Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [coord] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company was fined 2,000 and as a result of that conviction and the Health and Safety Executive 's ( HSE ) recommendations additional safety precautions were introduced on the assembly line which were not , however , extended to the testing process at the Newton Aycliffe plant . |
| 2 | Many manufacturers felt the production of cars was becoming costly and as a result the sport dwindled slightly in Europe but after the Americans introduced the famous Indianapolis 500 in 1911 , interest picked up again on the continent . |
| 3 | He might have been using it to make him feel good and as a means to escape boredom or because he feels under pressure to join a group who were sniffing . |
| 4 | The proportions of elderly people living in households who were neither living alone nor as a couple on their own fell by about half in the period 1961 to 1981 , so there is reduced scope for similar falls to occur in the future . |
| 5 | The skilled negotiator , on the other hand , asks questions not only to gain more information and understanding but also as an alternative to disagreeing bluntly and as a means of putting forward suggestions ( ie possible courses of action said as questions . |
| 6 | Research has invariably failed to recognize this and as a consequence failed to approach its task in an explicitly neutral and scientific way , i.e. to account for the nature and incidence of particular forms of adult/child interactions and their consequences . |
| 7 | Fruit can either be eaten whole or as a fruit salad . |
| 8 | Governors were kept informed but as a decision of the headteachers rather than as a matter of right . |