Example sentences of "[det] be [adv] as [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 My fears in this are also as a father with a daughter in P6 . ’
2 This is partly as a means of enhancing control , permitting the field man to transmit his concern about the effluent to the discharger , the props of sampling conferring a certain sense of gravity and the act of sampling carrying with it the clear implication that the discharger is under scrutiny .
3 This is mainly as an alternative to shopping on Friday evening or Saturday , although seven-day opening had brought a ‘ small increment ’ in sales .
4 The most efficient predators may take animals as large as or larger than themselves , but this is usually as a result of communal hunting , for example amongst the mammalian carnivores .
5 This was largely as a consequence of his undoubted materialism , according to which all that exists is matter in motion .
6 This was largely as a result of Eliot 's own initiative ; and what we knew of it was derived from the works of Jacques Maritain , which were largely the source , I suspect , of Eliot 's own knowledge .
7 This was partly as a safety measure , but also as a result of a campaign by local councillors , who have been told about several near misses at Ruswarp .
8 This was partly as a result of inherited policies , but was also because of the council 's desire ‘ to be seen to be doing something ’ to support its traditional political base of the skilled manual working class .
9 The war was apparently in the way , but that was more as a result of misunderstanding than anything else .
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