Example sentences of "as [prep] a [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christine , 52 , decided to tell the world of her own experiences about two years ago , as much for therapeutic reasons as through a desire to reach those with similar horror stories to tell . |
| 2 | They had not been consulted and they knew that they would be caught in the middle if , as for a time seemed probable , there should be violent local protests . |
| 3 | Colley 's eyes lighted on his former apprentice and his face gave that convulsive shudder , as of a man looking on something unendurably loathsome , before buckling into a grin . |
| 4 | But Ettore 's ‘ subjective ’ voice is not so much the sound of a private individual subjectivity , as of a subjectivity constructed by its social and historical silencing . |
| 5 | There was the faintest of sounds , as of a gnat yawning . |
| 6 | Although s6(2) ( a ) of UCTA 1977 ( as amended by Sched 2 , para 19 of SGA 1979 ) provides that " As against a person dealing as consumer " obligations arising from undertakings as to compliance with description can not be excluded or restricted , the definition of " dealing as a consumer " in s12 of UCTA 1977 excludes a person who makes the contract " in the course of a business " . |
| 7 | ( 2 ) As against a person dealing as consumer , liability in respect of the goods ' correspondence with description or sample , or their quality or fitness for any particular purpose , can not be excluded or restricted by reference to any such term . |
| 8 | ( 3 ) As against a person dealing otherwise than as consumer , that liability can be excluded or restricted by reference to such a term , but only in so far as the term satisfies the requirement of reasonableness . |
| 9 | The programs do not dictate the approach , which the designer should adapt to the problem , but will work just as well with a solution relying on the analysis of geared systems as with a solution based on cams . |
| 10 | For Humphrey , aesthetic structuring arises from the urge to group and classify information as well as from a capacity to pick up similarities and associations that generate a sense of rhythm and rhyme . |
| 11 | To speak in the same right tones , a causal circumstance can be said to comprise everything needed so as in a way to guarantee its effect . |
| 12 | Whether he or she is welcome or not in the situation ( and , according to circumstance and the individual part of each member in it , the " Welfare " will be seen as a saving and succouring agency , an interfering nuisance or an outright threat ) , the social worker is usually seen as in a position of some power — as in a position to alter the situation or at least to make some expert attempt to alter it . |
| 13 | So Patrick had no use for Edward Balliol ; but , by aiding Edward the Third , almost certainly saw himself as in a position to displace the unsuccessful Balliol and himself take over as King of Scots , with English support . |
| 14 | Since a Prime Minister without a majority in the Commons is an impossibility , he or she is seen as in a position to make any law he or she sees as fit . |
| 15 | The unstressed syllables , although unstressed , do not get squeezed together as in a stress timed language , but are still distinctly pronounce . |
| 16 | A person aggrieved by an odour , which amounts to a statutory nuisance , may himself initiate summary proceedings against the person creating the nuisance under s.99 of the 1936 Act , whereupon like proceedings shall be had with the like consequences as to making of orders , penalties for disobedience of orders , and otherwise as in a complaint brought by the local authority . |
| 17 | Just as within a family holding , division in each generation was partly offset by not just accident but longer-term strategies ( cousin-marriage ; the offloading of surplus heirs into the Church ) that restored unity , so shifts in the shape of the royal family , unpredictable but generally divisive in the short run , were offset by a longer-term impulsion to re-form a united whole . |
| 18 | It also said it will market versions of Visualisation Data Explorer software for Hewlett-Packard Co , Sun Microsystems Inc and Silicon Graphics Inc workstations as well as for the RS/6000 , and will run stand-alone on the alien workstations as well as over a network accessing the server . |
| 19 | Subject of course to the wording of the particular statutory provisions , those general observations are as pertinent to the case of a security granted to a bank by an unregistered company as to a security granted by a company formed and registered under the Companies Acts . |
| 20 | And a cuppa is never so welcome as at a rest stop en route . |