Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] as a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then again if you 're I think the only thing on that I would say is that , creativity in as a positive , erm , that that your there are loads of possibilities about how you could actually try and create situations , which would actually break down barrier , one of the barriers you had was , I 'll give you one if you give me one . |
| 2 | … I have always been able to accept non-cooperation only as an effective instrument of nationalist propaganda . |
| 3 | Greek police are now treating the case as kidnapping , instead of viewing Ben merely as a missing person . |
| 4 | She had told me the tunnels had now been connected up and the workmen used the subway constantly as a private short cut . |
| 5 | It 's enabled us all to work and to conduct our cases in as an amiable atmosphere as the adversarial system allows , and we are grateful for that . |
| 6 | As long as Kristeva 's third stage is present in our thinking only as a Utopian dream , feminists can not simply refuse to get involved in this endless discourse of difference ; people who claim that this is a postfeminist era are living in a dream world . |
| 7 | It is rare for companies to have formal arrangements for finding work for the spouse of a relocated employee especially as a typical posting to the UK is only for two or three years . |
| 8 | That day , while being shown round the Zoo by the Foreman , he came to the Cages just as a female golden eagle was being put in one of them . |
| 9 | Peter Cazalet 's travelling head lad rushed on to the course to lead the horse away as a bemused jockey was taken back to the weighing room . |
| 10 | ‘ Pretty well , if he does n't get pneumonia , but he 's full of antibiotics just as a prophylactic … |
| 11 | A minor act of dedication and commitment , which the lighting of the flame represents , may initiate an effect just as a major one can . |
| 12 | ‘ I used to play quite a lot of football , ’ he explains , ‘ but all I was really good at was knocking the opposition over as a last-ditch defence . ’ |
| 13 | They may be , indeed they usually are , based on freshly invented material or the composer may take a plainsong melody not as a cantus firmus but for plastic treatment through all the parts , as Gombert does in his ‘ Salve regina ’ . |
| 14 | Er whereas the County Council have sought to re to er keep vacancies constant , we have said that it is reasonable to seek to plan to keep second homes etcetera as a constant number but what I would term normal vacancies , can be reasonably be expected to go up to maintain the same proportion . |
| 15 | Lying in bed at dawn on Tuesday morning at Swans ' Meadow , she felt the stirrings of grief more as a physical process than a mental one . |
| 16 | Among the most important pieces raised over the summer were two heads , one bearded and probably dating to the fourth century BC , the other with hellenistic features that place it either in the second century BC as a Greek original or several centuries later as a Roman copy . |
| 17 | Er there are interests all over an and some er have a higher value er er and some have a lower value but they are all related erm so it 's not possible to regard er a contest solely as an isolated advers adversarial struggle where you 're weighing up the rel the relative forces , the relative military capabilities that exist , you have to consider a whole range of political , economic and strategic effects of , of your , your , your action . |
| 18 | It is a shame that there are no photographs but each chapter begins with a Tom Price sketch and the text marks Sylvie out as a skilled travel writer rather than just a traveller who writes , a thoroughly good read . |
| 19 | A two-length defeat of subsequent winner Cadency marked this half-brother to Rubstic and Kildimo out as an improving sort for his new stable . |
| 20 | Returning to England in December 1772 , he exhibited at the Society of Artists from 1774 to 1778 and his first recorded employment — minor work in London — belongs to this period ; then in 1779–80 he published a volume of Original Designs in Architecture , Consisting of Plans … for Villas , Mansions , Town Houses , which was evidently intended as an advertisement for his talents , and thereafter he developed a modestly successful practice mainly as a country-house architect in the south-east of England . |
| 21 | Literally thousands of patches of old lazy-beds can be seen throughout the Hebrides today as a clear testimony to land pressure , especially in the 19th century . |
| 22 | I bought an Amstrad 5086 just 2 months ago as a total novice , not even familiar with a keyboard on the advice of the staff of my local Dixon 's store . |
| 23 | Dr Smith explained that MB Group , formerly Metal Box , had identified Caradon 18 months ago as a suitable means of expanding into building products but the company had had to reorganise itself and create a new management team to make the current deal possible . |
| 24 | Swimmers have to complete the 5,000m marathon either as an individual or member of a team and raise money for three national charities : MENCAP , Royal National Institute for the blind and the Macmillan Nurse Appeal . |
| 25 | the independent film movement aims to understand the cinema not as a profit-making machine confined to the realm of ‘ mass entertainment , but as one of the central means whereby a society consciously speaks to and thus understands itself … |
| 26 | Ormonde duly did so , but this time a storm drove him back to France , and he got into St Malo just as an English squadron arrived to blockade it . |
| 27 | The artifact , thus , functions merely as an external signifier … for which in the collective consciousness there is a corresponding signification |
| 28 | Without another word she turned and made her way upstairs , using the crutch only as an added safety precaution . |
| 29 | The Karen I had known a few months earlier , a simple , straightforward creature with healthy appetites , had been metamorphosed by my spells into a raving obsessive who regarded the spawning of offspring not as a lowest-common-denominator activity like excretion but as a moral and creative achievement on a par with , say , painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling . |
| 30 | The editor will know that , and the editor will be sensitive to the readership , and the editor will look at it , not through the eyes of an editor just as an individual , but will say , ‘ Putting myself in the , in the position of my readers , would they want to read this ? ’ |