Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has come about entirely as a result of privatisation . |
| 2 | The FRED retains the proposal made in the Discussion Paper , which was supported by the majority of respondents , that convertible debt should be accounted for entirely as a liability until such time as it is actually converted , in preference to methods which seek to reflect the dual nature of convertible debt as part liability and part equity . |
| 3 | The improvements in the accident rate have come about largely as a result of increased awareness about safety matters and a developing safety culture . |
| 4 | They came from as for away as the Mull of Kintyre and Cambridge , and one of the sorters had travelled from Devon to help . |
| 5 | These men and women always belong to and are made sense of only as a part of the collective — the race , the nation , the state , the republic , the class , etc . |
| 6 | Durkheim commented on the difficulty of regarding ‘ an enlightened Catholic of to-day as a sort of retarded savage ’ , but he provided the reminder that ‘ the most primitive religions are not the only ones which have attributed this power of propagation to the sacred character ’ . |
| 7 | Modern Delhi is thought of either as a city of grey bureaucracy , or as the metropolis of hard-working , nouveau-riche Punjabis . |
| 8 | Early in his career he was thought of primarily as a left-arm spinner , and made his debut for Barbados in 1941–2 as such . |
| 9 | In the States it would be preferable to do a set number of smaller theatre-type places , rather than slogging round for ever as a support band . |
| 10 | Edinburgh University , they 'll take copies of them and keep them there for ever as a sort of reference museum . |
| 11 | The answer to all of this is surely that it is not the legal qualities of limited liability or separate personality in themselves that justify intervention , but the concentration of power in private hands that has come about partly as a result of their existence . |
| 12 | This has come about partly as a result of research over the last 10 years or so into various forms of involvement in the teaching of reading . |
| 13 | For the Scarlet Woman he had Pamela Chrimes , who went to London soon afterwards and was a dancer good enough to be engaged before long as a soloist in the new Sadler 's Wells Theatre Ballet . |
| 14 | but we must sort of all pull in together as a situation in Scotland now that which really concerns me and I 'd |
| 15 | POLEBROOK AIRFIELD , home to the 351st Bombardment Group ( Heavy ) of the USAAF 8th Air Force — including one of its captains , Clark Gable , who flew several missions from here as a gunnery officer in 1943 — is commemorated by a memorial , dedicated in September of 1980 , which is located on the old runway off the Hemington road . |
| 16 | He had worked at his books in here as a boy , shared port with Sir John as a stripling in his callow youth , sitting across from him before the fire in this male stronghold , deep in the leather chair . |
| 17 | And I started from there as a forester . |
| 18 | West Indian cricket has been strong for so long principally because it is looked upon almost as a religion in the Caribbean . |
| 19 | The Holy Land , in Jesus 's time , was literally swarming with different religions , different sects and cults , a great number of them imported from abroad as a result of the Roman occupation . |
| 20 | In 1802 William Jowett was to sail to Jamaica to help sort out his father 's affairs , having acted until then as an accountant for his uncle William at Cotes , Titford and Brookes . |
| 21 | On the other hand , it does not quite cover all sporting interests because horse racing ( or indeed camel racing ) is also in there as a sport . |
| 22 | Something tied up , something in there as a heading so every member of staff knows that at such and such a time they are working on a heading of environmental awareness I would like us to have a precis of what that 's gon na involve but , I sha n't worry if we have n't got that we 've moved on a step |
| 23 | But the procurement of scientists from overseas as a novelty intrigued him . |
| 24 | Lawrence had no comment to make about the letter , but fans sprang to the defence of Pollock , who has emerged from nowhere as a midfield star of the future . |
| 25 | The English socialist William Morris was so appalled that he published News from Nowhere as a riposte to Bellamy . |
| 26 | The neighbourhood changed about here as a stream of heavy traffic turned towards the old Woolwich Arsenal , depression on one side and the beginning of suburban prosperity on the other . |
| 27 | Some connection having been made in his mind , he began to rebuke her for a belief in the reality of Noah 's Ark , which he referred to sarcastically as the Myth of the Deluge . |
| 28 | This lower bound is referred to henceforth as the LB-level . |
| 29 | While such beliefs enjoy a certain vogue in fringe cults in our own contemporary society , our dominant scientific tradition has persistently dismissed them as ‘ irrational ’ superstition , based upon an essentially mistaken view of the world , and thus quite unintelligible , except perhaps as a confession of ignorance . |
| 30 | An animal does indeed strive instinctively to keep alive , much as it will forage for food ( plants in unconscious and less mobile ways do also ) , but , lacking language , it is unduly anthropomorphic to describe this as hoping or aspiring to live to a ripe old age ; except perhaps as a joke . |