Example sentences of "[det] as a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And put that as a work top |
| 2 | They , na , nan and granddad may have that as a sitting room to start with . |
| 3 | Right we , we 'll we 'll treat that as a fail safe then . |
| 4 | The second reason that , that we 're delighted to see you is that as a Trades Council we have been trying very hard over the last six or seven years to raise the profile of the trade union movement and this has been quite difficult in in during the Thatcher years , during the anti-trade union legislation , the onslaught by the media , trade unions er , the profile of trade unions has not been easy to raise . |
| 5 | How 's that as a consolation prize ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I wonder if I could ask you to comment on that as a career structure , ’ he said levelly . |
| 7 | We could use that as an escape vehicle . ’ |
| 8 | Are you offering me that as an option chairman ? |
| 9 | Setting the master volume to around half as a starting point , the channels can be quickly matched for clean , crunch and lead levels . |
| 10 | One way of overcoming judicial resistance might be to incorporate a sentencing council as part of the Court of Appeal , and the National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders has recently advocated this as a compromise solution ( NACRO , 1999d : 33 ) . |
| 11 | As the pair of cichlids dig and move the gravel about the aquarium to suit themselves , they will expose the gravel tidy and be satisfied to use this as a spawning surface . |
| 12 | The third method of issue involves the Bank of England taking stock on to its own books and then selling this as a tap stock over a period of time in day-to-day dealings with GEMMs . |
| 13 | To allow for this inflation all you have to do is calculate the value of £1 now in so many years time and use this as a correction factor . |
| 14 | When my mother separated from my father in April 1981 I wanted to afford my father the security of a home so I entered into a verbal agreement to allow him to stay in the house during his lifetime and described this as a life tenancy on form ‘ Stamps L(A)451 ’ . |
| 15 | From school , Rudd joined Rolls-Royce in 1938 as an apprentice in the motor car division , seeing this as a stepping stone towards an ambition that was already formed . |
| 16 | But in case we should be so facile as to see this as a Grimes leitmotif in the Wagnerian sense explicitly rejected by Britten , we must notice the somewhat complex history of the theme after its first full appearance , as well as the fact that almost every theme in the opera ( apart from the non-recurring tunes of some , but not all , of the individual songs ) could be called a " Grimes " leitmotif , which would leave us where we began . |
| 17 | You can therefore think of this as a price discrimination problem with one producer and two markets . |
| 18 | bought this as a company pen . |
| 19 | The Teleuts began to become dependent on Russian metalware but the Russians were unable to use this as a bargaining tool , since the Teleuts knew that the troops could not exist without their trade goods . |
| 20 | Sources say Unix System Labs did n't exactly want to sue the university , but basically has no choice and regards this as a test case . |
| 21 | Once again , Bobby Anscombe intended this as a parting shot , but again he was stopped . |
| 22 | A useful method of detecting changes in the wind direction is to make a mental note of the point on the shore towards which you are sailing and use this as a reference point . |
| 23 | Commence construction of the circuit board by inserting the i.c. and use this as a reference point for the rest of the components . |
| 24 | Despite this the courts began to draw a dichotomy between administrative and judicial decisions , to take a narrow view of what constituted a judicial or quasi-judicial decision and to require this as a condition precedent for the application of a right to a hearing . |
| 25 | If you do not know the answers already , use this as a research exercise . |
| 26 | You must not see all this as a Machiavellian plot . |
| 27 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 28 | I have n't actually got a , a poem for this , I was saying to you that I would use this , I intend using this as a writing exercise , because the , the colour of her mouth and the colour of the piece of boot in the background , just stands out to me , it says , its about to me hidden desire of some sort , either the artist 's or hers or mine I do n't know |
| 29 | With this as a starting point , you could go on to experiment with even more additional lights . |
| 30 | Using this as a starting point , we would not expect the kinds of social pressure defined by anomie-type theories to force change from one finite state to the other . |