Example sentences of "[adv] there as a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a token female on the adventure but she 's just there as a conversation point and to be rescued from the unwanted advances of unshaven cowboys ( ‘ This is not a very 90 's man thing , ’ Crystal warns them ) . |
| 2 | Wilko still the bookie 's favourite , but the quote from Graham Kelly the FA Chief was that anyone appointed now is just there as a caretaker , because they want to change things around and take their time now that we have nothing to play for till 1998 . |
| 3 | On the 1986 West Indies tour , when he was just there as a batsman , we had one particular discussion with Bob Willis at a beach bar in Antigua . |
| 4 | Well he thinks the only way that modern will accept the rule of one person rather than another is if they think they 're somehow there as a result of their own action , so we 'll only accept the rule of erm our leaders if we think we put them there and we take them back again , we put them there and can recall them and this for Barry is the only merit that contemporary democratic policy democratic erm systems that it allows us to think of our rulers as having some legitimate claim to rule . |
| 5 | And that erm probably , possibly could run it off there as a P S Two mouse but erm I 've heard |
| 6 | The yellow and black police barrier was still there as a warning to other drivers coming over the crest of the hill . |
| 7 | As we have seen , this approach became less dominant in the second half of the 1980s , although it is still there as a card to be played should political problems necessitate it . |
| 8 | I mean it was always there as a defence mechanism so you |
| 9 | Right and then there as a fraction of the circle . |