Example sentences of "as [art] [noun] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the traits of individuals were themselves determined by social groups of one sort or another , they would have to be construed as the playthings rather than the planners of institutions and practices . |
| 2 | wrong anyway in that er I 'll say it 's the er early on it in the report Good defines what he determines a prus trustees duty and as I said to a sort of effectively orb enter into a tr transaction which immediately cost effecting kind of money rather than making money for the pension fund er is against that duty in the first place , but it to it should however be ma made explicit that it is against that duty which I will say stock lending may be okay for a pension fund , but not stock lending where the er pension fund is acting as the borrower rather than the lender . |
| 3 | Oh , I 'd say it is w wrong anyway in that er I say it 's the it 's early er on it in the report Good defines what he determines a trustees duty and as I said to a sort of effectively ought enter into a tr transaction which immediately cost effecting kind of money rather than making money for the pension fund then it is against that duty in the first place , but it 's to it should however be ma made explicit that it is against that duty saying stock lending may be okay for a pension fund , but not stock lending where the er pension fund is acting as the borrower rather than the lender . |
| 4 | The client could therefore still be seen as the organisation rather than the individual , with or without family and friends . |
| 5 | The pros and cons of which financial saviour should be favoured — a bid led by the American company Sikorsky , or a European consortium including British Aerospace — need not concern us here , because to dwell unduly upon them would be like treating the assassination of an archduke in Sarajevo as the cause rather than the trigger for the First World War . |
| 6 | Unlike most stockbroking firms Vine-Lott can not tell you how many clients he has , for the good reason that much of his business comes from the Barclays branch network , with the individual branch counted as the client rather than the individuals who buy and sell shares in the particular branch . |
| 7 | It was said in Scorer v Seymour-Johns [ 1966 ] 3 All ER 347 per Salmon LJ that the special element can be characterised as the connection relying on the employee to the extent that they regard him as the business rather than his employer : in that case the employer 's business had many recurring customers ( cf Fellowes & Son v Fisher [ 1975 ] 2 All ER 829 ) . |
| 8 | The founders ' concern was to reverse the popular view of computers as a threat rather than a benefit to the peoples of the world . |
| 9 | Computer-aided design then becomes seen as a threat rather than a design aid . |
| 10 | It is a shambles , which has resulted in local government being undermined and the role of the local community being seen as a threat rather than as a partner trying to rebuild broken economies , help the unemployed and do something about essential services . |
| 11 | The point of headroom is that those above should act as a support rather than as a control . |
| 12 | By the late twelfth century the Papal State as a separate entity had been long established as a notion even if its boundaries were in a continual state of flux . |
| 13 | It is rather tempting to think of this room as a boudoir rather than a chapel . |
| 14 | It was indeed small , as a species rather than because it was a young animal , but unmistakably a genuine one hundred per cent authentic rhino 's head . |
| 15 | There the station was perfectly proportioned and almost impossible to identify as a station rather than as a church , both externally and internally . |
| 16 | He also enjoys rugby and football , these days as a spectator rather than a player . |
| 17 | It is to an examination of this perspective that we now turn , but it is worthwhile to start by asking ourselves why the situation is regarded as a problem rather than a potential ? |
| 18 | Nonetheless , it has been claimed that the problems of recreation have been overstated and Fitton ( 1979 , 57 ) has argued that : ‘ There has been a tendency to view recreation in the countryside as a problem rather than a welcome opportunity for people to enjoy themselves ’ . |
| 19 | From this time we can probably date the development of Banbury Lane as a road rather than a wide corridor . |
| 20 | People knew that at Kawz and at Hawaria , their grandfathers had fought and died as Zuwaya ; the history in poems , which have a wide audience , was also more general , and concerned Zuwaya as a whole rather than segments of Zuwaya . |
| 21 | The industry partnership is now exploring ways in which it can serve the pyramid schools as a whole rather than focus simply on the secondary stage . |
| 22 | The problem for any new supra-authority will be to sort out its priorities , which must benefit London as a whole rather than local short-term interests . |
| 23 | If you have sets of cables together , as in the sample of centre front cables and then cross the cables in opposing directions , you will be creating a completely different style of cable which looks as though it was designed as a whole rather than two separate pairs of cables . |
| 24 | In some unions the emphasis is more upon representing aspirations of the working class as a whole rather than functioning as collective bargaining agencies merely for their own members . |
| 25 | At a time when it had not yet developed a project portfolio , it was concerned with such questions as how to set up a broadcasting system which would serve society as a whole rather than merely serving governments and the ruling elites . |
| 26 | In this , the role of delaying syntax is to postpone the interpretation of one structure until another has been taken in , so that they ultimately make sense as a whole rather than in sequence . |
| 27 | I shall start by considering in section 4.3 some variables which are characteristic of Belfast English , but which seem to function at a somewhat higher level of generality than those that we have mentioned so far — as identity markers for the community as a whole rather than for internal differentiation within it . |
| 28 | At the national level the concern is with the education system as a whole rather than with individual schools . |
| 29 | The report of the Review Body on Civil Justice said the Council ‘ should enable the judiciary to plan for the allocation of High Court caseloads and judge power in the light of needs and resources of that court as a whole rather than of individual Divisions . |
| 30 | When a firm has many factories , the bubble policy applies pollution controls to the firm as a whole rather than individual factories . |