Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] as a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alexander Macdonald had clearly abandoned much of that hospitable tradition , perhaps owing to his embrace of southern education , or perhaps as a reaction to the affection in which his late brother had been held . |
| 2 | because of the way it tends to bind many poorer consumers into using just one type of credit ( considerably more costly than non-collection types ) more or less as a matter of course . |
| 3 | Mr Motion should be pleased enough by the compliments paid to his work , but most of these appear in the last paragraph or so as a sort of afterthought when the reviewer has finished giving his own version of the poet . |
| 4 | Employee trusts have increased in popularity over the past decade or so as a method of providing incentives for employees . |
| 5 | In our collective folk memory — or possibly as a result of seeing too many old Hollywood movies — we think of gold in the form of coins as eminently portable in times of national emergency . |
| 6 | In our collective folk memory — or possibly as a result of seeing too many old Hollywood movies — we think of gold in the form of coins as eminently portable in times of national emergency . |
| 7 | In our collective folk memory — or possibly as a result of seeing too many old Hollywood movies — we think of gold in the form of coins as eminently portable in times of national emergency . |
| 8 | Any mortgage increase undertaken for personal reasons ( for example , to obtain capital , maximise tax allowances ) or purely as a result of purchasing a larger or more desirable property will not qualify for assistance . |
| 9 | Similarly , cosmetic surgery is seen in the professional literature as an option ( some parents choose it , some do n't ) , or even as a kind of cure , especially by the surgeons contracted to perform it , whose understanding of the issues extends as far as the principle that if people see a physically normal child they will react to it ‘ normally ’ and will elicit normal behaviour . |
| 10 | Citizenship should , it is suggested , be regarded not only as a burden , or even as a set of rights or entitlements , but also as an opportunity for self-fulfilment and a reciprocal relationship between citizens and the state . |
| 11 | Initially , an economic rationale is presented for intervention in private industry , whether this is seen , primarily , as a policy to promote competition , or alternatively as a corrective towards monopoly abuse . |
| 12 | The relevant consent requirement is normally contained as a class right in the articles or sometimes as a restriction on the powers of the directors . |
| 13 | As a private investigator , for instance , or earlier as a guide in the giant planet Worbali'n , where the smallest life form had teeth as ling as my arm . |
| 14 | Power-hungry people would want to use it as a weapon — which it could very successfully be utilised as — or else as a way of controlling others en masse . |
| 15 | Radiation may induce diarrhoea by a non-inflammatory mechanism such as bile acid malabsorption ( although only as a feature of late radiation damage to the small bowel ) . |
| 16 | Yet education is very much the sort of thing you might expect Moore 's principles to display as worth while in its own right rather than merely as a means to , or even component of , other things . |
| 17 | He saw that just as a knowledge of atoms and molecules is essential for the progress of chemistry , it is also essential for chemistry student . |
| 18 | Though circumstances are so changed it is relevant to remember that in their heyday syllabubs were regarded as refreshments to be offered at card parties , ball suppers and at public entertainments , rather than just as a pudding for lunches and dinners , although they did quite often figure as part of the dessert in the days when a choice of sweetmeats , fruits , jellies , confectionery and creams was set out in a formal symmetrical array in the centre of the table . |
| 19 | There had been various cases of ‘ blacked ’ journalists although usually as a result of pro-IRA stories . |
| 20 | The use of continuing care beds for elderly people is being more closely scrutinised than ever as a result of the changing NHS culture . |
| 21 | Many felt that possibly as a result of Big Bang more people generally were changing jobs , and the mining conglomerate questioned wrote that : ‘ we have had to review salaries etc. of staff vulnerable to approaches from the City . |
| 22 | We shall see in the next section that partly as a result of secularisation religion has become privatised and inward looking . |
| 23 | The Ehrenreichs claim that partly as a reaction against the actions of the government ‘ large numbers of young people pushed professional-managerial class radicalism to its limits and found themselves , ultimately , at odds with their own class ’ . |
| 24 | Deirdre Bair sees her project not simply as a rewriting of events , nor solely as a rereading of de Beauvoir 's writings , but as a mixture of ‘ literary biography ’ , ‘ intellectual history ’ , ‘ feminist theory ’ , and ‘ oral history ’ . |
| 25 | Right and indeed , er I , I must er correct the impression that Yeltsin is anti-semitic , I do n't think there 's any evidence of that at all , er , a and , er I , I would regard that really as a slander on his character , but er , er Russian nationalist , this is a very delicate question . |
| 26 | To begin with , geometry has more value than simply as a means of acquiring a grasp of mathematical concepts . |
| 27 | I should add here that even as a junior at Halton I was in the senior cross-country team — which only people in their very last year were normally eligible to join and at this stage I was in my first year of three , I was allowed to go out on any occasion , in running gear , to train as I was a bona fide member of the team and so on one of these occasions when I was out training — I always wore a sort of towel around my neck which looked very professional at the time and quite unnecessary — I managed to conceal the altimeter , which had become very very hot property by this time because it was known that several instruments were missing and we could have a visit from the gendarme . |
| 28 | And Jenny revealed that almost as a compensation for having to choose between an important film part and the West End , a new movie is being written for her . |
| 29 | In many instances this does not matter at all , because the full screen , ungridded printout will serve more than adequately as a reminder of the actual design which is stored in the Me \ directory computer memory . |
| 30 | To say that a given rule is valid is to recognize it as passing all the tests provided by the rule of recognition and so as a rule of the system . |