Example sentences of "i [vb base] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as a general principle the right of animals to be animals , to live in their space on God 's good earth , is a moral principle I commend as a rule of thumb . |
| 2 | The theory which I commend as a guide to the fruitful development of international law in the control of force may be called ‘ ethical ’ or perhaps ‘ functional positivism ’ . |
| 3 | Well the girl yeah that girl that came with us , she had , I mean as a rule I , I do n't have |
| 4 | Yeah , course I mean as a bat er pitched a bat on this is a beau a beauty but are there are rough spots which you 've helping the slow left arm , or help any spinner . |
| 5 | He asked me whether I was a country person I asked what the qualifications were he said country born and bred , well I was born in Liverpool spent my childhood and early adolescence in rural Nottinghamshire , moved to Highfields , emigrated to the West Indies and now live in sub rural Blavey so I do n't know whether I qualify as a country person or not , but I 'd like to bet that I 've milked more cows by hand than he has if that 's any qualification . |
| 6 | if I do M D space put here , it will create a sub-directory , below the one two three directory , but if I want as a sub-directory from the roots directory , I have to type M D back-slash put . |
| 7 | The application to the local community is one that I put as a challenge to all : How can we help people to take seriously membership in the Eucharistic community of faith ? |
| 8 | It seems that I count as a visitor . ’ |
| 9 | One of my activities outside HTV , approved of by the company , is that I act as a consultant to a communication company and help to train industrialists , business executives and trade union officials who want to come to terms with the necessary techniques of appearing on television . |
| 10 | ‘ She was a voluntary resident at one of the hospitals where I act as a consultant . ’ |
| 11 | An area representative is a volunteer , just like everybody here in this audience today , and I act as a link between the branches and headquarters , working with the area organiser but representing the branches , for me personally in Sussex . |
| 12 | I speak as a forty-three-year-old . |
| 13 | One welcomes the provision that housing associations can make , and I speak as a member of the management committee of a housing association . |
| 14 | I speak as a representative who came into the House as a result of the murder just 10 years ago of the then Member for Belfast , South . |
| 15 | But then I do n't hold with the precept de mortuis nil nisi bonum ( I speak as a doctor , after all ) ; and it 's hard to underestimate the irritation when a critic points out something like that to you . |
| 16 | I speak as a father . |
| 17 | From the bottom of my pocket I produced a silver ta'wiz , the Sufi charm Zakir had suggested I purchase as a gift for Chaman . |
| 18 | I recall as a boy watching in admiration as Mr. Harry Martin , the signwriter wrote The Brewery Tap all along the front of the building , some thirty feet above street level . |
| 19 | He was a very physical person and I recall as a child lying on his chest . |
| 20 | And as I recall as a child there were well over a hundred ponies down Pit at that time , because during the nineteen twenty one strike they brought them all up to the surface and put them in the fields and I used to go with my father to sort of look after them . |
| 21 | This is partly due to my experiences as a politician , because I know as a politician that when you are doing something naughty , nothing is more effective than to muddy the waters with complication . |
| 22 | I remember as a child growing up in Gourock almost living on ships like the Waverley , Duchess of Hamilton , Jeannie Deans , Saint Columba . |
| 23 | I remember as a child in Africa being more frightened of driver ants than of lions or crocodiles . |
| 24 | ‘ I remember as a child getting tingles up my spine when I watched television and heard Land of my Fathers when Wales played in Cardiff . |
| 25 | I I remember as a kid hearing of all this er how the Titanic sank on her maiden voyage , the ship within a ship . |
| 26 | But it is being used I believe as a scapegoat to get the government off the hook for financial reasons . |
| 27 | Education , I believe as a result of my experience with the people of Slumptown , is a radical solution . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , whereas the rest of the passengers were basically gearing up to tear my girlfriend and me to bits if we continued to go the way we were going — you get a kind of cabin fever on these flights between Australia and England — this Christian and his wife decided to adopt us , I guess as a kind of test for themselves . |
| 29 | But I suppose as a bowling green then you but he said that we 've already cut the stick their neck out will they ? |
| 30 | ‘ I suppose as a holiday house it is a bit far from Sydney . ’ |