Example sentences of "[coord] as a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Potted game is most delicious and delicate with hot thin crisp brown toast for tea or as a first course at lunch . |
| 2 | But their strength as vehicles for practice or as a first amp for a budding shredder would be difficult to challenge . |
| 3 | The Report states that the ‘ limited ’ modification to the law that it proposed ‘ should not be interpreted as an indication that the law can be indifferent to other forms of homosexual behaviour , or as a general licence to adult homosexuals to behave as they please ’ . |
| 4 | It could be interpreted as a shift towards other foodstuffs or as a worrying decline in the basic calorie consumption of the poor . |
| 5 | The information is fed directly into a computer and the digitised information printed out as a linear contour map or as a solid representation in light and shade . |
| 6 | She wanted to be more than an outsider in ‘ La Felicità ’ , more than a vague summertime nuisance for whose sake the family had to go travelling , someone only to be communicated with by notes or as a new source of rent . |
| 7 | Thus when carnal and financial imagery in the tale finally merge in the puns taille and taillynge at the very end , it is an emblem of how much deeper the " " bretherhede " " and " " cosynage " " runs that the monk and the merchant imagine exists between them in the form of play , or as a polite figure of speech , and how concrete it is . |
| 8 | Delinquency can be seen , depending on perceptions of society and its organization , as the result of poverty , deprivation and inequity , or as a personal iniquity to be identified , punished and discouraged as firmly as possible . |
| 9 | Pentobarbitone can be prepared from powder at 5 mg/ml in warm normal saline or as a 1/10 dilution of the commercial stock solution ( 60 mg/ml ) . |
| 10 | Well you were just talking about children erm my feeling is that we 're all children , there is no division between being a child and an adult and I think that they can accept a whole lot , but there 's a whole lot of adults that ca n't accept the shocks that are happening today and they put them into their subconscious and unfortunately it comes out in so many other ways — it comes over as a neurosis or as a mental disorder at some later date . |
| 11 | In New Zealand it is still milked but is mainly used as a suckler for early-maturing calves , or as a terminal sire for easy calving in dairy herds , whereas in Australia it competes successfully in steer competitions , especially for home-frozen beef . |
| 12 | Ostinatos occur as a brief recurring motif or as a repeating bass in the form of a chaconne or ground . |
| 13 | Desqview/X turns MS-DOS text-based programs into X-Window clients ; the MS-DOS program can run locally or as a remote process with the actual application residing on a remote workstation . |
| 14 | The long opening movement of the Sixth Symphony is customarily played either as though all the cares of humanity were resting heavily upon its shoulders ( try the Previn/LSO on EMI ) or as a nerve-jangling protest against Stalinish suppression ( Moscow PO/Kondrashin on Chant du Monde ) . |
| 15 | In the third year , honours students with German as their major subject spend a minimum of eight months in a German-speaking country , either as a student , or as a part-time assistant in a school , or , if they are taking a joint degree , most probably attending courses at a university . |
| 16 | The morning sun was Khepri either as a scarab or a scarab-headed man , and was also Harakhty , Horus of the Horizon , depicted as a falcon or as a falcon-headed man with a sun disk on top of his head . |
| 17 | Consequently , I would like to suggest the following working distinction : learning refers to actions , beliefs , and so on , that come about either through direct imitation of others , or as a conditioned response to punishments and rewards ; invention refers to actions , beliefs , and so on , that result from internal processes of thinking and working out solutions to problems ( though acknowledging that such processes are influenced by the individual 's experience ) . |
| 18 | The conception and management of change in these organizations confirms the inadequacy of the structure-strategy paradigm either as a heuristic for understanding the process of innovatory change or as a prescriptive tool for enterprises searching for durable competitive advantage in volatile markets . |
| 19 | Garnish with halved quails eggs and serve as a starter or as a main course with the watercress-flavoured mayonnaise . |
| 20 | The nCube 2E series is designed to operate as a stand-alone system or as a networked extension of existing computing resources , integrating into environments of supercomputers , mainframes , minicomputers and workstations from multiple vendors . |
| 21 | By around two to four months the baby has learned to smile at strangers ( whether in pleasure or as a learned signal of interaction , or as a primitive placatory gesture , is debatable ) . |
| 22 | I would pick Rocastle to start and bring Strach on after an hour ( or earlier in emergency ) asa tactical substitution or as a fresh pair of legs : - ) . |
| 23 | The moment can be as the dancer pauses momentarily in a pose , as a comma in the middle or as a full stop at the end of a sentence . |
| 24 | We can read this assimilation of characters either as an irony beyond the Miller 's ken , confirming the limits of his churl 's intellect , or as a droll piece of self-examination and reflection on the character 's part : the Miller might , as he says in his prologue , be a cuckold as John is . |
| 25 | Occasional breaks in routine were available , to be undertaken either as a sign of enthusiasm , or as a momentary release from tedium . |
| 26 | Third , more technocratic accounts do not regard federalism or decentralization in unitary states either as ideological façades or as a direct reflection of external elites ' organization . |
| 27 | The larger portion holds a numeric value , and the smaller , the addressing mode field , specifies how the numeric value is to be interpreted ; for example , as a numeric quantity for direct use ( see the next section ) , as a store address , or as a numeric quantity to be added to the contents of an index register to form a store address . |
| 28 | This may be organized and justified in various terms : as a group of cognate or faculty disciplines such as the social sciences or humanities ; as a number of disciplines brought to bear on a common area ( European Studies , Middle Eastern Studies ) or period ( Classics , The Enlightenment , Modern Studies ) or problem or theme ( Development Studies , Urban Studies ) ; as a sampling of some or all of the main types of human knowledge , as provided by the foundation year at Keele University ; or as a deliberate contrast between different types of knowledge ( arts-science schemes ) . |
| 29 | Users ' apparent preference for the direct shelf approach in subject searching can be considered either as a negative response to the catalogue or as a positive response to the shelves . |
| 30 | Working on a conveyor belt or as a human cog in a vast industrial machine does little for a sense of personal fulfilment . |