Example sentences of "be [conj] as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | No , the they 'll be a pupil input , it might well be that as a department there 's a decision that the pupil would not write |
2 | But it was n't to be and as a result we now have fewer engineers and probably fewer skilled people in industry than ever before : crumbly foundations to build upon if it is going to be built along the old traditional lines . |
3 | The final point which needs to be made about ethnicity is that as a speaker variable it can not usually be isolated from social class . |
4 | Certainly , one theory as to why crime appears to be going up is that as a society we are more intolerant of certain types of violence than we were in the past . |
5 | My own assessment is that as a country we are being daft about candle ends . |
6 | His greatest asset , of course , is that as a man he is so well liked . |
7 | The fact is that as a consequence of climbing out of the depression in the early 1980s , of remodelling our business processes , and of becoming a serious entrant into the high tech race , the work force profile has changed and will continue to change . |
8 | A very important point for married couples to know is that as a result of independent taxation each partner now enjoys his/her own annual exemption of£5,800 instead of , as before , their gains being aggregated ( i.e. added together ) for tax purposes . |
9 | The fundamental one is that as a result of the mathematization of physical science , what importantly occurs in it are equations or formulae of several kinds , propositions to the effect that one set of magnitudes is related in a certain way to another set or sets . |
10 | ‘ The good news is that as a result of those measures , and despite the hostile trading environment throughout the world , the Group is in a better position today than many believed possible a year ago . |
11 | One problem with this cosy consensus , and its greatest irony , is that as a nation we take our pubs too much for granted . |
12 | The first observation to make is that as a code , language is multilevelled . |
13 | What he calls the ‘ fancy explanation ’ for this architectural love is that he was baptised in a Romanesque font in the Dorset village of Stoke Abbot , but the reality is that as a student at Durham he was profoundly influenced by the majestic presence of the cathedral : |
14 | What is certain is that as the relationship between doctors and their patients becomes less paternalistic , so must the manner in which we seek to obtain their consent for treatment . |
15 | The final point of caution is that as the conveyancer for the buyer , you should check that any endowment mortgage arrangements are suitable . |
16 | The essence of the flaw is that as the process by which aggregate demand is determined becomes known and therefore predictable , rational people will predict the changes in aggregate demand that governments engineer . |
17 | What it means in practice , at least in the simplest cases , is that as an animal increases in overall size , various of its organs may not keep pace . |
18 | The second assumption inherent in climatic geomorphology is that as an attitude it is actualist , i.e. it attributes the landscape to present processes . |
19 | What is indisputable is that as an undergraduate and then as a research worker for Child Poverty Action Group , far from regarding such evidence as ‘ defeatist talk ’ you not only accepted it but added to it . |
20 | The rule was that as a member in good standing of another church ( and I was a member of the Presbyterian Church of England ) one might do so on a temporary basis ; but that if one found oneself doing so for any extended length of time , one should ask oneself whether one should not be confirmed . |
21 | The other was that as a wizard — even a dead wizard of the fifteenth grade , his optic nerves had long since become attuned to seeing into levels and dimensions far removed from common reality , and were therefore somewhat inefficient at observing the merely mundane . |
22 | I explained how it was that as a child I had been told I was an eidetiker but that it had meant nothing to me . |
23 | I mean we 're all , I 'm sure , basically family with what Darwin 's theory of evolution is , and I do n't really want to labour you by reminding you of it , but I think it 's important to appreciate first of all what his problem was erm and I think that it 's fair to say that for Darwin the problem was that as a naturalist he was aware of the fact that animals and plants are adapted to a quite extraordinary degree to their particular ways of life , and indeed many of his books on orchids and earthworms and so on have a great deal to say about the details of these adaptations . |
24 | Since he was not born in the ordinary way , Adam would not have needed one , but the general assumption was that as a man he had a navel . |
25 | The reason was that as a result of bullying some Asian children were afraid to eat Indian food at school . |
26 | Erm , I think what I said was that as a result of these actions , the payroll would be thirty million less in ninety three than ninety two . |
27 | The suggestion was that as a youth Aly had been sent to learn the oriental technique of imsak with the result , according to a close friend , that ‘ No matter how many women Aly went with , he seldom reached climax himself . |
28 | The result was that as an adult I was still reacting as a four-year-old child . |