Example sentences of "as [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And some housekeeping tasks under DB2 3.1 such as reorganisation of the database are expected to take less time .
2 And some housekeeping tasks under DB2 3.1 such as reorganisation of the database are expected to take less time .
3 The advertisements appeared in Novoye Russkoye at the weekend , causing a buzz of excitement in the Soviet expatriate enclave of Brighton Beach , also known as Little Odessa .
4 A former Consett steelworker , Stafford was born in nearby Chopwell known as Little Moscow because of its proliferation of streets like Engels , Marx and Lenin Terraces .
5 McAllister was touted as MOTM by Sky 's reporter .
6 If I have really understood Dr de Pomiane aright , 1 fancy that while an extravaganza such as Maitre Guérard 's Ali Baba would not have met with his unqualified acclaim , with many of the nouvelle cuisine innovations he would surely have been in sympathy .
7 I had soon knitted all sorts of things for her , such as hats , teapot cosies and iron holders .
8 When cholera toxin is used as secretagogue a variable response in stool volume should thus be expected .
9 Mr William Coulter was appointed Captain with Mr Kenneth Twyble as Lieutenant .
10 Mr Coulter , a member of Thomas Street , retired as Captain after four years but remained for several more years as Lieutenant .
11 In 1753 , for example , Provost William Christie of Stirling sought Lord Milton 's intervention with Lord Loudoun on behalf of his son-in-law , Ensign Gunning , who wished to purchase from Charles Elphinstone his commission as Lieutenant of Stirling Castle , or if that was not permitted , the commission of the Ensign of the Castle .
12 I have put him into the London to act as lieutenant , ’ the admiral reported .
13 Edmund of Lancaster , loyal to the end , was to play a major part in the Anglo-French diplomacy of the 1290s and died represent-ing his brother as lieutenant in Aquitaine at Bayonne on 5 June 1296 .
14 Sometimes the choice of non-English knights , without lands in England , might be troublesome — the Savoyard Jean de Grilly , for example , used his position as lieutenant and seneschal in Aquitaine to build up a considerable territorial holding in the Bordelais .
15 Yet for psychological insight and acute comment it is not easy to match the way Marryat , in Percival Keene , states and develops the situation of an illegitimate boy steadily and tenaciously working out how to persuade his noble father , under whom he serves as midshipman and later as lieutenant , to acknowledge him openly and alter his reserved , cold but unmistakably responsible behaviour towards his son .
16 Mentioned in 1813 list as Lieutenant Ensign Joseph Bennett , commissioned 23 December 1809 ; in 1813 list as Lieutenant .
17 His appointment as lieutenant of the Tower in June 1660 placed him in a position vital to the maintenance of order in the City .
18 In 1900 he received a regular commission as lieutenant in the 6th battalion of the Lancashire Fusiliers .
19 In 1822 he was commissioned as lieutenant in the 9th Royal Dragoons , transferring to the 12th Lancers in 1826 .
20 Other feminist writers , such as Overfield ( 1981 ) , Wallsgrove ( 1980 ) and Fee ( 1983 ) have suggested that dichotomies such as nature/culture , subject/object , emotional/rational are harmful because they imply the superiority of culture over nature , the objective over the subjective , and the rational over the emotional .
21 The only criticism I would level , and this is personal preference , is the button switches for both master , generator and auxiliaries such as pitot .
22 Wildfowl , such as ducks and geese , were caught , and deer , boar and hares were hunted .
23 Of these , the inkwell , the crystal ball , the hourglass , the two named books and two of the others , which had been painstakingly identified as Quixote and Lyell 's Geology , were now in the Stant Collection , where a room had been arranged , Wardian cases and all , to resemble the Manet setting .
24 Many toxins , such as snake venoms , operate through the victim 's nervous system and are being used in the treatment of human nervous disorders .
25 We take it as obviously inadequate merely to assert that fundamental syntax is semantic ; nor shall we believe that we have described ( let alone explained ) the meaning of a syntactic construction by simply giving it a name , such as attribution or predicative adjunction .
26 Most of the older people in the parish remember me as Florrie Scoble . ’
27 An unusual atmosphere results : it is , so to speak , sub-XXXX Christian : there is an implication throughout of positive ideals , such as self-sacrifice and asceticism , but they are rarely pressed ; only occasionally does the narrator let himself testify .
28 At first sight a matter of user opinion , assessment of convenience is more involved and should be the subject of objective rather than subjective analysis by a technique known as decision path analysis ( DPA ) .
29 SpreadBase provides users with a means of analysing structured data — as client-server environments have become more widespread , users have begun accessing corporate data on relational database servers , using them as decision support tools .
30 The transition from traditional management techniques to those based on personal computers revealed the need not only for good early planning but also for high-level commitment in directing what was to be implemented and for what were described as decision support systems .
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