Example sentences of "[noun sg] as a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might appear strange to classify a retailer as a manufacturer but this will only happen where he is under a duty to inspect the goods and fails to do so . |
| 2 | By taking the prints to Japan , Sotheby 's was selling to rich Japanese collectors without a retailer as an intermediary and the retailer 's mark-up was subsumed into the auction price . |
| 3 | And physically it was n't any worse than when I fell off my bike as a kid and was concussed for an hour or two . |
| 4 | ( He had always used a lady 's bike as a teenager because he thought the middle bar on a man 's one might do him a mischief if he cocked his leg over it carelessly . ) |
| 5 | ( a ) he enters any building or part of a building as a trespasser and with intent to commit any such offence as is mentioned in sub-section ( 2 ) below ; or |
| 6 | Will he undertake that when he and my right hon. Friend the Minister go to Brussels next week for that crucial meeting , they will continue to fight for British agriculture as a whole and not bend over backwards to please MacSharry , as the Opposition would do ? |
| 7 | It also announced that Richard Shaw , a non-executive director , will become chairman and chief executive following Michael Murray 's resignation as a director and chief executive in December . |
| 8 | The opening of Leçon de choses , significantly entitled ‘ Générique ’ , can almost be said to provide a poetics of the autonomous , self-referential text , such is the emphasis upon the creative power of words : a description is composed which will generate the text as a whole and which also acts as a self-reflexive commentary on this process . |
| 9 | Freer : a Legacy of Art by Thomas Lawton and Linda Merrill ( £40 , $49.50 ) tells Freer 's story as a collector and celebrates the reopening of the Smithsonian 's Freer Gallery of Art in Washington DC on Sunday , 9 May , its seventieth anniversary , after a four and a half year renovation project . |
| 10 | She was born in the reign of Queen Victoria , suffered malnutrition as a child and had brought up her own children in poverty . |
| 11 | Moreover his style is pleasantly direct and his inclusion of occasional personal allusions will encourage the lay reader to trust his judgement as a person and not only as a philosopher of science . |
| 12 | More recently there has been some support for an approach which interprets the contract as a whole but it is by no means unanimous . |
| 13 | I would be grateful of you would sign the attached copy of this letter and return it to me with the payment and contract as an indication that you agree to these restrictions . |
| 14 | Take part as a speaker and listener in a group discussion of straightforward issues or in a group activity , commenting on what is being discussed . |
| 15 | Some of these are essentially historical : the interest developed in part as a reaction or antidote to Chomsky 's treatment of language as an abstract device , or mental ability , dissociable from the uses , users and functions of language ( an abstraction that Chomsky in part drew from the post-Bloomfieldian structuralism that predominated immediately before transformational generative grammar ) . |
| 16 | He serrated the air with his sword and used his shield as a wall and a battering-ram . |
| 17 | With the idea of competitive antagonism as a guide and the success of PAS as an encouragement , many other compounds were investigated in many laboratories . |
| 18 | Ramses slept curled on the bow deck with his turban as a pillow and the youngest boy slept beside his brother at the tiller in the stern . |
| 19 | I see this change in direction as a development and broadening of the experience of understanding the history of women . |
| 20 | Some authorities refer to this measure as a unit or a standard drink . |
| 21 | Hitherto , the coalition had only had a one-seat majority in the Parliament as a whole and was actually in a minority in the lower house . |
| 22 | ‘ Nothing in this section shall affect the duties or liabilities 3–32 of either seller or buyer as a bailee or custodier of the goods of the other party . ’ |
| 23 | The implications of this theory are so powerful that the impact of modern linguistics on literary studies has not been limited to problems of literary language alone , but has produced new theories of the nature and organization of literature as a whole and indeed of all social and cultural life . |
| 24 | He treats her like this because he wanted to marry Nettie , Celie 's sister , but her father said he would give him a cow as a dowry if he married her instead . |
| 25 | Whether in television , theatre , cinema , fine art or charity advertising , the tragedy principle uses the impairment as a metaphor and a symbol for a socially unacceptable person and it is this tragedy principle which is the bone-cage surrounding historical and current disability representation . |
| 26 | Of almost all the great measures with which his name is associated , he attained great eminence as an opponent before he attained even greater eminence as their advocate . ’ |
| 27 | Similarly , a child at play may use a stick as an aeroplane or a settee as a car . |
| 28 | I was surprised , therefore , on starting to read this book , to find that there were three introductory chapters with sections on Man and computers and The computer as a laboratory as well as the more intriguing Computer chemistry and human psychology and Problem solving and artificial intelligence . |
| 29 | People with no previous knowledge of science can readily perceive the kitchen as a laboratory and , being encouraged to ask questions , quickly begin to understand the role of scientists and the purposes of research . |
| 30 | There is scope for strongly motivated students to create a pathway which best combines the facilities of the University as a whole and relates to personal interests . |