Example sentences of "be [adj] [conj] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They will be put under the strain of doing jobs for which they are unsuited and as a result will either leave after a short time , have the humiliation of being told they are unsuitable , or cause difficulties for other staff who have to rely on them or cooperate with them . |
| 2 | If it were not for the fact that he was one of the favourites you 'd have been delighted but as a Gold Cup winner I had to feel a bit disappointed . |
| 3 | Robert Allen , AT&T 's boss , and other top managers are convinced that as a service business , the firm needs a highly motivated workforce . |
| 4 | The weather had been appalling and as a result the whole family had caught colds . |
| 5 | As a colleague you 're deficient but as a neighbour you 're marvellous . |
| 6 | Leo McKern has some fun answering frequent calls of nature and waving a huge condom around , but he 's doing no more or less than passing the time until the phoney climax of the First Act curtain , by which time you 're aware that as a play Boswell is a fraud . |
| 7 | My Lord the started sum of money originally , sixty thousand pounds was the total loan and there were further overdraught facilities and and it 's the plaintiff 's case that without it it was simply not going to be manageable and as a result of that having thought carefully about erm , position it is his case that he rang Peter , told him that there were major problems in the financing of the deal and asked him if he could get him out of the contract because the finance he anticipated was no longer going to be available and it was his case that Peter advised him that there was no way out because contracts had been exchanged , er Mr was told very clearly that he was committed legally now to the deal and that he 'd better try and rearrange some finances since clearly they were moving towards er the completion date . |
| 8 | My hon. Friend will be aware that as a result of the debt crisis , over the past few years the ECGD has accumulated a deficit of more than £4 billion which is , of course , a deficit that falls to the taxpayer . |
| 9 | Well I think that it is possible that as a result of the reporting of the Shadow Cabinet elections , that the sense was out in the public that somehow this was a setback for women , and that Labour |
| 10 | Where these problems are absent there appears to be little that a reasonably fit older person can not do with an efficiency equivalent to a high proportion of younger workers ( see Stones and Kozma , 1985 for a good survey of research findings in this field ) : ‘ It is clear that as a piece of anatomical and physiological machinery , the human organism becomes progressively impaired from the late twenties onwards . |
| 11 | It is clear that as a matter of prudent management in a firm of any size one of the partners or a senior member of staff should be given overall responsibility for ensuring that all partners and employed solicitors ( whether or not held out as partners ) comply with these basic requirements of professional practice ( by keeping a check on replacement and renewal dates , collating relevant statistical information , ensuring timeous completion and posting of applications , etc ) and that the firm is spared the embarrassment of financial penalties or , even worse , an unwanted dissolution . |
| 12 | Gordon lives in Rutherglen , is married and as a hobby , is a keen yachtsman . |
| 13 | Tolkien never mentions reading this , but it is unlikely that as a medievalist he did not . |
| 14 | The report from the college was favourable and as a consequence two warships were fitted with the apparatus that Priestley devised . |