Example sentences of "he [modal v] [verb] as a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may fail as a result of natural disasters but no one can blame him for that . |
| 2 | A typical formula provides that the parent company will indemnify an expatriate against any loss or expense he may suffer as a result of a breach of contract by the subsidiary , for instance if the employment is terminated before the expiry of a specified fixed term . |
| 3 | He may begin as a standard-bearer and allow himself to be persuaded to go forward as a contender . ’ |
| 4 | He arranged bridging-loans and a mortgage to make up the price of the tall house with the basement into which she had decided he should move as a lodger , abandoning his awful little bed-sit in Chepstow Road . |
| 5 | ‘ to provide the laws under which the object of his charity was to be governed and to be sole judge of the interpretation and application of those laws either by himself or by such person as he should appoint as a visitor … ’ |
| 6 | She was determined he should qualify as a doctor and just as determined that he should practise here . |
| 7 | The principle that no man can be a judge in his own cause may also be infringed if a person has so actively identified himself with the temperance cause , by his actions in campaigning against the granting of certificates , that it would be contrary to elementary justice that he should act as a member of a licensing board . |
| 8 | the failure of the Court of Appeal to relist in order to dispose of B 's remaining arguments about his trial ( and , if necessary , to certify matters for appeal to the House of Lords , including the reach of the Gallagher jurisdiction ) is both a substantive failure of the legal system to provide B with a fair criminal trial and a demonstration that there are no further remedies to raise the issue available to B within the English legal system that he must pursue as a precondition for the admissibility of any claim under the European Convention . |
| 9 | The terrorist is normally a person who , as such , risks death either by his own weapons or in the commission of his act , and is at least as likely to court what he might regard as a martyr 's or patriot 's death as to be deterred by it . |
| 10 | He could bay as a wolf . |
| 11 | He used to work as a policeman and , on the few occasions when he was in extreme danger , automatically did whatever had to be done without any thought for his own safety . |
| 12 | The olive grove through which he used to walk as a boy was submerged beneath a main road and a cluster of lean-to engineering sheds even before 1948 . |
| 13 | This is many times what he would earn as a university graduate in Bangladesh . |
| 14 | In the event , the deal which has emerged in Taif has justified the general 's fears of what he would regard as a sell-out of the Maronite cause . |
| 15 | I said that the best thing he could do for the whites was to demonstrate to the blacks that they fully supported the widest possible franchise , and that if he did that he would emerge as a statesman , with a statesman 's view of his responsibilities . |
| 16 | One of these , Bernard Levin , memorably described a visit to Evita as " one ofthe most disagreeable evenings I have ever spent in my life , in or out of the theatre " , and " Do n't cry for me , Argentina " as a somewhat inferior melody to one he would hear as a boy , improvised on the saxophone by a busker outside the Albert Hall with only three fingers on his left hand . |
| 17 | He will come as a boy . |
| 18 | When a man achieves his highest reality he can serve as a fantasy for another man ; and in a frightening Genetic turnabout , both then become equal . |
| 19 | Wilko 's comment when asked if there 's anything he can do as a manager to counteract that sort of thing was , ‘ shoot him ’ ! |
| 20 | ‘ He can operate as a defender , a sweeper or a midfielder , and I 'll be using him in the midfield role . |
| 21 | ‘ ONE of the outstanding books of this 20 years , ’ wrote Sean O'Faolain in his review of Angus Wilson 's first collection of stories , The Wrong Set , on its appearance in 1949 : He is a satirist with a lyrical touch ; trenchant , ruthless , often very funny , sometimes very frightening ; and he can write as a duck can swim . |
| 22 | And now he intends to prove that he can flourish as a goalscorer among the highest company . |
| 23 | Something , anything , he can use as a club . |