Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The folding knife could have been used as a razor , if it was sharp enough or as a penknife for shaping reed pens . |
| 2 | However , the Article dealing with special remuneration drew a distinction between the Board and a committee of the Board so that as a matter of construction ‘ the Board ’ in that context meant the Board and not the committee . |
| 3 | to bringing the claim , if it is pursued , the claim maybe good , it maybe bad and it depends upon the circumstances of the underline agreement , that 's one example where something maybe good or it maybe bad , it 's like an intellectual property ride , depending on how you exercise the right , it maybe good or it maybe bad , if you use it to block parallel imports or for some anti competitive purpose then it may be bad , erm it , it 's not necessarily the case that if you have a clause in the contract it is always in every circumstance bad , where the clause itself allows the undertaking concerned , to exercise it in a particular way , now , erm so so that as a matter of principal not all clauses could be automatically said in a standard form contract to be good or bad and it may depend upon how they are to exercise in a particular way , what we have said is the , the , erm , the provision in on , on the , the unfettable authority , er , erm and powers of the agent , erm is void it would depend upon the facts of each individual case whether or not every other restriction as your Lordships seen again only through and the cases they side , erm that other provisions in a standard form contract may on the facts be had , it depends upon the significance of the particular clause in the circumstances , my Lord in , in answer to your Lordships question , I do n't think it necessary follows that every clause is bad , but we do say it depends upon the facts and we have pleaded that not all loss might be erm defensible against . |
| 4 | Held , allowing the appeal , that , where a creditor knew that security was being taken for the benefit of a debtor from a surety who was likely to be influenced by and to have some degree of reliance on the debtor , the creditor should seek to ensure that unfair advantage was not taken of the surety ; that , if the creditor failed to do so and the surety 's consent to the transaction was procured by the debtor 's undue influence or material misrepresentation or the surety lacked an adequate understanding of the nature and effect of the transaction , the security would be unenforceable ; that the bank knew that the defendants were husband and wife and that the wife was being asked to provide security for the husband 's business and was likely to rely on his judgment , and they should have ensured that she understood the nature and effect of the document which she was asked to sign ; and that , since the bank had failed to do so and had left it to the husband to explain the transaction , so that as a result of the husband 's misrepresentation the wife entered into the charge on the misunderstanding that her liability was limited to £60,000 , they could not enforce the charge against the wife save to the extent of £60,000 ( post , pp. 620C–G , 622F — 623C , D–F , 635G — 636F ) . |
| 5 | Obviously , of course , it matters in the sense that people who want to ride horses and race horses and hunt with horses and this sort of thing , so that as a pleasure thing , er it 's good er to have the leather for those purposes . |
| 6 | ( 7 ) A person shall not be disqualified from acting as a member of a licensing board in relation to any matter by reason only that as a member of a committee constituted under section 47 of this Act he was concerned with the matter in question . |
| 7 | In the Structure Plan and in all earlier discussion , land was seen as something which provides a location for industry , for the population employed in and as a consequence of that industry and for the services necessary for that population . |
| 8 | Paragraph 5 of the rule was directed not only at enforcement of a judgment in favour of a claimant who had obtained judgment in his favour but also at preventing , by means of the principle of res judicata , relitigation of the same case by a person who was properly represented by a claimant against whom judgment had been given dismissing the claim , whether that person tried to pursue his claim against a named defendant sued in his own right only , or against a named defendant sued both personally and as a representative of a class , or against a member of that class . |
| 9 | What kinds of benefits — personally and as a student — are likely to result from investigating my chosen topic ? |
| 10 | Inevitably , though , some people missed the point entirely and as a result they 've often been tarred by the indiscriminate brush of ‘ gothic rock ’ . |
| 11 | It lives not for itself alone but as a part of a whole . |
| 12 | Deductive markers provide a linguistic means of signalling the deductive/empirical distinction : they signal that what follows should be interpreted as a conclusion rather than as a description of an event/state . |
| 13 | Equally , support should come not only from one 's immediate boss , who should be seen as a resource , rather than as a boss . |
| 14 | Tonight for the first time she saw him as an attractive young man rather than as a boss . |
| 15 | The Squirrel was one of the first light turbine helicopters designed primarily for civil operation rather than as a modification of a design intended for military use . |
| 16 | He suggests that they were worn for display only , rather than as a dress-fastening , being heavily abraded from contact with coarse outer clothing . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 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 | Stop time minus Start time but then this needs to be expressed in hours — rather than as a fraction of a day . |
| 20 | In fact , the ‘ aesthetic ’ is discussed on the course , but as a problematic rather than as a response to literature . |
| 21 | The deferential tone , and the fact that it 's couched as a letter rather than as a minute , suggest that it was directed to someone outside the Civil Service . |
| 22 | He sees the slump as an opportunity for natural selection — and corporate evolution — rather than as a problem with the economy . |
| 23 | The House debates a Bill on Second Reading and it is passed by chance rather than as a benefit of the arguments . |
| 24 | By contrast , however , a broadly conceived information skills course was presented as essential for topic work rather than as a facilitator of the separate work of subject departments . |
| 25 | each of these two components was published serially rather than as a whole . |
| 26 | At its surface , water could exist as a liquid rather than as a gas , and so oceans and seas came into existence . |
| 27 | ‘ You mock me , Georgi Kirov , ’ Vologsky muttered , but it vas said in a friendly , chiding voice rather than as a rebuke . |
| 28 | I employ comparison in order to get to grips with relations rather than as a realist method of generating ‘ … conceptually informed causal analysis ’ ( Dickens et al . , |
| 29 | Unfortunately these bacterial products have usually been considered as alternatives to a synthetic pesticide , rather than as a component of IPM . |
| 30 | Political power is therefore seen as a result of greater capacity to manipulate residues or to impose coercion , as a quality inherent in the individual rather than as a characteristic of societal relationships . |