Example sentences of "[conj] as [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Decisions that fall outside the parameters of ‘ ordinary ’ unreasonableness may give rise to liability , but those indicating a lesser degree of ineptitude will be categorised as merely imprudent , or as involving an error of judgment , and will , accordingly , be safe from attack . |
| 2 | Not that one is offering literature as a substitute religion or as providing a philosophy for life . |
| 3 | Gandhi might well regard that as making a fetish of the principle of ahi sā . |
| 4 | But I , like the judge , decline to regard that as justifying an inference that Mr. O'Brien was appointed the bank 's agent . |
| 5 | They will initially interpret a rise in the demand for and price of their product as a rise in its relative price and as implying a fall in the real wage rate they must pay measured in terms of their product . |
| 6 | These are the limestone arres , and as unwelcoming a site as you could think of for a new resort . |
| 7 | The Patriotic Accord coalition government of President Jaime Paz Zamora denounced the ruling as contravening a recent financial law passed by the Congress , and as establishing a precedent which would result in a total loss to the treasury of the equivalent of US$58,000,000 . |
| 8 | This is because , in the image of the world created by capitalism , the ability to supply capital is seen as enabling production to take place and as giving a wage to workers who would otherwise starve , while in fact it is really the capitalist who depends on the worker . |
| 9 | The Court of Appeals expressly rejected the first resort cases as not well reasoned , and as giving an advantage to foreign litigants . |
| 10 | The curriculum is viewed as a collection of these bodies of knowledge , and as having a content which can be transmitted to the learner . |
| 11 | In the Domesday Book it is recorded as Caingeham , and as having a church and a priest . |
| 12 | Senators opposed to the treaty denounced it as US colonialism and as representing a violation of the Constitution , most notably in respect of the ban on the presence of nuclear weapons . |
| 13 | National Assembly members had criticized the budget as " consumption orientated " and as constituting a withdrawal of the state from the economy , as spending on state administration , defence and various government agencies was reduced . |
| 14 | Common Law would treat a provision in a contract as to time as being ‘ of the essence of the contract ’ , meaning that if a certain act was not done by one party within a certain stipulated time , he should lose all rights under the contract ; Equity treated such a provision in general as not being of the essence of the contract , but as giving a right only to damages . |
| 15 | We might expect , however , that it would more typically occur as the final sentence of a paragraph , not as a climax , but as describing an action which culminates a series of actions . |
| 16 | Because as recognized a century ago by Ravenstein ( 1885 , 1889 ) most movement takes place over shorter distances , migration 's role in population change becomes more important as the spatial scale of analysis descends . |