Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] as [art] [adj] [noun] " 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 I wanted to carry on as an airborne soldier , a paratrooper , enjoying the prestige which came from being part of an elite , and also the better pay and training opportunities that were the lot of such units .
3 Sheena Falconer , senior lecturer in textiles , has been told by the principal , Dr David Kennedy , that there is room for only one textile lecturer , but that she could stay on as an ordinary lecturer — the post held by her sister , Barbara Diack .
4 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 .
5 ‘ I think the Border clubs would have to sit down as a composite group and work out a new sevens structure . ’
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 However , due to the short notice , Randalstown would have been without four key players on May 15 which was pencilled in as the reserve date .
9 As a proper noun standing for the state of being modern it has never really caught on as a popular word in everyday speech .
10 Finally , in the week that the flame of altruism flickered on as the saintly Mother Teresa and her divine holiness the Princess of Wales clasped hands in a gesture of tender solidarity that touched the souls of millions , it was revealed that :
11 Can I make a suggestion rather than re-numbering all those , its going to be quite a long job , is that from what I can see at the moment there is no reason why that ca n't be added on as a last sentence to nine anyway , cause nine says you records the outcome of the enquiry , .
12 Solid waste is different : unless it is burned or buried at sea , it lingers on as a visible souvenir .
13 History rather suggests that the discipline needed for insurrection lingers on as an authoritative force after the revolution in a way that blocks the larger end of a socialism that advances opportunities for freedom and self-development through a true democracy of equals .
14 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 .
15 For about the first 12 years of its existence the centre was carried on as an unincorporated organisation .
16 Injuries have hit the club , and coach Billy Lomax had to come on as a substitute midway through the second half .
17 I 'm now looked on as a one parent family .
18 It was probably effective the first time , but now it is looked on as a desperate move , a last ditch attempt to gain attention .
19 The absence of CD4 binding by the MicroGeneSys gp160 vaccine may therefore be looked on as an added safety feature .
20 The tale of how an astute Cornish furze-cutter came to be founder of one of the great landed families of Cornwall , with one of the County 's most famed stately homes , could be looked on as an ideal example of Thatcherite-style enterprise and self-help .
21 You 've got to remember that at the time , deregulation was looked on as an open cash-register .
22 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 .
23 It is hard to disappoint someone who may have come in as a last port of call when all other channels to sort out their problems seem closed .
24 At Charing Cross the boatman began to pull in as the deep bend in the river became more pronounced .
25 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 .
26 You had me pegged down as a full-time thief . ’
27 It was remarkably brief , but encompassed a great deal and was consciously planned and carried through as an ecumenical Council , the first of its kind .
28 The power produced drops off as the harmonic number increases , so to generate the higher harmonics requires much higher input intensity .
29 The distinction , termed ‘ polarisation ’ was deemed necessary to make more transparent to customers the possible ties of their advisers , and to eliminate the ability of an intermediary to pass off as an independent adviser yet suggest the policies of the advisers ' own company ( or those which provide the highest commission ) .
30 The mammalian heart starts off as a straight tube and then bends , folds , and , together with further growth and subdivision , gives the four chambers that pump the blood .
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