Example sentences of "as a [noun sg] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Late the following morning he had telephoned to inform her that he would be out of Taiwan for some days as a problem requiring his personal attention had arisen at the commercial recording studio he owned in Singapore . |
| 2 | The acronym DIY ( = Do It Yourself ) when spoken as a word produces something like/di:j/ , which is unacceptable . |
| 3 | The genus as a whole shares its virtuous qualities with few others in the marine aquarium hobby . |
| 4 | And we can look at the interview as a whole to understand what particular comments mean . |
| 5 | But it had been decentralised without attacking the big cost structures and without the addition of any procedures , with the result that two functional layers were beginning to develop business managers were starting to grow their own subsidiary boards with their own functional capability while the organisation as a whole retained its own capability . |
| 6 | Originally intended as a shed to house their historic stock , substantial grants from the English Tourist Board and the Museums and Galleries Commission had enabled the concept to be developed into a museum . |
| 7 | In the Original Treatment it says : ‘ Natasha tells Lemmy that she loves him , but pronounces it as a child speaks its first words ’ |
| 8 | This is because it was important to prevent other people on either side from using the quarrel as a pretext to pursue their own ends , to justify their own thieving and homicide . |
| 9 | Parents have criticised the move as a tactic to wreck their self-governing move . |
| 10 | Firstly — he was an instinctive father , always concerned about his cubs , and as a seventeen-year-old handled his newborn son with the firm gentle confidence of an experienced midwife . |
| 11 | This fabliau makes explicit a linkage between vagina and mouth that we find implied elsewhere amongst the fabliaux : e.g. in Le Chevalier qui fist parler les cons , " The knight who made the cunts talk " , or Berengier au lonc cul , " Berengier of the long arse " , where a woman disguised as a knight makes her recreant husband kiss what seems to him to be her exceptionally long arse . |
| 12 | Whether this charm was involuntary , or used deliberately as a mask to hide his real feelings , she could only guess . |
| 13 | We first meet Richard Faucenbois as a boy approaching his twelfth birthday in The Black Riders ; The Stormy Petrel and The House of the Paladin return to the boy at fourteen and fifteen , when he has already earned his nickname of the Stormy Petrel , and in The Betrayer he moves into his sixteenth year with agonising decisions to make ; in three later books ( Richard and the Golden Horseshoe , The Red Rose of Ruvina and The Secret of the White Peacock , he is in his mid-twenties and the chases and escapes of youth have been put aside for the role of diplomat and teacher . |
| 14 | Newcastle had to win both their Group A games to retain a chance of moving into the semi-final , but Keegan clearly saw this as a chance to use his developing players . |
| 15 | These fanatics used fame as a chance to impose their own loopy private fantasy world on pop kids ' imagination . |
| 16 | The winger now hopes to use the Ibrox move as a platform to advance his international credentials . |
| 17 | It is cynical to suppose that , far from ‘ designing ’ its gp160 to be denatured , MicroGeneSys has rewritten history and grasped the concept of vaccine immunotherapy as a way to exploit their denatured product ? |
| 18 | She was really pleased when she came back and found him fighting fit , even though he was still using one wing as a crutch to support his crooked leg . |
| 19 | Or , alternatively , a mother encounters a persistent feeding difficulty in the baby , fails to resolve it , and as a result loses her initial equanimity and becomes tense and fearful with him ( and if that , in turn , then makes the feeding problem even worse one is left with a vicious spiral of the kind that can only be resolved by some drastic outside intervention and which clearly shows , moreover , the difficulty of disentangling cause and effect when confronted by the end result ) . |
| 20 | A man called Jack O'Malley who served in the British Army in Flanders as a captain got his old uniform out , dressed up half a dozen of his men as soldiers and went to Limerick Prison with a fake order that said they wanted Fitzgerald at Dublin Castle . ’ |
| 21 | It was Robinson , an alderman of the city of York , who built the present Hall , as a home and , more importantly , as a place to entertain his fellow aldermen in style . |
| 22 | For example , choices may be driven by a search strategy with the user seeking a particular item of information or instead may be an unstructured , browsing investigation , as much a reflection of the user 's curiosity as a desire to locate anything particular . |
| 23 | But it was just as an excuse to get her latest lover into the house . |
| 24 | WHEREAS MOST brands view a live performance as an excuse to caress their inflated egos , The Shamen prefer to remain tucked away in the background — visible yet vulnerable . |
| 25 | WHEREAS MOST brands view a live performance as an excuse to caress their inflated egos , The Shamen prefer to remain tucked away in the background — visible yet vulnerable . |
| 26 | Ironically the British soon saw this as an opportunity to cut their own forces . |
| 27 | The Bolsheviks might wish to prove their democratic credentials to the subject peoples , but the Great Powers would inevitably see this as an opportunity to advance their own interests or eliminate a threat to them . |
| 28 | Use a lesson based on video as an occasion to do something different . |
| 29 | New ways of thought , concentrated but largely ineffectual attempts to persuade the British that they are ‘ European ’ , a fear of talking about the English ‘ race ’ and its diaspora round the world and the virtual disappearance of the word ‘ Protestant ’ as an adjective to describe anyone other than Ulster fanatics , has meant that a once powerful cultural and historic bond is little understood in the late twentieth century . |
| 30 | This perception of Reagan as an ideologue had its beneficial side for ‘ the strong beliefs that made many voters fearful of Reagan also attracted voters to him , since they suggested leadership and decis-iveness — qualities widely felt to be lacking in the Carter presidency ’ . |