Example sentences of "a [noun sg] as [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | … particular care must be taken before stigmatising a decision as one at which no reasonable person could have arrived , for this is coming dangerously close to the court substituting its own discretion for that of the tribunal . |
| 2 | We might think of a pioneer as someone who goes into the wilderness to prepare a home for others . |
| 3 | In other words , the difference between ( i ) incitement and ( ii ) being a participant in a crime as one who has counselled or procured it is that in ( i ) the main crime has not been ( or need not have been ) committed by the person so incited , and in ( ii ) it has . |
| 4 | The self-supply provisions define a developer as anyone who constructs or orders or finances the construction of such a building , and the provisions apply to certain reconstructions , enlargements and extensions . |
| 5 | She belonged to that great majority of intelligent human beings who think of a book as something with which to beguile the hours of solitude of an evening . |
| 6 | For the rest , the older generation and the perennially mathematically innocent , it will be best to start by thinking of a vector as something like an arrow directing us from one point to another . |