Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] as a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They therefore need to gain insight into what language is and what it can do , insights which bilingual children intuitively possess ’ , and ‘ Whilst we recognise that they [ bilingual pupils ] need to gain access to standard forms of English — used widely as a vehicle for implementing the school curriculum , we recognise the value and importance of their own dialects and languages . |
| 2 | For fifty years since the posthumous publication of Henri Pirenne 's Mahomet et Charlemagne ( 1937 ) scholars have been debating what they have labelled its ‘ thesis ’ : that the ancient rhythms of an undivided Mediterranean civilization had enough tenacity to survive Germanic invasions and settlements , and were disrupted and transformed only as a consequence of the spread of Muslim power , cutting the Mediterranean in half . |
| 3 | The original Company depot was built in Copse Road , and used largely as a store for surplus cars . |
| 4 | The ash swelled slightly as a result of the wetting and set hard round the corpses , making perfect natural moulds of them , and in some cases preserving even the imprint of clothing and the details of facial expressions . |
| 5 | Inasmuch as the Bretton Woods system contributed both as a framework for the expansion of the other capitalist countries and as a mechanism for granting US exports and capital access as soon as practicable , it can only be counted as a success . |
| 6 | We can see from Table 16.4 that between 1964 and 1970 the total receipts from all taxes ( including National Insurance ) rose sharply as a proportion of GDP . |
| 7 | This situation changed radically as a result of the ‘ merger boom ’ of the period 1957–69 , which saw the national brewers ' share of net output rise from 18 per cent to 64 per cent . |
| 8 | Of these compounds , special attention has been given to chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) , especially CFCl 3 ( CFC 11 ) used mainly as a propellant in aerosol sprays , and CF 2 Cl 2 , ( CFC 12 ) used extensively as a cooling agent in refrigerators and air conditioners ( figure 6.2 ) . |
| 9 | AT TREVOR , I crossed the Dee by Thomas Telford 's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct , built nearly 200 years ago to carry barges on the Shropshire Union Canal across the deep valley ; then cycled up past the church on steep Methodist Hill , built surely as a penance for sinning churchgoers . |
| 10 | Which he described incidentally as a bit of a damp . |
| 11 | These questions arose largely as a consequence of EC membership , which necessitated a phased withdrawal of ‘ protection ’ from the Spanish home market . |
| 12 | Both the sun and the air as wind were essential to human life and in Amun-Re came together as a coalescence of creative elements . |
| 13 | The work on show , produced by none recently graduated women artists , demonstrates an unmistakable commitment both to engage and challenge the painterly and formal conventions of modernism. 2 The group originally came together as a result of a set of interviews and articles coordinated by Rebecca Fortnum and Gill Houghton , published in a special issue of the Women Artists ' Slide Library Journal in 1989. 3 |
| 14 | The French army before Dreyfus appealed especially as a career in which it was possible to offer patriotic service untainted by compromise with the Republic . |
| 15 | He came home as a passenger in the tractor of another driver who brought his trailer home . |
| 16 | The investment , back of house , at the hotel came partly as a result of consultation with local environmental health officers . |
| 17 | Sysmin 's rules of application were extended to cover situations where a country 's export earnings suffered substantially as a result of disruption of production without necessarily affecting viability . |
| 18 | Alton played well as a team in a close first half and took the lead after 11 minutes . |
| 19 | But no one 's touched that room to my knowledge , since I came here as a bride in 1929 . |
| 20 | ’ Clarke came across as a bit of a lad , which I suppose is what he wanted . |
| 21 | He was physically attractive and highly photogenic ; on the television screen he came across as a man of warmth and charm . |
| 22 | But Paul Wright played almost as a midfielder on Saturday , and McClelland was not happy with Paul Kinnaird 's return to Firhill . |
| 23 | However , Le Monde of July 2 said that the programme " read more as a catalogue of good intentions than an exact timetable for the pursuit of economic reforms " , implying that its approval was timed to coincide with the G-7 meeting [ see p. 38990 ] . |
| 24 | Its acreage expanded quickly as a response to demand fuelled by the emergence of the automobile industry . |
| 25 | But apart from this the broch wall showed only as a circle of raised turf , with a tumble of stones here and there . |
| 26 | And so Charles Ryder , now a convert , goes to mass , and in the family chapel he had once in agnostic youth admired only as a work of art in a strange and alien style . |
| 27 | This happened more as a result of the need for specialised care and education for citizens to be managed by the state . |
| 28 | However , relations between the two countries had , he said , deteriorated sharply as a consequence of the " reckless use " by the Netherlands of development assistance as an " instrument of intimidation " . |
| 29 | Relations between Kenya and the USA and other Western states deteriorated sharply as a result of the government 's response to FORD 's demands and activities . |
| 30 | Assuming that we know how the phonemes of a particular word would be realised when the word was pronounced in isolation , when we find a phoneme realised differently as a result of being near some other phoneme belonging to a neighbouring word we call this an instance of assimilation . |