Example sentences of "as a [noun] [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an extraordinary development in an extraordinary saga and striker Gary Bull said : ‘ This has taken us all by surprise , although nothing comes as a shock at Barnet anymore . |
| 2 | Like National Health Service consultants , they treat waiting lists as a sign of status rather than a symptom of failure . |
| 3 | Integrating primary care into the contracting framework of the health service will have advantages for patients , doctors , and managers but general practitioners could see it as a threat to independence rather than an end to isolation . |
| 4 | Perhaps if you do n't really like farce as a as a kind of comedy then |
| 5 | Perceived as a change of means rather than ends , it has passed off without public discussion of the goals , methods or results . |
| 6 | Alternatively , they may be given as a mark of generosity so as to increase the cohesive forces in society , known as levelling mechanisms . |
| 7 | It is rather that the idea and ideal is always likely to function as a corrective to complacency rather than as a prop to It . |
| 8 | There was , for one thing , a strong tendency for writing to be used as a help to memory rather than as an autonomous and independent mode of communication ’ ( ibid. p. 40 ) . |
| 9 | As a subscriber to Marxism Today , Robyn had suffered occasional qualms of guilt because she did n't cycle to work instead of driving , but she had never been attacked for owning a foreign car before . |
| 10 | They are not necessarily regarded as a nuisance at law however and may not be actionable under that branch of the common law known as the tort of nuisance . |
| 11 | It also manages to tie the Alps together as one whole , treating them as a range of mountains rather than just a list of routes . |
| 12 | The state has actively sought to develop tourism , both to attract foreign visitors and to act as a counter-magnet to holidays abroad for Britons . |
| 13 | This attitude was sustained until August 1939 by the converse attitudes of many on the Right of Conservatism , who clearly sympathized with Hitler and saw him as a bastion against Bolshevism both in Germany and in Spain . |
| 14 | Now in its third year , the RUNNING Magazine/Sports Tours International Challenge has firmly established itself as a favourite with competitors all over Europe . |
| 15 | Using pre-formulated questions as a structure for notes also provides more able children with a useful means of synthesising information from a range of sources . |
| 16 | Delaunay , who earlier in the year had held an important exhibition together with Marie Laurencin at the Galerie Barbazanges , did not show at the Section d'Or , and wrote an open letter to Vauxcelles : ‘ I beg to inform you that I do not subscribe to the erroneously held opinions of Monsieur Hourcade which proclaim me as a founder of Cubism together with four of my colleagues and friends . |
| 17 | Now , after almost fifty years we look back and the rich variety of our doings in the years between fulfills the concept of university as a preparation for life rather than training for a specific walk of life . |
| 18 | St Gallen 's standing as a centre of commerce gradually became more dominant , particularly in the growth of a healthy textile industry . |
| 19 | The significance of the support for the Southwark [ sic ] theologians which flooded in from left-wing humanists , will not be lost on anyone who had learned , the hard way , that these people , who reject all concept of man as a child of God both for themselves and everyone else , make common ground with soft permissives wherever they can find them — in or out of the Church . |
| 20 | On the cross Christ himself came to be portrayed as a man in agony rather than as a God in majesty . |
| 21 | She sought to redress both the neglect by historians of " changes in the nature of demand " and their concentration on labour as a factor of production rather than as constituting " the major portion of the consuming public " . |
| 22 | If these events became regarded as a norm for science then public confidence would be threatened . |
| 23 | The argument here is that the buyer can rely on the seller 's breach as a waiver of performance so as to justify refusal to accept delivery . |
| 24 | Dream : Anglers watched in disbelief as a shoal of bream over 100 metres long swam along the Leeds-Liverpool Canal at Melling . |
| 25 | In particular , there are those who have sought to combine an analysis of gender inequality as a system of patriarchy together with an analysis of the changing nature of capitalist relations . |
| 26 | Secondly , there is a need to facilitate the finance of other objectives of economic policy such as fulfilling the objectives of the SEA , and act as a handmaiden to growth both inside and outside the EC . |
| 27 | Chained to the chair is a Daemonette of unusually human and attractive appearance ( although it has a normal profile ) , captured as a concubine by Drachenfels long ago . |
| 28 | Professors Gordon Donaldson and I. B. Cowan have both tried to assess her as a character of history rather than drama , going further than Lady Antonia in considering her political role . |
| 29 | Thus , so soon after the pronouncement of the intention to restructure industry , through trade unionism , as national co-operatives and so in effect to deny labour to conventionally organised industry , reality compelled the unions to start fashioning themselves as a response to capital rather than as an alternative to it . |
| 30 | The test items themselves may indeed have been specified in terms of their subject matter but a norm-referenced test result is given as a measure of performance rather than a description of what examinees know . |