Example sentences of "[be] there as a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In effect , the first dog has always been there as a crutch to rely upon . |
| 2 | He was too young to remember when it had been a school , though his mother could , she had been there as a pupil . |
| 3 | The Government 's position has always been clear — nuclear weapons are there as a deterrent . |
| 4 | But if they do n't — well , they are there as a record . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | It is more likely that the white ear spots are there as a signal to cubs following their dam in thick jungle . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Your tutor is there as a resource and will keep things moving . |
| 11 | Society was there as a backdrop to drama , melodrama if you like , and that drama could only be presented in terms of individual destinies which had to be resolved satisfactorily in the film itself . |
| 12 | Yet Elizabeth had been a widow for over ten years , and her children were very nearly off her hands ; it is quite possible that her brief sojourn in the workhouse was part of an attempt to give her life a new direction and meaning — perhaps she was there as a helper , a visitor , a counsellor to those in need , or even as a missionary spreading the gospel of Christianity in general or that of the Lady Huntingdon 's Connexion in particular . |
| 13 | Mister was associated with the theatre from its very beginning in 1914 when , on the opening night , he was there as a pageboy , until his retirement in 1974 . |
| 14 | Sara recalls , ‘ She was there as a mother . |
| 15 | At the same time it should be remembered that over the centuries , exiles and deportees have only accounted for a tiny fraction of the total population of Siberia , the vast majority of which was there as a result of voluntary emigration , fortune seeking or the process of natural procreation . |