Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [verb] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conversely , if people take account of the costs to themselves but not the burden on the National Health Service in deciding whether or not to smoke and damage their health , society may regard smoking as a merit bad that should be discouraged . |
| 2 | Gorbachev paid warm tribute to Dubcek , saying his Czechoslovak reforms should have served as a model to the Communist world . |
| 3 | This should have served as an encouragement to the authorities to develop this important aspect of community care . |
| 4 | It might be supposed , however , that Francis Grant , as a newcomer to military life , should have entered as an ensign rather than as second-in-command of the company in question . |
| 5 | ‘ You know who we should have had as a father , Annie . |
| 6 | He must have started as a joke , to indulge his love of singing and of local folk music . |
| 7 | The patience and persistence which you must have learned as a fisherman would result in pulling us through . |
| 8 | Clovis 's death must have come as a relief to Gundobad . |
| 9 | Hardy 's decision , in 1862 , to further his career in London must have come as a surprise to his family and employer — perhaps even to himself since he set out with a return ticket in his pocket . |
| 10 | For several years , we were twins , which must have come as a surprise to my mother , then slowly she fell behind as I pulled ahead , year after year . |
| 11 | Whatever one may argue for the value of research findings which ensue from this technique ( and certainly the publication of Down and Out must have come as a revelation to many people in present-day Britain ) the question must be squarely faced as to whether the social researcher has a right to deceive and manipulate people for research purposes . |
| 12 | At the age of 63 , Friedman seems in better technical shape than ever , and to many of the younger members of his substantial audience , these performances must have come as a revelation . |
| 13 | Sooner or later water must have acted as a transporter for dissolved materials . |
| 14 | This type of manslaughter gets its name from the requirement that the victim must have died as a result of an unlawful act and liability is constructive because the accused is guilty even though he did not foresee death . |
| 15 | Suppliers are asked to identify all payments that OUP will be expected to make , and all revenues which OUP may expect to receive as a result of entering the proposed relationship . |
| 16 | One thing you might want to do as a way of putting an argument together would be to look up the word " Romanticism " in the dictionary , since Byron 's poetry belongs to this literary movement . |
| 17 | Chamberlain , Baldwin suggested , might consider joining as a minister without portfolio . |
| 18 | It might have served as a link between Britain and the Six , but it was not until after its first application to join the EEC had been rejected in 1963 that Britain began seriously to consider this as a possibility . |
| 19 | And Thiercelin wondered whether of all the men in the Grand Army , he alone realized that the charmless , unpopular Davout was a better soldier , and a better man , than the emperor , and might have served as an example to princes , had he only possessed a little more humanity . |
| 20 | Silly and stupid , the sort of thing he might have done as a child , pathetic for a man of his age . |
| 21 | Without engaging in speculation , it can be said that relationships of this type might have acted as a channel for ideas and opinions and represented a means by which influence could be exerted . |
| 22 | Trouble is it might have started as a bit of a joke but it 's no joke now — not for me anyway . |
| 23 | But as America and Germany were still at peace , and the leasing of the pilots was a clear breach of the US Neutrality Act which Hitler , had he come to know of it , might have used as an excuse for sinking American ships , the news had to be kept strictly secret . |
| 24 | As more and more stone-filled gabions were built in to reduce the erosion which the scheme had set in train , it became apparent that Pandora 's box had been opened , and that what might have worked as a piece of traditional river canalization in the cohesive sediments found downstream had proved a recipe for disaster when applied in the unstable gravels of this upland brook . |
| 25 | If only I 'd gone along with the doctor 's proposals , it would have been over by now — completely and painlessly over , and any feelings of guilt I might have had as a result I would surely have dealt with ages ago . |
| 26 | That experience , that some might have taken as a manifestation of great love , I took as a warning in much the same way as a sentinel on the walls of Roman must have shouted : ‘ Take cover , here comes Attila ! ’ |
| 27 | A court might refuse to treat as a disability any condition unlisted , while a failure to exemplify indicative impairments could be a hostage to fortune as courts will tend to construe the protected class narrowly . |
| 28 | and I 'd like to go as an army chef or an army mechanic |
| 29 | ‘ I 'd like to work as a secretary on an island in Scotland . |
| 30 | Alternatively the committee could have served as a scapegoat if Pomgol activities had failed completely . |