Example sentences of "[am/are] [vb pp] [adv] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a book which was actually about statistics , A. L. Bowley once established four rules to guide designers of schedules and questionnaires.3 They are given below as a starting point for our discussions . |
| 2 | I know any number of indigent dames who have found such employment , and they are treated quite as a member of the family . ’ |
| 3 | Sometimes women are depicted almost as a caricature of a male stereotype of themselves — they are servile , weak , powerless etc . |
| 4 | The new devices , according to Eo 's president and chief executive Alain Rossmann , are designed more as a replacement for the standard telephone than for standard computer , being New Age communication tools . |
| 5 | Unfortunately for them the person who rented the place did n't know that the stables across the yard are let separately as a holiday cottage . ’ |
| 6 | So it is hardly surprising that nablabs are seen merely as a distress purchase . |
| 7 | In modern business organisations , reports , statistics , graphs and charts are prepared regularly as an aid to management . |
| 8 | The following guideline notes ( based on notes prepared by MC Strategy Services ) are presented below as a guide to how MC carries out an acquisition search . |
| 9 | Repertoires of schemata are built up as an organism adapts to its environment . |
| 10 | my Lord the fifth point in relation to question three , C , we 've always understood this to be a threshold bond , we 've concentrated on the words capable in law in relation to section fourteen , there are two ways of viewing this and your Lordship will clearly have to take a view on whether er one or both of these is a proper issue under clause three , C one , first of all is , is , is section fourteen itself capable of restricting the competition , is it in itself a restriction of competition , well we took your Lordship the C B R case , the case of the commission in which an ouster clause was held to infringe article eighty five , because of it 's interrelationship with the other restrictions and so section fourteen is bad if the other restrictions are made out as a matter of competition law , that we say is a question of fact and we therefore answer that part of three C by saying it 's not capable in law |
| 11 | The huge horns are used both as a weapon and as a shield . |
| 12 | Erm the shot gun is preferable in these cases , the fact that er they are used generally as a support weapon erm should we ent encounter any problems in the area that I was covering , this was thought to be the best weapon capable of doing that job . |
| 13 | Bicycles , for example , are used mainly as a method of transport in Holland , but for recreation in the USA . |
| 14 | I am employed here as a nurse in the premature baby intensive care unit and I 'm certainly kept very busy , the work often made more difficult but challenging in that I work alongside people from around 30 different countries . |
| 15 | ‘ Mind you , I 'm regarded more as a provider than a goalscorer and I have n't done too badly in that department over the last couple of years . ’ |
| 16 | The Pentland Hills are viewed increasingly as an area with high recreational potential , lying as they do on the very doorstep of Edinburgh . |
| 17 | The man who links together his prayer with deeds of duty , and fits seemly actions with his prayer , is the man who prays without ceasing , for his virtuous deeds or the commandments he has fulfilled are taken up as a part of his prayer . |
| 18 | Some very basic massage strokes are outlined here , but they are meant only as a guide to enable you to begin to develop your own intuitive style . |
| 19 | An open school is one where parents are encouraged to visit and participate , where they are perceived not as a problem but more as a solution to problems . |
| 20 | Thus courage and temperance , are conceived not as a restriction on our freedom but as requirements for its full development . |
| 21 | In many ways these are constructed simply as a qualification to his general theory of history . |
| 22 | For this species , our data refute the hypothesis that female ornaments are functionless but are expressed merely as a result of a genetic correlation between the sexes . |
| 23 | A few examples of projects which have taken place are described below as an illustration of what can be achieved . |
| 24 | A convenient alternative presentation of the information inherent in a Nyquist plot is one in which the logarithm of the modulus of the loop gain , , and the phase shift , φ , round the loop are plotted separately as a function of the logarithm of the pulsatance , . |