Example sentences of "would [verb] as a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is hard to see why reasonable notice should be an additional requirement where the document concerned is one which a reasonable man would regard as a legal document , to be read carefully for its terms and conditions . |
| 2 | One of the barriers to what the Government would regard as a successful sale is the amount of regulation covering coal mining activities . |
| 3 | ‘ He 's what I would regard as a sensible Scot someone who does n't wear Scotland on every part of his clothing , but he 's deeply interested in the Scottish Institute in terms of its members . |
| 4 | If the public knew they could be ‘ caught ’ by any passing bus driver , this would act as a good deterrent against infringement . |
| 5 | If this chemical were released into the air surrounding the leaves , it would act as a first line of defence , repelling aphids with an eye on predation . |
| 6 | Such a change of rule would act as a great deterrent to those guilty of such offences on a regular basis . |
| 7 | Some officials recognized that the new system was alien , but expected that the judicial system would act as a progressive force which would promote the adoption of British norms about justice . |
| 8 | On the other hand , with the prospect of a court case looming , several interviewees felt it was pragmatic to seek help , from their GP or the local Drugs Council , in the hope that this would act as a mitigating factor in sentencing : |
| 9 | In addition to examining ways to generate resources it would act as a consultative group linking potential donors and beneficiaries . |
| 10 | If I were to get carried away with desire for your beautiful body the remembrance that you are Garry 's woman would act as a cold shower . ’ |
| 11 | They hoped that the very talk of a general strike would act as a restraining influence on militarism . |
| 12 | An attached shed to the south of the barn was demolished , and the architect , Timothy Bruce-Dick , decided to infill the gap between the barn and a range of cow-houses which existed to the north with a two-storey structure which would act as a covered link to this northern wing and provide a playroom over garages ( Fig 38 and Plate 4 ) . |
| 13 | This would act as a public forum to discuss and recommend improvements to the controversial Tinkhundla system of indirect elections . |
| 14 | It would act as a further incentive for conglomerates to enforce their Chinese Walls for fear of being sued for damages by investors , particularly other market players , who suspect the conglomerate to be trading on the basis of inside information . |
| 15 | Critics of the decree expressed concern that it would affect not only the targeted black marketeers but legitimate entrepreneurs in co-operatives and small private businesses , and would act as a further deterrent to foreign investors . |
| 16 | And when he would arrive from Barnard Castle with a heavy load of shopping on a bicycle and give me a nice round bun he would buy as a special treat from a shop called Guy 's . |
| 17 | And so to take what we would describe as a reasonable view on this , we say that if you know from evidence there are a number of concealed households , you should seek to accommodate them . |
| 18 | erm it may be that erm because of my generation , but you do n't get the same sort of personalities nowadays as you did in those days , erm Mr for instance he was , he was a most benign sort of erm fellow of what one would describe as a real gentleman mm , mind you he used to have his paddies at times but |
| 19 | Bosnia would survive as a constitutional fiction , allowing the world to save face . |
| 20 | By this definition , the question of what would count as a comprehensive health service could be said to be a polycentric one . |
| 21 | This ‘ stamp ’ would emphasise to users the cost of the health service since it would appear as a separate tax item on the pay slip , and would therefore increase in line with earnings and not prices . |
| 22 | A Landsat MSS pixel that had equal reflectance in bands 7 and 5 and zero reflectance in band 4 would appear as a yellow point on the display if the false-colour compositing method described in the preceding paragraph were used . |
| 23 | Ultimately he would emerge as a controversial , and entertaining personality . |
| 24 | Nicholson was also preparing another project from which he hoped he would emerge as a recognized director , and again it was in part an overhang from that period in 1968 when he seriously considered giving up acting , and moving into writing and directing . |
| 25 | Instead , he believed in a sort of reverse assimilation by which Vietnam would emerge as a modern nation assisted , or at least not impeded , by a beneficent France . |
| 26 | Now if the intention is to elicit authentic behaviour corresponding to that of the natural language user , then learners need to be primed with purpose before they are required to give evidence of understanding , and indeed the evidence itself has to be of the kind which would emerge as a natural outcome . |
| 27 | That stratification would occur as a necessary consequence of the alienation of labour . |
| 28 | Apart from the general fitness between what most would see as a hostile and acerbic tale and a bitter and unlovely character , one is constantly reminded of the Reeve 's provincial origins by his own dialect speech — in particular the occasional use of the Scandinavian-derived first person pronoun ik , " I " , against Chaucer 's standard ich — and by the northern speech of his two clerks , Alayn and John of Strother ( perhaps modelled on two northern characters known to the English court ) , which was yet further removed from the London standard of Chaucer 's day . |
| 29 | The desire for certainty they would interpret as a possessive attempt to deny the divinely-intended distance between God and creation . |
| 30 | The FMLN would re-organize as a political party . |