Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In terms of the use of multimedia generally , the visual impact of HDTV may heighten interest in using multimedia across a broad range of applications , most obviously as a component of HDTV-based POS and POI terminals . |
| 2 | THIS ALBUM 'S predecessor , ‘ The Psychedelic Years ’ , was possibly the best compilation album ever , in the sense that it contained the best songs by the best bands in its field of reference ; in fact , it seemed to have all the good songs that came out of psychedelia ( It also had The Incredible String Band , but presumably only as a sorbet to clear the palate . |
| 3 | Polo was all right as a hobby , but for a living , as Angel 's father , who prided himself on his English had pointed out , it was distinctly ‘ Non-U ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been all right as a weed for years . |
| 5 | A FORMER marine masqueraded so successfully as a policeman that he led a team of real officers on a job , a court heard yesterday . |
| 6 | As she got to her feet he looked underneath her , remembering the equipment cows had , and saw that she had a semblance of the same thing , although nothing like so dangly as a cow 's , but quite satisfactorily dripping at that moment with what he supposed was milk . |
| 7 | Surprisingly , he did much better as a collector of pictures from earlier centuries than of the works of his own contemporaries or friends . |
| 8 | By now Katharine 's riding had become much more positive and effective and Benji was going much better as a result . |
| 9 | individually , but we do n't get together enough as a team . |
| 10 | I call her so only as a courtesy . ’ |
| 11 | While setting up the calm surface of village life in a realistic manner , the film does so only as a contrast to the savagery that ensues : a priest is shot while making a stand against ‘ the enemies and oppressors of mankind ’ , the Post Office lady kills a German with an axe and is promptly bayonetted herself , and the vicar 's daughter disposes of the Quisling squire , to whom she had been amorously linked . |
| 12 | On behalf of the Crown it was contended that the law did not recognise any such general principle as was involved in the primary submission for Woolwich , that the facts of the case did not meet the established principles governing the restitution of sums paid under duress , and that the revenue were never under any obligation to make any repayment and did so only as a matter of grace . |
| 13 | I do n't listen , I mean sorry , I 've got a frog in my throat , erm like , she tells me not to stay on the phone too long , but sometimes I have to , okay , not , not necessarily just as a conversation , but , homework and stuff |
| 14 | Most readers will probably already be familiar with the famous garlic mayonnaise of Provence , so just as a reminder you will need , for eight people , a minimum of 2 large cloves of garlic — but more if you have avid garlic-eaters to entertain — 2 egg yolks , at least a half-pint of good olive oil , salt , lemon juice . |
| 15 | Ruppia maritima or R. cirrhosa occurs in the Outer Hebrides as a species of brackish lochs , and perhaps not as a constituent of saltmarsh as referred to by Adams(1981) and in the NVC . |
| 16 | The game was all over as a spectacle until the last two minutes when United 's corpse rose from the dead to give Horsham an awful fright . |
| 17 | Baynoun ran only once as a four-year-old ( finishing fourth in the John Porter Stakes ) before being exported to the USA . |
| 18 | ‘ You have to learn to think your way around a golf course much more as a pro , ’ he says . |
| 19 | And you deal yourself with new recruits and so forth as a sort of P R man , you you deal with new recruits ? |
| 20 | Cinema-goers took their pleasure so glumly as a rule , it was good to see smiling , eager faces , to hear a continual murmur of excitement and enjoyment in the auditorium . |
| 21 | I do not accept either the Right-wing proposition that we need only to make the country better off as a whole without making any special effort in the inner cities . ’ |
| 22 | If defectors stayed at home the intelligence world would be much better off as a result . |
| 23 | First it is a game which creates wealth through the process of production exchange and all players in the game ( i.e. those supplying labour services , property and capital ) are better off as a result of it . |
| 24 | You will also have been earning a salary meanwhile , so you are likely to be considerably better off as a result . |
| 25 | There seems no prospect that screening for osteoporosis will meet the basic requirements for a screening programme — namely , that those offered screening must be better off as a result , that overall the screening programme must do more good than harm , and that screening must represent a better use of health care resources than other competing demands . |
| 26 | The reply by the minister was a direct echo of Mary Carpenter : ‘ The principle behind this provision in the bill is that parents should be required — if their means so permit — to pay for their child 's board and lodging , so that they are in no way better off as a result of the child 's being in care . ’ |
| 27 | Witness the serried ranks of highly paid company chairmen who maintain , in the face of incontrovertible evidence to the contrary , that the Eighties enriched us , that we are immeasurably better off as a result of the Thatcher experiment than we would have been without it . |
| 28 | On reflection , the catering industry may well be much better off as a result of the Government 's proposals for a self-regulatory approach , but it all depends at the end of the day on how well it gets its act together , using Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment systems to identify the problem areas . |
| 29 | Given that individuals undertake exchange voluntarily , it is presumed that they must thereby be no worse off and that at least one party to the exchange is better off as a result . |
| 30 | The Government 's claim that students are better off as a result of student loans simply is not true ; nor is it true that loans make up for the loss of income support and housing benefit . |