Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [adv] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others regard the orang simply as a large relative of the gibbons , who , it is often forgotten , are also apes . |
| 2 | Douglas took the watch home as a treasured memory of his father . |
| 3 | In contrast to those modern theorists discussed elsewhere in this book , who have insisted that the literary text is in a significant sense independent of its author , and that the author 's and reader s experiences are not and should not be the same , Richards treats the text simply as a transparent medium , a mere vehicle for conveying the experience of the author to the reader . |
| 4 | He knew that Coy was an administrator , that he had never been in the field either as a soldier or as an agent . |
| 5 | The basic principle of law is that assignment of a contract is not possible where the identity of the assignor is an important factor for the other party to the contract either as a reason for his entering into the contract in the first place , or because it is for some reason significant for the proper discharge of the contract . |
| 6 | " When it was done She expressed Her complete satisfaction with the statue both as a portrait and as a work of art , — I particularly asked the Bishop about that last point . |
| 7 | She had told me the tunnels had now been connected up and the workmen used the subway constantly as a private short cut . |
| 8 | But his party had neither a national nor an ideological base , and was used by the president merely as a vehicle for his political advancement . |
| 9 | It was gon na take quite a while so erm we got the base five as quickly as possible so that we had as many hands on the job at once and er we had some formwork getting spare so we decided to make them useful and it 's a case of we 'd got six tanks to do and if we had a breakage we ca n't afford to stop the programme so as a er , a standby , just in case , we may never use these we might three or four uses out of but if we do have a breakage we want to be able to replace that straight away so have a spare set and you 've got nothing more to do and er get the walls , get the er , the back build operation right at the very end , ongoing , till you 've got the waterproofers in er get the waterproofing up to the five meter level and er get the back build in as quickly as possible . |
| 10 | But she soon realised that they had come down to the manor only as a duty ( perish the word ! ) and courtesy to her , and regarded the house as a white elephant , being too far away and too cold for weekend breaks . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They have these enormous canine teeth again stabbing each other and the thick blubber round the neck again as a defence and if the canines go in they go into the blubber and not to arteries and stuff like that . |
| 13 | Government officials subsequently referred to the plot merely as a plan to " destabilize " the government ; Herrera , arrested in Panama City on Oct. 25 , described the whole incident as a " circus act " designed to distract public attention from the country 's true problems . |
| 14 | Er , Chairman erm , I do believe that this has always been an issue erm of vested interests and bureaucracy administration but all I want to say to members of the council today as a member of the youth and community advisory committee is that extremely serious er far reaching decisions are gon na have to be taken because we were told at the last meeting of that sub committee that just to stand still because of the changes in legislation regarding transfer of funds to the er F E funding council , we will lose a further two million pounds next year so even if we er do not have to find any cuts within our own budget that money is going out of this authority 's budget it may come back in in commissioning agreements but because of the different timescale that the funding council works on we probably wo n't know that when we come to set our budget and really the issue for the Labour group I think in particular as councillor has said , is the question of budgetary control . |
| 15 | He seemed to regard the exchange purely as a joke , but Marise continued to glower beneath her perfectly drawn black brows , and Faye too looked irritated by Greg 's words . |
| 16 | YOUR event , whatever it is , is of interest to the rest of the Diocese either as a source of information or as an inspiration to others to organise something similar . |
| 17 | However , in Finkelhor 's review , several factors emerged as being consistently associated with higher risk of sexual abuse : when a child lives without one of the biological parents ; when the mother is unavailable to the child either as a result of employment outside the home or disability and illness ; when a child reports that the parents ' marriage is unhappy or conflictual ; when the child reports having a poor relationship with the parents or being subject to extremely punitive discipline or child abuse ; when the child reports having a step-father . |
| 18 | Now she began to treat the shop more as a business than a hobby , and expanded its services by offering home collection to rich women who would not be seen dead in a secondhand shop . |
| 19 | Customers tend to use the product either as a report generator for existing , often highly complex databases brought down from the mainframe , or as a tool for the complete re-engineering of their applications , including prototyping . |
| 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 | It is not that policemen and women fail to achieve emotional detachment , even though one policeman once remarked that at postmortems he was appalled by the way pathologists treat the body simply as a lump of meat and fail to show respect ( FN 17/12/87 , p. 15 ) . |
| 22 | Indeed , Franco envisaged the war largely as a matter of internal order , in which the Armed Forces played the role of policeman : " The defence of internal peace and order constitutes the sacred mission of a nation 's Armed Forces and this is the mission we have carried out . " |
| 23 | Elbing s shipyards were kept going after the war only as a result of massive subsidy from the Reich . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | PRESIDENT Bill Clinton journeyed to the mid-West yesterday as a salesman for the economic plan he describes as ‘ necessary for the continued greatness of the United States ’ . |
| 26 | The impact of French literary tradition on the Anglo-Norman fabliaux seems to have been rather crude : van den Boogard indicates that Anglo-Norman poets saw the fabliau primarily as a mode of " obscene " entertainment . |
| 27 | 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 ’ . |
| 28 | Of the rest , over 500 are listed as road cars , so the thought of the Cobra purely as a racer is something of a myth . |
| 29 | It is this degree of concentration I want you to work towards , using the haiku both as a point of departure and as a discipline you frequently return to . |
| 30 | Write ‘ concealed cable ’ on the wall alongside as a reminder that there 's a hidden live cable . |