Example sentences of "[vb base] as [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We pray for those who suffer as prisoners without trial ; for hostages , for deported people , for all victims of violence in this land and in the countries from which we come ; may they be comforted and delivered ; |
| 2 | Things are what they are , and mankind is unchanging , even if men and women change as individuals from moment to moment . |
| 3 | Then you have to divide them up into those which make slender trees and others which remain as bushes with a fountain-like outline . |
| 4 | In the forest here , as elsewhere , the wild cocoa trees reach their full natural height of 20 m or so ( under plantation conditions cocoa trees rarely exceed 10 m ) and develop as clusters of a dozen or more leaning trunks . |
| 5 | It was because the parties had all analysed the nature of the problem we had to decide in the same way that it was agreed at the outset of the hearing before us that the central question we had to answer was this : in what capacity are High Court judges sitting when they sit as visitors to the Inns of Court in disciplinary cases ? |
| 6 | However , now that it is necessary to identify the functions the judges are performing when they sit as visitors in cases which are concerned with the question whether people are fit and proper persons to become or remain barristers , we must for the first time examine their function in that context alone . |
| 7 | But the Unipart graduates will be probably qualify as Bachelors of Parts ! |
| 8 | So , he asserts , are other rather less extreme examples , including the following , all of which appear as instances of English in books by reputable grammarians : |
| 9 | Until the early 1960s these beliefs were not seriously tested and differences of theory appear as shades of a fairly narrow spectrum . |
| 10 | The Percys subsequently appear as lords of Leconfield , who built an 84 roomed castle west of Main Street , the old and original part of Leconfield , surrounded by a wide and deep moat , the remains of which are still to be seen . |
| 11 | In Gregory 's narrative the Thuringians appear as dupes for the more sophisticated and warlike Franks . |
| 12 | Rather it represents a configuration of several different and mutually interlocking strands , in which substances appear as objects in an intersubjective context . |
| 13 | It is important to ensure that only current partners appear as lessees/trustees of partnership premises , if only to avoid any possibility that a retired partner who has not been duly replaced on the title could be regarded as still being held out as a member of the firm . |
| 14 | The novel does to structuralist theories of meaning what Irigaray does to Freud 's theory of feminine sexuality : it mimics them , draws out their implications and ultimately demonstrates their limitations , using the structures they propose as metaphors for personal relations . |
| 15 | Table 2 also shows that all cell lines function as targets after preincubation with exogenously added influenza matrix peptide M58–66 ( sequence ILGFVFTLTV ) . |
| 16 | Status issues function as vehicles through which a non-economic group has deference conferred upon it or degradation conferred upon it . |
| 17 | I might almost say an honoured guest " ( p. 69 ) , but these , and further modesty maxim violations now function as statements of the felicity conditions upon which he bases his threats : Anderson " doth protest too much " , however , and the forcefulness of his language is a far-from-convincing attempt to conceal his insecurity . |
| 18 | However , it is certainly the perception of people working in the field that the level of sign language skill exhibited by hearing people , even those who function as interpreters for deaf people , is much lower than it should be . |
| 19 | sensor technology and materials research as candidates for the joint approach . |
| 20 | We react as members of our civilisation who have absorbed its values through our education and society . |
| 21 | Sodium and potassium are two similar minerals which act as opposites in the body . |
| 22 | Moreover , the nationality requirements concerning the shareholders and directors of companies deprived those same foreign nationals of the right to set up , and act as directors of , companies in the sea fisheries sector in the United Kingdom . |
| 23 | The researchers did find that volcanic eruptions encourage the destruction of stratospheric ozone by providing a profusion of aerosol particles , which act as catalysts for the reactions that destroy ozone . |
| 24 | Often these act as devices for obtaining the right to a longer turn , like a story . |
| 25 | Many old attitudes act as constraints to improvement and must change . |
| 26 | The most important example and one easily overlooked is the symbiotic relationship of the stony corals which act as hosts to microscopic algae living within their tissues . |
| 27 | OEMed workstations from the likes of Mentor Graphics Corp , Valid Logic Inc , Control Data Systems Inc and Siemens-Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG are also not included , nor are board-level components , multiuser systems that act as hosts to two or more terminals like the VAX 11/780 and IBM 9370 or parallel processing systems — or even the ICL plc DRS6000 . |
| 28 | Workstations that have been bought in OEM by the likes of Mentor Graphics Corp , Valid Logic Inc , Control Data Systems Inc and Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG are also not included , nor are board-level components , multi-user systems that act as hosts to two or more terminals , such as the VAX-11/780 and IBM 9370 or parallel processing systems — or even the ICL Plc DRS 6000 . |
| 29 | In addition , the ethos of the CAB is being spread by all those who receive CAB training and then act as ambassadors for the CAB in other roles . |
| 30 | Many are empty and act as magnets for arsonists and vandals . |