Example sentences of "[noun sg] and as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Younger children often try to use a funnel as a scoop , but as they progress , it is used to fill bottles , control the flow of water through the water wheel and as part of a complex water system of pipes , jugs and bottles on different levels . |
| 2 | She helped to produce a sketch of her assailant and as a result of its publication , another woman told police that he was the same man who had attacked her the day before . |
| 3 | After six years as Chairman , he knew all the important party figures and he became a dangerous foe ; in the National Union he combined with Selborne to mount a campaign against coalition and as a Birmingham MP he threatened even- Austen Chamberlain 's home base . |
| 4 | Many women used the campaign as a means of deepening feminist consciousness and as a platform for launching a wider programme of demands . |
| 5 | Unit Trusts are becoming an increasingly popular form of investment and as a High Interest Cheque Account holder you are entitled to a 1% bonus allocation when you make a lump sum purchase of £500 or more of Midland Unit Trusts . |
| 6 | We therefore conclude that an element important for neuronal-specific expression has been lost by this deletion and as a consequence that the transgene is more sensitive to position-effects . |
| 7 | There are , in the UK , more than 30 million domestic fridges which use CFCs as the refrigerant and as part of the foam insulation in walls and doors . |
| 8 | However , as time progressed they took up the argument of legislation requirement and professional competence as a form of self-defence and as a means of maintaining their professional standing not only in their own eyes , but in the eyes of other planners , and in the eyes of their fellow colleagues in Kirkwall . |
| 9 | Kung fu was primarily developed as a method of self-defence and as an exercise to promote good health . |
| 10 | The hierarchical nature of news organizations — both as a chain of command and as an information processing organization — ensured that the power centre remained well removed from the specialist correspondents . |
| 11 | She wore a soft , hyacinth-coloured jersey , for she had summed up Miss Cress as a rival and as a woman who took everything in , clothes , manners , appearances , weighed and judged them . |
| 12 | The duchy of Rome was the papacy 's ancient land to which the popes were deemed to have succeeded as the continuators of Byzantine rule and as a result of the Donation of Constantine . |
| 13 | His earliest sporting interests were as a co-founder of the Worcester Rugby Football Club and as a penny-farthing cyclist in 1876 . |
| 14 | When I passed at this point MacArthur said perhaps I would like to hear his summary as a soldier and as no businessman or textile expert . |
| 15 | Lakatos 's account was presented first in this book because it is best seen as a culmination of the Popperian programme and as a direct response to and an attempt to improve on the limitations of Popperian falsificationism . |
| 16 | We have made significant progress in our asset rationalisation programme and as a result are strengthening the balance sheet and creating capacity to invest in a very exciting range of exploration and development opportunities which will add materially to cashflow and improve profitability . |
| 17 | Where the user takes advantage of the voluntary vision screening programme and as a consequence of vision defects at the viewing distances used specifically for the display screen work concerned is recommended to have a full eyesight examination by an ophthalmic optician , then during this interim period , the user will be permitted to use an ophthalmic optician of their own choice . |
| 18 | Nature and God are identified , and are conceived as an infinite reality which exists both as an all comprehensive mind and as an infinitely extended physical system , and in other ways unknown to us , all these being different aspects of one and the same single reality . |
| 19 | ‘ But it became obvious that we were n't posing enough of a threat to get them through the bottle neck and as a result they dived and went hell-for-leather back into Scapa Flow . |
| 20 | We must remember that he had started his active life as a lawyer and as a student of rhetoric , and he is using a common figure of rhetoric , hyperbole , within carefully controlled limits . |
| 21 | It can also act as a dilution guide , when the level of foam is related to concentration and as an activity indicator , whereby the formulation is adjusted so that when detergency is exhausted the foam collapses . |
| 22 | She has served as a student counsellor with the Education and Training Department and as deputy director of practice regulation she played a major role in setting up the new regulations for financial services business and audit . |
| 23 | Founded and run by forty year old Jack Kilgore , it is a logical development of his previous interests as a collector and his successive positions as Assistant Vice-President of Christie 's New York Old Master department and as a director of Richard Feigen 's New York gallery . |
| 24 | The complexity of an organisation 's activities in turn increases with differentiation , interdependence , uncertainty and as the uncertainty in an organisation increases , the greater is the amount of information that needs to be processed by decision- makers to ensure coordination . |
| 25 | This first scene establishes Iago as a hypocrite and as a rapacious egoist , the same combination that we observed in Macbeth , the one state creating and supporting the other . |
| 26 | She worked at Glasgow University for seven years in research and as a lecturer in social work . |
| 27 | Besides the more obvious areas for employment , actuaries are to be found applying their skills in the academic world , in computer development , operational research and as business consultants . |
| 28 | This paper examines the role of archives of machine-readable data as a resource for research and as a source of teaching material . |
| 29 | In nearly all cases the must will be dosed with sulphur dioxide , which will encourage this settling process as well as act as an aseptic agent and as an antioxidant . |
| 30 | He did indeed return , in disguise and as a fugitive , seeking shelter for the night in 1646 when the war was lost . |