Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] [verb] [adj] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They , na , nan and granddad may have that as a sitting room to start with . |
| 2 | If one suspect confesses and implicates the other , who does not confess , the confessor will go free as a reward for cooperation , while the partner is sent down for the maximum sentence , 10 years . |
| 3 | Most historians at the moment would regard that as a wild overestimate . |
| 4 | And I 've no power of attorney — so any banker can take that as a good and valid reason for waiting until you return . ’ |
| 5 | Now the defenders of participatory democracy would consider this as a very weak objection . |
| 6 | One debate focuses on the power and influence of elites within Japanese society , and obviously any book on the Japanese state must have this as a major element , and indeed it does . |
| 7 | Componential analysis would handle these as a single feature , say [ + old ] or [ -old ] , but this would be somewhat unsatisfactory because although old and young are dictionary antonyms , age is a continuum rather than an opposition . |
| 8 | Ensure that you are familiar with any heating controls the system may have such as a time clock or programmer . |
| 9 | Although the Minister could use this as a reason not to finance the appointment of additional full-time staff , the success of the Eastern District in serving far-flung rural communities , too numerous and too widespread for full-timers to cover efficiently , has always depended primarily upon the strength and zeal of the voluntary members . |
| 10 | This overall field embraces subsidiary or ‘ local ’ fields within the organism and its component parts , and if there is a tendency to contract a disease such as cancer , this tendency will appear first as a ‘ stress ’ in the pre-physical body , later becoming a pathological disease at the cellular level . |
| 11 | Indeed , there 's an excellent description in the seventeenth century by the physician Thomas Willis of an honest and prudent woman , as he describes her , who erm , after much hasty speaking will become mute as a fish , and one might even fancifully look further back and wonder whether this fatiguable weakness was n't something that erm that the Old Testament character , Samson , had . |
| 12 | Alternatively , the reader can interpret this as a sign of her weakness , that she requires this support to justify her actions . |