Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marshall , the court held that a charge applied to factory machinery which had replaced that originally used as security for the repayment of a substantial debt . |
| 2 | Paul Hopkinson was born on June 29 1906 , the son of a former professor of archaeology who became a clergyman and eventually retired as Archdeacon of West Morland . |
| 3 | An exponent of traditional economic expansion through centralized planning , Li was attacked by Deng and his reformist allies after 1979 , and eventually removed as Deputy Premier and given the largely ceremonial position of national President . |
| 4 | Instead of being repressed , the frightening possibility is voiced , dramatized and laughed about and so acknowledged as part of life . |
| 5 | Secondly , conflict may be formal in the sense of being openly recognised by the parties involved , and perhaps institutionalised as part of an established bargaining procedure ; or it can be informal , and confined to a sphere of covert activity outside the organisation 's authority structure . |
| 6 | ‘ The waste and desert appearance is partly caused by the vast extent of the common lands belonging to the towns and villages , the system of management of which is ruinous in the extreme , and the finest districts , capable of enriching the proprietors and the country at large , are abandoned to , and only serve as pasture for goats , sheep or a few asses . ’ |
| 7 | However the Saloon Bar was only one section of the pub , and only originated as part of the trend of the 1890s towards gentrification . |
| 8 | He is a widower , with no family and few interests outside the hotel : as a result , he is prepared to work for long hours and generally acts as night porter during the week . |
| 9 | The former opens with David an outlaw , fleeing from Saul , and ends with the death of Jezebel , Jehu 's brutality , and finally Jehoash as King of Judah . |
| 10 | They still often continue , in the capacity of Custos Rotulorum , to be the senior magistrate in the county and usually sit as chairman of the committee which recommends the names of new justices of the peace to the Lord Chancellor , a partial explanation for the dull , middle-class nature of the magistracy . |
| 11 | The manifestation of God in the Indian tradition would take such forms as Brahma , Vi u and Śiva , the trimūrti of the Hindu way of life , and innumerable other gods and goddesses , the veneration of which , in Gandhi 's view , is sometimes inaccurately and insensitively described as idol worship . |
| 12 | Jonathan Carroll 's After Silence ( Macdonald , £14.99 ) comes complete with a curious endorsement from Stephen King : ‘ I would say that only five writers have written serious novels which incorporated scenes of fantasy or the inexplicable and still qualify as literature , ’ writes the doyen of domestic horror , prompting the thought that it all depends what you mean by literature . |
| 13 | Their side-effects can be different from those of alcohol , and are considered in more detail in Chapter 15 , but similarly they can be mistakenly classified and thereafter dismissed as part of the normal process of growing old . |
| 14 | He was ordained in Durham Cathedral in 1950 , and later served as curate at Hartlepool , Huddersfield and Gateshead . |
| 15 | From the start of the movement in 1907 she held high office , and later served as president ( 1929–35 ) . |
| 16 | After much transatlantic exchange of information , the synthesis and study of more than 300 compounds , and collaboration with physicians in many parts of Africa and Asia , the drug christened ‘ Daraprim ’ and later known as pyrimethamine emerged in 1952 as an antimalarial of considerable importance . |
| 17 | The French psychiatrist Pierre Deniker , records that a substance closely related to promethazine and later known as chlorpromazine was synthesized in 1950 and ‘ would have remained on the shelves had the surgeon and physiologist Henri Laborit not asked the manufacturer for a drug with central effects stronger than those of promethazine ’ . |
| 18 | Those that he produced for sale through the Redfern Gallery were usually printed in editions of fifty and include Thames-side , Bull Fight , Spain , Tropical Landscape , Horse Guards in their Dressing Rooms at Whitehall and Working Men 's College , this last relating to his association with the Working Men 's College in Crowndale Road , Mornington Crescent , where he gave a lecture , ‘ The Painter 's Intention ’ , in 1952 , taught lithography and also acted as Art Adviser . |
| 19 | As in the past , the information for guidance will be conveyed mainly by the head teacher 's report , which governors would come to regard rightly as a source of sound professional advice , subjects for discussion and a welcome touch of humour ( ‘ Mr C scored three goals for the staff against the pupils and also acted as referee ’ ) . |
| 20 | He is a cost accountant and also acts as company secretary in respect of share issues , pensions and the like . |
| 21 | Constitutional rule is more ostensibly and controversially exercised as Head of the Commonwealth . |
| 22 | Johnny Brown guided the lad at Gala U14 and U16 levels and now continues as coach to the senior club . |
| 23 | Supported by a small ‘ efficiency unit ’ — composed of both civil servants and outside consultants — and originally established as part of the Prime Minister 's Office , Rayner 's job was to stimulate improvements in administrative efficiency within Whitehall . |
| 24 | On the property side he investigates title to land , prepares contracts of sale , conveyances and wills , obtains probate of wills , and frequently acts as executor and trustee . |
| 25 | It was not until March 29 , five days after polling , that Peacock conceded defeat and immediately resigned as leader of the Liberal Party . |
| 26 | Water that has evaporated and condensed in the upper atmosphere , and then falls as rain , should be pure , except for a little carbon dioxide picked up on the way down ( although in fact , these days , it tends also to contain a whole catalogue of pollutants ) . |
| 27 | He was ordained deacon in 1863 and priest in 1864 , served for two years as his father 's curate in Langley Burrell , Wiltshire , and then went as curate to Clyro , Radnorshire . |
| 28 | Chamberlain pointed out that the relationship between maturity and volume was not monotonic , with volume initially increasing , and then decreasing as delivery became imminent , and this may have been responsible for the positive relationship . |
| 29 | In theoretical work , the turbulence is supposed to be generated at an initial instant and then to decay as time proceeds . |
| 30 | It is now common practice , and indeed included as part of the conditions of sale , that a deposit may be used by the seller as the deposit on another purchase , although the deposit would need to be held in that transaction as stakeholder until completion . |