Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] as [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ironically enough , his main field experience occurred as a fortuitous consequence of the First World War . |
| 2 | The bridge was complete , the air blowers on each rig whined as the remaining air bags were inflated for additional buoyancy , and footwalk posts and ropes were installed . |
| 3 | In the in vivo assay both mutations behaved as the wild type , but they had slightly lower affinities than wild type in vitro as judged by gel retardation assays . |
| 4 | Indream , Dana qualified as a real person among zombies anyway . |
| 5 | And this part of your mind that makes you feel guilty Freud regarded as an internalized representation of other people to some extent , and indeed he thought that it , the superego was constituted by internalization and identification with the parents at the culmination of the Oedipus complex . |
| 6 | Oswald , whom Bede regarded as the fifth overlord of the peoples south of the Humber and described as ruling within the same bounds as Eadwine ( HE 11 , 5 ) , clearly became on this testimony as powerful a ruler as Eadwine had been , but on his accession he faced an immediate challenge in midland and eastern England from Penda . |
| 7 | Deborah Manley trained as a social worker but has spent most of her working life in publishing . |
| 8 | Such is the standard of junior sides in this competition that the game appeared to be no more than a formality for us , so our 4–1 defeat came as a complete surprise . |
| 9 | His words came as the parliamentary chairman , Ruslan Khasbulatov , Mr Yeltsin 's arch-rival , appeared to retract his demands that the president be removed . |
| 10 | The hacienda came as a total surprise . |
| 11 | This result came as a complete surprise to me and everyone else , and it was greeted with general disbelief . |
| 12 | Such a shocking change in weather condition came as a rude awakening to people who thought the North-East had escaped the clutches of winter for another year . |
| 13 | He commences upon the dismantling of assumptions of where the texts are funny or obscene based on modern suppositions of what constitutes obscenity et al. , and puts forward a theory that picks up a suggestion of Nykrog 's concerning the relationship of fabliau and romance : that the fabliaux flourished as a conservative reaction to new notions of gentility and decency in behaviour and especially in language ; new notions that are found most clearly in the literary cult of fin amour . |
| 14 | For example , he argued that the corporate lawyer acted as a key go-between in the affairs of business , political and military elites . |
| 15 | The Englishman 's cup of char began as a Chinese word for tea , but came west via north India 's chai . |
| 16 | The riot began as a peaceful protest march over the killing , but violence erupted after police prevented the marchers from approaching the precinct house of the officer who had fired the fatal shots . |
| 17 | Whinfield served as an assistant director of chemical research in the Ministry of Supply during World War II and then joined ICI in 1947 , first in its plastics division and then in the fibres division , which brought him worldwide travel , including a visit to the USSR in 1961 as a guest of the USSR government . |
| 18 | Then the Glebes had come to the island , the petty tribal squabbles had been quelled , and Ixmarity established as the major religion . |
| 19 | But when Millie , from her seat , lifted her arm and waved to them , they looked at each other , giggled , then all waved back , which Millie took as a good omen and Rose Quinton took as a sign of comparative peace . |
| 20 | Perhaps the most important evidence adduced for Maxse 's radical right outlook is the fact that he tended to lapse into what Richard Hofstadter saw as the chief characteristic of such politics , namely a ‘ paranoid style ’ . |
| 21 | In terms of the dominant concepts of the age , feudalism appeared as the natural order of things . |
| 22 | Despite a boycott in parts of Abkhazia , over 75 per cent of the electorate turned out to vote in the elections , in which Shevardnadze stood as the only candidate . |
| 23 | Where , when just getting to one 's knees loomed as an unavoidable torture and to lie and wait to be rescued appeared to be merely common sense ? |
| 24 | The Billy Graham organisation used to estimate that only ten per cent of their crowds came as a direct result of advertising and , generally speaking , I find that by itself it is the least cost-effective way of marketing events ; the most effective being personal invitation . |
| 25 | The award came as a big surprise for Sam but an even bigger surprise for the Joe Borrows Agency who already had the Bradford-based singer booked at the Great Ayton Social Club on the night of the awards show . |
| 26 | The decision came as a huge relief to Microsoft which has placed great emphasis on its Windows software programme , the latest version of which was released only last week . |
| 27 | The verdict came as an immense relief for Mr Major , who put his job on the line over the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 28 | In war it was only the poor who were expected to die and so the death of Earl Patrick came as a great shock to everyone . |
| 29 | Its hull wailed and its engine whined as the upper atmosphere of Karkason roughly and frustratedly caressed this plasteel intruder which was penetrating it . |
| 30 | The 31-year-old left back , signed by Brian Little from Halifax last February , joined the Fourth Division club for what manager Ray Hankin described as a four figure fee . |