Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] as a [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | with imitative activity filling the gap until the child is able to participate meaningfully as a partner in home-centred behaviours , the definition of this aspect of the female sex role [ the domestic one ] seems to proceed without interruption and with continuous reinforcement from the cradle on . |
| 2 | Considerable attention has been given in recent years to policies directed at training young people ( YTS , apprenticeship reform ) and the need to invest more as a nation in training in the interests of increased productivity . |
| 3 | Would she encourage an increase in the twenty per cent who actually employ specialists for particular subjects er to do so as a priority in religious education where the teacher has no such sympathy . |
| 4 | The rapid growth experienced by the major industrialized countries in 1988 slowed in 1989 , and was expected to moderate further as a whole in 1990 following the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq in August , which exerted pressure on oil prices and international financial markets . |
| 5 | I would not care to go there as a tourist in the season of pilgrims , however , because then the sense of one 's impertinence would surely be too strong . |
| 6 | Because such structures are ‘ conventional , and hence culturally variable ’ ( van Dijk and Kintsch 1983:16 ) the language learner , in order to be able to operate effectively as a participant in discourse , needs to be able both to identify what type of discourse he or she is involved in , and to predict how it will typically be structured . |