Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] as a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The track goes on as a pleasant lane beyond Calf Holes , coming alongside a belt of trees on the left and arriving after a mile at the sixteenth-century Ling Gill Bridge , a modest structure with a tablet built into parapet giving the information that it was repaired in 1765 at the expense of the inhabitants of the West Riding . |
| 2 | As usual it will be less well-off smokers who suffer most as a disproportionate amount of their income will be swallowed up in tax . ’ |
| 3 | I confess I can not really see worm watching catching on as a mass pursuit with worm watcher clubs and organised field visits , but I did hear of an infants ' school where the worm has joined the tadpole as a creature for study . |
| 4 | ‘ I think the Border clubs would have to sit down as a composite group and work out a new sevens structure . ’ |
| 5 | Here , as with the vernacular , the Council for the sake of strengthening the ‘ active participation ’ which it correctly laid down as a vital principle of liturgy , overthrew a deformation which had become customary in the Middle Ages and against which the Reformation had vigorously protested . |
| 6 | Treleaven , from Hayling , only got in as a last-minute replacement when Michael Welch , on EGU duty in Spain , crushed his thumb in a door and had to scratch from the Salver and Sunday 's Hampshire Hog at North Hants , where he should have been defending . |
| 7 | letters which are joined together as a single unit of type such as oe and fi . |
| 8 | In the middle of page twenty eight , George lists all his different erm qualifications that he says he has and , I am not quite sure what an is an M A Master of Arts , P H D which is a doctor of erm philosophy and and he puts them all together to make up this word , ABMAPHD which does n't exist obviously as a real word . |
| 9 | The list given here is intended only as a general guide . |
| 10 | According to Mark Doran , Unix International 's technical project manager , Application Linking wo n't be a full object-oriented specification and is intended only as a stop-gap definition until the Object Group delivers object linking and embedding guidelines in two years ' time . |
| 11 | When Minton painted alongside students in the life class ( ‘ That was a marvellous adrenalin shot , ’ recalled Greaves ) he taught by example that a picture has to have a lively activity right up to the four edges of the canvas , and that if the background is treated merely as a secondary constituent to the model , areas of the canvas will become inert . |
| 12 | But Living Wills should be regarded only as a general indication of our wishes . |
| 13 | As a proper noun standing for the state of being modern it has never really caught on as a popular word in everyday speech . |
| 14 | It is considered rather as a pragmatic solution to the classification of library and information materials ; however its contribution in this context should not be underrated . |
| 15 | Solid waste is different : unless it is burned or buried at sea , it lingers on as a visible souvenir . |
| 16 | Articles 100 and 235 of the Treaty of Rome provide a mechanism whereby the amassment of power by the Community may be carried on as a continuous process . |
| 17 | Britain began to slip badly as a competitive producer of films , and the national market was increasingly ceded to imports from France and America . |
| 18 | Injuries have hit the club , and coach Billy Lomax had to come on as a substitute midway through the second half . |
| 19 | It was probably effective the first time , but now it is looked on as a desperate move , a last ditch attempt to gain attention . |
| 20 | He offended the king in some way and was summarily hanged , appearing since as a shaggy man , wearing a great set of stag 's horns and blowing a trumpet . |
| 21 | While I agree that worm watching will probably never catch on as a mass pursuit , something well known here in Cornwall is to observe seagulls tap dancing on the lawn after rain . |
| 22 | Simon was made aware that he might find himself obliged to stand down as a Parliamentary candidate if he failed to make an honest woman out of the Press Lord 's daughter . |
| 23 | Reid insists on being considered only as a single sculler and her only chance now is to enter Cologne and Essen privately to try to make her case . |
| 24 | And are there quite specific stages that one can recognise perhaps as a developmental psychologist which take place at roughly particular times in a child 's development ? |
| 25 | And are there quite specific stages that one can recognise perhaps as a developmental psychologist which take place at roughly particular times in a child 's development ? |
| 26 | Which is why all the products in the range are carefully formulated , not just to work in isolation but to work together as a complete programme — repairing , cleansing , caring and styling . |
| 27 | God is permitted only as a verifiable divinity who gets extremely cross at man 's transgressions . |
| 28 | In fact , the ‘ language ’ is not of use per se to public sector accountants anywhere else in the world , excepting only as a necessary precondition to understanding the intricacies of US practice . |
| 29 | It 's especially important in a play like this , which is such a delicate and sensitive piece of writing , that the actors grow together as a cohesive group . |
| 30 | You had me pegged down as a full-time thief . ’ |