Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] as a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had told me the tunnels had now been connected up and the workmen used the subway constantly as a private short cut . |
| 2 | As long as Kristeva 's third stage is present in our thinking only as a Utopian dream , feminists can not simply refuse to get involved in this endless discourse of difference ; people who claim that this is a postfeminist era are living in a dream world . |
| 3 | It is rare for companies to have formal arrangements for finding work for the spouse of a relocated employee especially as a typical posting to the UK is only for two or three years . |
| 4 | Peter Cazalet 's travelling head lad rushed on to the course to lead the horse away as a bemused jockey was taken back to the weighing room . |
| 5 | A minor act of dedication and commitment , which the lighting of the flame represents , may initiate an effect just as a major one can . |
| 6 | Lying in bed at dawn on Tuesday morning at Swans ' Meadow , she felt the stirrings of grief more as a physical process than a mental one . |
| 7 | Returning to England in December 1772 , he exhibited at the Society of Artists from 1774 to 1778 and his first recorded employment — minor work in London — belongs to this period ; then in 1779–80 he published a volume of Original Designs in Architecture , Consisting of Plans … for Villas , Mansions , Town Houses , which was evidently intended as an advertisement for his talents , and thereafter he developed a modestly successful practice mainly as a country-house architect in the south-east of England . |
| 8 | Marx was thus concerned with bureaucracy both as a social formation and as a source of inefficient public service . |
| 9 | Planck used the idea of quanta to explain why a red-hot piece of metal does n't give off an infinite amount of heat ; but he regarded quanta simply as a theoretical trick , one that did n't correspond to anything in physical reality . |
| 10 | IF YOU want to find work overseas as a newly-fledged EC national , the advice is not ‘ on yer bike ’ but ‘ on the ferry ’ . |
| 11 | And is hers strong enough to marry a man who regards unpunctuality almost as a mortal sin ? |
| 12 | Douglas took the watch home as a treasured memory of his father . |
| 13 | This is Sonnet 94 , ‘ which at no point addresses the Friend directly , stands back from the group much as a contemplative soliloquy does from the dialogue of a play ’ . |
| 14 | Too many of them treat aggression as an innate drive in the individual of the species , so that society enters the picture merely as a modifying influence — if indeed it enters at all . |
| 15 | Liberal theorists such as T. H. Green argued in the 1880s and 90s that poor social conditions hindered the desirable growth of moral and communal responsibility among the poor , but Green also looked to improvement from increased voluntary exercise of responsibility and regarded state intervention only as a last resort . |
| 16 | FIVE people quizzed over the IRA 's City of London and Staples Corner bombings were released without charge yesterday as a seven-day deadline for holding them expired . |
| 17 | Sun is pushing the ISDN interface both as a personal productivity tool and as the basis for more complex voice processing and computer integrated telephony applications . |
| 18 | This continuity has practical as well as expressive value , because it facilitates the organic style of change I mentioned a moment ago as a practical advantage . |
| 19 | Not so for Locke , you will recall that so f the way Locke sets it up is a legitimate civil society is first established by a social contract and that creates a community , a body politic , which has a capacity to act , and I 'll put a little question mark over that shortly , erm and that community then as a separate act sets up a government which , because it has set it up as a trust , erm it can change or dismiss pretty well at will . |
| 20 | The successor to Telecomputing 's TPM , the TP+ transaction processing monitor for Unix from UK firm Gresham Telecomputing Plc , Southampton , Hampshire , has at last found its place in the sun with the signing of an agreement under which Dun & Bradstreet Software will market the product worldwide as a key element in Unix line initially for Hewlett-Packard Co , ICL Plc , Data General Corp and Digital Equipment Corp machines . |
| 21 | Kapil had a frustrating day yesterday as a light drizzle washed out the fourth day 's play in India 's first Test against South Africa in Durban . |
| 22 | I have already disputed Simmonds 's account of interpretation based on authorial intention ( see Chapter 2 ) , but his account of the sociology of knowledge both as a hermeneutic and a critical theory is most interesting . |
| 23 | The more sceptical see Vercruysse 's defection simply as a private tiff between the artist and Hoet . |
| 24 | He added : ‘ Communism is not on the agenda today as a social formation . ’ |
| 25 | His expert knowledge of classical history was sharpened by a deep interest in Indian law based upon his years of service there as a senior legal official . |
| 26 | A pluralist perspective sees conflict essentially as a temporary breakdown in job regulation , which means that the emphasis is very much on the resolution of disputes in collective bargaining . |
| 27 | Charles Townley ( 1737–1805 ) collected Roman sculpture rather as a Roman connoisseur would have done , with a view to making a cultured ambience at home , well suited to his intellectual interests . |
| 28 | A ‘ cost per page ’ figure is a rough guide only as a full page of graphics will use more ink than a letter . |
| 29 | Depending on his assessment of the patient , the therapist may judge that he should be encouraged to use open access only as a last resort ; in other cases it has to be accepted that the patient and his relatives may benefit if they can use this facility often . |
| 30 | A fourth option — only to be used as a desperate measure — is to take a loan usually as a second charge on the family home . |