Example sentences of "as an [noun sg] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This time I used a grey Ingres paper and left it exposed in parts of the sky , as well as using it as an undertone to modify the colour put over it elsewhere . |
| 2 | The curse of Ham could be used as an excuse to justify the enslavement of African negroes but that did not make them members of an entirely different species ; and anyway the American Indians were not even black ! |
| 3 | Each night she retired to bed a few minutes earlier , and he saw it as an excuse to avoid the means of starting another pregnancy , though she was in the best of health . |
| 4 | Most writers used the record as an excuse to reassess the group . |
| 5 | Dr Galdikas maintains that the animals are not sick ( the test results have subsequently been questioned ) , and that , anyway , Tanjung Puting has a special isolation area , and that the TB tests are being used as an excuse to keep the animals in the research laboratory . |
| 6 | In the 1930s , when the Japanese perceived that the Americans , British , Chinese and Dutch , were threatening their supplies of oil and raw materials they coined the term ‘ ABCD encirclement ’ , and used it eventually as an excuse to start the Pacific War . |
| 7 | He used the Monmouth Rebellion as an excuse to increase the size of his standing army , from the 8,565 troops inherited from his brother , to a total of 19,778 by the end of the year . |
| 8 | An opponent of the Vance-Owen peace plan , Mr Biden called on the Europeans to remove their troops from Bosnia , if they were going to use their presence as an excuse to prevent the Bosnians from defending themselves . |
| 9 | A base acts as an installation supporting the operations of a military force and serves as its point of origin . |
| 10 | The affair was also seized on by opposition politicians as an opportunity to highlight the government 's incompetence and to call for its resignation and for an early general election , in the run-up to the regional elections due in March . |
| 11 | This was taken up by local historians as an opportunity to highlight the indignity committed against the town and to use that as an excuse for Stamford 's embarrassing decline into a small provincial town the ‘ sleepy hollow ’ backwater of the nineteenth century . |
| 12 | Very clearly , the Prime Minister saw the speech as an opportunity to set the agenda for an extended public discussion of educational issues . |
| 13 | If the child shows a habit of prolonged crying then instead of expecting him or her to sit there for a long period of time , the first break in crying after a few minutes should be taken by the parent as an opportunity to allow the child to get up . |
| 14 | We agents , however , must represent anything with the air of a cock-up only as an opportunity to demonstrate the Partei 's brilliance in extricating itself from it . |
| 15 | Instead , use the first paragraph as an opportunity to translate the question into your own words . |
| 16 | The Northern Counties Region held its annual golf competition at Blackwell Grange Golf Club , Darlington , recently , and used the event as an opportunity to market the CIOB in the North . |
| 17 | It is plain that the government sees the re-organisation of community care as an opportunity to develop the role of the market in domiciliary care to complement its dominance in residential care . |
| 18 | They also saw it as an opportunity to get the packages of care that they sought implemented as early as possible . |
| 19 | She will use this as an opportunity to discuss the workshop agenda there . |
| 20 | The " crisis " was also used as an opportunity to bring the education and training of nurses in line with the demands of the twenty-first century , acknowledging some of the trends discussed earlier in the chapter . |
| 21 | In other words , either the present situation can be used as an opportunity to reform the system into something more rational and humane , or else it will deteriorate into something much worse even than the present . |
| 22 | They combined to defeat the expected attempt by conservatives — in this instance , Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Justices Antonio Scalia , Byron White and Clarence Thomas — to use the case as an opportunity to overturn the Roe v. Wade precedent . |
| 23 | Democrats in Congress used the conference as an occasion to attack the Bush administration 's position . |
| 24 | The approach to independent valuations seeks to ensure that the valuer retains an impartial stance , since , in these circumstances , he will usually be acting as an expert resolving the position between two or more parties . |
| 25 | For it was as we have seen , in September 1833 , that the delegate conference of the Builders ' Union decided at Owen 's prompting to constitute the union as an organisation to run the building industry . |
| 26 | Green 's early works as an architect included the Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Society 's building ( 1822–5 ) and the beginnings of a lengthy sequence of somewhat undistinguished Gothic-style churches ; while he also developed a reputation as a designer of farmhouses , being employed in this capacity on the Beaufront estate near Hexham ( 1824 ) and by Hugh Percy , second Duke of Northumberland [ q.v . ] . |
| 27 | In these , and other works , the soldier as an individual occupies the centre of the stage . |
| 28 | The two questions are one if we understand the obligation to obey the law as an obligation to obey the law as it requires to be obeyed . |
| 29 | Wilkins took the silence of the Bible , on a question such as the plurality of worlds , not as a ban but as an invitation to entertain the notion . |
| 30 | The curious thing about such stretches of Creole is that they are never treated as an invitation to continue the conversation in Creole , but rather as a one-off comment . |