Example sentences of "[be] [adv] as a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My fears in this are also as a father with a daughter in P6 . ’ |
| 2 | Individuals in many settings are now as a matter of routine involved in interactions with complex computer systems . |
| 3 | And this awareness should not be merely as a result of receiving more ideas from others ( although that is important ) ; teachers should not , any more than students , be the objects of a pure " banking " education . |
| 4 | If you know thre 's somewhere you can stay , that you can be together as a family , it 's the most important thing . |
| 5 | The poor coverage shown by the Walker investigation must be largely as a result of the high proportion of proper nouns found in newswire text . |
| 6 | But , if so , it will be just as a matter of fact . |
| 7 | Colour video images must be still as a series of grabs ( red , blue and green ) are needed to complete the picture . |
| 8 | While agricultural production was expected to increase , the rate of growth in the industrial sector looked set to be slower as a result of the combination of general import compression , credit restraint , reduced public expenditure and investment . |
| 9 | Chair my name 's Pete from Partnership 's I 'm here as a member of the public I 'm not here to speak on behalf of the theatre at all . |
| 10 | Erm I 'm here as a representative |
| 11 | I 'm here as a design apprentice . |
| 12 | For instance this bit of woodland which we planted fifteen years ago — it 's becoming part of the countryside and in another generation will be here as a bit of habitat for wildlife — it 's of no monetary significance at all . |
| 13 | It should be made clear that the value of this information for consumers would be chiefly as a yardstick against which they could measure the rates offered to them by lenders of the same type , or for credit of the same type . |
| 14 | So , you admit that you are here as a spy . |
| 15 | In effect , the first dog has always been there as a crutch to rely upon . |
| 16 | He was too young to remember when it had been a school , though his mother could , she had been there as a pupil . |
| 17 | The Government 's position has always been clear — nuclear weapons are there as a deterrent . |
| 18 | But if they do n't — well , they are there as a record . |
| 19 | It is assumed that homologous structures are there as a consequence of evolution from a common ancestor , so homologous structures common to all mammals would be presumed to have been present in our common ancestor . |
| 20 | While for boys the ‘ justice ’ rather than the ‘ welfare ’ model prevails , between 70 and 80 per cent of girls in care in this country are there as a result of parents or step-parents calling in the social services because they feel their daughters to be ‘ beyond parental control ’ or ‘ morally at risk ’ . |
| 21 | It is more likely that the white ear spots are there as a signal to cubs following their dam in thick jungle . |
| 22 | It was not that they were there as a punishment , just that the cellar was their living room ( a common arrangement in the back-to-backs of Bradford where most Asian families live ) . |
| 23 | If one regards the benefit in this light I can not see that the cost incurred in , or in connection with , the provision of the benefit , can properly be held to include the cost incurred , in any event , in providing education to fee paying pupils at the school who were there as a right in return for the fees paid in respect of them . |
| 24 | It is rather as a precaution against compounding one media mistake with another . |
| 25 | When he fragments and decomposes the objects in his still lifes and landscapes , it is not in order to strip form bare or to disengage some essential quality , but it is rather as a means of creating a completely new kind of pictorial space . |
| 26 | The relevance of his role as priest ( referred to by the expressions Priest , a dissident … priest , the priest 's ) is presumably as a priest of the Roman Catholic Church of which the Pope is Head . |
| 27 | Although some fertility clinics have offered counselling in recent years , it is only as a result of the new legislation that all clinics have to employ counsellors in order to be licensed . |
| 28 | It is only as a result of sensitive and skilful policing in towns and cities that the problem will be kept under control . |
| 29 | Firstly , the use of a statistical test is only as a guideline to highlight trends in the data — not to define immutable standards of performance . |
| 30 | The mounting and hinging of these three bones , by the way , is exactly as a hi-fi engineer might have designed it to serve a necessary " impedance-matching " function , but that is another story . |