Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [to-vb] [pers pn] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's perhaps perhaps easier to see it as the as the N As and the O Hs though okay or if we did it with sulphuric acid we 'd have hydrogen sulphate plus sodium hydroxide what 's that going to give us ? |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm so glad to have you as a son , John . |
| 3 | It 's much be It 's much better to see it as A square As X squared plus te nineteen X plus minus two two five , really . |
| 4 | It does not diminish Julius Caesar or make it less complex to approach it as a dramatised representation of the relation between words and actions within politics . |
| 5 | It seemed quite enough just to have you as a friend . |
| 6 | But it is also possible and not less agreeable to regard it as the gradual assumption by all the nations concerned of that larger sovereignty which can alone protect their diverse and distinctive customs and characteristics and their national traditions . ’ |
| 7 | After six competitive games it became clear to me that the standard of football required in the Multivite/Singletons League Division Three was way beyond his ability and so , sadly , I felt the club was no longer able to accommodate him as a player . |
| 8 | It was now no longer sufficient to accept it as the more or less automatic result of the existence of a number of completely sovereign States bound together by geographical contiguity . |
| 9 | So far , this has indicated the most elementary sort of raw evidence which the historian needs to use , but it is rarely satisfactory to describe it as ‘ primary material ’ in the old sense of ‘ sources ’ . |
| 10 | Rather than market and hierarchy being opposed to types , as in the Williamsonian formulation , it may be more appropriate to see them as alternative solutions to the problem of how to arrange functional alignment within the enterprise . |
| 11 | Thus , although it would in principle be possible to use the producer price indices for measuring the rate of inflation , it is more appropriate to regard them as indicators of the likely future trend of inflation . |
| 12 | On present thinking , it would be more logical to treat it as revision and to do it at the later stage . |
| 13 | Practical theories and theoretized practice meet somewhere in the middle , and it may be more fruitful to see them as a continuum than as a dichotomy . |
| 14 | I can not claim to have been a close friend , but I had occasional encounters with him and , as with most people , it would be more accurate to describe them as occasional brushes . |
| 15 | Although the general heading of this section is ‘ the special problem of Kosovo ’ , it would be more accurate to describe it as ‘ the special problem of Serbia ’ . |
| 16 | While this may be regarded as a sign of real independence it is probably more accurate to describe it as ‘ pseudoindependence ’ ( Kets de Vries , 1978 ) . |
| 17 | We then considered its claim to be scientific , humanistic and atheistic ; concluding that it was more accurate to describe it as an ideology than a science , that its humanitarianism was very real yet flawed , and that its atheism was fundamental to an understanding of the ideology . |
| 18 | This difference is usually formulated in terms of a difference in knowledge ( pure as against applied , theoretical as against practical ) but it may be more accurate to see it as a difference of stance . |
| 19 | Consequently , rather than viewing the totalitarian structure of the PCF as a source of oppression , it is more productive to view it as the chosen institution within which Nizan found not only political asylum but also emotional and moral equilibrium , a refuge in short which provided him with a necessary disciplined working environment . |
| 20 | At times they find it more amusing to portray her as a disco-Princess . |
| 21 | But it is also possible to see it as an attempt to formulate the way in which the sliding incompatibility of the two can only be perceived through an ‘ internal distantiation ’ in which the problem of that ‘ relation ’ is enacted by its relation , in the sense of the telling of a story — which is how we get history . |
| 22 | Although some regard competitor analysis as a subcomponent of environmental scanning , it is probably advisable to identify it as a separate and distinct analytical effort to insure that it is given the strategic priority and management attention it requires . |
| 23 | Sniffy was reasonably pleased to see them as the Goad men had been about to wreak vengeance on him for his revelations about the prison release dates being changed . |
| 24 | And Eleanor was damn lucky to have him as an escort once in a blue moon . |
| 25 | Well , how about one or two lace patterns , for example , bed jackets and cardigans for those elderly and bedridden friends , something really pretty to give them as a gift . |
| 26 | It is obviously important to get people to join the G M B and it 's just as important to keep them as members once they have joined . |
| 27 | You 're about as pleased to see me as a peasant is to meet the tax-gatherer ! ’ |
| 28 | Thus it is often convenient to treat it as the claim that no complex synonym can be provided which brings out the meaning of ‘ good ’ as say ‘ parent 's brother ’ brings out the meaning of ‘ uncle ’ . |
| 29 | Useful investigation can take place in an individualised environment ( as many Open University students know ) ; however , it is often best to approach it as a co-operative endeavour . |
| 30 | Chernobyl was undoubtedly a setback for nuclear power , but it grows increasingly hard to see it as its death knell . |