Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] as a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Town planning was neither strong nor coherent enough as a discipline and profession for it to stake a claim and take over other intellectual territory ; as a movement it was too inwardly diverse to be sufficiently self-willed to embark on aggrandizement in its remit . |
| 2 | There has been a fair amount of half-hearted canvassing by Wales to try to persuade members of other unions that South Africa is not really stable enough as a country to host the 1995 World Cup . |
| 3 | The night was so dark that the end of the trench was perceptible only as a lightening of the murk , where the ditch of the town lay ahead . |
| 4 | Well ca n't , he said look have a word , and he said to me , you know , do you mind if we do like eight till eleven o'clock as a wedding party |
| 5 | I offer this merely as a piece of information . |
| 6 | Weber admits that a common market situation may provide a basis for collective class action but he sees this only as a possibility . |
| 7 | I state this only as a general and not as an invariable premise because of the possibility of cases in which the court would not authorise treatment of a distressing nature which offered only a small hope of preserving life . |
| 8 | As it had never been proposed in the first place , her children could read this only as a piece of unadmitted defensiveness about having ignored them in the past . |
| 9 | Ecologists studied the natural environment , but often saw this only as a means of helping the human race to manage its interference more effectively . |
| 10 | Mr Zeman expects to become unemployed soon as a result of the sudden , unexplained decision to close his forecasting department in the economics institute where he works , but he denies that he is a martyr in the reformist cause . |
| 11 | But I , I wanted to try something slightly different tonight as a bit of an experiment , I wanted us to sort of put ourselves in the position of the criminal and we plan a burglary of our house and see what , what we think about . |
| 12 | Cumming ( he changed his name in 1889 after marriage ) spent the early 1890s largely as a country gentleman on his second wife 's Morayshire estate . |
| 13 | When will the Government realise that enlargement will not be acceptable just as a slogan for the Tory re-election campaign , but that it means saying now , and clearly , that the EFTA countries are needed in the Community and that early membership for central and eastern European countries , according to realisable targets , should be a priority to which we are committed ? |
| 14 | It 's some once as a customer you can do it later stage . |
| 15 | For the time being it was decided to retain Venturous mainly as a training ship until the DTI courses were started . |
| 16 | Only 17 per cent felt he was acceptable even as a co-representative . |
| 17 | But I 'd never thought of us as really having to worry about money that much ; certainly I was used to getting more or less what I wanted and had come to think of this virtually as a right , the way only children are apt to if their parents are anything other than actively hostile to them . |
| 18 | I have never been able to subscribe to the extreme schools of thought which see this either as a sin or as an act of brave defiance . |
| 19 | Haney and Ullmer ( 1970 ) note that the modern American generation will have viewed , on average , 15,000 hours of television , attended 500 motion pictures and spent approximately 11,000 hours in class by the end of their school careers , and put this forward as a reason for using television and film very much more in the classroom . |
| 20 | Patients were randmly allocated to receive either the long acting somatostatin analogue octreotide ( n=121 ) or isotonic saline intravenously as a placebo ( n= 124 ) . |
| 21 | It adds up to a picture of a man in a wider context that just as a fighter pilot . |
| 22 | The huge sphere of its forward compartments was visible only as a nothingness in the star-filled field of space — a circle of darkness more intense than that which surrounded it . |
| 23 | Nykrog , for instance , suggested the morals were a redundant , fossilized feature inherited by the fabliaux from twelfth-century precursors that were fables ; Ménard sees the moral largely as a façade and Charles Muscatine is most inclined to see the moral simply as a convenient , traditional way of closing a text . |
| 24 | As my hon. Friend the Member for Cynon Valley ( Mrs. Clwyd ) has pointed out , Britain 's overseas aid budget last year was not maintained but was the lowest ever as a percentage of this country 's gross domestic product . |
| 25 | Mecir , whose world ranking has dropped to 26 chiefly as a result of back injuries , ought to add a good deal of craft to the Silk Cut Championships at Wembley next month . |
| 26 | The male sex hormone testosterone er makes males bigger , er they 've bigger bones , more muscle and so on , this gives them their sporting prowess and this is why of course er you 've had all these better as a result . |
| 27 | The latter has allowed borrowers to take our mortgages that are larger both as a multiple of income and as a proportion of property valuation . |
| 28 | It was agreed that the key strategy for the next 18 months — two years was to produce a network of interested people who would be valuable both as a resource and as a means of disseminating ideas and information . |
| 29 | They can be valuable purely as a means of providing social companionship , activities of all descriptions , and intellectual stimulation . |
| 30 | I should be much happier here as a schoolteacher , free and honest , in the healthy heart of England . |