Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Groups formed as a result of a parent company , such as Matsushita Electric , spinning off its own operating divisions to form separate companies within the same field to act as suppliers , distributors and even retailers . |
| 2 | It is realistic when one considers the number of new operations developed as a consequence of medical research . |
| 3 | The schoolmaster 's appointment was at times treated as a sinecure for the vicar of Evenley , a Magdalen living . |
| 4 | In the case of land , statutory provisions may give priority to a later contract registered as a land charge even if entered into with knowledge of an earlier , unregistered transaction , but it seems that this affects only proprietary rights and does not bar an action in tort based on interference with the earlier contract . |
| 5 | ‘ This controversy has been tainted by racism parading as a concern for the adolescents ’ welfare , ’ says Boudjema . |
| 6 | Over more than ten years there have been negotiations between Kent County Council ( which originally intended to retain West Malling as a general aviation aerodrome ) and the local planning authority that intended to build all over it . |
| 7 | His political goals were quite contrasting — Weber had no objection to seeing his native Germany develop as a capitalist state overseen by a parliament . |
| 8 | The student demonstrations against corruption occurred because of illegalities exposed as a result of his high standards of probity . |
| 9 | Reserve team versus Coventry last Wednesday postponed — Tinkler and Weatherall comebacks after injury/illness delayed as a result . |
| 10 | In the event , Burnell goes as a dependable foot soldier and Wright as a tight-head who proved his versatility by scrummaging so solidly at loose-head against Jeff Probyn . |
| 11 | ‘ I am taking this matter up with the DoE Roads Service as a matter of urgency , ’ said Alderman Hugh Smyth . |
| 12 | Errors of principle — A purchase treated as a sale ; a receipt treated as a payment ; returns in treated as returns out ; an asset treated as an expense . |
| 13 | On June 3 , 1990 , the national committee of the Social Democratic Party voted to suspend the party 's constitution because it no longer had the membership or popular support to continue as a democratic national party . |
| 14 | After his demobilisation from the Navy he was accepted by the railway authorities to train as a signalman . |
| 15 | Its origins are lost in antiquity but the Rock has probably ben used as a fortress from the Iron Age . |
| 16 | All too rarely is the building considered as a whole : the shopfront is applied without a thought as to whether it clashes or blends in colour , proportion , materials or design with the building above . |
| 17 | In the old South , for example , Duke University stands as a bastion of what Hollander would call ‘ anti-American ’ thought . |
| 18 | And third , how has the central system for planning and controlling spending in Whitehall changed as a consequence of the ‘ hard times ’ ? |
| 19 | They were only a matter of metres away but , due to the insulation which separated every portion of dock superstructure — a provision designed as a safeguard against just the kind of occurrence which had threatened Rostov — both had been safe from danger . |
| 20 | Swindon say as a player he is worth a million pounds , and they should be compensated accordingly . |
| 21 | FURIOUS Bobby Gould was last night forced to cancel plans to appear as a BSkyB commentator at West Brom 's FA Cup second round replay against Wycombe after he was banned from The Hawthorns for his own safety . |
| 22 | Ironically enough , his main field experience occurred as a fortuitous consequence of the First World War . |
| 23 | The noise starts as a light tapping and builds up to a louder noise then stops suddenly . |
| 24 | April 9 , 1944 , brought the crew their tenth mission , on what Dan described as a ‘ Long haul ’ to the FW 190 plant at Marienburg , in East Prussia . |
| 25 | An HLA-A2.1 alloreactive CTL clone included as a positive control strongly lysed all transfectants , including the parental T2 cells . |
| 26 | With large files , there will frequently be a cylinder index added as a first level index . |
| 27 | The Green Haven school was a modern building designed as a two-teacher school but presently containing only one teacher with about a dozen pupils . |
| 28 | The American and Australian national clearinghouses are dependent on librarians to feed them with information on a regular basis , and as each clearinghouse develops as a focal point for information exchange this is quite successful . |
| 29 | On the other hand , where the contract redefines as a warranty a term which would otherwise be a condition , its effect is to exclude a remedy ( the right to reject goods and/or terminate the contract ) which would otherwise be available to the innocent party , and it will then be regarded as an exclusion clause . |
| 30 | Vigorous exercise for 20 minutes three times a week will approximately halve your chances of coronary thrombosis , as will getting rid of your spare tyre , cooperating with treatment for your raised blood pressure , and giving up smoking — even if the experience counts as a major life stress ! |