Example sentences of "[noun] as a [noun sg] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Standing small and shaky before that vast desk , surrounded by all the trappings of success and power , I felt very helpless and the cigarette seemed about as much of a morale-builder as a pocket-handkerchief is a protection against a firing-squad . |
| 2 | The almost automatic acceptance of those same initiatives by the legislature as a whole is assured by the formidable mechanisms of party . |
| 3 | Today I had three of them in the back of Armstrong , the ideal vehicle for such a job as a cab was unlikely to get moved along or clamped at a delicate , or indelicate , moment . |
| 4 | So , the House of Commons as a body was independent of Lords and King , and Members within the Commons enjoyed an independence of action inside that chamber . |
| 5 | Among the peers identified by the parliamentary writer Andrew Roth as voting in favour of a measure which would oblige a labourer to pay the same amount of tax as a millionaire were the Duke of Buccleuch , the biggest landowner in Europe , the beef magnate Lord Vestey , another of the richest men in Britain , and the eighty-three-year-old Marquis of Bath , of the Longleat Estate . |
| 6 | It is hardly surprising that such a powerful event as a revolution is necessary to uproot the social order and destroy these institutions . |
| 7 | However , scientific problem-solving and public policy-making are not the same thing , and Carter as a policy-maker was ‘ a scientific man searching for certitude in an area of human experience , that of political conflict , which lacks mathematical or material certitude . ’ |
| 8 | It could be and I do n't want to preempt any discussion that would take place , but it could be a solution er from the Hatfield site could be found in the same way as a solution was found by er Sunderland Council and er Cleveland County Council over the shipyards in er in Sunderland . |
| 9 | It declared that the Monarch should make no selection until a new Leader had been elected by the Parliamentary Labour Party in the same way as a Leader is chosen when the Party is in opposition . |
| 10 | These force platforms are now as familiar to animal physiologists as a microscope is to a microbiologist . |
| 11 | We usually only have access to such details from oral testimony and written accounts which is why the apparent disappearance of Edis 's long-preserved diary of the trip is such a loss — though of course as a visitor being escorted round military sites by officials , there might be a limit to the unofficial stories she could have glimpsed . |
| 12 | If the person claiming is not looking after the estate , the Social Fund Officer will write to the person who is , at the same time as a payment is made . |
| 13 | The A4 can also switch channels on the amp it 's plugged into , at the same time as a patch is selected . |