Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] as a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lucky recipient of an Indian cadetship had at least the prospect of returning home as a wealthy senior officer , assuming of course that he survived the very real hazards of life in the East . |
| 2 | The grassy hillside steering you up on to the ridge starts off as a benign little stroll , until you realise it is going to continue forever . |
| 3 | Its growth is considered here as a specific political issue which , for the purposes of both clarity and brevity , is distinguished apart from the broader social history of the period . |
| 4 | But , as it is , the 325i scrapes by as a comfortable four-seater with the proviso that four tall occupants will have to come to a front/rear legroom compromise that would n't even need to think about in a Peugeot 405 . |
| 5 | Hathor is depicted either as a beautiful young woman or as a rather sad cow . |
| 6 | Union des populations camerounaises ( UPC — Union of Cameroonian Peoples , operating latterly as a Paris-based clandestine organization , having been banned since 1960 ; it was held responsible for unrest in the 1960s and was regarded as communist-led ) . |
| 7 | We could hear the V2s thudding down onto London in the far distance , but the sound came over as a far-off double bang , which puzzled us for a long time until someone told us what it was . |
| 8 | These can be grown up as a pure bacterial growth in a veterinary laboratory . |
| 9 | Most often seen either as a long-winged rufous bird flying fast and twistingly out of sight among the trees , or in unmistakable territorial flight ( ‘ roding ’ ) . |
| 10 | Over the next 20 years or more western Europe will forge ahead as a prosperous single market . |
| 11 | But these are not instances of the academic community acting concertedly as a single corporate body , being self-critical about its own internal affairs and activities . |
| 12 | However , many of those connections which Walcott thought he had identified appear to have been tied together by little more than familial relationship ; he was not able to show that they acted together as a cohesive political force . |
| 13 | He remained in detention during the rebellion but stated in a letter published in the press that he had been responsible for it , a claim which was interpreted more as a dramatic personal gesture than a statement of fact ; earlier reports stated that the rebellion had been such a surprise to him that he had requested a pistol in order to shoot himself . |
| 14 | Go alt N and you can see what 's happening is your text is actually being indented one tab stop at a time so it ends up as a narrow thin ribbon of text skating down the page and if you do this really crazily you can end up with a document that is only just one word wide ! |
| 15 | He starts by being a nice little clerk and ends up as a drooling horror-film monster . |
| 16 | That is why I described what happened earlier as a stupid procedural diversion . |
| 17 | A recruitment committee is to be formed to provide jobs for players and Greville Edwards has been invited back as a commission-only commercial manager to revive the sponsorship and hospitality income . |
| 18 | Mr Peter the consultant orthopaedic surgeon who tended her first immediately after the accident at Hinchinbrook and thereafter in the year from April nineteen eighteen eight as well as seeing her from time to time since , had this to say about her parent 's efforts quote I think that without their constant support and stimulation and their determination that Anna Jane would function again as a rational human being . |
| 19 | But it is not at all obvious to the audience how the couple have arrived at this happier state of affairs , neither is it entirely clear what Bill Alexander hopes to add by exercising his powers of invention on the play 's Prologue , in which an alcoholic tinker called Christopher Sly is persuaded by a group of gentry to think of himself an aristocrat — the story of the shrew being laid on as a suitable dramatic entertainment . |
| 20 | These , as he entered the headship , were coming together as a mixed voluntary-aided comprehensive high school . |
| 21 | Thus , a simple linear record of his life and rule is impossible and can not be pinned down as a simplistic historical account . |
| 22 | James settled down as a wealthy young laird and later married a daughter of the Swedish Ambassador . |
| 23 | Scott 's first venture into this unlikely field of design was at Battersea where , in 1930 , he was wheeled in as a famous knighted architect by the London Power Company to try to make acceptable the coal-fired monster power station to which the residents of Chelsea and Westminster were taking strong exception . |
| 24 | As the temperature rises the mercury is driven off as a toxic white gas . |
| 25 | Chris Hinsley started off as a successful commercial author of arcade games for home computers , and many of Taos 's concepts spring from his original need to produce code that would transfer easily between a plethora of machines . |
| 26 | Chris Hinsley started off as a successful commercial author of arcade games for home computers , and many of Taos 's concepts spring from his original need to produce code that would transfer easily between a plethora of machines . |
| 27 | The main building is laid out as a four-floor room-by-room illustration of working family life — from the prim living room , to the children 's bedroom and maids ' cramped attic costume workshop and living quarters . |
| 28 | The main building is laid out as a four-floor room-by-room illustration of working family life — from the prim living room , to the children 's bedroom and maids ' cramped attic costume workshop and living quarters . |
| 29 | The T9000 memory is laid out as a dual ported memory and is therefore accessible for measurements by the T805 . |
| 30 | The T9000 memory is laid out as a dual ported memory and is therefore accessible for measurements by the T805 . |