Example sentences of "[vb base] as a [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well the girl yeah that girl that came with us , she had , I mean as a rule I , I do n't have |
| 2 | I mean as an acquaintance I could tolerate her but I . |
| 3 | Swindon say as a player he is worth a million pounds , and they should be compensated accordingly . |
| 4 | I speak as a representative who came into the House as a result of the murder just 10 years ago of the then Member for Belfast , South . |
| 5 | Both had for a period apprenticed their ideas to those of Graham Sutherland and both paid homage to Picasso , Vaughan equating him with Auden and Bartók as an artist who had evolved ‘ a coherent vocabulary of form appropriate to our life ’ . |
| 6 | And as I recall as a child there were well over a hundred ponies down Pit at that time , because during the nineteen twenty one strike they brought them all up to the surface and put them in the fields and I used to go with my father to sort of look after them . |
| 7 | The cases fall into two categories : those in which the disposition described in the problem is evidently a legacy , yet the petitioners describe it as a trust ; and the opposite case , where the petitioners describe as a legacy what is really a trust . |
| 8 | ‘ I suppose as an anthropologist you look on everything with detachment , ’ she said . |
| 9 | Y'know as a manager you do n't want to hear problems , you do n't want to hear bad news , you do n't want to hear disaster . |
| 10 | Well , I mean I suppose erm I feel as a parent myself that it 's not possible to make tolerable for children a situation which is in fact humanly intolerable . |
| 11 | I still keep as a bookmark my ticket for the 1989 Revolution Day parade in Red Square . |
| 12 | Now this may be because we 're on the way from one position to another , or it may be a traditional British approach , but I find this personally a great source of pressure because on the one hand I recognise as a parent myself one 's going to have a crucial interest in the education of one 's child , on the other hand how one reconciles those hundreds of different philosophies and then superimposes upon it a professional approach is , I suppose , the greatest single source of strain I find running a large secondary school , particularly , as I said before , in the end the responsibility in law is mine . |
| 13 | When intensive care or emergency surgery are used inappropriately doctors sometimes offer as an excuse their uncertainty about the law . |
| 14 | Take as an example someone who buys a £30 trading check , to be paid off in 21 weekly instalments of £1.60 . |
| 15 | Equally , you might use ambiguous words which your superiors treat as a resignation which they will not allow you to retract . |
| 16 | This mechanism is social stratification , which they see as a system which attaches unequal rewards and privileges to the different positions in society . |
| 17 | WHEN I read the opening words of your jazz columnist Solly Lipsitz on August 26 , ‘ As this will be my final Thursday column ’ , I felt that I should express my feelings at what I see as a matter which will be of deep concern to the entire jazz fraternity in Northern Ireland . |