Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] as a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story weaves the Japanese viewpoint widely through the film and presents , probably for the first time to most movie viewers , a rational reason why the Japanese felt they had to attack the United States or suffer as a second-class nation . |
| 2 | Bureaucracy , for example , interdigitates with the social reality of individuals and communities , penetrating some spheres of life deeply , others not at all : in each , it may be invited , welcomed , kept at bay , questioned , resented , taken for granted , or regarded as a closed book . |
| 3 | FAST does not consider the possibility of a social discontinuity or rupture as a necessary Step towards the biosociety . |
| 4 | Rule 5 — 30(1) provides that a firm must not recommend a transaction to a private customer or act as a discretionary manager unless it has taken reasonable steps to enable the private customer to understand the nature of the risks involved . |
| 5 | It no longer supervised , as in the seventeenth century , the administration of certain Russian provinces , or acted as a tax-collecting body . |
| 6 | To say they 're a wild flower or classed as a wild flower . |
| 7 | And it may see a child as a foal , and may not find it as intimidating or threatening as a mature person . |
| 8 | The new entry-level nCube 2E — for parallel software development , entry-level scientific computing or use as a networked database server — is due to ship in October starting at $30,000 in the US , and $40,000 to $50,000 in Europe . |
| 9 | The existence of the necessity or obligation is not asserted but denied , questioned , conceded ( in concessive clauses ) , or represented as a mere conception rather than as a positive fact ( " subjunctive " ) . |
| 10 | This fluid phase may migrate and be consumed in melting reactions elsewhere , or rise as a low-viscosity fluid , causing metasomatism in refractory lithosphere away from the melt zone . |
| 11 | Although developed as a mass movement , it had no leadership cult , and despite William Joyce 's scar , confrontation with socialists was small beer compared with the castor oil politics of Italy in the 1920s . |
| 12 | In order to achieve the state of energy that manifests as a rested body and mind , we must become active against our negative emotions as well as following other disciplines on a daily basis . |
| 13 | ‘ I suppose you sent me that gilgul as a friendly gesture , then , to lend a helping hand on the Gittel job . ’ |
| 14 | It would be impertinent to suggest that Keynes dichotomised his private and professional life and in this sense discretionary monetary policy and deficit spending by government although recommended as a technical solution to a technical problem , must be seen as the prescriptions of a self-confessed immoralist . |
| 15 | While the South Devon Railway was clearly given special help by the DVR Board in year one through an advantageous lease and loco hire charges , it now stands alone as an independent commercial undertaking , albeit operating as a non-profit making trust . |
| 16 | Body-armour is rare among birds but the ground-living cassowary ( opposite ) carries a powerful helmet on its head that acts as a protective shield when the bird pushes through rough undergrowth . |
| 17 | It includes both an ObjectMaster Editor for non-programmers to build graphical apps and an ObjectMaster Application Folder that acts as a central repository for application modules that can be reused , recombined or extended to build additional application prototypes and ultimately components in production applications . |
| 18 | The gospel was bound in a compact book form rather than produced as a bulky scroll , with paper made from cheap papyrus rather than the very expensive vellum ( i.e. treated skins ) ( Green 1979:125 ) . |
| 19 | The premium was on being involved as a partner , or as an invited guest , rather than remaining as a detached outsider . |
| 20 | She tightened her lips against the chuckle that began as a small sound deep in her throat , but her amusement would not be contained and soon she was laughing loudly and helplessly . |
| 21 | Its the culmination of a career that began as a long shot . |
| 22 | We males naturally reject the idea that we 're not at all times ready to cream anything that moves as a monstrous slander on our virility , while women certainly do n't want to think that creatures whose sexual urges are so undiscriminating that they have been known to rape grannies and animals and even corpses , for God 's sake , could possibly find them so unattractive that they need to simulate orgasm . |
| 23 | They contrast Lovegrove 's favourite modern materials , like carbon fibre , with natural forms , like the Hermés silk square that doubles as a portable chessboard . |
| 24 | Here 's the world 's first radio that doubles as a fun fashion accessory in its own right . |
| 25 | It also brings Albert Finney back to the London stage in a commanding comic performance that serves as a potent reminder that we see him far too rarely these days . |
| 26 | In addition , by mutagenesis of the residues surrounding the site of phosphorylation , we define a minimal primary amino acid sequence motif that serves as a DNA-PK recognition signal , and which directs phosphorylation by the DNA-PK when introduced into another protein . |
| 27 | It is partly up to them to break free of their role as craftsmen and craftswomen working to order and to surprise us , as Ralph Beyer consistently does , with lapidary writing that operates as a literary form with a sculptural presence . |
| 28 | He was taken under the paternal wing of MGM who launched him in 1942 in tiny roles in prestige films like Mrs Miniver and Random Harvest , finally allowing him his first major role in 1945 in Son of Lassie , and to blossom as a leading man opposite leading ladies such as Judy Garland ( Easter Parade ) , June Allyson ( Two Sisters from Boston ) , and Elizabeth Taylor ( Little Women ) . |
| 29 | SRI LANKA 'S Tamil Tiger guerrillas announced yesterday that they had renounced violence and registered as a political party . |
| 30 | Alternatively they may be subsumed within the department and treated as a poor relation . |