Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The data were obtained from Department of Education and Science statistics for education in the United Kingdom ( 1984 ) that included data on the distribution of full-time teachers in maintained secondary schools at the time of my study as shown in Table 6.1 . |
| 2 | It 's my toil as keeps us , and it wo n't stretch to your grandfather . ’ |
| 3 | I hereby agree the terms and conditions of my engagement as stated above . |
| 4 | I hereby agree the terms and conditions of my engagement as stated above . |
| 5 | I hereby agree the terms and conditions of my engagement as stated above . |
| 6 | I think of my role as trying to guide them with the interface of the business side , the bits that they might not be interested in or do n't want to be involved in . |
| 7 | In all this discussion , whether I am moving round talking to pairs of students at work or talking to the whole group , I see my role as provoking thought and reflection , not as telling students what to think or do . |
| 8 | ‘ I will return to my employer as contracted , ’ Richmann growled . |
| 9 | I I will be home erm I 'll be home at my house as opposed to here erm tomorrow afternoon as from about four o'clock I would imagine . |
| 10 | We have a few other rooms to go , er , with my family as opposed to living on my own . |
| 11 | But it explained the numbers that did n't add up — though not why Brigitte Schickert was shown on her certificate as having died in Dornhausen when everybody seemed to know she had been taken to hospital . |
| 12 | As for the modals , they represent their support as receiving the incidence of the potentiality of the infinitive 's event in the time-stretch which they express . |
| 13 | The writer , who was troubled that the Lake District was losing its local population , put her case as follows : |
| 14 | So the first defendant was entitled to ‘ all costs charges and expenses … on a full indemnity basis ’ and the receivers were entitled to retain out of the mortgaged property their remuneration as fixed by the first defendant . |
| 15 | The schemes are an expression of similar beliefs about school mathematics and its assessment as embodied in the Report , but represent diverse interpretations of the Report 's recommendations . |
| 16 | The way do does this is to represent its support as receiving the incidence of the actualization of the infinitive event in the time-stretch expressed by the auxiliary . |
| 17 | The to infinitive is not used because one is not situating the incidence of the infinitive 's event to its support as coming after some other position in time at which the support is also represented , as was the case in ( 1 ) above . |
| 18 | The Works had now reached what was to be its zenith as regards workshops , covering an area of 80 acres of which 37 were workshops and offices , making it the largest in the UK solely devoted to carriage building and repair . |
| 19 | In twelfth-century legend St Valerie was the martyr ( J saint who personified Aquitaine and her story as told at Limoges — where she had lived and died and where her " thousand-year-old " body was still preserved was intended to show that Limoges was a more venerable city than Poitiers . |
| 20 | Menzies states her hypothesis as follows : |
| 21 | I see its loss as lying at the root of many current social problems . ’ |
| 22 | A number of these things that I have already raised this morning are perhaps are , er primary phase issues rather than secondary but we must remember that the pressures on secondary schools continue as in the primary phase and finally another concern which you are all very well aware of and which particularly if you 're governors you will have drawn to your attention constantly is erm the continuing concern about our educational building stock both in terms of its adequacy as regards the size and the capacity of the accommodation at , where some schools are concerned its need for repair and maintenance work and its need for adaptation to meet the new demands of the curriculum . |
| 23 | Ygarth the wild cat which savaged sheep and escaped drowning made its entrance as did the Burton trick of sinking a sconce ( two pints ) of college beer in ten seconds ( 'never been beaten ’ ) . |
| 24 | Now it seemed to me that was n't a very erm reasonable balance and er comparing that with the with the Secretary of State 's recent pronouncements where he talks about local planning authorities needing to breathe fresh life into the countryside through their development plans and I want local planning authorities in rural areas to give the need to diversify the rural economy as much priority priority in their thinking as protecting the countryside and the two go hand in hand , and comparing those two er points I I would I would put to North Yorkshire the question , Do they think that the explanatory memorandum is is consistent with that er policy statement from the Secretary of State ? |
| 25 | Contrary to what you are told as a novice , it does in fact pay to let your backside drop into a sitting position — this allows even the shortest sailors to lean back in a relaxed position using their weight as opposed to relying only on arm strength |
| 26 | You can pick up the dog and shake it , or pull on the scruff of its neck as happens when there is a clash over dominancy in the pack situation . |
| 27 | The task was to report verbally whether the dividing contour in the 9.5°x3.2° rectangle matched the probe line , which was presented immediately below the rectangle following its offset as shown . |
| 28 | Unlike adherents of other contemporary religions in the Roman empire , except Judaism , Christians regarded their religion as expressing the purpose of God in history ; but whereas Judaism was concerned primarily with the fortunes of Israel , Christians considered their faith to be of universal significance . |
| 29 | Winix described its breakthrough as making Unix services such as parallel processing , standardised e-mail and Unix news plus its own workgroup tools available simultaneously under the Windows interface . |
| 30 | But although Ajdabiya and Kufra were theoretically sovereign , it would be a mistake to think of their independence as deriving directly from central policy . |