Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [conj] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The flowing blood was the symbol and proof that life had been taken in payment for the sins of the guilty and as a substitute for his own guilt-stained life . |
| 2 | The Act occasioned a considerable debate about the needs of the disabled and as a result much publicity was given to their cause and many of their problems received greater critical attention . |
| 3 | His father , who sat in nine Parliaments for Dorset or Weymouth , was prominent as an opponent of the court in the 1620s and as a Royalist in the civil war . |
| 4 | Using the behavioural OR as an index of the value of α should not be taken to imply a belief that α is the sole determinant of this OR . |
| 5 | The synthesiser can be used either as a melodic or as a chorus instrument . |
| 6 | In spite of the visual evidence , Lam is presented less as a modernist than as a rebel against modernism , as the outsider who challenges Europe on its own terms and wins . |
| 7 | The Halifax reckons there is more money to be made from acting as a principal than as an agent . |
| 8 | Glycollic acid could be a precursor for the petrochemical feedstock , ethylene glycol but it is also a useful chemical in its own right , serving as a descalent and as a mordant in the dyeing industry . |
| 9 | But if talk of a right were insisted upon it would be seen as no more than as a flourish of personification to emphasise that the trustee had legal obligations towards the grave . |
| 10 | MARK DIGNAM was one of England 's foremost actors , both as a juvenile and as a character actor , ready to tackle anything going , from cameo to leading roles , an expert in the classics , above all Shakespeare , and a keen student of modern drama . |
| 11 | DDT was followed by other organo-chlorides , including aldrin , isodrin , entrin , and dieldrin , which was widely used in Britain as a sheep-dip and as a seed dressing . |
| 12 | In addition , many local people , regarding the environment as something to be exploited in order to make a living whether as a farmer or as a fisherman , had little sympathy for the idea of landscape protection or conservation . |
| 13 | The Companies Act 1989 has changed the definition of a subsidiary and as a result A. Layout ( Leisurewear ) Ltd has been treated as a subsidiary for the first time . |
| 14 | But resemblance can not explain how a thinker could experience one object as standing for another ; for how could the fact that a particular datum is similar to other things mean anything to a thinker unless he experienced it as being like many others — that is , unless he grasped it , not just as a particular but as an instance of a kind ? |
| 15 | The extra dimension comes from the fact that the model is based , in part , on experiments that use the likelihood of occurrence of a behavioural OR as a measure of the level of associability of a stimulus . |
| 16 | Its difficult to go beyond normal scepticism and see this huge number not just as a potential but as a reality . ’ |
| 17 | It is obviously important that we should have some clear idea about the nature of the phenomenon as an aspect of language not just as a preliminary but as a prerequisite for determining how it should figure in pedagogy . |
| 18 | The most effective lessons are those where the child is given the opportunity , either as an individual or as a member of a small group , to explore and to create something original . |
| 19 | Hold a sponsored-fast — you can do this either as an individual or as a group . |