Example sentences of "[vb past] as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He believed Britain could absorb a ‘ significant influx ’ although he dismissed as nonsense the suggestion that all would want to come . |
| 3 | Cairngorms proposed as World Heritage site |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | As a general rule , expenditure only rose as enrolment fell . |
| 6 | : Fifteen documents were extracted from the Longman Corpus ( LELC ) and retained as test data , not to be used in any subsequent lexical processing ( e.g. dictionary creation , etc . ) . |
| 7 | Helplessly she gazed at him , seeing how his pupils dilated as awareness flared , her own eyes darkening as a shivering sigh escaped her . |
| 8 | Relations with Zimbabwe continued to improve , with Banda invited as guest of honour to Zimbabwe 's 10th anniversary celebrations in early 1990 , and continued operation of the joint co-operation commission between the two countries . |
| 9 | The charges arose out of last summer 's internationally publicised ‘ sting ’ operation when FBI undercover agents in California 's silicon Valley formed a bogus company and posed as electronics dealers with trade secrets to sell ( New Scientist 1 July 1982 p 8–9 ) . |
| 10 | In the methods I described as essentialist , the underlying assumptions are qualitative rather than quantitative . |
| 11 | If diarrhoea is described in some particular terms rather than others ( e.g. if it described as empacho ) the patient is more likely to consult a traditional practitioner than to go to a health clinic . |
| 12 | LEICESTER fans almost eclipsed Southend 's victory when , with their team trailing , they erupted as ref Adcock sent off defender Grayson . |
| 13 | The Labour MP Mr Chris Mullin was last night reselected as candidate for Sunderland South , winning 63 per cent of the vote against his opponent Mr Les Scott 's 34 per cent . |
| 14 | But then what — ’ And I stopped as light flooded my mind and I saw clearly the chain of circumstances which connected us . |
| 15 | Hazel stopped as Fiver approached , followed by Bigwig . |
| 16 | I was one of those ‘ lucky ’ National Servicemen who trained as Air Gunners and I served with 57 Squadron at Waddington ( March 1952 ) and Coningsby ( April 1952 to March 1953 ) . |
| 17 | This seems an odd reversal of the usual rule that Arctic animals are whiter , but otherwise they behaved as fulmar do in Shetland , appearing to spend much of their time flying and gliding over the sea . |
| 18 | ‘ It feels so high , ’ she exclaimed as exhilaration gripped her . |
| 19 | There is never a situation in which there is simultaneously a demand from a marketplace which requires replacement sales of a commodity that it already has , as well as the basic growth which occurred as household after household abandoned gas and moved into the new form of lighting . |
| 20 | At 13 he sailed as apprentice to a ship-owner operating out of Whitehaven in Cumberland , 36 miles [ 58 km ] south-west of Carlisle , and from ship 's boy rose to be third mate on a ‘ black-birder ’ or slave ship . |
| 21 | One can not overestimate the importance of Gould 's identifications in establishing foundations for Darwin 's subsequent theories , as well as the part they initially played as catalyst . |
| 22 | Fred Dawes played as club captain in every League match of 1936–37 but was badly hampered by injuries in 1937–38 when he was limited to just 15 appearances . |
| 23 | This was certainly not necessary for the decision of the case ; but though the resolution of the Court of Common Pleas was only a dictum , it seems to me clear that Lord Coke deliberately adopted the dictum , and the great weight of his authority makes it necessary to be cautious before saying that what he deliberately adopted as law was a mistake , and though I can not find that in any subsequent case this dictum has been made the ground of the decision , except in Fitch v. Sutton ( 1804 ) 5 East 230 , as to which I shall make some remarks later , and in Down v. Hatcher ( 1839 ) 10 Ad. & El . |
| 24 | One type of evidence comes in very much larger quantities from Charles 's kingdom than from any other in the ninth century : capitularies — that is , lists of points ( capitula literally means " headings " ) discussed and/or adopted as law by assemblies where king and aristocracy met to settle public affairs . |
| 25 | The essentials , from a recording point of view , were and are a tested ( or holograph or adopted as holograph ) deed , the designation therein of the parties and a description or reference description of the relevant lands . |
| 26 | The new threat came as bachelor James Gilbey — said to be the man recorded on the Di ‘ love tapes ’ — was reported to fear that a SECOND tape may exist . |
| 27 | The announcement came as State President F. W. de Klerk was hinting that he was prepared to reintroduce a state of emergency , lifted in part in June 1990 [ see p. 37522 ] . |
| 28 | The claims came as Heritage Secretary Peter Brooke announced an investigation into fire precautions at all royal palaces . |
| 29 | The move came as relief operations to Sarajevo airport were suspended after a brave RAF pilot saved his plane when it was fired on while taking off . |
| 30 | Some high-spirited girls came as harem women , with Arab dress made from bedsheets — a transformation which struck the more orthodox on board as unseemly . |