on the morning of her execution , and her royal seal . |
| 25 | In recent time it has been thoroughly renovated with its style respected and conserved — and serves still as a place of shelter and of refreshment for travellers . |
| 26 | It tends to be noticed in simple literary-historical terms as representative of the fabliau genre in thirteenth-century English , and presented simply as a work of little art . |
| 27 | Where is the true blood-bought fellowship of brothers and sisters who live together and share together as a family to whom the despairing may turn ? |
| 28 | A Martian viewing our race might wonder at our lemming-like ability to self-destruct by gobbling up nasty foods , smoking little chimneys and falling sideways as a result of consuming quantities of amber liquid . |
| 29 | Awards should not be automatic and follow simply as a result of doing a particular job . |
| 30 | At present several attempts are being made to devise performance indicators which would enable schools to be graded , and serve both as a management tool and as a guide to parents in choosing a school . |