Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the piranha fish did not brush its fins gently against a member of the opposite sex each month it would not exist as a species . |
| 2 | L. , 1976 ) water authorities had a statutory power to make orders imposing charges on persons not connected to mains drainage was held to be ultra vires as the correct state of affairs did not exist as a precondition to the exercise of the power . |
| 3 | ( 2 ) The human being does not exist as a legal person until after birth . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , the NSF led by former Prime Minister Petre Roman elected a new executive bureau on April 9 and condemned the NSF-22 December branch , saying that it did not exist as a party , but only " expressed an intention " . |
| 5 | Thus , at all pressures below this point carbon dioxide can not exist as a liquid . |
| 6 | In general , they found that parents regarded care on a voluntary basis as helpful and positive — a service to families in times of difficulty that should be more readily offered , not treated as a last resort . |
| 7 | None is , nor can be , so structured as to ensure that the individual is not treated as a thing , as a commodity for use in the process of production or provision . |
| 8 | However , a person is not treated as a seasonal worker if his off-season , or off-seasons in aggregate , do not exceed seven weeks . |
| 9 | The storm damage was not treated as a consequence of the collision but as an intervening event in the course of an ordinary voyage . |
| 10 | However , in Re Cadbury Schweppes Ltd 's Agreement [ 1975 ] 2 All ER 307 a parent company and a subsidiary were not treated as a single person where two companies agreed to accept restrictions on the supply of goods to a third which was a subsidiary of one of them . |
| 11 | The losses involved in retirement are often either not foreseen , or not recognized as a problem . |
| 12 | Lying is never due to witchcraft , nor can it excuse adultery ; a thief can not plead in mitigation that he was bewitched , for witchcraft is not recognized as a cause of theft . |
| 13 | It is more difficult to talk about the construction of ‘ physical science ’ than it is to talk about the construction of physics , because physical science is not recognized as a discipline in the way that physics is . |
| 14 | When one recalls that for decades geography was not recognized as a scholarly discipline , one can not perhaps be surprised that some scientists have unsuspectingly spent their whole careers studying geography — rather like the well-known character of Molière who did not know that he had been speaking prose all his life ! |
| 15 | Although Symphonic Variations was not intended as a ritual , Ashton can be said to have used it as such for six dancers who were practising their art in the spacious simplicity of Sophie Fedorovitch 's décor . |
| 16 | ‘ Support ’ in the Act is not intended as a universal service for all , but one selectively applied to ‘ children in need ’ . |
| 17 | The picture in our feature was supplied to us by a manufacturer to illustrate a particular cot set and was not intended as a recommendation of how to put a baby down to sleep . |
| 18 | The console is not intended as a pattern storage system . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's a long way to go for a 45-minute service and a reception — even if you 're not 92 years old , ’ said one of her aides , who insisted that her absence was not intended as a snub . |
| 20 | The surprises of God are not intended as a substitute for strategy . |
| 21 | Blame can not be laid at the doorstep of any single photographer , designer , journalist or editor — this is not intended as a smug pop at our predecessors , nor a dig at individuals . |
| 22 | This invariably only occurs when the mulch is allowed to pack and remain undisturbed — mulching is not intended as a boon to lazy gardening by putting an end to the need for hoeing . |
| 23 | It is not intended as a mass-market machine , says Dennis Saloky , DEC 's marketing programmes manager for NT . |
| 24 | While not intended as a dogmatic definition , it was in fact little less . |
| 25 | It is not intended as a mass-market machine , says Dennis Saloky , DEC 's marketing programmes manager for NT . |
| 26 | The judges declined to accept the Tobacco Institute of Australia 's argument that the sentence was not intended as a statement of fact but as merely an expression of opinion or as the platform of an argument in a community wide debate . |
| 27 | It appears from the context that this is not intended as a limitation on the use of ‘ judicial channels ’ but rather as a preliminary observation before a specific provision that in such border cases legalization is not required . |
| 28 | Bowlby 's report was abridged and published as a paperback ( 1953 ) , thus becoming widely available to the lay public ; in the year of publication and the five years following , more than seventy-five thousand copies were sold , and nearly as many in the next five years : an exceptional sale in Britain for a book not intended as a baby book for parents . |
| 29 | They are presented in order to illustrate some similarities and differences in the way the Cockcroft recommendations are being interpreted in relation to assessment and are not intended as a review of all the initiatives currently being undertaken . |
| 30 | Halpin ( 1980 ) , for example , questions their similarity with the APU lines of development which , because they were tentatively suggested , were specifically not intended as a curriculum model . |