Example sentences of "as [noun] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Gqozo had taken power in Ciskei as chairman of a Military Council in March 1990 — see p. 37305 . |
| 2 | One had served as chairman of a local Soviet through these years , with a canny transformation into starosta ( village elder ) when the White Army appeared briefly . |
| 3 | He holds a number of directorships , is a member of learned institutes , an author , is a recipient of many awards and honours and hold many offices , including some as chairman in a wide range of organisations , including some in the voluntary sector and many concerned with education and training . |
| 4 | I am a sole practitioner and have been asked to stand down and make way as auditor of a limited company for a larger outfit , following a JMU visit . |
| 5 | Consequently , there is a need for considerable caution about using concepts such as MES as a firm guide to assess potential economies of scale . |
| 6 | These were seen as products of a new strategy on the part of Britain to ensure its continued domination of Ireland : |
| 7 | It is increasingly recognised that a full medical assessment is helpful if a change of residence is planned , such as admission to a residential home . |
| 8 | The purpose of an audit mark or stamp on clients ' documents is twofold : it provides evidence that the document has been examined for a particular purpose ( which should be clear from the audit file ) ; and it helps to avoid the document 's being re-presented as support for a duplicate entry . |
| 9 | Seen within photographic historiography as a whole , it becomes construed as photography with a precise market . |
| 10 | Anything above this was a gratuity , and a social purpose , such as payment of a minimum wage , was unlawful |
| 11 | After much discussion it was agreed that the changes would not be implemented immediately but would be included as proposals in a constitutional referendum . |
| 12 | Celestial omens began to be used as portents on a considerable scale in the first Babylonian dynasty ( eighteenth to fifteenth centuries BC ) , although lunar eclipses may have been regarded as ominous previously . |
| 13 | Geochemical results obtained as part of a collaborative study with the University of Hawaii confirm the separate identities of the terranes on either side of the suture . |
| 14 | A heavily militarised style of policing has been deployed recently as part of a moral panic surrounding youth gang violence connected to the trafficking of rock cocaine ( ‘ crack ’ ) in the Watts area of Los Angeles . |
| 15 | Do most people regard responsibilities towards their relatives as a natural part of human life , as part of a moral code , or as agreements to be negotiated ? |
| 16 | The tour followed a summer residential course at which the young musicians received tuition from Bournemouth Orchestras players as part of a BP-sponsored music workshops programme . |
| 17 | However medical audit should be seen as part of a total approach to quality even if in reality it is often separated out . |
| 18 | Like phonemes themselves , words only have significance in relation to other words and as part of a total system of classification . |
| 19 | Xerox now applies benchmarking across its entire operation as part of a total quality management process . |
| 20 | A ROLLS Wood Group team which is looking into internal communications as part of a Total Quality Management Programme found that an in-house newsletter would be useful in bridging the communications gaps . |
| 21 | Instead , he claimed they were incorporating them as part of a total information technology system . |
| 22 | The site had a feature which is difficult to identify as part of a normal villa . |
| 23 | ‘ There are a lot of things that you might expect people to do as part of a normal lifestyle and those are the things that we should invest our time in doing first , I think , before we organise any activity on their behalf . |
| 24 | US Defence Secretary Dick Cheney announces US decision to send ground units and combat aircraft to Saudi Arabia , as part of a multinational force . |
| 25 | People taking out policies of the kind just described are committing themselves to paying premiums as part of a long-term contract . |
| 26 | Of this , $200million will come from the US , as previously announced by President Bush , to tide Poland over until it receives $710million from the IMF as part of a long-term programme to restructure its economy . |
| 27 | COUNCIL bosses are planning a shake-up of sports centre services including shorter opening hours as part of a long-term move to save cash . |
| 28 | Romania inaugurated an international digital exchange in Cluj , in the Transylvania region , as part of a long-term project with Siemens AG to upgrade communications systems : the EWSD exchange has 6,600 international lines and will be expanded to 25,000 lines next year ; it was built by Emcom , a Romanian firm set up in 1990 where Siemens holds 49% . |
| 29 | We discussed in Chapter 7 how a camera might be used in the classroom to record student performance , and in Chapter 9 the recording of teacher performance as part of a teacher-training programme . |
| 30 | Sequent Computer Systems Inc figures it will be seeing $30m over the next eight years from selling its Symmetry 2000/750 and 450 machines to the US Department of Veteran Affairs as part of a multi-vendor team led by systems integrator Federal Data Corporation . |