Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pron] [noun] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most reports of this incident underlined Mrs White 's loss , or used her son as a metaphor for the ‘ death of hope ’ in a precinct riddled with drugs . |
| 2 | If the committee resolves that a trustee who has used improper solicitation to obtain proxies or to procure his appointment as trustee , should nonetheless receive remuneration for acting as trustee , the court can override this resolution ( r 6.148(2) ) . |
| 3 | This relates them to all the other uses of blend and modal dare seen above , dare itself being conceived as a mere possibility , thereby negating or questioning its existence as a reality constituting a before-position with respect to the event performed due to the daring ( that expressed by the infinitive ) . |
| 4 | The father does not challenge the mother 's parenting abilities or impugn her capacity as a good mother . |
| 5 | Indeed it says that it wants to hand its own computer business over to NCR 's managers , and has pledged not to close the firm 's factories or sack its workers as a result of the merger . |
| 6 | If you would like to join the committee and influence policy , pass on a good idea , attend the community lunch held for those working in the area , get involved in producing the regular Headington Area Newsletter , join an informal discussion group or borrow material on Health , Parenting or Caring for the Elderly , make a special request or offer your services as a tutor or Youth Club volunteer , we would love to hear from you . |
| 7 | Note the lively sculpture of the roof line , one figure looking as if he is smoking a hubble-bubble or earning his living as a snake charmer : in fact he is a fireman ! |
| 8 | Also , in the same passage , he says he is going to pack his bag — ‘ my pauper 's bag ’ — and end up either dead of starvation in a ditch or earning his keep as a tutor in some merchant 's house . |
| 9 | If Gaddafi survived , would it weaken or strengthen his position as leader ? |
| 10 | He loves driving , rather than seeing his car as a way of getting him from A to B , and sees his car as a status symbol , and means to power and freedom . |
| 11 | When a lymphocyte is presented with an antigen that fits its receptor as a key fits a lock , the lymphocyte is literally ‘ turned on ’ , with its metabolism rapidly increasing . |
| 12 | It was this work , along with the subsequent brilliance of his public performances , that created his reputation as ‘ Canada 's leading young poet ’ : ‘ His virtues are his own , and they are considerable … at his best he expresses himself , sometimes whimsically , sometimes passionately , in speech which is beyond the capacity of mere formula to produce , ’ commented Allan Donaldson at the time . |
| 13 | War is in some sense a feature of life that loses its distinction as an element of malice . |
| 14 | He was in black — a thick high-necked sweater and , she noticed when he got up and came round the side of the desk , a pair of black corduroys that moulded his thighs as if tailored specially for him , as indeed they probably had been . |
| 15 | Time was the theme that fired his heart as a young student and affected him for the rest of his life . |
| 16 | Rather than use his apartment as an extension of the office , Milton did things the other way round . |
| 17 | Now , there 's an , there 's an alternative being put forward as a compromise , but a a compromise is n't a compromise , the compromise as it looks er involving us , and we 're all Party members , as already indicated , as individuals and saying top up , let's top up , we 're already paying are n't we , the political levy , let's pay a bit more , right , is actually one that reduces our input as an organization . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's an opportunity to keep my club commitment going and have a look at what the Wales set-up entails ’ , he said in one of the many television interviews that followed his appointment as Davies 's no. 2 . |
| 19 | The hall was neat and tidy , but it was bare in a way that betrayed its nature as common property . |
| 20 | Particularly in Southeast Asia , China and South America , there is a whole group interested in buying art who neither have experience of buying at auction nor understand our role as agents acting on behalf of buyers and sellers . |
| 21 | Alexander Ramsay was back in his own house of Dalwolsey for Yuletide , and glad to be , for apart from the festive season 's celebrations , which he always enjoyed , there was much that required his attention as chief of a great lordship of many baronies , many manors and wide lands . |
| 22 | Eltec SA is keen to specialise in support services , forging alliances as and where necessary , rather than prolong its reputation as a transaction processing monitor firm . |
| 23 | Of the more than ten million bound editions that bear his name as editor or author , he was proudest of the fortnightly Harmsworth 's Universal Encyclopedia ( 1920–2 ) which , under the slogan of ‘ a penny a day 's subscription ’ , sold twelve million copies throughout the English-speaking world and was translated into six languages , including Japanese . |
| 24 | I am firmly convinced that it was Harold Wilson 's poor judgement in relation to certain advisers that damaged his record as Prime Minister . |
| 25 | An approach that considers your people as an integral part of the system , right from the start . |
| 26 | As the man who first hired Penn for Vogue magazine and who encouraged him to create the colour still-life that launched his career as a photographer in 1943 , Liberman is also one who knows the artist and his work perhaps better than anyone . |
| 27 | As the man who first hired Penn for Vogue magazine and who encouraged him to create the colour still-life that launched his career as a photographer in 1943 , Liberman is also one who knows the artist and his work better than anyone . |
| 28 | That voice is ever changing as we learn and develop our technique as a group . |
| 29 | This may only serve to aggravate matters further and undermine your role as a neutral . |
| 30 | We have analysed the influence of a combined index ( the Newcastle prescribing index ) , which is based on patient age and sex , on the prescribing of general practitioners in two family health services authorities and evaluated its usefulness as a notional indicator of costs and items . |