Example sentences of "[verb] as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Different symbol systems have different structures , but the commonalities between them allow each to be addressed as patterns of signifiers and signifieds , and discourses to be seen as made up of texts , as well as power relations . |
| 2 | Edward was addressed as duke of Aquitaine and count of Ponthieu , and the summons was received in the duchy by his seneschal , the Savoyard Jean de Grilly . |
| 3 | They are addressed as individuals and families and , furthermore , as frightened individuals and families , afraid of being crushed by , say , a socialist bureaucracy or large masses of immigrants . |
| 4 | Delegates are still addressed as brother , sister , or comrade , but this year there are electronic signs in the hall giving the speaker 's name — as there have been at the Conservative conference for quite a while . |
| 5 | He had read that , at the exclusive Beefsteak Club in London , every steward was addressed as George , and the colonel had decided to adopt the same rule to save people from remembering unnecessary names when stewards were changed . |
| 6 | Sometimes parallel cousins are forbidden as spouses and cross-cousins are favoured . |
| 7 | The 28-year-old Earl Spencer 's reassuring calls were disclosed as Di visited South London 's tough Brixton area to launch a project aimed at fighting drug and alcohol abuse . |
| 8 | Mr Hurd won Tory cheers as he said : ‘ Unless it is clear to people in Vietnam that those who do not qualify as refugees will be returned to Vietnam , Hong Kong faces the prospect of tens of thousands more arrivals in 1990 . |
| 9 | Wall Street rose to an all-time high but ended the week 1.9% down as hopes of a cut in American interest rates faded . |
| 10 | But whether the accent on communications manifests as journeys or negotiations , the eclipsed full moon on the 9th will leave a lasting impression . |
| 11 | PREMIER John Major sat squirming in the Commons yesterday as the man he dismissed as Chancellor put a bomb under him and lit the fuse . |
| 12 | He believed Britain could absorb a ‘ significant influx ’ although he dismissed as nonsense the suggestion that all would want to come . |
| 13 | There was then little belief in the value of the Coalition Liberals , but a strong belief in the value of Lloyd George ; he would be a good advocate with the new electorate and he would in due course be disarmed as Chamberlain had been . |
| 14 | Cairngorms proposed as World Heritage site |
| 15 | Denying that ‘ universal science is centred in mathematics , in the classics ’ , he proposed as fields of study civil policy and languages , fine arts , agriculture and manufactures , natural philosophy , moral philosophy , and mathematics . |
| 16 | and hum As Time Goes By too loud |
| 17 | GERTRUDE : ( Correcting ) Thanks , Guildenstern ( Turning to ROS , who bows as GUIL checks upward movement to bow too — both bent double , squinting at each other ) … and gentle Rosencrantz . |
| 18 | This final criticism amounts to the challenge that Sartre 's history can only ever be theorized as totalization insofar as it has been conceptualized as a synchronic form . |
| 19 | They are based on the same 10V BiCMOS process as Thomson 's STKM2000 analogue-digital series . |
| 20 | Rosenberg 's suspicions of Aveling multiplied as piles of receipts were tuned in . |
| 21 | Under the patriarchy of Winston Churchill , homosexuals and teenagers were not marginal but invisible , except when they surfaced as victims of the latest moral panic , of which there were many in those days . |
| 22 | Distancing himself from the CPSU , he promised as President not to represent a single political trend but to involve the full range of " public thought " in government . |
| 23 | The women and girls who worked long hours , often by candlelight , to supplement the meagre incomes their menfolk earned as farm labourers , used wheat straw cut by hand by the local farmers , to prevent the stems being broken by machinery . |
| 24 | ‘ We can only guess at Allan Lamb 's motives in the Daily Mirror , but we hope they are nothing so base as money or , even worse , our nationality . ’ |
| 25 | We can only guess at Allan Lamb 's motives for his article in the Daily Mirror , but we hope that they are nothing so base as money or even worse our nationality . |
| 26 | Edward creased up laughing as Ma chased Pa with a broom outside into the bright , crisp morning . |
| 27 | They had a report that Gilbey hurried off to the Lotus HQ , laughing as Styczynski shouted : ‘ Are you going to sort out this mess , mate ? ’ |
| 28 | She wondered , laughing as Sabina jogged her , for she had halted in a daydream , what it would be like to encourage him , to overcome the scruples he so kindly showed by not exploring her body . |
| 29 | She threw up a hand , laughing as Theda 's lips tightened . |
| 30 | They flicked on and off Slater started laughing as Graham shook his head and walked away up Rosebery Avenue . |