Example sentences of "[adv] as a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Woolwich 's case the main authorities are set out chronologically as an appendix and I find it convenient to deal with them in that order and to describe the principle above referred to as ‘ the Woolwich principle . ’ |
| 2 | A FORMER marine masqueraded so successfully as a policeman that he led a team of real officers on a job , a court heard yesterday . |
| 3 | I only got to know her a little as a teenager when I visited her on my own in the single-end where she lived in a Parkhead tenement , sleeping , washing and cooking in one room . |
| 4 | When such a person breaches his fiduciary relationship , he may be treated more properly as a tipper than a tippee . |
| 5 | R&D consortia which include films that produce different products using the same basic technological knowledge may also be able to segment user markets , price discriminating more effectively as a group than they are able to do when they act independently and earning a higher return on their R&D activities . |
| 6 | worked on as a pair or group without the continual presence of the teacher ; |
| 7 | Marks and Spencers would n't take anyone on as a supplier unless you could produce at least two hundred dozen a week on one site . |
| 8 | You were taken on as a boy and er you got a boy 's wages but you were expected to do as much work as a man . |
| 9 | Barnes , playing his first game since rupturing his Achilles tendon in the summer , came on as a substitute and set-up the 87th-minute winner for Ronnie Rosenthal in their 1–0 victory over QPR . |
| 10 | Well I stayed on as an orderly because they said that I could erm I could marry because er I was n't erm classed as erm tt Er I would n't pass it on to me husband , so I could marry , provided I I prevented having children for er five years , that you had to see the Doctor until The medical Doctor at Nottingham , until he pronounced you clear , you see ? |
| 11 | ‘ Hopefully I 'll be able to carry on as an amateur and help mum in the shop . ’ |
| 12 | You were the person they looked on as an authority and father figure , a trust you clearly betrayed . |
| 13 | I believe it to have been factually true that Crossman 's ambition to gain and retain Cabinet office was the aspiration to be in a position to observe what goes on as an academic or a philosopher observes . |
| 14 | It seems thought will be given to playing Tony Stanger in the centre to provide a bit more physique in defence and on that theme Michael Dods could be destined to be left out , not because he has played badly , but rather as a reflection that the powerhouse physiques are prone to get the better of him in escaping tackles . |
| 15 | One other possible objection is that the difference which we are describing may be real but should not be regarded as part of syntax , rather as a variation that comes into play only when we focus on the correlation between linguistic expressions and external non-linguistic phenomena . |
| 16 | But if the being of an individual woman is sufficiently strong and well-developed , then , knowing that light to be there deep within her , she can allow it to permeate the whole of her presence , refining and changing her very substance rather as a lamp when it is lit makes an apparently opaque glass shade appear translucent . |
| 17 | My youngest daughter , Fleur , perhaps as a defence and because being the youngest she could n't conceive of a world without her father — I hope I 'm not kidding myself here — gave the impression that all was well . |
| 18 | Or maybe you have a desire to ‘ expose ’ yourself in some way — perhaps as an artist or politician — but are blocking yourself through fear of humiliation or rejection ? |
| 19 | Several shot lying on the bottom act better as a brake if set slightly apart from each other . |
| 20 | Indeed it will be described almost entirely as a liability because the costs will be known . |
| 21 | Write ‘ concealed cable ’ on the wall alongside as a reminder that there 's a hidden live cable . |
| 22 | And there are records of this everywhere are n't there you know sort of and and probably you know the the management thought er I do n't know if they thought this far really or we 'll we 'll show them that they ca n't that they ca n't stick together as a union and why should all the quarries stick together . |
| 23 | We were really looking forward to Christmas together as a family but now everything is ruined . |
| 24 | I hope we all want to help together as a team and support our already stretched full-time officials . |
| 25 | It should be remembered by the advisers that , following completion , the management and the investors will work together as a team and it is not in the investors ' interests to antagonise or demoralise their management team at the outset . |
| 26 | Erm but we 'll do the questions together as a class and I would like you to just speak one at a time , otherwise it will all get blurry . |
| 27 | Spencer had been spoiled , treated for far too long as a baby and he had grown up knowing how to twist his mother around his little finger . |
| 28 | At the same time she knew that the royal family perceived her not only as a problem but also as a threat . |
| 29 | GOOD drawing ability used to be considered important at school , not only as a skill that might give expression to a child 's aesthetic and artistic inclinations , but also one that would be useful in practical ways — in recording flora and fauna in nature study , for example . |
| 30 | How could a typically British and pedantic banker even begin to understand what he was trying to achieve on a tiny Third World island , known only as a sugar-producer and an enclave for the very rich ? |