Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [vb base] as a " in BNC.

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1 It seems that I count as a visitor . ’
2 The application to the local community is one that I put as a challenge to all : How can we help people to take seriously membership in the Eucharistic community of faith ?
3 As I have two young children , I fit my working time around school and sleep times so I am lucky to have a small room at home that I use as a studio .
4 One of my activities outside HTV , approved of by the company , is that I act as a consultant to a communication company and help to train industrialists , business executives and trade union officials who want to come to terms with the necessary techniques of appearing on television .
5 I should make it clear at the outset that I act as a parliamentary consultant to the Professional Association of Teachers and that much of what I shall say tonight will be based on the practical experience of PAT members .
6 That I take as a sort of axiom , as given to start with , in this argument .
7 That I take as a sort of axiom , as , as , as given to start with in this argument .
8 Amaury de Craon wrote to Edward II from Sablé in November 1323 telling him that the ‘ great uneasiness of heart that I feel as a result of the dispute between you and your brother the king of France , our lord , and a desire to find ways , according to my humble ability , to prevent it , has emboldened me to write the following things ’ .
9 All I will say is that I reject as a model of justice the view which has temporarily gained favour in many developed societies : namely , the view that each person is entitled to what he can get , and let the next man look out for himself as best he can .
10 The limitations are the lack of footswitching between the clean/crunch and OD1/OD2 modes , and that I see as a drawback ( unless you find you prefer one or the other and stick to it ) .
11 Erm and I had to think up something that I do as a hobby er to teach other people .
12 But it is something that you recognize as a problem ?
13 ‘ I believe it is quite hard , the work that you do as a Strict Regime prisoner .
14 I mean here we are , we 've been talking about taking holidays in this area , and I imagine that much of the work that you do as a local Tourist Board is not actually directly aimed at people who live in this area .
15 Consider each impasse that you meet as a stepping stone along the path to eventual happiness and fulfilment .
16 And to ensure that we act as a group and not just a collection of separate offices .
17 I mean it 's an enormous resource in terms of talented people , facilities , interesting ideas that we use as a bank to fuel other parts of the region which are less active .
18 A song that we hear as a long light squeal .
19 When you 're arguing about the money to be spend on repairs , and for example the reason why we 've had to get strict budgetary control on the amount of money which is being spent on repairs , is because that money all comes out of tenants ' rents , and it 's basically a balance — if we want to increase the erm numbers and the standard of repairs that we offer as a landlord , then it has to be met by a further increase in rents , and we think we 've got the balance about right at the moment .
20 He held that beliefs in laws and theories are nothing more than psychological habits that we acquire as a result of repetitions of the relevant observations .
21 on the size or the whereabouts of the potential markets that we have as a theatre ?
22 With the tragedy that is Cyprus today and the role that we have as a guarantor power , will my right hon. Friend confirm that he is prepared to use the framework of the Western European Union to press for an acceptable solution — acceptable to all sides in Cyprus ?
23 But simply using his list and any additional items that we have as a check list , no more than that .
24 The point is not only that we do as a matter of fact accept " the same meaning " and " a different meaning " as intelligible concepts , but that any attempt to define the criteria of interchangeability of expressions with regard to their meaning presupposes their intelligibility .
25 ‘ I think for this department it 's important that we work as a team and we all get great satisfaction from seeing a complex job completed . ’
26 The only important thing is that we play as a team and that we win .
27 It is my contention that entrenchment and cynicism both reflect and serve to heighten an atmosphere of demoralization ; that they arise as a result of a semi-conscious decision by teachers about how to cope with doubts and demands ; that while this stance often seems the only possible option it is a mistake to adopt it ; and that through insight into the dynamics of the decision-making process , a better stance can be found , even in very trying circumstances , that offers a greater opportunity for personal satisfaction and institutional success .
28 Often the set lunches are so cheap , in fact , that they work as a loss leader — a taster to tempt people back in the evening .
29 One advantage of base-isolated buildings is that they move as a unit .
30 This might happen for some clumps of primordial germ cells are known to form intercellular bridges so that they exist as a syncytium ( fused cells , sharing several nuclei ) .
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