Example sentences of "as a [noun] [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the offer is likely to be contested then the offeror will not be able to use the target 's board as a barometer to help it set the price . |
| 2 | Those who are climbing the career ladder fast may use alcohol as a booster to help them to achieve , and those who recognize that they have failed to reach the top may also turn to alcohol , in an attempt to bolster their failing self-image . |
| 3 | One delegate commented : ‘ It could be used as a trick to keep us in residential care . ’ |
| 4 | The disgusting truth behind Michael Heseltine and Leon Brittan 's simultaneous cabinet resignations , and how the whole Westland affair had to be manufactured as a smokescreen to hide it . |
| 5 | Can you trust your skill as a handyman to see you through in an emergency ? |
| 6 | He declared that his new government would not " create another condition that could be used as a pretext to overthrow it " . |
| 7 | The date on which they were re-charged was in 1973 and was used as a pretext to deprive them of the right to be tried by a jury . |
| 8 | Giles still had his hand under her elbow ; she stopped to adjust the strap of her sandal as a pretext to shake it off . |
| 9 | They were undoubtedly used by the employers , and the strike was seized as a chance to bring them in — but it should be firmly stated here , since it is usually glossed over , that the damage to the strikers " cause was not for the first time , the result of actions by other men . |
| 10 | ‘ The whole thing has got to a ludicrous stage when that is used as a stick to beat me . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Daddy was always trying to use the money as a stick to beat me into changing my way of life . |
| 12 | ‘ That will remind us of what he 's had to say , and I think he may just find it acts as a spur to show him what we can do . |
| 13 | cos I 'm going as a favour to give her a lift really . |
| 14 | It comes as a surprise to find him boasting of his prowess as a rioter . |
| 15 | It is procedural only : we used it in Belfast as a guideline to help us to select variables that would represent broader and narrower patterns of lexical coverage . |
| 16 | If , on the other hand , you allow rationality to children , then you can not use their lack of it as a criterion to distinguish them from adults . |
| 17 | They were probably strong enough if they acted as a team to push him aside , but he had the gun . |
| 18 | Said Granada 's Controller of Sport Paul Doherty : ‘ I told the ITV lawyers that I consider this unfair restriction of trade and I want ITV as a body to challenge it in the courts . |
| 19 | In role the teacher enters as a traveller to tell them that she has come from a neighbouring village , where Roman soldiers are delivering a decree that all will have to pay a new tax ; the traveller has to go on her way . |
| 20 | I 'm not very sure it 's prudent if you 're indicating your own incorruptibility as a poet to put it in the future tense in the first place , and when you continue as Pope does ‘ Envy must own , I live among the great ’ as he starts to describe his own life and you realise he 's bringing in touches about himself which really have very little to do with the particular role as poet , it becomes quite clear that that depersonalisation process has not taken place in the case of Pope . |
| 21 | Fig. 13 Submerged oxygenating plants are usually sold as bunches of unrooted cuttings , fastened together at the base with a strip of lead , which acts as a weight to hold them down . |
| 22 | Some very basic massage strokes are outlined here , but they are meant only as a guide to enable you to begin to develop your own intuitive style . |
| 23 | Small businesses see it as a boost to get them out of recession while other , larger firms criticised Mr Lamont . |
| 24 | There is an example of this in ‘ Fighting talk ’ where the police are recorded as using the white boys ' own rules of territoriality as a device to keep them apart from blacks ( ‘ if you 're on your own territory we 'll nick the others , but if you 're outside , we 'll nick you' ) . |
| 25 | Anything you can suggest as a remedy to prevent me from parting with my few remaining strands of hair will be welcome . |
| 26 | If the immediate international situation is used as an excuse to get us to drop our opposition to the rearmament programme of the Government , the next phase must be that we must desist from any industrial or political action that may disturb national unity in face of fascist aggression . |
| 27 | I think it was very brave of you , especially as supporters will use it as an opportunity to criticise you and the team publicly . |
| 28 | Because Lawren and Bess had an enviable collection of classical LPs I took it as an accomplishment to present them with one work they had not yet discovered but came to enjoy — it was the ‘ Eight Little Symphonies ’ by William Boyce ( 1710–1779 ) recorded in London by the Boyd Neel Chamber Orchestra — a delightful work in the manner of George Frederick Handel . |
| 29 | But otherwise it 's basically I think it 's , it 's all there , all you 're trying to do at this stage is , is to give , your aim here is to get is to get firstly , first of all , to get it on the diary , on the picture editor 's diary for your picture , and also to get the basic information in so that somebody can write a few cards as an advance to say it is going to happen . |
| 30 | One group dismissed the Prime Minister 's offer as an attempt to co-opt him into the ruling Chart Thai party and thus disarm his independent political ambitions . |