Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] as [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One can assume that the leaders of the Revolt were eliminated , removing the upper levels of tribal society , and also that the lands and possessions of the tribes would have been seized by the state to be retained as agerpublicus , sold off to speculators or given as rewards to loyalists . |
| 2 | The program output can be in the form of specified data or given as nomograms which can be interpreted by the designer . |
| 3 | They do not explore the range of shapes pupils will accept or regard as examples of a shape . |
| 4 | A state marketing system gives derisory prices for commodities produced by peasants and later exported to earn foreign exchange spent by the bureaucratic bourgeoisie and other privileged classes , or consumed as foodstuffs at cheap prices . |
| 5 | Their approaches have been included under the general category of ‘ administrative criminology ’ ( see Young , 1986 ) , or seen as varieties of control theory ( Downes and Rock , 1982 ) . |
| 6 | Little mention has been made so far of those elements of material forms which relate to each other in an ordered fashion , and which may thereby influence the manner in which they are utilized in constituting cultural patterns or acting as systems of meaning . |
| 7 | In the dark ages people like Edward got crucified or burned as witches . |
| 8 | Consequently in 1510 these were bracketed with squires of the body and other court officers , while the 1533 act specifies in addition esquires or gentlemen eligible for knighthood or to serve as knights of the shire . |
| 9 | The majority of these manned the parish churches and chapels of the diocese , or acted as chaplains to great laymen . |
| 10 | Often they are accompanied in graves by other ‘ trinkets ’ , at the foot of the grave in a wooden box , or worn as pendants . |
| 11 | I 'd now like to talk about places where stamps can be bought , whether for your own collection or to give as gifts . |
| 12 | Earlier this year a report commissioned by Christiane Scrivener , the European Commissioner responsible for taxation , proposed a 30% withholding tax in all member states regardless of whether profits are retained or distributed as dividends . |
| 13 | Thus the physical , biological or social can all be apprehended or known as images , things , hypothetical ideas or real ideas , with each level of knowing more real than the previous one . |
| 14 | ( i ) any goods listed above are sold to a bidder for less than his highest bid or part of the price is repaid or credited to him ( or stated to be so ) ; or ( ii ) the right to bid for any goods listed above is ( or is stated to be ) restricted to persons who have bought or agreed to buy one or more articles ; or ( iii ) any articles are given away or offered as gifts . |
| 15 | With the separation of political power from the family , women were less able to influence the process of political recruitment or to act as substitutes for their men . |
| 16 | Most were intended to be exulting or to act as aids to the recognition of individual figures . |
| 17 | Students are normally placed as English language assistants in schools or enrolled as students in a French university . |
| 18 | Source C describes how they bravely took over the dangerous jobs in munitions factories , and how they joined or worked alongside the armed services , either joining women 's armed services , or working as nurses out on the battlefront . |
| 19 | In addition , there are numerous foreign graduates from the Continent and elsewhere with considerable linguistic skills selling hamburgers or working as waiters with poor pay and no social recognition or status . |
| 20 | Members of the House of Lords appear on the Electoral Register for local and European electoral purposes only : they are allowed neither to vote in parliamentary elections nor to serve as Members of Parliament . |
| 21 | But it seems more likely that ninth-century landlords , still using ( why not ? ) the old terminology of the Roman fiscal system , were exacting on their own account dues that had once been owed to the state , rather than acting as tax-collectors on the state 's behalf . |
| 22 | The drift of his remarks is likely to find favour with the Lord Chancellor , Lord Mackay of Clashfern , who said last year that many litigants wanted fuller participation in the legal process rather than acting as bystanders in cases conducted by lawyers . |
| 23 | Torchraven is targeting the VARpack at resellers in vertical markets such as local government , finance and retail ; those developing applications for specific products ; and computer departments in large companies that act as resellers within their organisations . |
| 24 | OEMed workstations from the likes of Mentor Graphics Corp , Valid Logic Inc , Control Data Systems Inc and Siemens-Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG are also not included , nor are board-level components , multiuser systems that act as hosts to two or more terminals like the VAX 11/780 and IBM 9370 or parallel processing systems — or even the ICL plc DRS6000 . |
| 25 | Workstations that have been bought in OEM by the likes of Mentor Graphics Corp , Valid Logic Inc , Control Data Systems Inc and Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG are also not included , nor are board-level components , multi-user systems that act as hosts to two or more terminals , such as the VAX-11/780 and IBM 9370 or parallel processing systems — or even the ICL Plc DRS 6000 . |
| 26 | Associate audits of companies that act as agents , suppliers or contractors . |
| 27 | The things that act as signals are their intuitively created trip wires . |
| 28 | And there in front of them was the blue rectangle of the swimming pool , framed by the green of the grass and the darker green of the box hedges that acted as windbreaks . |
| 29 | Once caricatured as far-Right-wingers , they were dependable for their unsolicited robust views on hanging , repatriation and grisly prescriptions for homosexuals . |
| 30 | He recently ruled that they were not covered by the buildings section because they were no longer part of the structure ; nor classed as contents . |