Example sentences of "[adv] as a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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1 | In Woolwich 's case the main authorities are set out chronologically as an appendix and I find it convenient to deal with them in that order and to describe the principle above referred to as ‘ the Woolwich principle . ’ |
2 | A FORMER marine masqueraded so successfully as a policeman that he led a team of real officers on a job , a court heard yesterday . |
3 | I only got to know her a little as a teenager when I visited her on my own in the single-end where she lived in a Parkhead tenement , sleeping , washing and cooking in one room . |
4 | When such a person breaches his fiduciary relationship , he may be treated more properly as a tipper than a tippee . |
5 | R&D consortia which include films that produce different products using the same basic technological knowledge may also be able to segment user markets , price discriminating more effectively as a group than they are able to do when they act independently and earning a higher return on their R&D activities . |
6 | It seems thought will be given to playing Tony Stanger in the centre to provide a bit more physique in defence and on that theme Michael Dods could be destined to be left out , not because he has played badly , but rather as a reflection that the powerhouse physiques are prone to get the better of him in escaping tackles . |
7 | One other possible objection is that the difference which we are describing may be real but should not be regarded as part of syntax , rather as a variation that comes into play only when we focus on the correlation between linguistic expressions and external non-linguistic phenomena . |
8 | But if the being of an individual woman is sufficiently strong and well-developed , then , knowing that light to be there deep within her , she can allow it to permeate the whole of her presence , refining and changing her very substance rather as a lamp when it is lit makes an apparently opaque glass shade appear translucent . |
9 | My youngest daughter , Fleur , perhaps as a defence and because being the youngest she could n't conceive of a world without her father — I hope I 'm not kidding myself here — gave the impression that all was well . |
10 | Or maybe you have a desire to ‘ expose ’ yourself in some way — perhaps as an artist or politician — but are blocking yourself through fear of humiliation or rejection ? |
11 | Several shot lying on the bottom act better as a brake if set slightly apart from each other . |
12 | Indeed it will be described almost entirely as a liability because the costs will be known . |
13 | Write ‘ concealed cable ’ on the wall alongside as a reminder that there 's a hidden live cable . |
14 | And there are records of this everywhere are n't there you know sort of and and probably you know the the management thought er I do n't know if they thought this far really or we 'll we 'll show them that they ca n't that they ca n't stick together as a union and why should all the quarries stick together . |
15 | We were really looking forward to Christmas together as a family but now everything is ruined . |
16 | I hope we all want to help together as a team and support our already stretched full-time officials . |
17 | It should be remembered by the advisers that , following completion , the management and the investors will work together as a team and it is not in the investors ' interests to antagonise or demoralise their management team at the outset . |
18 | Erm but we 'll do the questions together as a class and I would like you to just speak one at a time , otherwise it will all get blurry . |
19 | Spencer had been spoiled , treated for far too long as a baby and he had grown up knowing how to twist his mother around his little finger . |
20 | At the same time she knew that the royal family perceived her not only as a problem but also as a threat . |
21 | GOOD drawing ability used to be considered important at school , not only as a skill that might give expression to a child 's aesthetic and artistic inclinations , but also one that would be useful in practical ways — in recording flora and fauna in nature study , for example . |
22 | How could a typically British and pedantic banker even begin to understand what he was trying to achieve on a tiny Third World island , known only as a sugar-producer and an enclave for the very rich ? |
23 | Leapor , then , experienced domestic service not only as a servant but as a mistress . |
24 | In our conversation , John Eudes emerged not only as a listener but also as a guide , not only as a counsellor but also as a director . |
25 | The Netherlands views itself not only as a trader and distributor of LPG but as a major user . |
26 | Now my relationship with David did actually include sex , but it was never initiated on that basis as he 'd come to my flat only as a lodger and during the course of the time he was there , we slept together . |
27 | Mr Grey 's business is not only as a bookseller but also as ‘ the newsagent , the supermarket , the hairdresser and the gift shop in the arts centre ’ . |
28 | In the early thirteenth century the canons and the laity left it for new Salisbury on the plain , by the river ; and Old Sarum survived only as a castle and a rotten borough . |
29 | Some adopt the server/client approach — where one or other of the machines acts as a sort of networked machine , and can be used only as a file and print server . |
30 | His congregations were mostly small shopkeepers and artisans who respected him not only as a preacher and writer but as a man who had himself worked with his hands . |