Example sentences of "they [vb base] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The highest court in Britain is the House of Lords , but when they sit as a court the Lords consist only of a panel of members who have long judicial experience and who have been appointed as Law Lords . |
| 2 | In general terms , developmentalists take the view that it should be possible to examine the ways in which infants and young children interact with the physical world and with other people and to determine how they change as a result . |
| 3 | In a way , black sportsmen in Britain are responding to what they perceive as a challenge . |
| 4 | SENIOR figures in the Presbyterian Church are expressing concern at what they perceive as a ‘ media bias ’ against them when covering matters of public interest . |
| 5 | Typically there is a pair of ganglia in each segment of the body , but the members of a pair are usually so closely united that they appear as a single ganglion , the commissure being no longer evident externally . |
| 6 | They depend as a rule on the same sorts of schematic stimulus-recognition systems and simple processing seen in less elaborate behaviour . |
| 7 | In some cases they accrue entitlements to holiday pay which they receive as a lump sum on the termination of their employment , although in the holiday camps sector these accrued holiday entitlements are less than the holiday entitlements of comparable regular staff . |
| 8 | Used properly they act as a contraceptive and can protect you from HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases . |
| 9 | First , they act as a standard against which the results of other tests ( below ) can be measured . |
| 10 | They act as a standby for each other and can call the third diver if required . |
| 11 | Used properly they act as a contraceptive and can protect you from HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases . |
| 12 | They act as a bond between people through providing amusement or an experience shared and believed to be held in common . |
| 13 | Contrary to the popular belief , the hands do not hit the ball ; they act as a hinge . |
| 14 | We may as well use these same descriptions even if there is no intention of shooting movies from detailed scripts , because they act as a useful discipline when we are shooting any kind of material . |
| 15 | They act as a barrier , holding in moisture . |
| 16 | In winter they act as a safety valve when the two straight bordering rivers , dug in the seventeenth century by a Dutchman , Cornelius Vermuyden , become swollen with rain and overflow . |
| 17 | According to Scott they occupy a ‘ contradictory class location ’ between labour and capital , but essentially they act as a service or lieutenant class for business leaders . |
| 18 | They act as a powerful aphrodisiac on pigs , and synthesised versions of them are sprayed onto sows to make them receptive before artificial insemination . |
| 19 | they act as a focal point for action and coordination |
| 20 | They act as a counter balance to the national and global news conveyed by the major publishing empires . |
| 21 | you go or the person who has been hypnotized so that in the most extreme cases , as we know , the hypnotized person lapses into a kind of trance , whether a kind of sleeping automaton with no ego and their decisions are now being made for them by the hypnotist who tells them what do to and they , they act as a kind of a , a puppet as if their ego ha has been turned off al al al altogether and clearly there 's a parallel here with what Freud 's going on in the group . |
| 22 | Past cases are only helpful in so far as they act as a guide and some of the main points arising from them are discussed below . |
| 23 | They act as a complement to his large works which are responses to a progressive environmental catastrophe . |
| 24 | They act as a . |
| 25 | They act as a sort of relay system . |
| 26 | They function as a spurious pattern into which the narrative might slide if so allowed . |
| 27 | They function as a diversion to the eye , a focus for a view , a foretaste of grandeurs to come at the entrance to a park . |
| 28 | Moreover , there is nothing inherently literary about these codes , since they function as a part of culture in general . |
| 29 | Which they class as a debt free authority . |
| 30 | Suppliers are angry about what they discern as a consistent pattern of Brandmakers refusing to pay bills because , the company says , goods delivered have fallen below the required standard . |