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

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1 In a heated debate in parliament , most of the deputies concerned denied the allegation , arguing variously that their names had appeared in StB files by mistake , as a result of blackmail or as part of an attempt to frame them .
2 For this purpose the owner will include any person in occupation other than as a tenant from year to year or for any less term or as tenant at will ( London Building Act 1930 , s5 ) .
3 This control data was obtained from patients and healthy volunteers who had undergone identical tests as the patients with idiopathic DU and over the same period either specifically for the present study or as part of another study .
4 The puppies that were to remain in the UK , although shown , achieved no obvious success , either in the show ring or as breeding prospects .
5 She prayed , and took up vegetarianism , more as an extra religion than as part of the war effort ; after a while she made herself go back to the hospital , and eventually she found Higher Mathematics .
6 Churchill at once sought to exploit this potential rift among his opponents , but Attlee replied firmly to the effect that as leader of his party he was free to make commitments on its behalf .
7 For US television , such a postmodernism can be seen less as an aesthetic reaction to modernism than as part of the logic of a ‘ classical ’ concern with convention produced by an economic structure which needs product differentiation within a highly competitive market .
8 Younger children often try to use a funnel as a scoop , but as they progress , it is used to fill bottles , control the flow of water through the water wheel and as part of a complex water system of pipes , jugs and bottles on different levels .
9 There are , in the UK , more than 30 million domestic fridges which use CFCs as the refrigerant and as part of the foam insulation in walls and doors .
10 She has served as a student counsellor with the Education and Training Department and as deputy director of practice regulation she played a major role in setting up the new regulations for financial services business and audit .
11 Besides the more obvious areas for employment , actuaries are to be found applying their skills in the academic world , in computer development , operational research and as business consultants .
12 The second and later major influence on Barth has been , again by his own admission , that of Borges and he has set on record his admiration for that writer in his most famous article , ‘ The Literature of Exhaustion ’ ( 1967 ) , in which he argues that certain literary forms may be used up and so are no longer available to the writer except as parody .
13 The votes of the minority have not counted as the clear expression of a minority opinion ; they have not counted at all in the eyes of the majority except as evidence of Catholic disloyalty to the Northern semi-state .
14 Linguistics may be studied either as a single honours degree or as part of a joint honours degree .
15 Lord Salisbury , who had a poor opinion of Clarke 's abilities ( as had Halsbury ) , wrote in much perplexity to the Lord Chancellor but saying that the Rolls should be offered to Clarke ‘ on party grounds ’ because he would do less harm as a judge than as Attorney-General .
16 His work for the BDDA stretched over nearly twenty years , during which time he served in an honourary capacity as Secretary , as Chairman of the Scottish Regional Council and as editor of the BDN in succession to Kenneth McDougall .
17 Additionally , Blake was involved in checking Communist infiltration into the British sector and as part of these duties he began to learn Russian and had some officially approved contact with the Russians as part of a plan to see whether any of them could be persuaded to become British agents .
18 announced her resignation as Society Chairman as from the AGM and took great pleasure in introducing as next Society Chairman and as Vice-Chairman , she was sure they would make a good team and wished them every success in the future .
19 In this article Richard Verdi , Professor of Fine Arts and Art History , talks about the Collection 's developing role in teaching and as part of the University 's and the City 's artistic heritage .
20 Well I get involved in it in so many different ways erm this is a difficult one , but one of the things that happens is that a number of teachers , both from the area and elsewhere , erm do advanced courses at the university and as part of these courses we have a unit on evaluation , and for this they will choose some area of their school work which they and their colleagues — and I emphasise that this is something they do have to involve their colleagues back at school in very much — erm feel it would be useful to look at and then they try and discuss with their colleagues what aspects of it are important and significant and what ought to be seen , and they bring this discussion back and we all discuss together there 'll be different teachers working on different problems the different ways in which they could approach this problem and how they might most usefully be able to do it and at the end of the exercise they will have found out quite a lot about this particular area of teaching and very often we find that the people they 've consulted have themselves got quite interested in it and begun to realize that it 's not being done in a way that 's there to threaten them , they 're not sending a report to the headmaster or the Chief Education Officer or anything like that — it 's for the benefit of the people doing the work themselves .
21 Either by accident or as punishment for his sins , she had left him to the mercy of the Bogeyman .
22 James Piccian , assistant general manager of technology products , told the Dataquest semiconductor conference that as part of IBM 's plans to enter the merchant market , the company is hiring from outside IBM to build a world-class sales and marketing organisation .
23 The gallery deploys different systems of organisation from those adopted by the Design Museum ; exhibits are proposed less as objects of desire than as object lessons .
24 The sludge from the Glasgow conurbation will be used instead for land reclamation and as fertiliser .
25 The Head of Business Information has served as Secretary of the Scottish Online Users Group and as Editor for the Library Association Industrial Group ( Scotland ) .
26 a sentence is not autonomous , it does not exist for its own sake but as part of a situation and part of a text .
27 A certificate of a judgment or order ( N 293 ) for use in England or Wales is supplied to a party on a request by letter stating the reason for which it is required , usually for enforcing the judgment in the High Court or as evidence or for bankruptcy proceedings .
28 I often use up leftover vegetables in a vegetable omelette or as part of a rice-based meal , a sort of risotto .
29 Without the option of textiles , the only other really large-scale employer of women in the city was the clothing trade , where women were more likely to be classified as milliner/dressmaker or seamstress than as tailor .
30 Similarly , the description of the conventions regarding the form of language to be used are to be interpreted more as a parody and critique of the rival Academy than as evidence of what members of the Royal Society really did .
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