Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [verb] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | While this gives great diversity to his work , something that Wordsworth would not be able to achieve , it means that it is quite conceivably contradictory when viewed as a whole . |
| 2 | The text highlights specific engagements , sometimes in vivid detail , making the book one to sit down and read for pleasure as much as to use as a handy reference . |
| 3 | • Raw fruit is better than cooked as a rule . |
| 4 | In winter months P17 is very effective when used as a wrap around delicate shrubs or containerised plants which have to be over-wintered outside . |
| 5 | The policies of international aid , which defy rational justification on either economic or strategic grounds , are at once intelligible when viewed as a collective purgation of the fear of envy , to which the ‘ affluent society ’ — itself an envy-guilt coinage — is especially prone and which is more vivid to the donors than the imagined envy is to the recipients . |
| 6 | For celibacy is only really intelligible when understood as a demand of love . |
| 7 | Donning a yarmulke , he promised a Jewish group that ‘ we 'll keep a glatt [ strict ] kosher kitchen at the White House , ’ a pledge that his aides were at first unsure whether to treat as a jest or for real . |
| 8 | Of the pole there is no sign , but it was originally so constructed as to act as a kind of lever in order to minimise jolting on rough surfaces . |
| 9 | A large Theraps species is a must for the community and they would recommend C. synspilus or C. nicaraguense as they are both relatively peaceful when kept as a single specimen . |
| 10 | A member of the Islington branch for six months in 1974 while working as a Foreign Office diplomat , Davies owned a flat in the same house as Chris Smith , currently a member of Labour 's Treasury team . |
| 11 | Betrayed if published as a £5.99 , B format paperback ; Bloomsbury says that most if its first print run of 15,000 copies has been subscribed . |