Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether employed as a part-time sales assistant or as a manager , all staff are offered the opportunity to develop their careers within Thresher . |
| 2 | The synthesiser can be used either as a melodic or as a chorus instrument . |
| 3 | They will be put under the strain of doing jobs for which they are unsuited and as a result will either leave after a short time , have the humiliation of being told they are unsuitable , or cause difficulties for other staff who have to rely on them or cooperate with them . |
| 4 | One of the areas that shows the first signs of body ageing is the upper arms — they can become thick and flabby and as a result shapeless . |
| 5 | But much more detailed and as a result not only of about twelve days ' training which we 've undertaken in that area with the management team , or various of them , but also of our experience over the last eighteen months in operating it . |
| 6 | Governors were kept informed but as a decision of the headteachers rather than as a matter of right . |
| 7 | The difference with New Historicism is in a refusal to see the incident or localised concern as symbolic or as a metaphor for larger cultural significances . |
| 8 | The most effective lessons are those where the child is given the opportunity , either as an individual or as a member of a small group , to explore and to create something original . |
| 9 | Hold a sponsored-fast — you can do this either as an individual or as a group . |
| 10 | The report from the college was favourable and as a consequence two warships were fitted with the apparatus that Priestley devised . |
| 11 | The weather had been appalling and as a result the whole family had caught colds . |
| 12 | Glycollic acid could be a precursor for the petrochemical feedstock , ethylene glycol but it is also a useful chemical in its own right , serving as a descalent and as a mordant in the dyeing industry . |
| 13 | If it were not for the fact that he was one of the favourites you 'd have been delighted but as a Gold Cup winner I had to feel a bit disappointed . |
| 14 | We do claim credit for having detected this anger and for having spent a year in working to set up a public meeting at which Thornaby people could express it , but even there we were careful to be non-party political and as a result of that meeting , with the support of Thornaby people and the town 's MP Tim Devlin , we are now carrying the campaign to the proper quarter . |
| 15 | When I replaced him he was quite stressed and as a result a week later became ill and had a fungal growth on him . |
| 16 | I am terribly shy and as a result , very lonely . |
| 17 | The flowing blood was the symbol and proof that life had been taken in payment for the sins of the guilty and as a substitute for his own guilt-stained life . |
| 18 | Many manufacturers felt the production of cars was becoming costly and as a result the sport dwindled slightly in Europe but after the Americans introduced the famous Indianapolis 500 in 1911 , interest picked up again on the continent . |
| 19 | As a colleague you 're deficient but as a neighbour you 're marvellous . |
| 20 | During the last year Enterprise Training paid special attention to becoming more cost effective and as a result , investment has been made in equipment , staff development , and the premises . |
| 21 | The UN High Commissioner for Refugees , Sadako Ogata , stated that she was " deeply disturbed " by the decision , which was denounced by US human rights groups as racist and as a violation of national and international law . |
| 22 | I have appended a small article in the hope that you will find it useful and as a measure of my support for ‘ Observations ’ and I hope it does well . |
| 23 | Gordon lives in Rutherglen , is married and as a hobby , is a keen yachtsman . |
| 24 | In this way grammar would not be presented as primary but as a consequence of the achievement of meaning through the modification of lexical items . |
| 25 | In 1991 , it claimed to be the biggest supplier of Unix kit to the government , working either alone or as a member of a consortium . |
| 26 | The proportions of elderly people living in households who were neither living alone nor as a couple on their own fell by about half in the period 1961 to 1981 , so there is reduced scope for similar falls to occur in the future . |
| 27 | MARK DIGNAM was one of England 's foremost actors , both as a juvenile and as a character actor , ready to tackle anything going , from cameo to leading roles , an expert in the classics , above all Shakespeare , and a keen student of modern drama . |
| 28 | DDT was followed by other organo-chlorides , including aldrin , isodrin , entrin , and dieldrin , which was widely used in Britain as a sheep-dip and as a seed dressing . |
| 29 | The Moslem President of Bosnia-Hercevgovina , Alija Izetbegovic , protested at the holding of the meeting which he saw as unrepresentative and as a move to split Moslems in the republic , and on Aug. 16 he announced that a referendum would be held on the future of Bosnia-Hercegovina at a date to be determined by Bosnia 's parliament . |
| 30 | The Act occasioned a considerable debate about the needs of the disabled and as a result much publicity was given to their cause and many of their problems received greater critical attention . |