Example sentences of "[be] as the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ( 2 ) Committees of the whole House , which are as the name suggest .
2 Whether this has been in Bangladesh or Bradford or East London , the teacher must learn to accept the children as they are as the starting point of her teaching .
3 He would come out with lines like , ‘ Let your words to God be as the noise of Esau ! ’
4 And in order to understand it and one 's place in it , one must be as the universe .
5 When we have cares , we are not to look to pagan religious practices and philosophies for respite , but we are to be as the Apostle Peter put it ‘ Casting all your care upon him , for he careth for you . ’
6 But it must be as the result of Labour pressure — and clearly seen as such .
7 As soon as people began to build artificial forms and structures , sacred geometry came into being as the pattern , conscious or unconscious , underlying a particular structure .
8 We all reckon that being as the prize for lowest weight was a year on the Cambridge Diet he fished without any bait at all on the hook .
9 Being as the car 's going on Monday I do n't actually need the gemini er alarm .
10 I would agree with you that if the if we have gone along and said to people , well er yo , we 've got alternative accommodation for you and they have n't wanted to go then , well I 'm sure that we hope not to give them that er er , alternative accommodation er , and it 's not in our interest at all to er , keep er , places empty , and further more we have n't really got er enough er , alternative places to put er , these er tenants in so I 'm that it 's as the result of the sort of dwellings that er we 've er we now find ourselves with as a result of the er initial buildings in the first place .
11 Both tribes were to be scattered , but Levi 's as the nation 's priesthood .
12 The importance of ISDN is as the foundation for the entire model ; the single , standard interface through which all the rest will be provided : ‘ Our model says that this guy needs one interface ’ , says Corris , then he can decide when making a call that he wants to use certain intelligent aspects of the network , he can say ‘ I need another channel …
13 Although the physical environment is important to individuals and communities in a variety of ways — as prospect and refuge , for example ( Appleton , 1975 ) as well as an aesthetic resource — its main function by far is as the foundation for human survival .
14 The sequence numbering of the met operator is as the description of the DNA fragment in the crystal , where bases 1–8 and 9–16 correspond to consensus met boxes
15 Significantly , as the only girl to have gained access to this den , Audrey 's source of influence is as the provider of food :
16 Her identity in the society is as the daughter of somebody , as the wife of somebody and finally as the mother of somebody .
17 As I switched on the television prior to using is as the computer screen to write this article , a lady was interviewing the country 's strongest man .
18 One way of perceiving this progression is as the struggle of the poet to come to terms with the nature of creativity , drawing on all that he sees in the imagery of lines 12–22 until the attainment of maturity in the ‘ momently ’ of line 24 , when he reaches a state of oneness with his environment and is free to channel its flow into works of art .
19 When we come together for worship it is as the body of Christ , to be the body of Christ and to feed on the body of Christ .
20 ‘ My strength is as the strength of ten , because my heart is pure . ’
21 Although the popular view of Summerson is as the historian of Georgian building ( his Georgian London , first published in 1945 is still in print ) , and although he was a founder member of the Georgian Society , conservation groups failed to enlist his automatic support .
22 Its main use is as the fuel in thermonuclear devices .
23 Probably his greatest claim to fame is as the inventor of microphotography , his earliest successful results , based on the newly introduced wet collodion process , dating from February 1852 .
24 I do n't particularly like the set up as it is as the moment .
25 Soldiers , psychiatrists , and priests might on this basis be classified together as social controllers ; doctors and perhaps teachers should be classified as sustainers : the proper theoretical place for them is as the maintenance engineers of labour power ; playwrights , philosophers , accountants , sociologists , and lawyers must be classified together as conceptive ideologists .
26 Taliesin said almost automatically , ‘ Wine is as the breath of life , Fribble , ’ and raised his own glass in salutation .
27 It is not about explaining what is , but rather seeks to give an account of what is as the basis for developing a set of practices for getting us to what might be .
28 Indeed , one way of viewing the Newbolt Report is as the outcome of a bestowal by the state upon a civil association of the right to report and make recommendations on public policy .
29 One way of thinking about health is as the absence of disease .
30 The ironic delight that Nizan displayed in presenting an extremist image of himself , whether it be as the arch-conservative , staunch defender of private property and the Church , or as the committed Bolshevik , reached its climax in late 1925 and early 1926 .
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