Example sentences of "as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And some housekeeping tasks under DB2 3.1 such as reorganisation of the database are expected to take less time . |
| 2 | And some housekeeping tasks under DB2 3.1 such as reorganisation of the database are expected to take less time . |
| 3 | When cholera toxin is used as secretagogue a variable response in stool volume should thus be expected . |
| 4 | Mr William Coulter was appointed Captain with Mr Kenneth Twyble as Lieutenant . |
| 5 | Mr Coulter , a member of Thomas Street , retired as Captain after four years but remained for several more years as Lieutenant . |
| 6 | In 1753 , for example , Provost William Christie of Stirling sought Lord Milton 's intervention with Lord Loudoun on behalf of his son-in-law , Ensign Gunning , who wished to purchase from Charles Elphinstone his commission as Lieutenant of Stirling Castle , or if that was not permitted , the commission of the Ensign of the Castle . |
| 7 | I have put him into the London to act as lieutenant , ’ the admiral reported . |
| 8 | Edmund of Lancaster , loyal to the end , was to play a major part in the Anglo-French diplomacy of the 1290s and died represent-ing his brother as lieutenant in Aquitaine at Bayonne on 5 June 1296 . |
| 9 | Sometimes the choice of non-English knights , without lands in England , might be troublesome — the Savoyard Jean de Grilly , for example , used his position as lieutenant and seneschal in Aquitaine to build up a considerable territorial holding in the Bordelais . |
| 10 | Yet for psychological insight and acute comment it is not easy to match the way Marryat , in Percival Keene , states and develops the situation of an illegitimate boy steadily and tenaciously working out how to persuade his noble father , under whom he serves as midshipman and later as lieutenant , to acknowledge him openly and alter his reserved , cold but unmistakably responsible behaviour towards his son . |
| 11 | Mentioned in 1813 list as Lieutenant Ensign Joseph Bennett , commissioned 23 December 1809 ; in 1813 list as Lieutenant . |
| 12 | His appointment as lieutenant of the Tower in June 1660 placed him in a position vital to the maintenance of order in the City . |
| 13 | In 1900 he received a regular commission as lieutenant in the 6th battalion of the Lancashire Fusiliers . |
| 14 | In 1822 he was commissioned as lieutenant in the 9th Royal Dragoons , transferring to the 12th Lancers in 1826 . |
| 15 | Other feminist writers , such as Overfield ( 1981 ) , Wallsgrove ( 1980 ) and Fee ( 1983 ) have suggested that dichotomies such as nature/culture , subject/object , emotional/rational are harmful because they imply the superiority of culture over nature , the objective over the subjective , and the rational over the emotional . |
| 16 | The only criticism I would level , and this is personal preference , is the button switches for both master , generator and auxiliaries such as pitot . |
| 17 | Many toxins , such as snake venoms , operate through the victim 's nervous system and are being used in the treatment of human nervous disorders . |
| 18 | We take it as obviously inadequate merely to assert that fundamental syntax is semantic ; nor shall we believe that we have described ( let alone explained ) the meaning of a syntactic construction by simply giving it a name , such as attribution or predicative adjunction . |
| 19 | An unusual atmosphere results : it is , so to speak , sub-XXXX Christian : there is an implication throughout of positive ideals , such as self-sacrifice and asceticism , but they are rarely pressed ; only occasionally does the narrator let himself testify . |
| 20 | At first sight a matter of user opinion , assessment of convenience is more involved and should be the subject of objective rather than subjective analysis by a technique known as decision path analysis ( DPA ) . |
| 21 | SpreadBase provides users with a means of analysing structured data — as client-server environments have become more widespread , users have begun accessing corporate data on relational database servers , using them as decision support tools . |
| 22 | The transition from traditional management techniques to those based on personal computers revealed the need not only for good early planning but also for high-level commitment in directing what was to be implemented and for what were described as decision support systems . |
| 23 | She has not only suffered the anguish of over a quarter of a century of separation from her husband , but has also experienced unending persecution at the hands of the regime , such as banishment , Imprisonment , torture and sustained harassment over a period of more than two decades . |
| 24 | ‘ The ones from World War Two supporting campaigns to raise money for the war effort , such as Spitfire Funds or Warship Weeks , are especially desirable , fetching £10 or £15 , ’ he says . |
| 25 | This process , by which inflected forms are related to their root forms , is known as lemmatisation . |
| 26 | Offences overlap , and there are problems with key concepts such as dishonesty . |
| 27 | The east-west drifts of the various small-scale cloud features can be interpreted either as wave motions , or as mass flows , that is , winds . |
| 28 | Fran gasped , her whole body stiffening as wave after wave of heat enveloped her . |
| 29 | For those looking for traditional VW strengths such as build quality , ergonomics , a fine driving position and finish , it should suit well . |
| 30 | As mentioned earlier , there is some connection between temperament and factors such as build , colour , breed etc . |