Example sentences of "as a [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To see which variables were related to a subject recalling a junction , point biserial correlations were calculated with each junction being scored as a 1 for a subject that recalled it and 0 for a subject that did not . |
| 2 | According to German records the aircraft fell victim to A.A. fire ; it was in fact claimed as a probable by the guns , but was also attacked by Plt.Off . |
| 3 | In fact , he has only been working as a professional for three years or so , and has had to learn his trade by trial and error . |
| 4 | A career that began at Stoke City in 1930 , he played as a professional for more than 30 years . |
| 5 | Hitherto regarded as a moderate in his policies towards the West , the president 's rhetoric is becoming less conciliatory with the approach of presidential elections in June . |
| 6 | This happened in the days before Juvenile Courts and it must have been a terrifying experience to be taken into the Court as a seven-year-old to be tried . |
| 7 | The system incorporates special hardware , a main processing unit consisting of two control processors and 32 computational processors arranged as a four by eight array ; and is front-ended by a Fujitsu S series ( Sun Microsystems ) workstation running Solaris and supporting PHIGS and XGL for CAD/CAM applications and PEX for photorealism . |
| 8 | Pollen entered Lincoln 's Inn in 1893 , and in 1895 stood unsuccessfully as a Liberal for Walthamstow . |
| 9 | He was never tempted to see ‘ bishops ’ as a key for locking the door on dissenters . |
| 10 | If there are expected to be a number of queries of the type ‘ How many lecturers are over 40 years of age ? ’ , the database administrator may well consider using date-of-birth as a key for inclusion in the index . |
| 11 | When the breach finally occurs the old course of the meander is left as a curved through valley , perhaps drained by minor tributary streams , while the remains of the spur form an isolated hill , often known as a meander core . |
| 12 | The Brazilian Star of the South , originally of 261.88 carats , suffered a reduction of more than half to emerge as a brilliant of 128.8 carats . |
| 13 | The principle of independence in monist reasoning is usually coupled with an attempt to interpret relations as a sub-class of properties and expressive of certain purely internal features of their terms , or what is sometimes referred to as the doctrine of the " internality of relations " . |
| 14 | The materialist denies the existence of a fundamental ontological bifurcation among phenomena and interprets experiences as a species of neuro-physiological events ( or , in a wider sense , as a sub-class of physical-chemical processes ) . |
| 15 | When he made what may be argued were his next intellectually significant appearances , in 1923 at the Peasant International and in 1924 at the Fifth Congress of the Communist International , he had moved on from the French Communist Party and was now accepted in Russia as a revolutionary of considerable promise . |
| 16 | For some while , the trip has had uncomfortable similarities to the Soviet leader 's visit to China last May , when the presence of the man who incarnates reform in the Communist world served as a combustible in the ‘ Peking Spring ’ that was to be forcibly suppressed a fortnight later . |
| 17 | On the one hand , as ‘ Mr Frederick ’ , he is known as a simple-minded put-upon minion in a second-rate theatre , at home in the grubby , bustling world of teeming streets , pawn shops and flea-ridden lodgings in the East End . |
| 18 | To some extent the work might be categorised as a study in the various possible kinds of orchestral glissandi ; or indeed as a specious of tuba concerto , for that instrument , so evocative of whales and fog-signals and ships ' sirens , often plays a quasi-obbligato role . |
| 19 | These steps can be role played as a prompter for group discussion . |
| 20 | While the Bond is intended as a medium to long term investment , it may be encashed at any time . |
| 21 | While they are best regarded as a medium to long term investment , you can always sell your units at any time you wish . |
| 22 | This bothy also doubles as a stable for estate garrons ( hill ponies ) . |
| 23 | This is a beautiful , small twelfth-century room , used as a stable for many years after the depredations of the Revolution but carefully restored in the 1850s . |
| 24 | In mediaeval times cider was given to sailors bound on long voyages partly as a palliative for scurvy . |
| 25 | Lesley saw it more as a letting-off of repressed energy : ‘ I think this thing has been smouldering for years and now it 's finally broken through . |
| 26 | Since purchasing his first aircraft at the age of 27 , Lindsey 's stable of aircraft has grown , with a second ‘ 108 , G-ASTG , being acquired late in 1967 , initially for the use of its engine as a spare for G-ATBG . |
| 27 | Of course , the only way out of his troubles would be to confess to someone that he was passing himself off as a Muslim for the purposes of financial gain . |
| 28 | Joined on the first of June and is each other initially to and also as a general of what goes on . |
| 29 | It is right to say that I have heard from Mrs Paul 's classroom assistant during the last academic year , she appears virtually to have acted as an enabler , but she was by no means dedicated to Paul as a one to one enabler and of course the extent of the attention of which she had to give to Paul detracted from her ability to give attention to other pupils . |
| 30 | A good example of this is the way in which " casual " is used as a pejorative for " temporaries " ( for example , the 1986 conference of the engineering workers union , AUEW , passed a motion which " attacked the greater use of casual workers by employers " ) . |