Example sentences of "[vb -s] as a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and then there be the third little bedroom in the middle which Pam has as a sewing room |
| 2 | The interest which the RUC has as a police force derives entirely from the social context in which it operates , but this context is both a spur and a hindrance to research on the RUC . |
| 3 | England in reply were dismissed for 454 , with Les Ames ( 137 ) and ‘ Gubby ’ Allen ( 122 ) putting on an eighth-wicket partnership of 246 , which still stands as a Test record for that wicket . |
| 4 | It was a hard , bloody fight lasting 3 hours and 16 minutes ( this time still stands as a world record for a championship fight ) before Burke knocked out Byrne with a tremendous punch , thus becoming recognised champion . |
| 5 | She flinches as a machine gun stutters nearby , then wanders over to talk to her budgies , Niki and Nikica . |
| 6 | Erm what it counts as a spelling error is if the word is n't in the dictionary , it 's a spelling error . |
| 7 | In ( 33 ) 2 we also have the inference that utterance ( iii ) counts as a repeat request . |
| 8 | Emphasis is also being placed on the effectiveness of the fleece covers as an insect barrier to keep off pests such as carrot fly , whitefly and cabbage butterflies so avoiding the frequent and extensive damage that can otherwise only be prevented by using pesticides . |
| 9 | ‘ Remember , ’ he warns as a parting shot , ‘ if any two painters agree — one of them 's a liar ! ’ |
| 10 | That is to say , Picasso uses as a starting point the same logical or rational analysis of volume that he had evolved in his Negroid paintings . |
| 11 | The rest , however , it uses as an energy supply . |
| 12 | Lederer ( 1978 ) describes a similar study for spoken language interpreters , where a 3 — 6 seconds ' lag occurs as a base level but with a great deal of interpreting occurring much further behind the speaker 's words . |
| 13 | I do n't think that really classifies as a terrorist threat . |
| 14 | Ullapool still flourishes as a fishing port , crowded with foreign vessels , known as Klondikers , using the port as a staging place for factory ships working the fisheries in and beyond the Minch . |
| 15 | Poverty not only exists as a consumption experience but it is also related to labour market experience . |
| 16 | The Soil Association exists as a standards body for much of the organically produced food in the UK . |
| 17 | With grain production per person falling since 1984 and little potential to increase planted areas or yields further , plus the impact of global warming , the world is approaching what Worldwatch president Lester Brown sees as a nightmare scenario . |
| 18 | The Conservative government has attempted to replace what it sees as a dependency culture by an enterprise culture . |
| 19 | Now an academic , he 's alarmed at what he sees as a policy reversal on cautioning . |
| 20 | This plasmid contains a ‘ telomeric cassette ’ of two 0.5 kbp telomeric DNA fragments in opposing orientations flanking the kan r gene which acts as a stuffer fragment and selectable marker . |
| 21 | Adjudicates resource disputes between individual services and acts as a clearing house for individual service proposals . |
| 22 | At present , the region acts as a clearing house and Lothian region gives the college a great deal of autonomy . |
| 23 | Individual work can be catered for by drill and practice programs and pupils who have advanced beyond others or who have a problem in class , may move aside to the microcomputer and go through a program which acts as a revision aid or reinforcement medium . |
| 24 | Efforts to identify the coeliac toxic amino acid sequence , which presumably acts as a T cell immunogen , have focussed on the wheat prolamin , gliadin , whose four subfractions α , Β , and γ , are thought to be toxic to patients with coeliac disease . |
| 25 | It acts as a service agency for Christians working with youth , and is concerned to provide opportunities for education , and training , for consultation and referral , and to make known or available information , research and resources for frontier work . |
| 26 | The software acts as a transformation engine and feeds converted data into spread sheets and libraries , as well as database repositories and Data Structure Models for analysis before an application is re-engineered . |
| 27 | The TBMs start work from a point some 45m down while the bottom of the shaft acts as a mucking basis from which slurry is pumped to the nearby Fond Pignon spoil disposal site . |
| 28 | Whereas in Out a single dominant ideology acts as a structuring device on a wide variety of discourses in the society portrayed , in Such two discourses are selected and their interaction is staged within the mind of the protagonist . |
| 29 | ‘ Bricks ’ , their first LP for Slash with its surprise hit ‘ Pretend We 're Dead ’ , acts as a foundation stone for tonight 's set , with older , dirtier material fitting nicely around it . |
| 30 | In general terms the circuit acts as a threshold detector but if it acts as a zero-crossing detector . |