Example sentences of "[noun] or [adv] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colours can be used as a complement to fonts or even as a substitute ( e.g. a user might choose to display the Emphasized context in a brighter colour rather than in a different font ) . |
| 2 | This process is beyond definition as some wild animal , writhing in a fiery abyss , spitting out its ugly secretions or even as a ‘ fount of pure delight ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ Any expenses incurred by the local authority under this section , together with interest from the date when a demand for the expenses is served until payment , may … be recovered by them , by action or summarily as a civil debt , from the person having control of the house … |
| 4 | The relevant consent requirement is normally contained as a class right in the articles or sometimes as a restriction on the powers of the directors . |
| 5 | The institution of monarchy thus dominated the political horizon , whether it was thought of in terms of Divine Right or merely as a secular institution guaranteeing civil peace and security . |
| 6 | The object is to look at the growth experience of the United Kingdom over the last 80 years or so as a whole — which strangely enough has not yet been examined . |
| 7 | Presently , we are looking to the completion of the scheme , either as flats or possibly as a small hotel or restaurant . |
| 8 | After a decade or so as a librarian , and a spell as editor of Books and Bookman in the 1960s , Smith travelled around America with a suitcase full of samples of remaindered copies , which he sold to bargain book shops . |
| 9 | Employee trusts have increased in popularity over the past decade or so as a method of providing incentives for employees . |
| 10 | Mr Motion should be pleased enough by the compliments paid to his work , but most of these appear in the last paragraph or so as a sort of afterthought when the reviewer has finished giving his own version of the poet . |
| 11 | yet such reasoning , whether poverty , self-expression , financial regard , national pride , political statement or simply as a means to shift the black man 's burden , exists to no less a degree in England to day . |
| 12 | Our Equity Release service allows you to borrow up to 80% of the value of your home , less any outstanding mortgage or other loan secured on it , either as a lump sum or simply as a credit facility to be used as and when you like . |
| 13 | Served as part of a main meal or simply as a snack , they 're a great new taste for all the family . |
| 14 | 12 ) he will in making his claim have to bring into account any money already received — whether as a deposit or merely as a part payment . |
| 15 | If you were involved in things at a senior level , whether it were as an administrator , a Minister or even as a senior policeman , you had hundreds of things on the go at any one time . |
| 16 | It is , however , not on his career at Court or as a bishop or even as a controversialist that Andrewes ' place in the history of the Church of England depends , but on his sermons and private prayers , which were published after his death . |
| 17 | Whether this ebullient novel of 1923 is to be considered as a parody or just as a light-hearted analogue of The Prisoner of Zenda , the resemblances are too close to be mere coincidence . |