Example sentences of "as a [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He became an integral feature of Palace 's FA Cup side which reached the semi-final as a 3rd Division club in 1976 , and of that which won promotion under Terry Venables the following season . |
| 2 | This beautiful hotel , situated across a busy road from the fine shingle beach , retains the atmosphere and style of its origins as a 17th century summer residence . |
| 3 | Jeanne Rynhart , who immortalised the Dublin heroine in a sculpture depicting her as a 17th Century prostitute , said Molly would always live in the city 's folk memory . |
| 4 | A £20,000 Alfa Romeo sports car , planned as a 17th birthday present for Daniel , will also be sold so there are no links with his father . |
| 5 | Can we even construe Freudian theory as a nineteenth century articulation of these ideas about possession ? |
| 6 | As a first approach to converting the conceptual schema to the Codasyl model , the entities are mapped to records , attributes to data items , one-to-many relationships to sets , and many-to-many relationships to two sets connected by a link record type . |
| 7 | Consider Best Bars as a first resort , regard the single cocktail you 'll shell out for as sheer investment , get yourself gift wrapped , send for our jetset silklook shirt , rid yourself of even that inch-of-pinch and the body beautiful will be guaranteed bait for ace race driver or millionaire financier in advanced stages of senility . |
| 8 | But above all their value to user education is that they act as focal points , so that if practitioners have a problem there is an information centre or clearinghouse to take it to as a first resort . |
| 9 | Practitioners use these medicines as a first resort , to promote the energy , circulation and vitality of the person , with the presumption that timely intervention at this stage may prevent later illness . |
| 10 | Of course , that is n't in the agreement that is already signed , so whether I shall be successful or not , of course we do n't know , but I will do that as a first resort . |
| 11 | And as a first resort , come and bug m . |
| 12 | To include in teacher training ‘ respect for others ’ as a first principle and to support this by the development of teaching materials and activities which foster a practical understanding of its significance |
| 13 | However , Jane felt that many of the problems highlighted by the videos were a result of her inexperience as a first year teacher : |
| 14 | If the withholding of manifestations of parental love is used as a first measure of initial disciplining , then it must be remembered that the measure of the distress necessary to be imposed , need be very small indeed if the imposition is started early enough . |
| 15 | General Erich von Falkenhayn , who had replaced the discredited Moltke as Chief of Staffon 14 September 1914 , determined as a first measure to reduce the fortress of Antwerp , where King Albert , with the tenacious Belgian Field Army of six divisions , had taken refuge in August . |
| 16 | Although Hayman was over-age for recruitment , he was taken into the Diplomatic Service as a first secretary in 1954 and posted the next year to Belgrade . |
| 17 | A logging industry representative called the proposed listing part of an overall strategy by environmentalists to use the Endangered Species Act " as a first strike weapon against the northwest " . |
| 18 | The US Office of Technology Assessment classified cobalt as a first tier strategic material , alongside chromium , manganese and the platinum group metals . |
| 19 | For although Piper 's manager Frank Warren thinks Benn believes he has made a big mistake in selecting Piper as a first challenger and does n't fancy the job , I suspect the opposite is true — he may think it is going to be too easy . |
| 20 | But to avoid law and list anthropology as a first choice was inexplicable : |
| 21 | The implications are depressingly apparent in a study by Roberta Steinbacher and Helen B. Holmes which shows that young North American men and women who consider themselves sensitive to female inequality , would still choose to have male babies , at least as a first choice if sex-predetermination or sex determination with IVF would allow prospective parents in Western countries the opportunity to choose a preferred sex without the stigma that would be attached to using selective abortion . |
| 22 | Like a young Kenny Dalglish , Jess was involved in every aspect of Scotland 's play and must now be regarded as a first choice . |
| 23 | erm it may be erm a a good idea to use it as a erm as a first scheme perhaps to erm to try and er car park and if you look at that at the beginning and just keep it on a on a rolling programme then all that does n't get so enormous er it does n't get such a a large task so maybe if er , but it does need coordinating perhaps we should think about it . |
| 24 | The second attribute is that each paragraph should have as a first sentence a brief statement or at least an indication of what the paragraph is to consider . |
| 25 | As a first novel , this represents an outstanding feat . |
| 26 | When sitting as a first instance court ( i.e. the first court to try the case at issue ) , the High Court binds all inferior courts ( i.e. County Court ) . |
| 27 | As a first approximation , we assume that the cylinder deforms globally to become a squatter version of itself . |
| 28 | As a first approximation , then , we could produce a partial representation of a ‘ framework ’ for extract ( 5 ) in terms of the following set of activated contextual features . |
| 29 | As a first approximation , we may say that an idiom 's syntactic behaviour is broadly determined by two factors : the syntactic structure of the literal counterpart of the idiom ( if it has one ) , and the fact that distinguishable syntactic constituents are not semantic constituents , and therefore are not open , for instance , to adjectival and adverbial modification , nor can they be isolated for emphasis , etc . |
| 30 | Thus as a first approximation ( but see below ) , now can be glossed as " the time at which the speaker is producing the utterance containing now " . |