Example sentences of "could [adv] [verb] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , he favoured her with what she could only perceive as a reassuring smile when , ‘ I 'm on my way to Mariánské Láznë myself , ’ he commented easily , ‘ so that 's one problem you can forget . ’ |
| 2 | In Kober 's pianos the check could only function as a hammer rest and not as a true check because the hammer pointed towards the player . |
| 3 | They were uniform but occurred in such abundance and could so readily be transported that even when they were taken over as currency they could only serve as a rule for small change . |
| 4 | Here he was , a friar , a priest , a man sworn to chastity , feeling twinges of jealousy about someone he could only claim as a friend . |
| 5 | So the citizen could only flourish as a person by acting as a part or member of the whole , the community . |
| 6 | The paper draws on a model which , while not held up as the definitive approach , could nevertheless serve as a working document for schools wrestling with the realities of moving towards an integrated structure . |
| 7 | Mum always bragged about never borrowing off anyone but I had noticed that since Dad had been on short time she seemed to have more money than ever to spend and was getting more friendly with the neighbours she could not stand as a rule . |
| 8 | Some builders , as we have seen , working later than Cristofori , put in their actions something resembling a check but which could not function as a true check . |
| 9 | CD 's fourth novel , and the first of the two serialized in his weekly periodical , Master Humphrey 's Clock , 1840–1 , after an early drop in sales had convinced him that the magazine could not succeed as a miscellany . |
| 10 | The suggestion at the time that the Labour Party had been behind Profumo 's downfall was a little unfair to many members who repeatedly expressed their misgivings about the scandalous imputations , which several of them could not regard as a proper currency for a political difference . |
| 11 | For example , nobody could possibly observe as a matter of fact that most ‘ able bodied young adults ’ are male , because half of them are female . |
| 12 | But Allen insisted that the record of the NCF could hardly stand as a model for spreading the pacifist word in years to come . |
| 13 | So , in a week that found Hooker registering his fourth UK album success , it could hardly come as a complete surprise to find ol' John Lee celebrating 43 years of chart activity by appearing on Top Of The Pops . |
| 14 | Not only would the creature regenerate severed scraps of its body into new limbs , not only would gobbets of its substance give rise to more of it , but in some fashion — through the medium of the warp — its substance could remain connected together , could still function as a unit even when slashed apart . |
| 15 | Wish I 'd met her ten , twenty years ago when I could still pass as a red-blooded male . |
| 16 | Mind you , I s'pose I could always return as a newt … |
| 17 | fact if you do n't inhale at all you 're doing yourself a big favour , but you nearly always get some down ion to the system and really the o the only thing I could ethically recommend as a doctor , is stopping . |
| 18 | To focus potentially massive public attention , these experimental matches could also serve as a trial base for TV assistance for umpires in run-outs and stumpings. — ED . |
| 19 | Firstly , it meant access to library housekeeping circulation files designed primarily for staff use which could also serve as a rudimentary catalogue for the library user . |
| 20 | When the reality is that a cottage pie housing a six-year-old ingredient could probably qualify as a listed dwelling . |
| 21 | But in the mid-1970s things began to look more promising , with the arrival of a young new minister which coincided with movement into the area of young couples who found that older properties were the only type of house they could now afford as a first buy . |
| 22 | There are many things that I can do now , but could n't do as a young man , which contradicts the notion that in order to be a good instrumentalist you have to acquire a comprehensive technique i your teens . |
| 23 | Stuff you could n't do as a drummer because you would have to follow the snare drum at the same time |
| 24 | It explains how ‘ adolescence ’ as a concept could almost appear as a metaphor for human nature : dangerous if left untutored and ‘ natural ’ , but capable of ennobling the race if the ‘ natural ’ was educated by , to quote Urwick again , ‘ the skilled hand ’ . |
| 25 | While Aborigines may not appear an obvious choice of topic for a viewdata search , the teacher nevertheless found that the tourist information on Australia not only provided some useful background material , but could be used to obtain travel brochures in quantity which the pupils could then use as a visual source . |
| 26 | And the one thing I could never do as a viewer of ’ University Challenge ’ I could never answer the questions . |
| 27 | And the one thing I could never do as a viewer of ’ University Challenge ’ I could never answer the questions . |