Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [adv] as a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latter has allowed borrowers to take our mortgages that are larger both as a multiple of income and as a proportion of property valuation . |
| 2 | When will the Government realise that enlargement will not be acceptable just as a slogan for the Tory re-election campaign , but that it means saying now , and clearly , that the EFTA countries are needed in the Community and that early membership for central and eastern European countries , according to realisable targets , should be a priority to which we are committed ? |
| 3 | It was agreed that the key strategy for the next 18 months — two years was to produce a network of interested people who would be valuable both as a resource and as a means of disseminating ideas and information . |
| 4 | They can be valuable purely as a means of providing social companionship , activities of all descriptions , and intellectual stimulation . |
| 5 | They wanted Benjamin to be fuzzy enough as a fantasy figure so that everyone in America could identify with him without joining the Movement . |
| 6 | The time and effort demanded of them may put a strain on their relationship with a partner , who may have been looking forward to the years when they could be alone again as a couple . |
| 7 | All schools could identify additional resources , ( for instance , computers , a music laboratory , enhanced INSET , staff ) that had been purchased and which were perceived to be available entirely as a result of devolution . |
| 8 | Until very recently MRD 's have been available only as a typesetting tape of a printed dictionary ( Meijs , 1992 ) . |
| 9 | The manners which Topaz had been taught at the convent were good enough as a basis for acceptable behaviour , but she soon discovered that she had a great deal more to learn , and would also have to adopt a whole new set of values . |
| 10 | It 's some once as a customer you can do it later stage . |
| 11 | Christopher Plummer is great too as a hammy , Shakespeare-spouting Klingon warlord . |
| 12 | The authors introduce a methodology for describing a whole tax system that is useful here as a summary device . |
| 13 | IRONY is useful enough as a writing device . |
| 14 | The applications programming interface is available now as a Software Developers Kit at $200 , and Novell DOS 7 will include several Protected Mode Services client components including disk cache and compression drivers , a peer-to-peer server , and CD-ROM extensions . |
| 15 | When provision is made under further education , it is available only as a group activity , often with a minimum number of participants , always for a set period of time , which may be as long as two hours . |
| 16 | The potential readership of this book is huge and it is , therefore , a pity that it is available only as a hardback . |
| 17 | It also makes the point that our sexuality is squeezed arbitrarily into narrow forms , forcing us to suppress many elements of ourselves at great Shobana Jeyasingh is impressive both as a performer . |
| 18 | For our purposes , it is sufficient to note that the doctrine of fundamental breach , as a rule of law , has finally been laid to rest by Photo Production Ltd v Securicor Transport Ltd [ 1980 ] AC 827 , and it would now appear that fundamental breach is relevant only as a factor to be considered in the construction of the contract . |
| 19 | That the Assembly was sovereign over the Council is true enough as a generalization , but it represents the conclusion of most modern interpretation , rather than the ancient theory . |
| 20 | An infant who damages another by carelessly running into him on his bicycle is liable just as a person of full age would be . |
| 21 | Petrashevskii , the son of a St Petersburg doctor , had been eccentric even as a teenager at the Tsarskoe Selo lycée . |
| 22 | The night was so dark that the end of the trench was perceptible only as a lightening of the murk , where the ditch of the town lay ahead . |
| 23 | Only 17 per cent felt he was acceptable even as a co-representative . |
| 24 | The huge sphere of its forward compartments was visible only as a nothingness in the star-filled field of space — a circle of darkness more intense than that which surrounded it . |
| 25 | By notice of appeal dated 22 April 1992 the father appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the judge was wrong in law to reject the submission that any consideration of the children 's welfare in the context of a judicial discretion under article 13 ( a ) of the Convention was relevant only as a material factor if it met the test of placing the children in an ‘ intolerable situation ’ under article 13 ( b ) ; ( 2 ) the judge should have limited considerations of welfare to the criteria for welfare laid down by the Convention itself ; ( 3 ) the judge was wrong in law to reject the submission that in the context of the exercise of the discretion permitted by article 13 ( a ) the court was limited to a consideration of the nature and quality of the father 's acquiescence ( as found by the Court of Appeal ) ; ( 4 ) in the premises , despite her acknowledgment that the exercise of her discretion had to be seen in the context of the Convention , the judge exercised a discretion based on a welfare test appropriate to wardship proceedings ; ( 5 ) the judge was further in error as a matter of law in not perceiving as the starting point for the exercise of her discretion the proposition that under the Convention the future of the children should be decided in the courts of the state from which they had been wrongfully removed ; ( 6 ) the judge , having found that on the ability to determine the issue between the parents there was little to choose between the Family Court of Australia and the High Court of England , was wrong not to conclude that as a consequence the mother had failed to displace the fundamental premise of the Convention that the future of the children should be decided in the courts of the country from which they had been wrongfully removed ; ( 7 ) the judge also misdirected herself when considering which court should decide the future of the children ( a ) by applying considerations more appropriate to the doctrine of forum conveniens and ( b ) by having regard to the likely outcome of the hearing in that court contrary to the principles set out in In re F. ( A Minor ) ( Abduction : Custody Rights ) [ 1991 ] Fam. 25 ; ( 8 ) in the alternative , if the judge was right to apply the forum conveniens approach , she failed to have regard to the following facts and matters : ( a ) that the parties were married in Australia ; ( b ) that the parties had spent the majority of their married life in Australia ; ( c ) that the children were born in Australia and were Australian citizens ; ( d ) that the children had spent the majority of their lives in Australia ; ( e ) the matters referred to in ground ( 9 ) ; ( 9 ) in any event on the facts the judge was wrong to find that there was little to choose between the Family Court of Australia and the High Court of England as fora for deciding the children 's future ; ( 11 ) the judge was wrong on the facts to find that there had been a change in the circumstances to which the mother would be returning in Australia given the findings made by Thorpe J. that ( a ) the former matrimonial home was to be sold ; ( b ) it would be unavailable for occupation by the mother and the children after 7 February 1992 ; and ( c ) there would be no financial support for the mother other than state benefits : matters which neither Thorpe J. nor the Court of Appeal found amounted to ‘ an intolerable situation . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I was chubby even as a baby and it was n't helped as a child by the fact that my mum believed in always feeding me up and rewarding everything with sweets . |