Example sentences of "[to-vb] as a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did he ever come not merely to see as a possibility but actually to possess a conviction of what can be called the benign indifference of the universe ? |
| 2 | The desire to get land to cultivate as a farmer and proprietor or simply to get work as a landless labourer drew people to the islands in large numbers . |
| 3 | Donning a yarmulke , he promised a Jewish group that ‘ we 'll keep a glatt [ strict ] kosher kitchen at the White House , ’ a pledge that his aides were at first unsure whether to treat as a jest or for real . |
| 4 | It is sufficient here to treat as a futures or option contract any contract whose terms contemplate future performance and which is made on or under the rules of a market cleared by a clearing house . |
| 5 | There are five specific reasons for not calling a witness given in r25 — namely , that the witness is dead or beyond the seas or unfit by reason of bodily or mental condition to attend as a witness or that , despite the exercise of reasonable diligence , it has not been possible to identify or find him or that he can not reasonably be expected to have any recollection of matters relevant to the accuracy or otherwise of the statement . |
| 6 | There is a lot of reading material to get through and absorb , and there are cases to attend as an observer before a new Panel Member finally makes up one of the three actually hearing a case . |
| 7 | who was at Cambuslang at that time , commented " He seems hurt at being asked to preach as a candidate and I sympathize with him in this , as I think candidating and preaching contests are the most objectional things conceivable , and also the least satisfactory way possible of getting good ministers as a rule good men who have done their work well will not preach as candidates for myself I never in my life either preached as a candidate , offered for a parish or got a certificate . " |
| 8 | They have given staff in schools the space to meet as a group and get to terms with issues over a longer period , complementing the series of other meetings and team meetings that go on anyway . |
| 9 | Therefore , it is against that back-cloth , that I respond to these orchestrated criticisms and express my views on the man I have come to know as a friend and a very good colleague . |
| 10 | There are also differences between the states on the ability to stand as a candidate and the measure that we are debating this evening will ensure that in respective elections to the European parliament there is a greater degree of harmonisation . |
| 11 | The only permissible course is to issue a subpoena for him to come as a witness or to produce the documents to the court ’ . |
| 12 | I was going to ask Mike if he wants to come as an observer because he 's never been to conference and erm |
| 13 | If she 'd meant to lie , she 'd have planned the lies ; as it was , it was more like someone else speaking , someone for whom all the tales might be true : the tales of the amorous husband who would not be denied , or even delayed ; of her horrified discovery that her tried and trusted dutch cap had let her down after all these years , of her disappointment that she would not now be able to train as a doctor or run a campaign for more zebra crossings or offer a home to her poor ailing mother ; and then of course there were the medical difficulties , what with her diabetes and the early mongol child that died and all those Caesarians ; and the home where there was n't an inch of space and how the baby would mean eviction and bankruptcy ; and the fear that the baby might be too obviously of mixed-race ; and the over-riding , gut-rending terror that the baby might have royal blood ( of course if ever this got outside these walls there would be no answering for the political consequences for the western world ) and in the circumstances it seemed kind that the child should never be born . |
| 14 | When it became obvious that he would not be successful he decided to train as a pharmacist and father set him up in business . ’ |
| 15 | As to what would have happened without the event of the accident in her A level year by way of results , I regret I have to find as a fact that she would not in the year of her accident , have achieved the grades necessary for her to take up a place at Norwich City College . |
| 16 | He 's learned a lot of skills and hopes to work as a gardener when he 's released . |
| 17 | She continued to work as a washerwoman until she was sixty-three , when she moved to Alton , Hampshire , to take care of a farmhouse . |
| 18 | Charles Brown , for example , was born in Northamptonshire in 1855 and had to go to work as a boy when his father , an agricultural labourer earning 12s. a week , was taken ill . |
| 19 | He used to work as a policeman and , on the few occasions when he was in extreme danger , automatically did whatever had to be done without any thought for his own safety . |
| 20 | He went on to work as a designer and translator for an Austrian publisher , where the manager , Otto Preminger ( later a celebrated film director ) introduced him to Max Reinhardt . |
| 21 | ( 2 ) The class was asked to instruct me and one of the pupils in how to behave as a reporter and doctor respectively , the reporter wanting information from the busy doctor about ‘ these new machines ’ he had heard about . |
| 22 | Since she represented the Emperor and the government , her task was to serve as a sheet-anchor and a symbol around which could rally the national will to resist the enemy . |
| 23 | The reality was that he seemed to have been forgotten and nothing was going to serve as a reminder unless the kidnappers broke their silence . |
| 24 | If pre-exposure endows a stimulus with inhibitory properties then such a stimulus should readily come to serve as a CS- since the inhibition already acquired should give a head start . |
| 25 | Myself , three daughter , — Frances , Rosemary and Catherine — and one son , Michael ( plus a length of clothes-line to serve as a lead until I could decide what kind of proper lead I 'd need ) . |
| 26 | There are no stars at Hamilton Park but they are hard and learning to play as a team and that is very important . |
| 27 | No idea how to play as a team or to think of other people . |
| 28 | She wanted it to use as a desk and gave £5 for it . |
| 29 | The fundamental design concept of a microcomputer is that it should provide real computing power to tackle the same kinds of task that larger computers handle but in a machine which is almost as easy to use as a calculator and typewriter . |
| 30 | Henry Calverley , a friend of the family , asked for the arrow to use as a trophy and it was given to him on condition he solemnly promised not to reveal its origin . |