Example sentences of "[vb -s] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WIDNES allrounder Richard Hignett plays as a batsman when Cheshire open their Minor Counties championship programme against Cornwall at Stalybridge today . |
| 2 | As a membership incentive and to mark our 35th year as a Society everyone who enrols as a member in 1987 will receive a free gift . |
| 3 | As a membership incentive and to mark our 35th year as a Society everyone who enrols as a member in 1987 will receive a free gift . |
| 4 | He is plagued by demons which go back to his childhood and his torment intensifies as a train hurtles him away from or maybe towards a crime . |
| 5 | ‘ I can not believe it , I have already had so many job offers as a result of taking part in . |
| 6 | This case raised the question of whether an assignee of a reversion on a lease could enforce the payment of rent against someone who had entered into surety covenants as a guarantee of the tenant 's obligations in the lease . |
| 7 | The right hon. and learned Gentleman sits in court and passes sentence himself , so he has seen the issue both from these Benches and from the Bench he adorns when he sits as a recorder . |
| 8 | As well as being a Cabinet Minister and Speaker of the House of Lords he sits as a judge , presiding over the Law Lords in the Appellate Committee when time allows . |
| 9 | He sits as a judge in the House of Lords , where he also acts as Speaker ; he is a cabinet minister and advises on constitutional issues ; and his department , established in 1885 , is our nearest approach to a Ministry of Justice and has responsibility for many aspects of the legal system . |
| 10 | The Divisional Court of the Queen 's Bench Division , which exercises a supervisory capacity over the inferior courts and sits as a court to which an appeal ‘ by way of case stated ’ may be made from the Magistrates ' Court , is bound by the House of Lords , the Court of Appeal and its own previous decisions . |
| 11 | According to North , the company ‘ sits as a buffer ’ between both parties . |
| 12 | A tankard on the compartment table sits as a reminder of the glories of Soviet technology — sputniks and rockets spin out of a world inhabited by the Spassky Tower and an olive branch — and , as if to demonstrate that the mundane is as attainable as the sublime , not a spoon rattles , not a single drop of sweet Georgian tea is spilt , as the carriage is smoothly elevated and the task of fitting a Chinese-gauge undercarriage is taken in hand . |
| 13 | In the event , as we have seen , the Layfield Report was published at the high point of the importance of government grants as a proportion of local income . |
| 14 | He pointed to House Renovation Grants as a solution . |
| 15 | At bottom , interests theories define the scope of loss redistribution which the law imposes as a tax upon economic relations . |
| 16 | And as it 's open-ended , that series — the thing that Pool represents as a wall — will eventually fill up every spare molecule of memory that Pool has . |
| 17 | Applying the usual procedure to obtain this in another frame we obtain so that transforms as a rank 2 tensor . |
| 18 | A limited example of this is the recognition that whether a text is published in quarto or folio or whether it circulates as a manuscript will help to create the conditions in which the text 's meaning is understood within a given culture at a particular historical instant . |
| 19 | According to the Suda , Simonides of Magnesia sang of a victory by Antiochus III over the Gauls , about which we know nothing — unless it is to be identified with the episode to which II Maccabees refers as a success by eight thousand Babylonian Jews and four thousand Macedonians against Galatian raiders ( 8.20 ) . |
| 20 | Because of course we 're looking at the importance of bringing this on right from the time that a man joins as a recruit , and I realize that 's when they 're very vulnerable indeed , they 're unfit probably , they 're nervous , they 're not a team yet , and we 've developed all sorts of things . |
| 21 | Any additional support or special tuition that a pupil needs as a result of defective sight must be given tactfully by the teacher or teacher 's aid , with an emphasis on what the pupil can do rather than on difficulties . |
| 22 | Purley depôt stood empty until 23 November , when it was sold for £20,000 , passing subsequently to Messrs. Schweppes Mineral Waters as a store . |
| 23 | So he was attracted to Evans-Pritchard 's contention that ‘ the sociologist should also be a moral philosopher and that , as such , he should have a set of definite beliefs and values in terms of which he evaluates the facts he studies as a sociologist ’ . |
| 24 | As with the verbs of perception , then , to is used here to evoke an abstract before/after relation of condition to consequence , and the movement it signifies as a potential in tongue is actualized with a final interception . |
| 25 | There she wept for her sins and her tears washed away the blood ; The form in which this sermon harnesses the pressure of fear as well as the promise of comfort , provides a recognisable cultural context for the form of Margery Kempe 's initial vision of salvation and witnesses to the high esteem in which tears as a sign of spiritual grace were held in the fifteenth century . |
| 26 | The Miller 's tale concludes as a fabliau , not only with appropriate , marked fabliau language : but also with a general and amiable benediction : The more recent moral — allegorical readings of the Miller 's Tale have seen John , Nicholas and Absolon as type figures , representing the sins of Avarice , Lechery and Pride respectively , all of whom come to judgement and punishment in their discomfiture . |
| 27 | There are two possibilities : one involves active rifting in which rifting develops as a response to the tensional stresses induced in the crust by uplift resulting from upwelling of the asthenosphere ( Fig. 4.5(C) ) ; the other involves passive rifting in which rifting is initiated by extensional stresses in the lithosphere , and this permits the subsequent upwelling of hot mantle which in turn induces thermal uplift ( Fig. 4.12 ) . |
| 28 | If the females release stored sperm , the egg becomes fertilised and develops as a female , otherwise it becomes a male . |
| 29 | The relative absence of the husband-father from modern family life supposedly leads boys to over-identify with their mothers , so that in adolescence ‘ compulsive masculinity ’ develops as a protest against femininity . |
| 30 | Renal insufficiency occasionally develops as a consequence of vomiting , laxative misuse , and the resulting electrolyte disturbance . |