Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [adv] as a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would like to take this opportunity to thank them for their support , and I hope that when my nest book is published they will feel confident enough to treat me just as a novelist and not as a problem . ’ |
| 2 | Puddephat had given evidence , saying Melanie Gandell had been one of his brightest students , and he had gone out of his way to encourage her academically as a result . |
| 3 | They are , however , making use of a tool to help them just as a botanist might use a magnifying glass . |
| 4 | These styles are still sufficiently popular to survive , although any attempted ‘ re-fit ’ would be likely to sweep them away as a matter of principle . |
| 5 | ‘ It began to overhaul itself only as a result of demands from the public and from individual scientists . ’ |
| 6 | She liked to project herself more as a friend than a doctor . |
| 7 | The Palace dismissed it as a fake , but within 24 hours Royal officials appeared to add weight to its authenticity by failing to reject it outright as a hoax . |
| 8 | So , when Councillor Peter Bradley replied to a letter from a resident he was careful to describe himself only as a member of ‘ the minority party ’ . |
| 9 | He said that if either the Conservatives or Labour sought to go it alone as a minority Government they risked an economic crisis and rising interest rates . |
| 10 | Something had to give and Pink Floyd shed Waters to go it alone as a trio . |
| 11 | And I think it , it 's a mistake to see it just as a kind of erm as a little frill . |
| 12 | Many of the later Latin fathers ( and some of the fathers of the Reformation ) tended to see it only as a backdrop to the true meaning of the atonement . |
| 13 | It is a question which is relevant at all levels , from taking on a gardener to employing a managing director , but there is a tendency to treat it merely as a formality . |
| 14 | I have worked for him for more than three years and have come to admire him both as a doctor and a man . |
| 15 | ‘ He had every reason not to take me seriously as a soldier as he knew how idle I had been in prior days in Layforce . ’ |