Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] as a [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | However , I hope that these notes will be good enough to serve as a general guide . |
| 2 | It will not fit our practice well enough to count as an eligible interpretation , and its normative program will be empty , because it instructs us to follow conventions that do not exist . |
| 3 | Sometimes a solitary individual is brave enough to act as a one-bird mob and attack a predator on its own , as this roller is doing , worrying a martial eagle . |
| 4 | During the 1530s this number was substantially reduced , and a small , select group was formed , compact enough to act as an advisory and executive board . |
| 5 | Almost the only significance of Trotskyism in the 1930s was that a tenuous tradition was established which was not to materialize as a significant political influence until the 1960s . |
| 6 | So I decided that in order not to appear as a bad-tempered harpy , I would agree with everything Shirl said and then add : ‘ But … ’ |
| 7 | One is for the representative not to vote as an individual , but to cast for each position or proposition the number of votes cast for it by those ( s ) he is there to represent . |
| 8 | Kim Il Sung was not to emerge as a major personality until after 1945 . |
| 9 | Different considerations would arise if it did , since it would be contrary to public policy for the court not to recognise as a qualified representative of the head of state of the foreign state the diplomatic representative recognised by Her Majesty 's Government . |
| 10 | Clean , it was an absolute dream ; the EQ offered more than enough scope to produce anything from a cutting Telecaster to a rich acoustic tone , and with the help of a short delay and pitchshift I put a sound onto tape which I 'd defy anyone not to recognise as an acoustic guitar — and I 'd actually used the Patrick Eggle New York model reviewed elsewhere in this issue . |
| 11 | The economic provisions of NEP were soon to act as a slow salve on the material well-being of the peasantry , but even before NEP had begun all political bridges between the centre and a free-thinking periphery had been burnt with the establishment of a one-party system and the elimination of any traces of local independence in the party hierarchy . |
| 12 | There was yet more to follow as a further instalment of the Rosenstein collection of memorabilia included a truly splendid photograph of an early assembly of aviation collectible ( C ) . |
| 13 | Research and development expenditure is being focused predominantly on the BS2000 family of mainframes , and systems integration activities will be split off to operate as a separate business unit , he said . |
| 14 | Illustrations and photographs can be maximised to full screen size if required , or set up to load as a full screen image every time instead of just half screen . |
| 15 | Bheki is a new South African firm set up to operate as an authorised value-added reseller of DEC products and systems , and is backed by majority black organisations . |
| 16 | Bheki is a new South African firm set up to operate as an authorised value-added reseller of DEC products and systems , and is backed by majority black organisations . |
| 17 | After 1,908 days of terror Joe was looking forward to living a normal life and getting back to work as a senior administrator with the American University . |
| 18 | Back in the village , she pulled up outside the paper shop , which turned out to double as a general store , and went in . |
| 19 | It is hard enough , as we have discovered , for people to know how to behave as a bereaved person . |
| 20 | In the 1930s you learnt how to behave as a human being from movies . |
| 21 | He was unhorsed , helpless and about to perish as a Federal trooper rode at him , sword raised . |
| 22 | … during reference service the librarian ought virtually to vanish as an individual person , except insofar as his personality sheds light on the working of the library . |
| 23 | Mujtaba should have been caught at slip by Gooch when only 17 , Munton the suffering bowler , and the skipper , now into double figures with international catching errors this year , surely about to relaunch as a mid-off . |
| 24 | Instead , it suggests that the balance of curriculum elements should be reversed , with the student learning how to practise as a professional , and that the ‘ theory ’ should be derived by inviting the student to reflect on the practice to tease out the principles embedded in it . |
| 25 | In 1978 America 's federal bankruptcy code was rewritten in order to make it easier to file for bankruptcy , to reorganise under the protection of chapter 11 of the code , and then to re-emerge as a going concern even under the same management . |