Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] as a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Town planning was neither strong nor coherent enough as a discipline and profession for it to stake a claim and take over other intellectual territory ; as a movement it was too inwardly diverse to be sufficiently self-willed to embark on aggrandizement in its remit . |
| 2 | There has been a fair amount of half-hearted canvassing by Wales to try to persuade members of other unions that South Africa is not really stable enough as a country to host the 1995 World Cup . |
| 3 | The night was so dark that the end of the trench was perceptible only as a lightening of the murk , where the ditch of the town lay ahead . |
| 4 | Mr Zeman expects to become unemployed soon as a result of the sudden , unexplained decision to close his forecasting department in the economics institute where he works , but he denies that he is a martyr in the reformist cause . |
| 5 | But I , I wanted to try something slightly different tonight as a bit of an experiment , I wanted us to sort of put ourselves in the position of the criminal and we plan a burglary of our house and see what , what we think about . |
| 6 | When will the Government realise that enlargement will not be acceptable just as a slogan for the Tory re-election campaign , but that it means saying now , and clearly , that the EFTA countries are needed in the Community and that early membership for central and eastern European countries , according to realisable targets , should be a priority to which we are committed ? |
| 7 | For the time being it was decided to retain Venturous mainly as a training ship until the DTI courses were started . |
| 8 | Only 17 per cent felt he was acceptable even as a co-representative . |
| 9 | Patients were randmly allocated to receive either the long acting somatostatin analogue octreotide ( n=121 ) or isotonic saline intravenously as a placebo ( n= 124 ) . |
| 10 | The huge sphere of its forward compartments was visible only as a nothingness in the star-filled field of space — a circle of darkness more intense than that which surrounded it . |
| 11 | Nykrog , for instance , suggested the morals were a redundant , fossilized feature inherited by the fabliaux from twelfth-century precursors that were fables ; Ménard sees the moral largely as a façade and Charles Muscatine is most inclined to see the moral simply as a convenient , traditional way of closing a text . |
| 12 | It was agreed that the key strategy for the next 18 months — two years was to produce a network of interested people who would be valuable both as a resource and as a means of disseminating ideas and information . |
| 13 | They can be valuable purely as a means of providing social companionship , activities of all descriptions , and intellectual stimulation . |
| 14 | Akhenaten either died or was murdered , we 're not , we do n't know , we do n't know how er he was a very peculiar man as I 'll explain in the lectures er physically , very strange probably as a result of inbreeding and erm the old religion re-established itself there was never a return to monotheistic sun worship , but er all its hypothesis is that , that since we know the exodus occurred round about this time and since we know that Judaism too is a religion of a single-minded monotheist you know I 'm the law by God I shall have no other gods before me , it says in the Bible full stop . |
| 15 | The generic label ‘ poststructuralist ’ is here useful merely as a shorthand to designate those contemporary writers who share not a hostility to history as such but a distrust of simple historicisms . |
| 16 | This book is likely to prove useful only as a source of references . |
| 17 | IRONY is useful enough as a writing device . |
| 18 | The manners which Topaz had been taught at the convent were good enough as a basis for acceptable behaviour , but she soon discovered that she had a great deal more to learn , and would also have to adopt a whole new set of values . |
| 19 | They wanted Benjamin to be fuzzy enough as a fantasy figure so that everyone in America could identify with him without joining the Movement . |
| 20 | Although Gilgamesh failed in his attempt to be a true god , the other gods took pity on his situation and appeared to comfort him with the news that he would live honoured forever as a shadow in the Underworld . |
| 21 | Rivers in great cities became foul partly as a result of the beneficent introduction of the water-closet ; for diluted sewage was thus discharged straight into rivers , whereas before it had been collected as ‘ night-soil ’ in concentrated form from privies and used on the land . |
| 22 | Eleanor got into it , as quiet and malleable now as a puppet . |
| 23 | The authors introduce a methodology for describing a whole tax system that is useful here as a summary device . |
| 24 | Ironically , this also makes his autobiography unsatisfactory even as a self-portrait . |
| 25 | One side without the other is likely to create problems and it may be better not to make an appointment than to settle for someone who is seriously inadequate either as a musician or as a leader . |
| 26 | Christopher Plummer is great too as a hammy , Shakespeare-spouting Klingon warlord . |
| 27 | But I 'm very concerned obviously as a representative of Shropshire on that Committee , I do n't really want to support something which at the end of the day is going to have a detrimental impact on our own service here . |
| 28 | This underlines the fact that in nuclear matters , as in the laws of war generally , domestic law may be very important both as a source of the law and as providing some sanctions . |
| 29 | Erm in terms of rights of way we are very concerned indeed as a group er the rights of way and this purpose we have identified er an additional fifty thousand pounds in which we hope will help |
| 30 | The time and effort demanded of them may put a strain on their relationship with a partner , who may have been looking forward to the years when they could be alone again as a couple . |