Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [adv] as [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This depends on such considerations as whether the wider context includes an indication of negation or counterfactuality , and also on the lexical character of the verb with which the adjective is in immediate construction , since the property of the adjective is not applied to the entity in isolation but only as part of the property complex constituted by the adjective and the verb properties taken together .
2 She can establish grounds of contact , and continue them either as Princess or later as Queen .
3 John was an old hand at ICAO meetings in his former capacities first as UK Director of Aircraft Safety and Licensing and later as Director General of Navigational Services , and I was to learn much from him .
4 It is quoted in full : 6 Private residence exception : separated couples Where a married couple separate or are divorced and one partner ceases to occupy the matrimonial home and subsequently as part of a financial settlement disposes of the home , or an interest in it , to the other partner the home may be regarded for the purposes of Sections [ 222 to 224 of TCGA 1992 ] 101 to 103 as continuing to be a residence of the transferring partner from the date his or her occupation ceases until the date of transfer , provided that it has throughout this period been the other partner 's only or main residence .
5 The fourth congress of the PCT on July 30 , 1989 , re-elected him as central committee chairman and thus as head of state for a further five years .
6 You can also record the limitation date on the outside of the file or preferably as part of the file label .
7 Tasks , leading into programmes , will be arranged against the reference of the framework , varying infinitely in depth or extent , contributing no only to localised progress but also as part of the whole Northern interest .
8 One of the beefs I have about accommodation for elderly people is the fact that by , that the purpose built , very excellent , bungalows and flats for elderly citizens are restricted to one bedroom which , to which but is by government decree to keep the cost down , but it does seem to me to be very heartless because elderly people 's children are unable to come and stay with them except to the great deal of discomfort and perhaps as society grows a little more considerate for the fact that the percentage of elderly people will get even greater as the years go on , then they should make allowance and provide them for the facilities to enable them to be visited by their children and grandchildren .
9 For the next eleven years he shipped out on various vessels as boy steward , able seaman or boatswain-second mate and sometimes as cook .
10 Yet for psychological insight and acute comment it is not easy to match the way Marryat , in Percival Keene , states and develops the situation of an illegitimate boy steadily and tenaciously working out how to persuade his noble father , under whom he serves as midshipman and later as lieutenant , to acknowledge him openly and alter his reserved , cold but unmistakably responsible behaviour towards his son .
11 Janusz Ziolkowski was appointed head of the Presidential Chancellery , and Jerzy Milewski was appointed Minister of State and also as Secretary of the Committee for National Defence , replacing Maciej Zalewski .
12 Yet personal encounters , first as Cripps 's deputy in the Treasury and later as chancellor of the exchequer , persuaded Gaitskell that there were some people in Washington who appreciated that Britain must be granted some safeguards for her economy .
13 " Creed " was , indeed to some extent how the convert himself saw it at the time : witness the acknowledgement in letters of 1866 and 1867 , that such philosophical tenets are not philosophically demonstrable , but are acceptable as art or for their edifying power or simply as faith .
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