Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] as an [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many similar examples can be found around the world , but in Britain there is substantial historical evidence which suggests that sharing with relatives outside the nuclear family in adult life has never been widely regarded as an ideal to be aimed for ( see chapter 2 ) . |
| 2 | The training was not very comprehensive and was really only intended as an introduction to the cutters , but we all enjoyed ourselves as I recall , although a few of us with previous experience considered ourselves as veterans . |
| 3 | Although the single-section filters covered in this chapter are quite important , their treatment merely serves as an introduction to the vast subject of filters . |
| 4 | Both these stories were widely seen as an attempt to ‘ shoe-in ’ Gordon Brown rather than Smith in the event of a leadership vacancy , although Brown , it must be said , had no part in them . |
| 5 | Physical sports would probably be widely accepted as an exception to restrictive rules on consent , but two points must be borne in mind . |
| 6 | Erm , if the move on the was psychoanalytic issue , er despite the book being generally regarded as an embarrassment to psychoanalytic , is somewhat non . |
| 7 | Decentralisation is thus seen as an alternative to the bureaucratic practices that we investigated in the previous chapter . |
| 8 | For many critics of the existing Constitution , parliamentary sovereignty no longer constitutes an encouragement to the rule of law but rather exists as an impediment to its attainment . |
| 9 | From the disco veteran who speaks with fundamentalist passion about the centred sense of self-belief and release while dancing to Diana Ross ‘ Love Hangover ’ , to the fabric of self-realisation portrayed in Saturday Night Fever , disco has always functioned as an entrée to ecstasy ( with a small e ) and identity . |
| 10 | Endoscopic sclerotherapy as an alternative form of treatment for bleeding varices was first reported in 1939 in a young patient with extrahepatic portal vein occlusion and was eventually popularised as an alternative to surgery by the work of Johnston and Rodgers . |
| 11 | As well as being an aid then , being cool is also seen as an obstacle to digging deep into the ultimate reserves under stringent conditions to produce a better performance . |
| 12 | Mike was charged with possessing and selling heroin , and she was later sentenced as an accessory to the crime . |
| 13 | It has gained a reputation for controlling pain and in China is extensively used as an alternative to anaesthesia in surgery . |
| 14 | There is an extensive list of references so that the paper may also serve as an introduction to the literature about these animals . |
| 15 | This visit will also serve as an introduction to written records and their importance for history . |
| 16 | A document taken by the Garda Síochána ( the Irish police force ) from a leading republican , Sean Garland , in May 1966 , and later published as an appendix to the Scarman Report , contained a good deal of evidence of plans for intensive military training , but it also outlined some of the new political initiatives being taken by the movement . |
| 17 | The ex-MetropolitaN Feltham cars followed their ex-L.U.T. brethren to Telford Avenue and some were allocated to Brixton Hill depôt which was now regarded as an annexe to Telford Avenue and had no traverser . |
| 18 | Pyrolysis — the imposition of high temperatures upon material in the absence of oxygen — is often presented as an alternative to incineration . |
| 19 | That he should now figure as an addition to the Modern Masters series is yet another irony of Derrida 's ascent to intellectual stardom . |
| 20 | The ease with which even the bourgeois travel nowadays comes as an agony to one who has ‘ the Bosphorus in the soul ’ . |
| 21 | This is important , because it is sometimes given as an objection to attitude theories that they can not make sense of subordinate ethical clauses . |
| 22 | never , no , and that is that it is constrained by a very tight village envelope which has actually just been defined and statutorily approved as an alteration to the rural areas local plan erm , and th the effect of that village envelope is to limit the possible amount of development to I would say no more than three or four hundred house . |
| 23 | Goat 's milk , which is sometimes used as an alternative to cow 's , is low in folic acid , an important vitamin necessary for proper blood formation , and his vitamin should be added if you use goat 's milk . |
| 24 | It needs particularly to be kept in mind , with the objection now to be considered , that it is indeed advanced as an objection to a given analysis of our causal beliefs , and hence is itself a proposal as to those beliefs . |
| 25 | How they were used is not generally agreed upon , for , whilst the obverse of some of these cards — ‘ shopkeepers ' bills ’ as they were known by the eighteenth-century tradesmen — were sometimes utilized as an invoice to the purchaser , the majority surviving in public and private collections were not . |
| 26 | What is then proposed as an alternative to this conception is a recognition of the existence of conflicting interest groups , some of which have a much greater capacity to pursue their interests successfully , and of the need for widespread political debate about the allocation of social resources and benefits among these groups , or in a broad sense , about justice and the meaning of a ‘ good society ’ . |
| 27 | Nowadays , especially in Spain , Basque is being defiantly flaunted as an alternative to the national language ; but in France it is at risk , spoken at home by Basque families but discouraged in schools , as a lesser , marginal language likely to hold its speakers back economically . |
| 28 | Cartoons are sometimes criticised as an invitation to anachronistic interpretation but provided they are used selectively they too can enable a wider range of pupils to access information . |
| 29 | Purchase and resale agreements are occasionally used as an alternative to outright purchases . |