Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] as a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The solution was to add a form of the hormone progesterone so that the lining was shed not as a period but as an artificial withdrawal bleed . |
| 2 | Thus , it is argued that where conversion is probable , the debt should be reported not as a liability but as , or near , equity . |
| 3 | This is particularly so for workers whose lives are related to work not as a vocation or as a career , but as a job for earning money to spend in private . |
| 4 | Stealing had come more as a necessity than anything else . |
| 5 | John White , who writes both as a psychiatrist and as a father , comments in Parents in Pain , ‘ I do not know what destiny whether small or great God plans for the children who most concern you . |
| 6 | They do n't wish it to happen , but it becomes an impossibility almost for them to stand up to their rights , and Mr talks about rights and no rights is in abstract and we all know how difficult it is then to stand up as a minority when you 're surrounded by that majority , but I 've had personal representations |
| 7 | ( Though in fact by this time , " tramping " was dying out as a practice and craft mobility with it . ) |
| 8 | He breathed the air deeply , hauling it into his broad chest as if this particular air on this exact spot could be stored up and carried around as a reserve and reminder : for minutes on end he stood there , resisting any move which would lift the spell , gazing into the hidden valley as if in there lay the treasure he wanted . |
| 9 | While it was generally recognized that the new novelists drew a great deal on their eighteenth and nineteenth century predecessors , this was regarded not as a fault but , on the contrary , all the more reason for admitting them as new bearers of the old standard ( Hansford Johnson 1949:235–3 , Wilson 1958:viii ) . |
| 10 | There is a real risk of it being regarded not as a mate but a meal . |
| 11 | Barnes , playing his first game since rupturing his Achilles tendon in the summer , came on as a substitute and set-up the 87th-minute winner for Ronnie Rosenthal in their 1–0 victory over QPR . |
| 12 | Mini Jakobsen ( MSV Duisburg/ Germany ) came in as a substite and had 4 ( 4 ) great chances ( 3 times alone with the polish goalie ) and tech-boy Bohinen ( who put us 2–0 up against England at home ) was trying to be too clever when twice lobbing over the polish keeper . |
| 13 | With ffeatherstonehaugh 's , if you came in as a guest and they liked you , you could be elected by acclamation on the spot . ’ |
| 14 | I speak not as a lawyer but as a politician . |
| 15 | Yet this , too , is often seen not as a value but as an additional reason for not taking the genre seriously . |
| 16 | Deane is n't a bad player , at sheffield however he did score in bursts rather than every other game he also played not as a goalscorer but someone to play flicks etc . |
| 17 | The danger of allowing opting out would be that the NHS would finish up as a rump and would provide very much a second class service . |
| 18 | ‘ He tried to set up as a fridge and freezer engineer , but that did n't work . |
| 19 | He intends to set up as a PR and communications consultant , freelance writer and designer . |
| 20 | ‘ Before this game , individuals had been performing well , but this was the first time we really played well as a team and it shows just what we are capable of . ’ |
| 21 | The right to a safe environment is ever more insistently presented today as a right that must be included in an updated Charter of Human Rights . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I only came here as a consultant and do not want to get deeply involved , ’ he insisted . |
| 23 | STRIPPED OF the spiritual baggage , philosophical hokum and rune mythology he usually insists on dragging around with him , Julian Cope is revealed here as a rock 'n' roll archivist par excellence . |
| 24 | In craft and technician level courses , theory is seen merely as an adjunct of practice , while in purely academic courses practice , if it is a point of reference at all , is seen simply as a spin-off or by-product of theory . |
| 25 | Despite the fact that she had been deeply touched by the open friendliness of the Greek couple , it came almost as a relief when finally Niall signalled that it was time to leave . |
| 26 | The need to halt fascism began to be seen almost as a life and death matter . |
| 27 | They include , for example , dealing in investments as principal or agent ; arranging deals in investments ; managing investments ; giving investment advice ; operating collective investment schemes , including unit trusts ( ie. acting either as a manager or as trustee of a unit trust scheme is regarded as an activity constituting investment business ) . |
| 28 | The net can be positioned either as a box or in an approximate circle around the warren site . |
| 29 | ‘ I think when you first go into the Home , you 're frightened because you think you 'll be treated possibly as a cabbage or just somebody who ca n't do anything for themselves and that you may be completely dependent on people and you want to be independent . |
| 30 | ‘ Mind you , I 'm regarded more as a provider than a goalscorer and I have n't done too badly in that department over the last couple of years . ’ |