Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [adv prt] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the search for a suitable guitarist proved fruitless , it appeared that The Smiths would not be carrying on as a unit . |
| 2 | Sensationally , The Smiths would not be carrying on as a band at all . |
| 3 | I had a word with Harry , an' I 'm buyin' in as a junior partner … always providin' you 've no objections , that is . |
| 4 | Now we 'll see what the government does in response to er all their friends who are going bankrupt in the Lloyds er cos er that , in that scandal , on the one hand you 've got the government trying to save its neck with its forty four MPs who 've had their , had their hand in the till at the same that they 're doing that , they wo n't actually meet the just demands of people who 've worked all their lives to actually have some sort of security in the future , and that 's the ol er sort of double standards they 're gon na try and er and use to get off the hook on that one because they owe people in this country a decent , we should have the right to a decent pension and security , employment and er with this , this campaign , we should be , we should be concentrating on as a major issue for this union in the forthcoming year . |
| 5 | Good companies as well as bad were going under as a result of falling markets and bad debts , said BCC policy director Richard Brown . |
| 6 | The type of er business you are setting up as a music teacher . |
| 7 | So Steve took on the singer 's mantle , but how does he think he 's shaping up as a guitarist/vocalist ? |
| 8 | But failure to appreciate the force of this distinction can also shipwreck attempts by observers to understand religion — to read correctly what is going on as a person performs a religious ritual or speaks religious words ( see Chapter 10 where an assessment task on this is suggested ) . |
| 9 | Because there is every possibility that if the fund payers determine quality , they will tend to overlook areas in which quality is going down as a result of financial pressures — |
| 10 | Like releases , captions should be kept short and to the point and unless the picture is going out as a photo-story with no separate release , this means very short indeed . |
| 11 | All of this is coming about as a direct result of the original plan for the Local Management of Schools and it 's continuing success , in spite of the Labour Group and not because of it , and so I move the amendment my Lord Mayor . |
| 12 | ‘ So old Boris is setting up as a lifesaver , is he ? ’ |
| 13 | The society believes that good freelance editors and proofreaders are becoming increasingly hard to find because the pool from which they are drawn — editors leaving full-time employment — is drying up as a result of a lack of inhouse training and the general reduction in numbers . |
| 14 | The Somerset Levels , one of Europe 's most important wetlands , is drying out as a result of a falling water table , according to the Nature Conservancy Council ( NCC ) . |
| 15 | This house , full of perspectives and privacy , was shaping up as a mother , as well as a mistress and a wife . |
| 16 | ( Though in fact by this time , " tramping " was dying out as a practice and craft mobility with it . ) |
| 17 | Labour was moving on as a renewed party — ‘ a party that cares as much about consumers as it cares about producers ; a party that wants to make the economy work as much as it wants to change the economy ; a party that embraces as much of the green as it does of the red ’ . |
| 18 | The scheme certainly helped me right at the beginning when I was starting up as a criminal lawyer . |
| 19 | I recall listening to him tell it to visitors when I was a child , and then later , when I was starting out as a footman under his supervision . |
| 20 | Tim and Julie met 11 years ago in Bath where she was training to be a teacher and he was starting out as a trainee accountant . |