Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] as [verb] " in BNC.

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1 In choosing buildings , particular attention is paid to their special value within certain types , either for architectural or planning reasons or as illustrating social and economic history ; technological innovation or virtuosity ( for instance , cast-iron prefabrication or the early use of concrete ) ; and association with well-known characters or events : and group value , especially as examples of town planning ( for instance , squares , terraces or model villages ) .
2 And since even a polygonal story should have at least two sides in all international farewell orgies , how about packing it in and having a bash at normal behaviour eh , so as to get bashed again as whipping boy despite my morseled-out attempts to break free or go shiating on , turning the other cheek to sheer cheek as sitting target for the unclear missiles of affreux dizzy acts or as wailing wall of blame beyond the demarcation line or bowstring frontier that will boomerang back and much joy may it give me. ( 102 )
3 But they see policy-level bureaucrats as either directly controlled by an external business elite or as acting in an implicitly biased way to defend the social interests of people with similar backgrounds , incomes and interests to themselves .
4 Over a trial period , adjust preset VR1 slightly to provide a timing of 24 hours or as required .
5 On a grand scale they can be used instead of aqueducts or as approaches to them .
6 Not that one is offering literature as a substitute religion or as providing a philosophy for life .
7 But is there anything which can be imagined as existing in isolation and as possessing great value in such a case ?
8 Since 1970 the systems approach has diffused with varying degrees of success into all areas of physical geography and as visualized by Stoddart ( 1967b , p. 538 ) :
9 Lord Roskill , in the course of a speech concurred in by Lords Fraser of Tullybelton , Edmund-Davies , Brandon of Oakbrook and Brightman , referred , at p. 331 , to Reg. v. Lawrence [ 1972 ] A.C. 626 with apparent approval as having set out the four elements involved in the offence of theft and as having rejected the argument that there could not be theft within section 1(1) if the owner of the property had consented to the defendant 's acts .
10 Eurocommunism is the generic name given to the political strategies and beliefs of those Western European communist parties which have broken from alliance with the Soviet Union and repudiated the Leninist model of socialism both as it has turned out in practice and as envisaged in ideal terms ( Boggs and Plotke , 1980 ; Carillo , 1977 ; Claudin , 1979 ) .
11 We 'd carefully worked out the tides and as arranged waded back to the shore at 8 o'clock .
12 That the Subjects which are Protestants may have Armes for their defence Suitable to their Condition and as allowed by Law .
13 The next one is er got a meeting on it er I think the airlines are going on a very much a co- ordinated thing er I think most people are probably in agreement with this size eight exemption , make a group specific because really the idea when they put this original proposal in about the size of aircraft was to protect things like the and troops that are shall we say and I think most people would go for that line of thinking because as put in there , why the hell should something again on Cambridge when we ca n't on Stansted but it was really designed to protect certain things .
14 First of all erm he justified his view on environmental considerations as as considered by the City Council , I think we would say , the County Council , that one of the main considerations that has brought us to the conclusion that we have are environmental considerations , the environment of York and its immeding immediate surroundings , the protection er of the York greenbelt , environmental considerations have been er at the most er in our minds .
15 Nothing of what I am going to attempt to say should in any way be read as denying the value of psychoanalysis nor as implying that the Church has not been , and continues to be , deeply misogynistic in ways that are damaging both to women and to the Church itself .
16 Hewlett-Packard 's PA-RISC , Slater held up as being among the fastest workstations shipping today , as having a rich architecture and as having a large primary cache in current implementations .
17 This underlines the fact that in nuclear matters , as in the laws of war generally , domestic law may be very important both as a source of the law and as providing some sanctions .
18 Actual demographic trends also contributed to the outward movement , as the rearing of the 1960s baby boom children increased the demand for houses with gardens and as falling average household size reduced the population capacity of cities that had only limited sites available for new housing construction ( Champion , 1987b ) .
19 The demographic trends outlined earlier in this chapter also played a part , as the rearing of the 1960s baby-boom children increased the demand for houses with gardens and as falling average household size reduced the population capacity of cities that had only limited sites available for new housing construction .
20 and erm I 'll be , we knit jumpers as well there , cardigans and as pick them a cardigan I bought from Blacks in Newcastle
21 Bush characterized the action as having no military advantage for the Iraqis and as providing further evidence of Saddam Hussein 's ability to " amaze " and " outrage " international opinion .
22 The other thing I I was n't sure and this is just my thoughts on it , you are using the stewards as as points where they 're going to be you know coordinating people and everything .
23 He submitted that it was quite clear that the FPC reached a considered decision as what it found to be the proper level of use of the deputising service consistently with maintaining the doctor 's primary responsibility and as regards the need to maintain the standards of the deputising service efficiently and consistently with that obligation .
24 Pituitary scans were reported as normal in 11 cases and as showing an empty sella in one , a microadenoma in 18 , and a macroadenoma in six ( table I ) .
25 A vote was then taken on the resolution with 's addition and as amended by QC with the following result : in favour 29 ; against 50 .
26 There are no nationwide ley systems , though possible local arrangements are beginning to be discerned-particularly alignments onto ‘ holy hills ’ , as in Bolivia and as noted by the German researcher Dr Josef Heinsch during his researches before the Second World War .
27 It remains a component of many , more traditionally based , agroecosystems and as discussed in section 4.4.1 , a return to such practices is now considered to be one answer to Africa 's poor record as a provider of sufficient food for its population .
28 From the point of view of finding its Laplace transform , a unit rectangular pulse may be conveniently regarded as the difference between two unit steps occurring at times and as shown in figure 11.5(b) .
29 These committees had been created on March 12 , under the auspices of the Interior Ministry and as laid down in the electoral law .
30 The larger group under Col Krat was recorded by 6 Armoured Div on 10 May as among " Enemy Formations " which had surrendered to the division and as having been concentrated in the area of Voelkermarkt , to the east of Klagenfurt .
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