Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] as a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , I hope that these notes will be good enough to serve as a general guide . |
| 2 | Sometimes a solitary individual is brave enough to act as a one-bird mob and attack a predator on its own , as this roller is doing , worrying a martial eagle . |
| 3 | So I decided that in order not to appear as a bad-tempered harpy , I would agree with everything Shirl said and then add : ‘ But … ’ |
| 4 | Kim Il Sung was not to emerge as a major personality until after 1945 . |
| 5 | Different considerations would arise if it did , since it would be contrary to public policy for the court not to recognise as a qualified representative of the head of state of the foreign state the diplomatic representative recognised by Her Majesty 's Government . |
| 6 | The economic provisions of NEP were soon to act as a slow salve on the material well-being of the peasantry , but even before NEP had begun all political bridges between the centre and a free-thinking periphery had been burnt with the establishment of a one-party system and the elimination of any traces of local independence in the party hierarchy . |
| 7 | Research and development expenditure is being focused predominantly on the BS2000 family of mainframes , and systems integration activities will be split off to operate as a separate business unit , he said . |
| 8 | Illustrations and photographs can be maximised to full screen size if required , or set up to load as a full screen image every time instead of just half screen . |
| 9 | After 1,908 days of terror Joe was looking forward to living a normal life and getting back to work as a senior administrator with the American University . |
| 10 | Back in the village , she pulled up outside the paper shop , which turned out to double as a general store , and went in . |
| 11 | It is hard enough , as we have discovered , for people to know how to behave as a bereaved person . |
| 12 | In the 1930s you learnt how to behave as a human being from movies . |
| 13 | He was unhorsed , helpless and about to perish as a Federal trooper rode at him , sword raised . |
| 14 | In 1978 America 's federal bankruptcy code was rewritten in order to make it easier to file for bankruptcy , to reorganise under the protection of chapter 11 of the code , and then to re-emerge as a going concern even under the same management . |