Example sentences of "[subord] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His family was one generation removed from peasants , and in close touch with the small village of Beni Moor near Assiut in Upper Egypt , where as a boy Nasser spent his holidays . |
| 2 | The appointment of Tapie — who was not a member of the ruling Parti socialiste ( PS ) although as a deputy for the " presidential majority " he had voted along with it — had been controversial within the PS . |
| 3 | over , over the century , er , although as a proportion , agricultural trade has fallen as a proportion of total trade , right , and that reflects a number of influences . |
| 4 | Although as a breed pension providers act very conservatively , and moreover , your money would be protected under the strict rules brought in by the Financial Services Act , no one can forecast with total confidence how well or otherwise any particular investment will do . |
| 5 | I loved it and I honestly feel it did me an enormous amount of good in calming my mind and making my body more supple ( although as a Christian I do n't practise meditative yoga ) . |
| 6 | Although as a general he may be faulted , in diplomatic skill and political understanding he towered head and shoulders above his Middle Eastern rivals , Muslim and Christian alike . |
| 7 | Held , dismissing both appeals , the tape recording of an interview was itself the primary exhibit , although as a matter of convenience it was usual for the prosecution , with the consent of the defence , to provide an abbreviated transcript of its contents for the use of the court and the jury . |
| 8 | Although as a prediction of the electoral result this was incorrect , the estimates were only a few per cent out . |
| 9 | Although as a group they had been officially emancipated in 1871 , burakumin became the sporadic scapegoats of popular resentment , and social discrimination persisted on a wide scale in spheres such as education , employment and marriage . |
| 10 | Although as a legacy of the Gullane incident , she felt that her father never fully trusted her again until his dying day , the shock , allied to the S.L.G.A 's threat of a ban , was such that she mended her ways at once . |
| 11 | Equally , support should come not only from one 's immediate boss , who should be seen as a resource , rather than as a boss . |
| 12 | Tonight for the first time she saw him as an attractive young man rather than as a boss . |
| 13 | Indeed , Braveman and Jarvis ( 1978 ) , having argued that their results imply separate mechanisms for the two phenomena , go on to acknowledge the possibility that their results might simply reflect the use of a test procedure that was less sensitive as a measure of conditioning than as a measure of neophobia . |
| 14 | I thought he could do more good with Miss Oliver 's money in England , than as a missionary under the baking sun in the East . |
| 15 | Stop time minus Start time but then this needs to be expressed in hours — rather than as a fraction of a day . |
| 16 | As Joan de Warenne , she had no place at court other than as a servant — should privileges such as befitted her true station be accorded her , unwelcome suspicion would be aroused . |
| 17 | Unfortunately these bacterial products have usually been considered as alternatives to a synthetic pesticide , rather than as a component of IPM . |
| 18 | I think also there was the sense that the sorts of books that a lady was expected to write were perhaps rather different from the sorts of books that a gentleman is required to write , and George Eliot had already made a name for herself as a writer of erm considerable independence of mind who , I think , wanted to be regarded as a writer , rather than as a lady novelist . |
| 19 | In spite of the visual evidence , Lam is presented less as a modernist than as a rebel against modernism , as the outsider who challenges Europe on its own terms and wins . |
| 20 | However , a really heavy paper does not impress and is often seen more as ostentation than as a sign of quality . |
| 21 | There has been a balance Chair , and , and hence the fact that we 've knocked it off as an efficiency saving rather than as a reduction in service . |
| 22 | Seldom is anything genuinely new shown at the Earls Court venue , normally used more as a glorified car showroom by the manufacturers than as a showcase for forthcoming cars and innovative ideas . |
| 23 | He suggests that they were worn for display only , rather than as a dress-fastening , being heavily abraded from contact with coarse outer clothing . |
| 24 | Jane realised then that she had never really believed in covered wagons , other than as a vehicle for John Wayne . |
| 25 | The other Great Reforms of the 1860s , affecting the judicial system , the press , and the universities , made little impact on the peasantry , and although they gained a minority voice on the new local government bodies ( the zemstva ) set up in 1864 , they viewed them as an additional burden rather than as a vehicle for their own interests . |
| 26 | Translated into market terms , this means that the labour power capable of performing the process may be purchased more cheaply as dissociated elements than as a capacity integrated in a single worker ’ ( Braverman , 1974 , pp. 81–82 ) . |
| 27 | Roth 's influence was less as a teacher , there having been during his lifetime much less scope than later for Jewish studies in Britain , than as a writer and lecturer . |
| 28 | Today , 30 years after his death , Lewis is remembered more as the author of such enchanting children 's stories as The Lion , the Witch and the Wardrobe than as a writer and broadcaster on ethical and religious questions , but it is one of those BBC sermons which he delivers at the beginning of this play . |
| 29 | On the other hand , Risk was seen as being a possible focus for dissent on the Board , as someone who would interfere with hard decisions that might have to be made about Distillers , and who would , therefore , behave in a more executive role than had been envisaged , rather than as a figurehead . |
| 30 | He sees the slump as an opportunity for natural selection — and corporate evolution — rather than as a problem with the economy . |