Example sentences of "as a [noun pl] [noun] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ To paint Darlington as a jobs blackspot is not just factually wrong , it is also very damaging to the work the council and I are doing to attract new investment . ’ |
| 2 | The weakness of TANU as a communications channel was well known . |
| 3 | AN IRA terrorist who claims he was involved in more than a dozen killings while acting as a police informer was arrested yesterday . |
| 4 | ‘ He used to say that the first obligation as a sports writer was not to be in the least boring ; that you had to try and retain the excitement of the event in your writing — without taking liberties with the truth or manufacturing drama . ’ |
| 5 | As a QANTAS flight was due to come through the following day , they hoped that Koepang W/T would be on the air before their arrival at Timor . |
| 6 | Doubtless the freedom from ‘ bureaucracy ’ such as an accounts department is one of the reasons why individuals decide to practise on their own . |
| 7 | The reason why many ethologists would now prefer to explain ritualization as an arms race is that they have increasingly come to realize that selfish competition among individuals is the rule in the animal world . |