Example sentences of "[pers pn] can [adv] [verb] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I can not continue as a member of a body which pretends it has power to make priests without the authority of scripture or tradition , ’ he said . |
| 2 | I can not work as a scribe , and I am beginning to enjoy being free . |
| 3 | Sobbing , Pc Kelly said : ‘ The next thing I saw , he was standing holding a gun with both hands in what I can only describe as a combat position . ’ |
| 4 | With what I can only describe as a cavalier disregard for the obligations of a good employer , the right hon. Gentleman issued a statement which said : ’ Mr. Kaufman completely disagrees with the article ’ — which , as I said , stated in every respect the Labour party 's policy , in so far as it is comprehensible , as now stated . |
| 5 | I found myself heading into what I can only describe as a ‘ ton-up ’ tide . |
| 6 | The next thing I saw , he was standing holding a gun with both hands in what I can only describe as a combat position . ’ |
| 7 | Erm looking across from the Arms , one can see that , what I can only describe as a delightful bit of architecture , erm perhaps I 'm a little bit er of a philistine , but er I think it 's one of the nicest , most attractive buildings in the town . |
| 8 | What I 'm arguing for tonight is that given that we 've relatively recent boundary change , the people have just about got used to it , so by and large er it does n't seem to have huge numbers of demerits as far as the city is concerned and that we are now very , very close , as close as is possible to the norm for the average constituency size that we actually endorse the boundary commissions proposals and leave well alone and the second part of the motion merely says to a neighbouring authority , y'know , please in some senses be punctilious about not to suddenly decide to poke your noses into something way beyond your it 's not just a couple of parishes on the south boundary , a couple of parishes from from the north of their but actually way to our area but what candidly I can only see as a rather partisan er er |
| 9 | Now if you come to Caldmore , you 'll find out then that the majority of the married ladies had worked in I mean I should say that erm I know my mother was very snooty she 'd been an apprentice to some dressmakers in Street and work for one year for nothing she always used to tell me , and she was quite er toffee- nosed about these girls that used that er that used to go , well they were very respectable people , and when I was a kid when I growing up in my teens a lot of the girls I used to know were in the offices at er it they employed about fifteen hundred people at in those days you know I mean coming out of at night it was fighting your way against the crowd if you were going towards it , and the same thing going through the square for people who have worked in when they left that 's why all those shops in the square used to do reasonably well , it was the people walking through to go up the other side of Walsall , but there was a crowd of people I can , I can always remember as a kid a crowd of people and then there 'd be well you can tell it was along Street in those days I can remember fruiters ' carts where the girls used to go and buy apples , and that all sort of going along there you know people used to wait for them coming out , these are my impressions as a kid I mean I can remember the , the er and the men of course were cutters and various people and a quite a lot of my father 's friends were , were er had er skilled jobs at as cutters and managers of the cutters ' department and that sort of thing . |
| 10 | Like the absence of useful maritime peripheries , however , they can only serve as a secondary reinforcement of pre-existing leanings to political centralism . |
| 11 | They can only operate as a rough guide to classifying tables of data , and it is not possible to say how they might relate to the levels in a particular graduated test scheme . |
| 12 | Such a response seems understandable given that it allows McFaul to explain why he is at odds with the Party while still maintaining that he is loyal to its principles and to its founder , but it can not stand as a general proposition . |
| 13 | It can not serve as a term that describes objectively a specific set of conditions . |
| 14 | The hand can be distinguished from the body , yet it belongs to it in such a way that it can not operate as a hand unless attached to the body — except in fantasy as in Ted Hughes ' story of The Iron Man . |
| 15 | The conclusion derived from this is that if an object is such that in principle it can not be referred to directly and unequivocally with a simple symbol , only described , then it can not qualify as a fundamental ontological existent . |
| 16 | For example , it can also function as a pointing device . |
| 17 | It can also act as a dilution guide , when the level of foam is related to concentration and as an activity indicator , whereby the formulation is adjusted so that when detergency is exhausted the foam collapses . |
| 18 | A post office is invaluable because it can also act as a bank , not only during the week , but on Saturday mornings when normal banks are usually closed . |
| 19 | It can therefore serve as a helpful guide . |
| 20 | The virtue of artists ' writings for the reader of criticism is that it can often serve as a touchstone for judging the worth of mediators , particularly those presenting views of what the artist intended ; what the artist said may be more to the point . |
| 21 | The category had a profound influence on antiracist activists and intellectuals of British Afro-Caribbean , African and Asian descent , and it can still serve as a powerful descriptive and political signifier . |
| 22 | When you stop , it can actually come as a sort of relief . |
| 23 | All of them can then double as a desk , homework table , sewing or drawing table . |