Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] [be] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , hopefully my future will be as a band unit with this singer , Kali . |
| 2 | The effect will be as if fraudulent conversion were widened to include the whole of larceny and embezzlement ; the new offence will indeed include conduct which may not be criminal under the present law such as the dishonest appropriation by a parent of things taken and brought home by a child under the age of criminal responsibility ( cf. |
| 3 | Similarly , the exaggerated response , in starvation , of the rectal mucosa to a secretory stimulus may be as a result of a lack of luminal SCFA . |
| 4 | A better description of the Mafia would be as a network of criminal contacts regularly exploited by shifting alliances of ruthless drug-traffickers and extortionists , who flourish where politicians and policemen are venal or lazy . |
| 5 | Appointments will be as Technical Assistants or Trainee Scientists . |
| 6 | I think that diving can be as calorie consuming as you would like it to be . ’ |
| 7 | They formed a great circle round the very centre of the site , where most eagles had died , and long lines across the moor , pointing to the north , south , east and west , that all who saw them would remember that man and eagle should be as one . |
| 8 | We saw in Chapters 4 and 5 just how effective both the coordinating committee and the schools ' library committees could be as bodies which handled the nuts and bolts of the project and converted aims and objectives into a reality . |
| 9 | cf. Ps. 28 : ‘ Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house : thy children like olive plants round about thy table . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I reckon his best chance would be as a goal-kicking winger but I do n't want him in this role for Widnes . |
| 11 | He is not the only person to have responded on this point , which just shows how powerful anecdotes can be as memory aids . |
| 12 | However commendable prudence may be as an accounting concept , decline will put it under pressure . |
| 13 | CHILD superstar Macaulay Culkin 's next role could be as a boy who gets divorced from his own parents . |
| 14 | Held , ( 1 ) refusing to join B. as a party , that , since B. claimed no personal interest in the money in court and it was not suggested that the money belonged to the ousted regime , her only locus standi would be as a person entitled to represent the Republic of Somalia ; but that , on the evidence , B. had no recognition as a representative of the Republic in the United Kingdom ( post , pp. 749H — 750B ) . |
| 15 | But given that companies pay a dividend ( based on current profit ) per share , the higher the price of the shares , the lower the dividend will be as a percentage of that price . |
| 16 | Their main use will be as independent units , to be acquired by those carrying out assessment functions . |
| 17 | ‘ Our island will be as if in a state of war ’ one senior official was quoted as saying yesterday . |
| 18 | Oxford 's new role will be as an extension of London 's Wormwood Scrubs . |
| 19 | They will have failed to maintain an adequate level of expectation about what life can be as non-parents . |
| 20 | Portadown will have to wait and see who their opponents will be as the other all-Dublin semi between Old Alexandra and Loreto ended scoreless after extra time . |
| 21 | Another possible use for the program would be as an educational or training aid . |
| 22 | By changing the contexts in which we use mathematics , we develop a more multicultural perspective and can help pupils to see how powerful mathematics can be as a tool for examining society . |
| 23 | This means , in turn , that the initial state of the learner must be as a possessor of vast battalions of hypotheses which are selected out as the child bumps up against the physical world and the human conceptual system . |
| 24 | A further use for ‘ Ruby Trax ’ on those long , winter evenings might be as catalyst for a ‘ Who The Hell Did This One , Then ? ’ party . |
| 25 | The importance of food to the family can be as a social process or a centre around which all family communication and interaction takes place . |