Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [verb] as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For many years after the war , these cottages were unoccupied and were offered for sale at a thousand pounds each , with no takers ; they have since been acquired as holiday homes . |
| 2 | Credit transfer , or ‘ exemption ’ as it is sometimes called , has long been recognised as part of SCOTVEC 's provision . |
| 3 | Canada Balsam and Lakeside 70C have long been used as slide mountants , but they can not produce a reliable bond for machine finishing , particularly with polished first faces . |
| 4 | Wood , of course , has long been used as fuel by mankind ( see the beginning of this chapter ) . |
| 5 | It is a sadly neglected work , and again the only serious alternative to Järvi is Stravinsky 's Chicago recording which like the Jeu can only be obtained as part of a mammoth 22-CD Sony set of virtually all Stravinsky 's major works ( totally indispensable though that is ) . |
| 6 | By strict standards , therefore , the memoirs must contain much that can only be regarded as fiction . |
| 7 | From this point of view , which could make no place for miracles understood as cases of divine , supernatural interference with the laws of nature , reports of alleged miracles could only be regarded as evidence of credulity and ignorance on the part of those who originated and passed on the stories . |
| 8 | The irreconcilability of two such extremes in one group of human beings could only be explained as part of the great mystery of human personality . |
| 9 | This means that the relation of ideas and practical problems can only be understood as part of the process of history . |
| 10 | Note that modules can only be offlined as part of a package ; they can not be offlined individually . |
| 11 | The failure to adopt successful Continental practices can only be construed as complacency . |
| 12 | We went with our newly found friend who took us through the side door to a shed at the back of his premises and showed us what could only be described as treasure — five large horse collars of black leather . |
| 13 | Some departments offer opportunities for supervised study that need not necessarily be undertaken as study for a degree or other qualification . |
| 14 | However , failure to limit fertility should not necessarily be interpreted as fatalism . |
| 15 | Clovis 's campaigns and ruses against other Frankish rulers should perhaps be seen as power struggles within a small kin-group , and therefore as precursors of the civil wars that were to follow , but we know nothing about the connections between the petty kings of the years prior to 511 . |
| 16 | The Queen had already been informed ; this had been the purpose of his visit to Sandringham the previous day , which had generally been regarded as part of the normal routine , and not as marking any special occasion . |
| 17 | Laurie Mains , the former Otago and All Black fullback who nursed Otago to win the national first division championship last winter , has already been named as coach of the All Blacks in place of the unavailable Alex Wyllis . |
| 18 | The fact that cowries were reproduced in gold and electrum has already been quoted as evidence of their high standing in ancient Egypt . |
| 19 | Some new programmes have already been scrapped as part of immediate budget cuts of £20 million . |
| 20 | South Africa have named for the same job , not a professional journalist , but Dr. Nick Labuschagne , a man who has just been ousted as President of the Natal Rugby Union . |
| 21 | A two-year study of the conservation value of ponds in Central Region has just been completed as part of the Operation Brightwater Campaign organised by the Scottish Conservation Projects Trust . |
| 22 | The plants that these animals dispersed may thus be seen as vegetable anachrorlisms and the introduction of horses and cattle in historical times seems to have locally restored the ranges of such trees as jicaro ( Crescentia alata , Bignoniaceae ) and guanacaste ( Enterolobium cyclocarpum , Leguminosae ) , which may fall in this category . |
| 23 | The huge postbag on the subject from SHE 's readers shows us that the subject needs far more serious investigation , and can no longer be dismissed as fantasy or wishful thinking . |
| 24 | Sir Thomas will no longer be acting as go-between in the matter of correspondence , but the prince might well contrive some other means of communicating with you . |
| 25 | The children in the system must no longer be used as guinea pigs . ’ |
| 26 | Regalism can best be defined as Erastianism and it represented little more than the modernization and systematization of the traditional claim of the crown to control what it considered the temporal aspects of church government . |
| 27 | When viewed in this light Robert Summers 's thesis that the legal realist movement should best be seen as part of a tradition of ‘ pragmatic instrumentalism ’ in American jurisprudence seems basically correct . |
| 28 | The owner of the freehold will also be entitled to enjoy any " fixtures " , that is anything which would generally be classified as personalty but which , by virtue of its attachment to the land , becomes a part of the land and is therefore treated as realty . |
| 29 | It is generally agreed that making a bad decision ( for which the remedy is an appeal ) will not normally be treated as ground for dismissal of a Circuit judge as showing ‘ inability or misbehaviour ’ . |
| 30 | He points out that the droppings which the plant will be using would normally be used as manure for spreading on fields . |