Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [noun] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Democracy , then , in Syracuse , Akragas and elsewhere , meant the rule of a prosperous agricultural class , which did not necessarily regard Carthage as an enemy , or benevolent co-existence with Carthage as a sin . |
| 2 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 3 | That person may hold ‘ citizenship ’ as a legal , national status , but does not display citizenship as a quality . |
| 4 | Pauline Mitchell , head of housing , said : ‘ We do not have any areas for any particular people and we certainly do not identify travellers as a group . |
| 5 | If Jones has never heard of Tolstoy or read any of his books , it is meaningless to assert that Jones either likes Tolstoy as a writer or does not like Tolstoy as a writer . |
| 6 | Yanto did not like Sundays as a rule . |
| 7 | Most of the non-payees can not claim unemployment as an excuse , says members ' registrar Bob Russell . |
| 8 | Many Christians do not see Jesus as a sacrifice in the same way . |
| 9 | ‘ They should not see television as a panacea for all financial ills . ’ |
| 10 | The Greater York study did not designate Skelton as an area for expansion until two thousand and six , and no proposal exists in other plans for the making of an inset into the greenbelt on the basis of the need for expansion . |
| 11 | I do not romanticise agony as a virtue , nor imagine that it makes me superior . |
| 12 | Do not use time as an excuse , he wrote . |
| 13 | But , as Elinor was always telling him , Henry did not inspire confidence as a representative of the legal profession . |
| 14 | If you do want to enjoy a one-to-one relationship of a companionable or romantic nature there are various ways one can make contact , other people who want to do the same and they need not have marriage as an aim if that is not what you want . |
| 15 | So too an attempt to make a direct gift , which fails because the proper method of transfer is not employed , will not take effect as a trust . |
| 16 | Jacob can not approach Esau as a brother . |
| 17 | Further , repeating groups do occur in applications ( values in a ledger , for instance ) , but the normalisation process does not permit representation as an array . |
| 18 | Examining the reports of the Chief Constable of Birmingham between 1900 and 1940 , Tony Mason notes that football does not merit inclusion as a policing problem . |
| 19 | She could not offer advice as a grandmother , despite her long experience of children ; and now her own children had ceased to confide in her ‘ because they felt that the time had come when I ought to be ‘ spared ’ every possible worry . |
| 20 | Aboriginals , it was true , could not imagine territory as a block of land hemmed in by frontiers : but rather as an interlocking network of " lines " or " ways through " . |
| 21 | Still , she consoled herself , she would always have Margaret as a friend . |
| 22 | We can still express scores as a percentage of the ‘ benchmark ’ , or ‘ always cooperate ’ score , even though that benchmark needs more complicated calculation and is no longer a fixed 600 points . |
| 23 | Lord Justice Mann said : ‘ In practice their liabilities will be discharged by their husbands , who may understandably regard payment as a penalty for marriage to a British citizen . |
| 24 | But I think it tends to save any type of … any misunderstandings that may later take place as a result of it being a one-on-one deal . |
| 25 | The settlement will probably name ACORN as a clearing-house for properties . |
| 26 | The plants will also produce cement as a by-product . |
| 27 | So the next question he asked was whether , to protect the young , sows would willingly accept controls as an alternative to being forcibly confined . |
| 28 | I mean , would n't he rather have Terry as a sort of permanent worker anyway ? |
| 29 | noted in the 1890s that many sons would prefer to move rather than accept legal compulsion , and that their own old parents would often see relief as a right : ‘ the aged prefer a pittance from the parish ( regarded as their due ) to compulsory maintenance by children ; compulsion makes such aid very bitter . ’ |
| 30 | → We do n't really see Guitarist as a poster magazine , although we appreciate the fact that you approve so highly of James Cumpsty 's photos . |