Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] as a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The loop could act only as a monitor to be interrogated in the case of breakdown of comprehension . |
| 2 | Rather , they can act only as a guide to decision making by making the assumptions underlying the decisions explicit . |
| 3 | For them stations would act principally as a means of access to the labour market in mines , farms , and towns , not as a route to the world market for their produce . |
| 4 | The unity of the discipline is to some extent an external facade , a matter of appearance ; from the inside , it may appear rather as a constellation of specialisms , more or less closely related . |
| 5 | The labour which rural families can devote to export crops will not grow significantly as a proportion of the total and — except where export crops have a very high value , as in the case of horticulture — they will grow only slowly , if at all . |
| 6 | Rectal discharge may occur rarely as a result of infection of the back passage , but again infection of this site is usually asymptomatic . |
| 7 | It showed how categorisation by discipline installations , painting , photography and so on can still work effectively as a way of organising an exhibition . |
| 8 | If these forms were not internalized as habitual mental patterns independent of thought , they could not be readily accessed and language could not function effectively as a means of thinking and communicating . |
| 9 | At the same time , all EC currencies would move together as a bloc within the 4½ per cent Smithsonian band of fluctuation against the dollar ( the ‘ tunnel ’ ) . |
| 10 | It may be that that individual does not function normally as a consequence of the sensory deprivation . |
| 11 | James would take the opportunity to tour , but could n't sign simply as a by-product of The Smiths . |
| 12 | We like to think of you not as clients , but as guests , or as you may well discover even as a part of the family . |
| 13 | That class would vote solidly as a class for candidates representative of that class , and since it made up a clear majority of the population , what could stand in the way of its political ascendancy ? |
| 14 | It has been estimated that out of 1,000 young UK smokers of 20 or more cigarettes a day , one will be murdered , 6 will die in road accidents and 250 will die prematurely as a result of their smoking [ 8 ] . |
| 15 | Touche Ross has drawn attention to the fact that the amounts attributable to individual players can fluctuate rapidly as a result of selection policy , personal form/injury , international representation and other matters . |
| 16 | It needs to be appreciated that pupils with defective vision may respond inappropriately as a result of missing visual detail , for instance the facial expression and body gestures of others . |
| 17 | To give an example , incest may exist simply as a prohibition at the level of the formal system but at the practical level , breaches of the prohibition are explained , joked about or criticized . |
| 18 | ( The assertion of ) national interests can serve only as a means of deception , of betraying the working masses of the people to their deadly enemy , imperialism . |
| 19 | ‘ The next parliament will not serve merely as a forum for making political statements but rather as a national institute in which we will all take part in formulating the country 's policies , ’ he said on television before leaving on a three-nation tour as part of Middle East peace efforts . |
| 20 | ‘ Always I have let my horn cry at setting forth , and though thereafter we may walk in the shadows , 1 will not go forth as a thief in the night . ’ |
| 21 | The lines quoted , for instance , lead directly into a portrait of Alessandro de Medici as a personification of abuleia , with more than one indication that it will serve also as a portrait of Henry James : |
| 22 | But the text could serve equally as a tribute to the man himself . |
| 23 | As we have seen in this chapter , however , the newcomers , no matter how monolithic and undifferentiated they may seem to the locals , are composed of a number of identifiably separate urban middle-class groups — commuters , weekend cottagers , holiday-home dwellers , retired couples — among whom the village may vary considerably as a centre of their social activities . |
| 24 | The idea of a youth employment service , however , did not figure prominently as a solution to the problem , probably because social scientists did not begin to examine the possibilities of labour exchanges until after 1905 . |
| 25 | The people who will suffer most as a result of the Conservative election victory are not , by and large , readers of this magazine . |
| 26 | There , the large number of small employers might combine together as a defence against an otherwise predominantly unilateral union imposition of terms . |
| 27 | Were they to be realised , patronage might not disappear entirely but it would wither substantially as a result of being seen as increasingly unnecessary and underhand . |
| 28 | The ratio can rise either as a result of an increase in OM or through a fall in P. The only route through which OM can rise is a temporary budget deficit financed by the issue of fiat money . |