Example sentences of "as [adv] [det] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A resolution of this issue , which is not a pressing matter , would need also to take account of the fact that speakers do , in practice , use sentences which could be taken as instances of a third possible equational type ( if this is not to be regarded as merely some kind of linguistic jeu d'esprit ) : ( 37 ) cautiously is the way we should proceed In both of these two cases , the question is whether a property concept can fill a position which would otherwise be reserved for an entity . |
| 2 | Firstly Muslims ( like Christians and unlike Hindus ) have set prayers which should be said during the day , so that Christian prayers can be regarded as a threat or at least an alternative to Islam , and secondly , while Hindu and Sikh parents often regard Christian prayers for their children as so much water off a duck 's back , Muslims , again like Christians or religious Jews , object to any other religious influence on their children . |
| 3 | Not only is it a move into a realm where the distinction between life and death seems , as in ‘ The Hollow Men ’ , to have broken down , it is also a crossing to the world of the ‘ cannibal isle ’ which is revealed as only another version of the life left behind , and where the realization that ‘ Life is very long ’ is not escaped from , but reinforced . |
| 4 | This implies the need to store potentially very large , unstructured data objects as just another field in a database record . |
| 5 | Visitor pressure and the often mindless or downright destructive behaviour of some of the people who come to this area have annoyed some farmers so much that they look on walkers as just another kind of vermin — and there are many times when I can sympathise with this attitude completely . |
| 6 | Sunday had been wonderful , a lovely warm , lazy day , but since then he had treated her as just another member of the team , being quite natural and friendly and polite , but without any hint of intimacy . |
| 7 | When we have a complete account of the brain , we are assured , consciousness will be intellectually transparent and the mind will assume its rightful place as just another part of ( physical ) nature , obedient to the laws that hold sway elsewhere in the material universe . |
| 8 | A skilled player will accept the weather conditions as just another part of a multi-faceted game . |
| 9 | In a sworn affidavit , Fields alleged that Branson and the Virgin Group had ‘ merely treated [ Virgin Atlantic Airways ] as just another subsidiary without any proper regard for the contractual arrangements entered into in April 1984 ’ . |
| 10 | During the last two decades more and more bankers have come to regard the bill of lading as just another letter of credit document . |
| 11 | The Councils could never rid themselves of their reputation as just another manifestation of Political Dissent for the simple reason that the charge was essentially true . |
| 12 | In theory the whole of the extra cost to the innocent partners could be recouped from the individual responsible for the negligence , but in practice in most firms this would be regarded phlegmatically as just another expense of the business to be shared by all . |
| 13 | The Navy , on the other hand , looked on the Buccaneer as just another weapon in their armoury with specific and narrowly-defined tasks . |
| 14 | Now the family 's fears had been proved groundless , the bungled pay-off could be dismissed as just another example of clumsy incompetence on the part of the police , the latest in a long list of blunders . |
| 15 | Development of the first true multimedia , relational databases where multimedia is described as just another set of fields is still in its infancy . |
| 16 | Yet since the early 1970s , sex films have treated father-daughter incest as just another staple of erotic entertainment . |
| 17 | Far from being a resource , most farmers see slurry as just another form of industrial waste . |
| 18 | Eekelaar ( 1971 ) , for example , concentrating primarily on the needs of one-parent families and viewing step-families as just another form of nuclear family , confidently asserts that ‘ whether a marriage has been terminated by death or divorce , the social and personal disruption is best healed by successful remarriage ’ . |
| 19 | We tend to take plants for granted , seeing them as just another aspect of the environment and failing to appreciate the vital service which they perform both for ourselves and for all other living creatures on this planet . |
| 20 | But further up the social scale , unrewarded deference was often required , often with the constable being treated as simply another flunkey in uniform , an attitude that might provoke a retaliatory reaction . |
| 21 | An interpretation which sees postmodernist organization as simply another form of totalitarianism may just as well turn out to be appropriate as one which celebrates its pluralism . |
| 22 | James McLoughlin , a senior vice-president with Raybestos Manhattan in the US , said they saw the scenes at the dump site as simply another obstacle on their rocky road to success in Ireland . |
| 23 | Looking back at this time , Nigel was surprisingly patient , but he was worried that , if he did n't improve , he 'd be unable to help with the move as almost any movement of his right arm increased his suffering . |
| 24 | Furthermore , the importance of predation can be seen as yet another element in the disturbance picture . |
| 25 | The attempt to achieve a national core curriculum , while widely supported as a way of improving literacy and numeracy amongst schoolchildren , was also feared as yet another turn in the ratchet of state control over local experimentation . |
| 26 | The star system , that ‘ Hollywood poison ’ , according to Hugh Castle , was seen as yet another concession to the masses , for , as Clifford Howard explained , ‘ the crowd ( and it is the crowd that supports the movies ) can not appreciate entertainment in the abstract , any more than it can thus appreciate art or religion ’ . |
| 27 | His dismissal angered senior police chiefs who saw it as yet another concession from Gaviria to drug cartel chiefs , who had surrendered in return for reduced prison sentences [ see pp. 37914 ; 37957-58 ; 38283 ] . |
| 28 | Critics have written the current fad off as yet another sign of Hollywood 's creative bankruptcy , its recession nerves . |
| 29 | It may indeed be possible to regard the present subject of study as yet another type of word-pairing — except of course that the " greater precision " may be a function of the whole line in relation to the previous line , and not just of one word in relation to another word . |
| 30 | I for one very much welcome the possibility of custodianship as yet another route to permanence for children in care , or at risk of coming into long-term care . |