Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [noun sg] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 've had experience as a shop assistant , so you could work in one of our shops . |
| 2 | I 've taken speed as powder right and erm it had an effect like these ones . |
| 3 | Elsewhere , I have criticized functionalism as a myth of the division of labour by sex to which ethology and anthropology make their own contributions . |
| 4 | the EEC directive in 1977 and a number of national projects , particularly MOTET have recommended training as an essential means for providing an adequate supply of teachers . |
| 5 | A more frequent way of theme continuation is to repeat with some change — not the slight degree of change we have shown above , but the alteration of part of the theme to present even greater interest : In this example , the second four bars have added interest as a result of various factors : larger leaps , higher notes , syncopation , modulation , increase in overall span , etc . |
| 6 | Other sociologists have seen stratification as a divisive rather than an integrating force . |
| 7 | Another 115 , serving wider research and technology requirements , are unaffected by these changes but have undergone reorganisation as a major part of the plan for the whole R & T function . |
| 8 | I have presented grammar as a device for mediating between words and contexts . |
| 9 | Sam Torrance , Gordon Brand Junior and many other top players have selected Glenmuir as their outfitters . |
| 10 | Nearly 60 companies — including Travellers Fare , McDonald 's , Kentucky Fried Chicken and Mount Charlotte Thistle Hotels — have used Springboard as a recruitment base . |
| 11 | Most sociologists faced with this particular problem have used occupation as the indicator . |
| 12 | Princeton University Press is offering Fields of Vision : Landscape Imagery and National Identity in England and the United States by Stephen Daniels ( £32.25 , $45 ) , in which the author explores the ways in which artists from the later eighteenth century to the present day have used landscape as a way of embodying their national feelings , and how painters like Turner and Constable contributed to a ‘ myth ’ of national identity . |
| 13 | Little wonder therefore that all religions have used story as a prime means of communicating and of inspiring people . |
| 14 | Some feminist psychotherapists have interpreted fat as a ‘ protection ’ against sexuality , such theories relying on definitions of fat as undesirable , contributing to the myth that fat people are asexual . |
| 15 | Even then it tends to be restricted to middlebrow fiction and nonfiction ( nowadays , especially in North America , periodicals have replaced literature as the most favoured source , but even these tend to be rather upmarket ‘ general interest ’ magazines — not comic books , or photoromances , or political pamphlets , or the scripts of TV soap operas ) . |
| 16 | National Savings Certificates are paying a miserable 7.5 per cent tax free and no one should be holding any certificates which have reached maturity as the rate paid under general extension terms is only 5.1 per cent . |
| 17 | The Chinese have known ginseng as ‘ the elixir of life ’ for more than 5,000 years . |
| 18 | Unemployment has fallen in the county , although not as fast as in other parts of the region , but it does appear that some 800 previously unemployed Kent people have gained work as a direct result of the Tunnel . |
| 19 | We have defined awareness as the disposition to take into account in choices , and we have always insisted that although a capacity to recall a feeling is necessary to continuing awareness of it , a constant maintenance of the feeling is not . |
| 20 | We have defined crime as behaviour which breaks the criminal law . |
| 21 | We have defined crime as an act which breaks the criminal law and deviance as behaviour which breaks or departs from the norms or standards of the majority in society . |
| 22 | In no sense are shouting and isolation punishers necessarily secondary to more ‘ fundamental ’ pain-producing stimuli Although a number of theorists have defined punishment as a ‘ pain-producing stimulus ’ the majority of apparent punishments experienced in everyday life are not , strictly speaking , painful . |
| 23 | In hindsight it is , in some respects , a pity that the social sciences , and sociology in particular , have taken physics as the exemplar of science ; the science that it is the aspiration of all sciences , including the newer ones , to emulate . |
| 24 | Quite a few leading conductors have started life as orchestral players : Münch and Kempe were in the same orchestra , the Leipzig Gewandhaus , at the same time . |
| 25 | It is based on a true story so outrageous that it would never in a million years have passed muster as fiction . |
| 26 | For centuries , most religious traditions have debased sex — seeing it as dirty and sinful , or purely for procreation — and have advocated celibacy as a path towards God . |
| 27 | Question 13 Subject to this , do you agree that grants from the compensation fund should continue to be made without limitation to individual private clients who have lost money as a result of a solicitors dishonesty ? |
| 28 | While all areas of the country have lost employment as a result of the need for fewer workers , rural areas have gained in that they can accommodate new floorspace . |
| 29 | It appears that deaf people using BSL , sign in a more recognisably BSL way than do hearing people who have acquired BSL as children ; for those who have to learn BSL as adults ( like signer 2 ) their target seems to be a form of BSL greatly influenced by English . |
| 30 | Some women have acquired status as heroines ; Rosalba Carriera , Angelica Kauffmann , Rosa Bonheur , Berthe Morisot , Paula Modersohn-Becker and Käthe Kollwitz have found places in a pantheon of major talent from which there ought never to have been any question of their exclusion . |