Example sentences of "if [noun sg] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But if appointment as a lord of session was major patronage at any period in Scotland 's history , there was in the eighteenth century considerable demand for any post which could make use of legal education , for there is some reason to believe that the country was oversupplied with lawyers in view of the desperate efforts which some of them made to obtain a salaried post , no matter how minor .
2 If Councillor as a director himself , or through senior Council officers , had bothered to keep the oppo opposition party fully informed of his visits , he may well have found us , perhaps to his surprise , in full agreement and support .
3 If society as a whole does not pay , women pay — by being penniless dependants while working full time .
4 Clearly this is simplistic , if not mischievous , but on the other hand , we can only measure the measurable , and if science as a subject can not be studied using scientific methods — deduction and induction , prediction and experiment — then measures of its output , in the form of scientific publications , have no logical validity .
5 Clearly this is simplistic , if not mischievous , but on the other hand , we can only measure the measurable , and if science as a subject can not be studied using scientific methods — deduction and induction , prediction and experiment — then measures of its output , in the form of scientific publications , have no logical validity .
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