Example sentences of "[vb pp] as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If possible , ladders should have a number of exits , particularly important on high slides disguised as playhouses or dens , for toddlers who bottle out ! |
| 32 | The Iraqi government has accused Iran of arming the mujaheddin and sending Iranian Revolutionary Guards , disguised as Iraqis , across the frontier to fight . |
| 33 | Indecisiveness disguised as fairness |
| 34 | By people disguised as waitresses or RAC recruiting officers ? ’ |
| 35 | Seeing ourselves as less important than anyone else , or less worthy or deserving than others , is just another form of arrogance , disguised as humility or neurosis . |
| 36 | Detectives believe the IRA was transporting deadly cargoes to various locations in the city — disguised as goods . |
| 37 | In an address to the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva on Feb. 13 , Yassir Arafat , chair of the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) , accused Israel of establishing " concentration camps comparable with those of the Nazis " and of the use of chemical weapons " disguised as tear gas " against Palestinians . |
| 38 | ‘ Fighting ships that were disguised as merchant vessels were known as Q-ships and we 've just done a straight lift from there , ’ she said . |
| 39 | ‘ Fighting ships disguised as merchant vessels were known as Q ships and we 've just done a straight lift from there , ’ she said . |
| 40 | Dr Wyn came at lunchtime while Lydia was eating pheasant leg and wondering whether the goodness inherent in a broth made from pheasant carcase was sufficient to justify sneaking it , disguised as soupe bonne femme , on to the supper tray of an ailing vegetarian , and what her real motives were . |
| 41 | At the Gardner ten years later , two robbers disguised as police overpowered guards , handcuffed them , bound them with tape , and cut canvases from frames before escaping with thirteen works . |
| 42 | And it is not unknown for members of a group to manipulate a drama to further their real-life victimisation of the class ‘ scapegoat ’ — so that it is not a drama experience at all but a vicious first-order experience disguised as drama . |
| 43 | Moths , caterpillars , spiders , long-nosed bugs , luminous beetles , harmless butterflies disguised as wasps , wasps shaped like ants , sticks that walk , leaves that open wings and fly — the variety will be enormous and one of these creatures will almost certainly be undescribed by science . |
| 44 | Thrift disguised as Reason speciously suggests than an excess of Fluid Foundation on one 's face , unlike a poisoned sausage , will cause no harm . |
| 45 | A bank of video monitors cunningly disguised as sacks of cargo show films of interviews with living Indians , maps of the regions covered and other backup material . |
| 46 | Rangoon radio said the airliner was 20 minutes into its flight when it was taken over by what it called ‘ terrorists disguised as passengers ’ . |
| 47 | The drug squad launched a massive operation costing £17,000 and resulting in 112 arrests — some made by ‘ rozzers ’ disguised as hippies ! — while the manager of the nearby Caversham Bridge Hotel barricaded his premises with 12-foot-high chain fencing . |
| 48 | At about eight o'clock on the evening of 28 July , the Prince , disguised as Betty Burke and wearing a ‘ flower 'd linen apron gown ’ , escaped from the Benbecula rowed by six strong men and accompanied by Flora Macdonald and faithful Neil MacEachan . |
| 49 | Allan Macdonald of Kingsburgh , Flora Macdonald 's future husband , was a guest in the house at the time , and took food and drink to the Prince , still disguised as Betty Burke , and hiding on the hill . |
| 50 | The coal torpedoes had a powder charge inside a hollow cast iron block that was disguised as coal with tar and coal dust . |
| 51 | Here he began to spot that some discarded lumps of coal , or sandstone disguised as coal , held the impressions of ancient plants . |
| 52 | There are not going to be agents of the DES disguised as pupils planted in every classroom , and teachers , renowned for their creativity , can exercise some of it on discovering creative interpretations of the law . |
| 53 | There were no tanks , no Fifth Columnists disguised as Sisters of Charity . |
| 54 | One night in 1962 Kurdish rebels entered a Kirkuk cinema disguised as policemen and silently surrounded an officer known to be torturing opponents of the government . |
| 55 | The ship which had blasted upward out of the ziggurat palace only to explode , had propelled a life-capsule onwards , a stasis casket disguised as wreckage … |
| 56 | The first is disguised as justice — Alfieri mentions in his opening speech : |
| 57 | In the end , the mini-LP initially catalogued as Reception Records ' REC 010 , did not actually leave Red Rhino 's York warehouse , except for a few copies . |
| 58 | The study also found that " spring water " could have fallen as rain only days before bottling . |
| 59 | He said that the rain we 'd been having here had fallen as snow on the top of the pass . |
| 60 | I 'd have given birth to twins and discovered what song the Sirens sang , and vaporized and condensed and fallen as snow all over central Calcutta . ’ |