Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a book which was actually about statistics , A. L. Bowley once established four rules to guide designers of schedules and questionnaires.3 They are given below as a starting point for our discussions . |
| 2 | I know any number of indigent dames who have found such employment , and they are treated quite as a member of the family . ’ |
| 3 | This could have been explained either as an effect of the greater attention required to drive through unfamiliar junctions , or by the novelty of the stimuli making them more distinctive in memory . |
| 4 | Her new husband , William Chinnock , had affiliations with the Zion Chapel on the corner of Catherine Hill and Whittox Lane , and had been baptised there as an infant in 1789 . |
| 5 | My right hon. Friend knows that set-aside has been regarded primarily as a restraint on production . |
| 6 | Both of these points of contention were symptomatic of the fundamental issue at stake for Washington , which was that it had lost control of events in Cuba and a client state which had been regarded virtually as a part of the American mainland had moved out of the US orbit . |
| 7 | Finally , LDL has been implicated both as a factor responsible for the initial breach and in the increased smooth muscle cell proliferation ( Ross & Marker , 1976 ; Small , 1977 ) . |
| 8 | Sometimes women are depicted almost as a caricature of a male stereotype of themselves — they are servile , weak , powerless etc . |
| 9 | The new devices , according to Eo 's president and chief executive Alain Rossmann , are designed more as a replacement for the standard telephone than for standard computer , being New Age communication tools . |
| 10 | Unfortunately for them the person who rented the place did n't know that the stables across the yard are let separately as a holiday cottage . ’ |
| 11 | Nothing is known of his early years , though he seems to have been occupied initially as a bricklayer . |
| 12 | A maidservant , less lucky , is said to have been hanged subsequently as a witch . |
| 13 | So it is hardly surprising that nablabs are seen merely as a distress purchase . |
| 14 | In modern business organisations , reports , statistics , graphs and charts are prepared regularly as an aid to management . |
| 15 | The following guideline notes ( based on notes prepared by MC Strategy Services ) are presented below as a guide to how MC carries out an acquisition search . |
| 16 | Repertoires of schemata are built up as an organism adapts to its environment . |
| 17 | Workfare was on the committee 's agenda but the committee has now been wound up and it is thought workfare has been pushed back as an idea requiring long-term consideration rather than implementation in the near future . |
| 18 | The assignments in polymer mechanics have been made largely as a result of experimental work with chemical analogues of the polymer under study — for example for polystyrene by the use of substitutions one the position of the ( glass-rubber ) and other transitions is observed , and some , largely qualitative , rules laid down . |
| 19 | Again she was plied with whisky , but this time in hot water and sweetened with brown sugar ; she was then led to the sitting-room couch that had been made up as a bed for her . |
| 20 | Sally Brass was rumoured to have been seen here as a Foot Guards private on sentry-go after her brother 's imprisonment , OCS 88 . |
| 21 | These interventions , associated with the Keynesian revolution in economic thinking which called for the state to become involved in maintaining the level of aggregate demand in the economy through the use of budgetry policies , have been seen not as a triumph of democratic struggle but as a further example of the use of the state as an instrument of the interests of the ruling class . |
| 22 | The Commission considered changes desirable in the public interest in the structure , organisation , training , regulation of and entry into the legal profession , although the final report has been seen largely as a vindication of the profession . |
| 23 | Frank McManus who had been MP at Westminster for Fermanagh and South Tyrone until February , 1974 had been selected earlier as a Unity candidate for the Convention elections but after a party meeting just before the close of nominations withdrew his name . |
| 24 | Despite being launched six months or so ago in the US , with almost singular lack of impact , this part of the package has been accepted internally as a program integrator by no less an august institution than IBM itself . |
| 25 | my Lord the fifth point in relation to question three , C , we 've always understood this to be a threshold bond , we 've concentrated on the words capable in law in relation to section fourteen , there are two ways of viewing this and your Lordship will clearly have to take a view on whether er one or both of these is a proper issue under clause three , C one , first of all is , is , is section fourteen itself capable of restricting the competition , is it in itself a restriction of competition , well we took your Lordship the C B R case , the case of the commission in which an ouster clause was held to infringe article eighty five , because of it 's interrelationship with the other restrictions and so section fourteen is bad if the other restrictions are made out as a matter of competition law , that we say is a question of fact and we therefore answer that part of three C by saying it 's not capable in law |
| 26 | The huge horns are used both as a weapon and as a shield . |
| 27 | Erm the shot gun is preferable in these cases , the fact that er they are used generally as a support weapon erm should we ent encounter any problems in the area that I was covering , this was thought to be the best weapon capable of doing that job . |
| 28 | Bicycles , for example , are used mainly as a method of transport in Holland , but for recreation in the USA . |
| 29 | George Sanders was out of the running now , having been hauled in as an enemy spy , but I 'd be interested in knowing who precisely had tipped the Feds off to his brokerage for state secrets in the suburbs . |
| 30 | Provision of the means to wage an atrocious war had been agreed on as a sign of good faith . |