Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] as [art] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | yet such reasoning , whether poverty , self-expression , financial regard , national pride , political statement or simply as a means to shift the black man 's burden , exists to no less a degree in England to day . |
| 2 | Nearly all authorities — even the most decentralized — reserve some money under central control to purchase material which the zones do not want , or can not afford , or simply as a fund to cover emergencies . |
| 3 | According to Bulpitt , ‘ in so far as monetarism was associated … with ‘ arms ' length ’ , anti-corporatist government , then … the statecraft ( of monetarism ) must be viewed as less a radical break with the past and more as an attempt to reconstruct it' . |
| 4 | Nationalisation was not new to France — the railways had been put into State ownership in 1937 — but support for economic planning had grown during the war as a way towards national renewal , greater investment and improved working conditions , and also as a way to punish businessmen who had collaborated with the Nazis . |
| 5 | Authority was never given for the benefit of the person in authority , but only as a tool to serve those under that authority . |