Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] as a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If the pews are an essential part of the design , this will probably limit the choice of uses — maybe as a concert hall , conference and lecture hall , or simply as a show place . |
| 32 | Nearly all authorities — even the most decentralized — reserve some money under central control to purchase material which the zones do not want , or can not afford , or simply as a fund to cover emergencies . |
| 33 | The relevant consent requirement is normally contained as a class right in the articles or sometimes as a restriction on the powers of the directors . |
| 34 | In the frightening interpretation of The Glutton , Ms Bodman has gradually introduced the human figure either alone , paired or sometimes as a threesome . |
| 35 | As a private investigator , for instance , or earlier as a guide in the giant planet Worbali'n , where the smallest life form had teeth as ling as my arm . |
| 36 | For twelve years I had greatly enjoyed being a guest of some of the members of the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers on their championship links of Muirfield on the coast of East Lothian , where once or twice as a boy I had played with my grandfather . |
| 37 | Once or twice as a hand grabbed and missed it lurched and threatened to tilt the corpse on to the crowd . |
| 38 | Power-hungry people would want to use it as a weapon — which it could very successfully be utilised as — or else as a way of controlling others en masse . |
| 39 | This brings me to volatiles borne by small bodies , either during accretion , or subsequently as a veneer . |
| 40 | Radiation may induce diarrhoea by a non-inflammatory mechanism such as bile acid malabsorption ( although only as a feature of late radiation damage to the small bowel ) . |
| 41 | The Windows for Workgroups beta included software to permit a DOS machine to hook up to a Windows for Workgroups network , although only as a client , so it 's safe to assume that the same Workgroup Connection software will find its way into version 6 . |
| 42 | Yet education is very much the sort of thing you might expect Moore 's principles to display as worth while in its own right rather than merely as a means to , or even component of , other things . |
| 43 | It could well be useful in certain respiratory conditions he thought , but there was a danger that just as a candle burns out much quicker in oxygen , one might ‘ live out too fast ’ . |
| 44 | So it seems likely that just as a youngster does not need to learn to be afraid or to feel secure , they also respond instinctively from birth to the underlying mood of the call — like the predatory roar of a lion , the angry bellow of an enraged bull , the contented moo of a grazing cow or the eminently social bleatings of sheep , keeping the flock together . |
| 45 | What it means in practice is that just as a wife has no entitlement to supplementary benefit ( SB ) in her own right — her husband must claim for her as his ‘ dependant ’ — so a single woman living with a male lover may be denied SB and required to look to him for support . |
| 46 | ( 1 ) There is a tradition in Austrian and German philosophy which maintains that just as a judgement can be true or false , so can an emotional attitude be correct or incorrect . |
| 47 | He saw that just as a knowledge of atoms and molecules is essential for the progress of chemistry , it is also essential for chemistry student . |
| 48 | The problem of course with Christology for feminists is that Jesus was a male human being and that thus as a symbol , as the Christ , or as the Second Person of the trinity , it would seem that ‘ God ’ becomes in some way ‘ male ’ . |
| 49 | The salute and stamp of boot on bare floor were smarter than normally as a consequence . |
| 50 | Though circumstances are so changed it is relevant to remember that in their heyday syllabubs were regarded as refreshments to be offered at card parties , ball suppers and at public entertainments , rather than just as a pudding for lunches and dinners , although they did quite often figure as part of the dessert in the days when a choice of sweetmeats , fruits , jellies , confectionery and creams was set out in a formal symmetrical array in the centre of the table . |
| 51 | There had been various cases of ‘ blacked ’ journalists although usually as a result of pro-IRA stories . |
| 52 | In that sense it 's a glorified soap — and I 've heard it dismissed more than once as a yuppie Dallas , though I find it as difficult to understand how anyone could see it that way as those people would find it to understand how I can curl up , laugh and cry with the characters each week and carry their dilemmas around with me in the days in between . |
| 53 | The use of continuing care beds for elderly people is being more closely scrutinised than ever as a result of the changing NHS culture . |
| 54 | Many felt that possibly as a result of Big Bang more people generally were changing jobs , and the mining conglomerate questioned wrote that : ‘ we have had to review salaries etc. of staff vulnerable to approaches from the City . |
| 55 | We shall see in the next section that partly as a result of secularisation religion has become privatised and inward looking . |
| 56 | The Ehrenreichs claim that partly as a reaction against the actions of the government ‘ large numbers of young people pushed professional-managerial class radicalism to its limits and found themselves , ultimately , at odds with their own class ’ . |
| 57 | Deirdre Bair sees her project not simply as a rewriting of events , nor solely as a rereading of de Beauvoir 's writings , but as a mixture of ‘ literary biography ’ , ‘ intellectual history ’ , ‘ feminist theory ’ , and ‘ oral history ’ . |
| 58 | Right and indeed , er I , I must er correct the impression that Yeltsin is anti-semitic , I do n't think there 's any evidence of that at all , er , a and , er I , I would regard that really as a slander on his character , but er , er Russian nationalist , this is a very delicate question . |
| 59 | It is also relevant here that the story of the weeping bitch was a widely known one , albeit in moralized versions , as an exemplum , rather than simply as a fabliau . |
| 60 | To begin with , geometry has more value than simply as a means of acquiring a grasp of mathematical concepts . |