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

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1 And what he really meant to say was , you ca n't use money as a er a as a sort of parallel to energy , but paradigm does n't mean parallel , it means something , something different .
2 And then again if they pay me this money as an ex gratia payment .
3 But the serrated gratings must have sufficiently broken the crust of the brick-broken mutilated plastimetal that covers a great deal of the world that is an eyeball , and little light yellow-green stubs poked through , cos the Sun was still up there , way up there , even though someone had devised a new kind of force of matter transference and was attempting to move the Sun to his laboratory-country where it would be used to grow humlants — in which the old human brain was to be stretched in durable fibrosity and connected inextricably to root and flower , making rings of energy that took their partners for a whaltz or a flexitrot and multiplied their species by being fried on a plasetal plate whose temperature was so great that they never actually touched it but skimmed over , coming off the other side as a more-than-when-they-started .
4 Defeated in the 1922 general election for Dáil Éireann , she secured a seat in Dublin in the 1923 election but abstained from taking her seat as a Sinn Fein republican .
5 Right , members will recall from the last meeting , there was an issue of it at Shrewsbury College , because of the transfer of the screw and ribbon factory to the college , or the College 's claim to the transfer of the screw and ribbon factory to them , because of the er , the cre the vesting of the College as an in independent body under the Higher Education Act .
6 In his various schools in lower Egypt Nasser has a certain self-consciousness as a saidi and one of peasant background .
7 Having shown Cade 's pointless destructiveness Shakespeare reins him in by confronting him with more speakers who exemplify the old definition of the orator as a vir bonus peritus dicendi .
8 This can be seen as a kind of intermediate position halfway between the child as a tabula rasa with no innate knowledge of the world and the child being able to speak at birth .
9 I bought the machine as a 486SX/25 with 8Mb of RAM and 120Mb hard drive .
10 In the summer before I go away to university I get a job as an au pair in London .
11 Dragons of Flame is at best a weak beat-'em up , and could never cut the mustard as a bona fide roleplayer .
12 The liberals of the Cortes of Cadiz accepted this dissolution as a fait accompli and it was this that made the Orders the chief enemies of liberalism in Spain .
13 In all my life there have been very few occasions when I badly wanted more money and that was one of them , because on my wage of three shillings a day as an AC2 I was unable to drape her with expensive clothes .
14 The coveted contract helps strengthen arguments proposing Tuxedo as a de facto standard .
15 Having devoted the greater part of this year and last to extending its near hegemony in the market for low-end and mid-range Unix-based imaging solutions , promoting the GL graphics library as a de facto standard , and continuing to digest the business of the former MIPS Computer Systems Inc , SGI has n't given much attention to its high-end .
16 Although GL is gaining ground as a de facto standard it does not support PEX , the Phigs extensions which allow developers to write distributed , three-dimensional graphics applications for X-Windows : ‘ because PHIGS is years behind the marketplace , ’ insists SGI .
17 on this , on this particular matter , I would like to add erm on C E G traffic manager as a tem as a temporarily lease because , I mean let's face it unless we plan ahead we are going to be in a hell of a muddle , in trouble .
18 Although Ice Cube 's role as an agent provocateur is unequivocal , his future as a bankable revolutionary must be open to doubt , despite his assertion on the liner notes of ‘ Predator ’ : ‘ I will become an African-American when America gives up the oppression of my people . ’
19 Kissinger erm who began life as a er er as professor of history .
20 Developed and designed by Austin , Texas-based Ross , under the watchful eyes of Sun Microsystems Inc engineers , the superscalar , superpipelined HyperSparc begins life as a 66.7MHz unit delivering 70 SPECmarks ( 55 SPECint , 64 SPECfp ) , 133 MIPS and 32 MFLOPS , compared to the 50 SPECmarks of Texas ' initial 40MHz Viking CPU .
21 Although Cypress/Ross is keeping price and performance of its own superscalar effort pretty much under wraps , the HyperSparc — known until now only by its code-name , Pinnacle — will start life as a 55MHz offering in its first iteration , set to rise to 80MHz later in the year .
22 A dual-processor Sparcstation 10 , the Model 52 , was to have used 45MHz SuperSparcs , but will now start life as a 40MHz affair , though observers wonder if Texas can even hit that mark .
23 The County Council , having been presented with the Channel Tunnel as a fait accompli , is concerned to maximise its potential benefits by directing associated commercial development to those areas which will benefit most .
24 That the British eventually accepted the American view in most details shows that they had largely subsumed the aviation issue in the larger question of economic viability , and used aviation as a quid pro quo for the American loan .
25 He can not be as dominating in the air as a 6ft.4in goalkeeper .
26 Even so , it is possible for a court to interpret a statute as covering what looks at first sight as a casus omissus if it can find or invent some plausible general principle of interpretation , an exercise that may call for a little ingenuity .
27 But interest now focuses on its potential as an aide memoire in police investigations .
28 The decree , however , emphasized that it was the colony 's " grave and reiterated infractions " both of its status as a non profit-making charity and of the country 's tax , educational , labour and health laws which lay behind the decision .
29 The view south from Woodburn box as a V2 leaves Sheffield for Marylebone .
30 Its main use is as a riding/tool/brake vehicle on winter works trains , but it is also doing temporary duty as a tickets/sales vehicle at Bala on busy days in the season .
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