Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] as [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Calculations are then carried out as follows for a dishwasher : |
| 2 | certain words or acts can , as a matter of law , be interpreted only as amounting to a dismissal or resignation ; |
| 3 | It was held in Attorney General v Tod Heatley , however , that an owner of land has a common law duty to prevent it being used so as to amount to a public nuisance . |
| 4 | It may make for easier government and public convenience to restrict the tradition of marching and assembling for protest , but it would be a dangerous and a foolish idea to believe that public protest can somehow be laid aside as belonging to a bygone age . |
| 5 | The reason is that such certificates might be regarded abroad as given after an official check of records . |
| 6 | The existence of ( b ) and ( c ) he thought proved by the presence of some biblical texts where the literal sense seemed absurd or contradictory ; such texts must have been placed there as signposts to a spiritual allegorical exegesis . |
| 7 | A salient characteristic of the internal structure of' the elite is that it is rational , in the sense that it is structured so as to achieve in a purposeful and conscious manner the objectives of the elite as a whole . |
| 8 | Kurunagala and parts of the districts bordering it were singled out as suffering from an inordinate amount of cattle theft . |