Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [conj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is difficult to make the transition because the normal prerequisite of a finance director is that they must have had board level experience and as a financial controller reporting to a director it 's very difficult to get that . ’ |
| 2 | Firstly , when one thinks about using computers in schools , one tends to think of technology , and you think of people with white coats and dials and sort of science and technology and so forth , whereas I think in schools the big interest is in using a microcomputer as a teaching aid and as a support to other services and other ways of doing things , so it is just as relevant in a primary school as a secondary school . |
| 3 | There are so many colourful characters within the jazz spectrum and as a form it really demands that you get in touch with your own personal self ; if you do n't have your own sound in jazz then basically it 's nothing . |
| 4 | This might be regarded either as a kind of dune slack or as a type of poor fen . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | His earliest sporting interests were as a co-founder of the Worcester Rugby Football Club and as a penny-farthing cyclist in 1876 . |
| 7 | In this case , as in the poems discussed by Green , no addressee is mentioned or seems to be present within the evoked setting , so that the poetic persona can be imagined either as a thinking mind or as a speaker talking to himself in a solitary environment . |
| 8 | This can serve both as a briefing meeting and as a discussion group . |
| 9 | A strong intellectual or emotional appeal may reinforce self-image ; the appeal bolsters up my idea of myself as a rational/analytical/ thinking person or as a warm/empathetic/sensitive one . |
| 10 | Sir , — I have been most concerned to read the recent press coverage regarding the Surrey Ambulance Service and as general manager , I must put the record straight . |
| 11 | What we could choose to do if we wanted to keep them as that figure head and as a P R agency almost , we could pay them a specific salary , similar to other people who work in advertising industry |
| 12 | At first it looked like a perfectly routine maintenance operation but as a precaution those in the tunnel were evacuated and the heavy steel doors at the eastern end barred and locked . |
| 13 | They had a special role in relation to stock-rearing and stock health and as the confidante and sounding board for the farmers ' problems . |
| 14 | The winner will automatically be booked to appear on a paid basis at a later Gong Show and as a support to one of the visiting star acts . |
| 15 | Site overheads may be included in the tender sum in various ways , for example in the preliminaries , in a balancing item and as a percentage of rates across some or all of the items . |
| 16 | She found that she gradually became prone to weight gain and as a result experimented with several different diets . |
| 17 | It 's available in card form and as an external portable version . |
| 18 | One sort of explanation sees such practices as permanent employment and seniority wage systems as being related to Japan 's unique cultural traditions and the carry-over to modern industry of patterns of social relationships and obligations which characterised feudal Japan.7 Other , perhaps more convincing , approaches ( as these practices are not characteristic of smaller-sized firms ) see them as an employer response to the exigencies of the labour market and as a control device to elicit and reward loyal workforce behaviour ( Jacoby , 1979 ) , since lifetime employment is not a practice of very long standing in Japan . |
| 19 | Apply coarse nose down trim with each attitude change and as the speed increases . |
| 20 | Clearly there 's no systematic structure in those residuals , right , if the residuals were moving in a cyclical manner erm that would imply that we are missing an important explanatory variable in our model and its systematic effect has been just thrown into the error term and as a result we are picking up that systematic effect in , in residuals . |
| 21 | At present several attempts are being made to devise performance indicators which would enable schools to be graded , and serve both as a management tool and as a guide to parents in choosing a school . |
| 22 | sun god with many forms , but often represented as the sun disk or as a falcon-headed man . |
| 23 | The latter falls off more rapidly , indicating that the turbulence changes in a way that makes it relatively less efficient as a heat transfer mechanism than as a momentum transfer mechanism . |
| 24 | The conditions in which verbal report becomes useful in clarifying problem solving strategy and as a source of information for improving the diagnostic performance of novices . |
| 25 | Before its other Pentium-ready systems — see front page — Unisys Corp will this week announce three new additions to its U 6000/35 Unix server line based on Intel 's 66MHz 486DX2 chip , expected to enhance the old 33MHz box as a workgroup or departmental LAN server and as a distributed server node in an enterprise-wide OLTP network . |
| 26 | The second hypothesis is that profitable entry has been deterred by the existence of barriers to entry which have arisen either as a result of actions by the incumbent public sector supplier or as a result of the technical characteristics of electricity supply . |
| 27 | Normally such a document evidences only a contract between the shipper and the freight forwarder , who acts as a broker for air cargo space or as an independent commission agent . |
| 28 | Although an accomplished politician he was hampered by his background as a member of the South Korean Central Intelligence Agency and as a graduate of the Korean Military Academy . |
| 29 | The 1991 Forum will look at Channel 5 both as an opportunity to provide employment and economic growth outside of London and the South East and as a means of making the non-metropolitan voice heard . |
| 30 | I do n't see the support of victims of crime as a separate service provided by a small specialist agency but as something which should be much more widely accepted like sickness or bereavement , so that people can get a more sensitive and understanding response from their employers , neighbours , doctors and so on . ’ |