Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb base] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever figure you choose as a hero , you will hardly be able to keep out something of yourself . |
| 2 | The report said that UNESCO had not accepted the need for budgetary restraint and was still excessively politicized , adding : " The leverage we retain as a sought-after non-member … is greater than we would wield simply by being one vote among 161 others . " |
| 3 | Er , for the most part , industry , er we have refused to pay additional costs at the government level which arise as a result of the slip er induced by industry 's own er causes . |
| 4 | For instance , he will take a wooden bowl , burn it and then , using the pieces of charred wood which result as a medium , make a drawing of a bowl . |
| 5 | That evening , once the children have gone to bed ( little ones at 7.30 p.m. and big ones at 9.30 ) we 're all in the sitting room for the monthly meeting between the women , the workers and the management committee who operate as a support group . |
| 6 | When your most familiar role models are those of a compliant woman or the ‘ strong , silent type ’ of man you may find it difficult to reconcile these influences with the aggressive determination you feel as a female , or the sensitivity and intuition you experience as a man . |
| 7 | In winter they act as a safety valve when the two straight bordering rivers , dug in the seventeenth century by a Dutchman , Cornelius Vermuyden , become swollen with rain and overflow . |
| 8 | It explains why judges must conceive the body of law they administer as a whole rather than as a set of discrete decisions that they are free to make or amend one by one , with nothing but a strategic interest in the rest . |
| 9 | The opportunity you have as a student to do a lot of work is good though . |
| 10 | Foltene is a deep conditioning programme containing natural biological substances normally present in the body which act as a natural scalp stimulant to revitalise blood flow to the hair follicles . |
| 11 | Please accept the small gift we enclose as a mark of our esteem . |
| 12 | THERE can be few musicals that so vividly evoke the era they portray as A Slice of Saturday Night , a 60s skit on teenage passions set in Eric ‘ Rubberlegs ’ De Vene 's Club A Go-Go . |
| 13 | But with more than 50mpg available and the possibility of good deals to reduce the outlay , the cheapest Fiesta has made me take a long hard look at the lavishly equipped hot hatch we use as a shopping car . |
| 14 | Its whole future rests on the decision we take as a nation when we vote in the General Election on Thursday , ’ he said . |
| 15 | I mean suddenly we had the example of a women 's support group from the miner 's strike th that we had the idea you know fr from that erm and Yona really put it in a nutshell when she said I think er er you know behind closed doors the women worrying about what was gon na happen next you know they felt very frustrated and in a way it was a way to channel o our energies away i i i it was seen as that really in the beginning you know as a a sort of a more as a way of getting rid of the well y you know the sort of desperation er the impotence one felt of not being able to do anything in this situation and it 's er and by now of course we 've all become as a group very close er you know we 're we 're more like a big family now really an sort of er a lot of the women have never really sort of regularly been to meetings an th the commitment there is very strong really that we all turn up to our Tuesday meetings sort of . |
| 16 | Ethyl alcohol , also known as ethanol , is the alcohol we use as a social lubricant in wines , beers and spirits . |
| 17 | Er we 're going to continue our focus sponsorship on and corporate hospitality er we 're going to set up er a chairman and chief executives ' club which we er , we have now done being and that it 's the chief executives ' club , it 's their club , we facilitated , have er four or so er lunches er a year and a launch lunch for example we have as a keynote speaker . |
| 18 | Stalinist And once again the mad axemen from Wapping and elsewhere will be sharpening their stilettos ( knives not heels ) in the hope of finally despatching the manager they see as a soccer Satanist . |
| 19 | We saw in chapter 4 that mixtures may be homogeneous , in which case they exist as a single phase , or they may be heterogeneous . |
| 20 | Ours is the only Government who have as a priority in our negotiations in Brussels the provision that all subsidies should be subject to some form of environmental assessment . |
| 21 | ‘ An hour ago , a man we know as a Parisian gangster was killed by one of our sentries . |
| 22 | Now this may be because we 're on the way from one position to another , or it may be a traditional British approach , but I find this personally a great source of pressure because on the one hand I recognise as a parent myself one 's going to have a crucial interest in the education of one 's child , on the other hand how one reconciles those hundreds of different philosophies and then superimposes upon it a professional approach is , I suppose , the greatest single source of strain I find running a large secondary school , particularly , as I said before , in the end the responsibility in law is mine . |
| 23 | Moreover , there is a safety aspect to water as a hazard — the last thing you want as a rider is for your horse to side-step a puddle into the path of an oncoming or passing vehicle . |
| 24 | When your most familiar role models are those of a compliant woman or the ‘ strong , silent type ’ of man you may find it difficult to reconcile these influences with the aggressive determination you feel as a female , or the sensitivity and intuition you experience as a man . |
| 25 | But as a general principle the right of animals to be animals , to live in their space on God 's good earth , is a moral principle I commend as a rule of thumb . |
| 26 | And they particularly admire ‘ the way we work as a team ’ . |
| 27 | The fact that there are parts of Britain which have clambered out of real poverty , and primitive housing , within the lifetime of my own generation they see as a hope and a challenge . |
| 28 | ‘ And so when something like that happens , it makes you think about it all , about the dangers , about all the travelling you do as a musician . |
| 29 | Next in line are the treble , middle and bass controls for channel two ; this time they double as a bright control , another notch filter , a contour control — to add warmth at low volume levels — and Rivera 's own trademarked Ninja Boost circuit . |
| 30 | In recent years there have been language conflicts in Spain , Wales , India and South Africa and more recently in the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia — as different ethnic groups have chosen the language they love as a rallying point . |