Example sentences of "not [verb] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | L. , 1976 ) water authorities had a statutory power to make orders imposing charges on persons not connected to mains drainage was held to be ultra vires as the correct state of affairs did not exist as a precondition to the exercise of the power . |
| 2 | Thus , at all pressures below this point carbon dioxide can not exist as a liquid . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , the NSF led by former Prime Minister Petre Roman elected a new executive bureau on April 9 and condemned the NSF-22 December branch , saying that it did not exist as a party , but only " expressed an intention " . |
| 4 | The storm damage was not treated as a consequence of the collision but as an intervening event in the course of an ordinary voyage . |
| 5 | None is , nor can be , so structured as to ensure that the individual is not treated as a thing , as a commodity for use in the process of production or provision . |
| 6 | The losses involved in retirement are often either not foreseen , or not recognized as a problem . |
| 7 | It is more difficult to talk about the construction of ‘ physical science ’ than it is to talk about the construction of physics , because physical science is not recognized as a discipline in the way that physics is . |
| 8 | Lying is never due to witchcraft , nor can it excuse adultery ; a thief can not plead in mitigation that he was bewitched , for witchcraft is not recognized as a cause of theft . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's a long way to go for a 45-minute service and a reception — even if you 're not 92 years old , ’ said one of her aides , who insisted that her absence was not intended as a snub . |
| 10 | The charges are not intended as a pollution tax per se , although the NRA acknowledges that they may cause some businesses to review polluting activities . |
| 11 | Halpin ( 1980 ) , for example , questions their similarity with the APU lines of development which , because they were tentatively suggested , were specifically not intended as a curriculum model . |
| 12 | Although Symphonic Variations was not intended as a ritual , Ashton can be said to have used it as such for six dancers who were practising their art in the spacious simplicity of Sophie Fedorovitch 's décor . |
| 13 | The surprises of God are not intended as a substitute for strategy . |
| 14 | This invariably only occurs when the mulch is allowed to pack and remain undisturbed — mulching is not intended as a boon to lazy gardening by putting an end to the need for hoeing . |
| 15 | It is not intended as a guide to the relative merits of competing products — Which ? magazine , with its comparative testing reports , fills that role — but rather as a guide to the tools , materials and techniques needed for home plumbing and to the various plumbing jobs around the home , including the installation of central heating . |
| 16 | The judges declined to accept the Tobacco Institute of Australia 's argument that the sentence was not intended as a statement of fact but as merely an expression of opinion or as the platform of an argument in a community wide debate . |
| 17 | This book is not intended as a textbook of theories , so there will be no detailed exegetical analysis of each one . |
| 18 | Bowlby 's report was abridged and published as a paperback ( 1953 ) , thus becoming widely available to the lay public ; in the year of publication and the five years following , more than seventy-five thousand copies were sold , and nearly as many in the next five years : an exceptional sale in Britain for a book not intended as a baby book for parents . |
| 19 | The console is not intended as a pattern storage system . |
| 20 | It appears from the context that this is not intended as a limitation on the use of ‘ judicial channels ’ but rather as a preliminary observation before a specific provision that in such border cases legalization is not required . |
| 21 | They are presented in order to illustrate some similarities and differences in the way the Cockcroft recommendations are being interpreted in relation to assessment and are not intended as a review of all the initiatives currently being undertaken . |
| 22 | The picture in our feature was supplied to us by a manufacturer to illustrate a particular cot set and was not intended as a recommendation of how to put a baby down to sleep . |
| 23 | Nick 's stiffness was not intended as a rebuff ; it was simply an instinctive reaction to the sentimental concern in Martin 's voice . |
| 24 | It was not long before the Princess proved that her patronage was not intended as a sinecure . |
| 25 | It is not intended as a source of support for the committed student . |
| 26 | The government 's previous attempt at land reform , shortly after independence , was not regarded as a success . |
| 27 | He was not regarded as a photographer of , for example , American industry . |
| 28 | It should however be noted that while profit maximization is not regarded as a goal , it is accepted in managerial theories that there is a profits constraint , either because a minimum level of profitability is a condition of survival of the enterprise , or to necessary to protect management from loss of office through take-over . |
| 29 | Scottish bus users are clearly not regarded as a category of citizenry who must be bought off with window dressing of that type . |
| 30 | Until well into the nineteenth century the nation 's coalminers were not regarded as a race apart , living and working in closely-knit communities dominated by the colliery 's winding gear and huge , ugly muck stacks , but merely as one of a number of groups of village craftsmen and labourers . |