Example sentences of "they [vb base] as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another , equally peculiar to the judiciary in this country , is their particular version of the doctrine of the ‘ independence of the judiciary ’ ( see Chapter 4 ) , which leads them to resent what they perceive as interference by governments in their sentencing practice . |
| 2 | Their exercise , in terms of the movements they make as part of everyday living , become increasingly difficult to perform . |
| 3 | In future EC airline pilots will be permitted to continue flying commercially between the ages of 60 and 65 years providing that they fly as part of a two- or three-pilot crew . Ed |
| 4 | Secondly , there has been a dramatic erosion in the value of the children 's allowance which they receive as part of their national insurance benefit — the child dependency addition . |
| 5 | Staff may wish to consider passing on to the library copies of any newsletters which they receive as part of society memberships . |
| 6 | Among other things it suggested that teachers should be assessed on the clarity of their teaching objectives ; the quality of their notes , handouts , and visual aids ; qualitative assessments of their performance in lecturing , fieldwork , etc ; the volume and range of teaching they undertake ; the range of assessment techniques they use ; managerial responsibilities and innovative approaches that they take on ; and the number of invitations they receive as guest lecturers and speakers elsewhere . |
| 7 | Trees and the treasury : Valuing Forests for Society argues that a history of subsidised conifer plantations has left timber growers with a surplus of mature trees which cost more to fell and process than they earn as timber . |
| 8 | The traditional view of zebra stripes is that they act as camouflage , but even in woodland cover this is not convincing and , in any case , zebra herds spend most of their time on open grassland where the stripes can not hide them . |
| 9 | As I have already suggested successful black sportsmen play a passive but vital role : however unwittingly , they act as role models , figures to be copied and emulated . |
| 10 | Although T-lymphocytes probably act as mediators in the pathogenesis of Dupuytren 's disease , we do not know whether they act as regulator or effector cells ; nor has any specific antigen been identified . |
| 11 | Oh because they count as export ? |
| 12 | Usually these are children from one-parent families , children in local-authority care , or youngsters who need a respite from the household chores they assume as surrogate adults because their parents are ill , and even , in some cases , children with a parent in prison , and are selected for inclusion in the scheme not by the police but by schools and other caring agencies . |
| 13 | In literary theory they emerge as Marxism , phenomenology , existentialism , structuralism , poststructuralism , deconstruction . |
| 14 | The introduction of new partners involves similar problems whether they arrive as part of an expansionary exercise or merely to replace a partner who has died or retired from the firm . |
| 15 | I think erm that sometimes the fact that children have moved to a school where they have a timetable which has got subjects written down on a piece of paper , and the fact that they bring homework back with them and parents can see work in exercise books , sometimes that acts as a kind of reassurance to parents that something is going on which they recognise as education . |
| 16 | Though they serve as parent representatives they are unlikely to be representative parents typical of the average parent at the school so they need to be encouraged to become involved in as many of the schools activities as possible , not only to gauge parental feelings and attitudes but energetically to engage in identifying ways of improving the school 's performance . |
| 17 | This was one of the er this th this is one of the black books and one of the problems with this has been I think that a lot of psychoanalysts er have been Jewish of course and I think they regard as kind of heresy or some kind of disloyalty to suggest that Moses erm was n't Jewish . |
| 18 | But if they return as part of negotiated settlement , they will at least be constrained by a large international presence of peace-keepers and aid organisations , which was not the case in 1975 . |
| 19 | When these droplets grow large enough , by colliding together or by sticking to ice crystals , they fall as rain . |
| 20 | The recent introduction of pilot one-stop-shops , which are intended to be the main local point of access to and promotion of all DTI services , and the diagnostic and consultancy brokerage services which are being developed to succeed the Consultancy Initiatives , will play a key role in helping firms , in particular smaller firms , to access the technology which they need as part of their business and marketing plans . |
| 21 | Things that they see as blanket oppression , I would see as possible sources of strength , such as arranged marriages . |
| 22 | The attitude of employers is one of annoyance at what they see as government interference for electoral purposes . |
| 23 | Union campaigners are angry at what they see as government double dealing . |
| 24 | Union campaigners are angry at what they see as government double dealing . |
| 25 | Town hall chiefs in Birmingham must save £40 million to stay within charge-capping limits , which they see as part of a Tory vendetta . |
| 26 | It 's the second time in a week that officers from Thames Valley police have spoken out about what they see as abuse of the judicial system . |
| 27 | The reason is that such sentences do not somehow occur alone , in limbo ; they occur as part of a more general theory . |