Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [adv] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Account executives at the insurer , who monitor its agents , had Wright marked down as a man with constant cash flow problems — he was always hassling them for his commission . |
| 2 | He says that the kids pulled together as a team . |
| 3 | And yet Raskolnikov 's greater enormity is that having forgotten to bolt the door after killing the money-lender he is surprised by her half-sister , the woman who mends linen and has mended his in her time , apparently always pregnant , through simplicity , not waywardness , meek-eyed though ‘ she looks like a soldier dressed up as a woman ’ ( who but Dostoevsky ! ) and Raskolnikov kills Lizaveta too . |
| 4 | There had been no problem in having Eve brought up as a Catholic , since the Westwards had never wanted to know about her at all , and did n't care what faith she was raised in just as long as they never had to hear her name . |
| 5 | I decided this had to be done puristically and had a young boy dressed up as a girl in the play . |
| 6 | The Marie Lloyd costume she was wearing : buttoned boots , feather boa , black-straw , flower-trimmed hat , gave her the appearance of a child dressed up as an adult . |
| 7 | Its author , Roger Sedjo , argues that new temperate forests are absorbing at least 700 million tonnes a year , compared to the 1,000 million tonnes released annually as a result of tropical forest loss . |
| 8 | Figure 17 Votive offering at the Olmec ceremonial site of La Venta , Mexico , with stone figurines and jadeite blades arranged upright as a tableau . |
| 9 | This is not a departure from random methods since these are used within the strata ; it is simply a job done beforehand as a precaution against freak random results if the distribution of the special factors in the population is accurately known beforehand . |
| 10 | David Holmes of Dorling Kindersley fielded the accusation of ‘ unfair play ’ : ‘ The DK Family Library is a business set up as a networking operation , along the lines of Tupperware , ’ he said . |
| 11 | The recommendation that costs thrown away as a result of the death or illness of a judge in the course of a trial should be paid out of public funds has been given effect by the Administration of Justice Act 1985 . |
| 12 | The artists themselves sometimes had a Jekyll-and-Hyde career , the prime example being the Australian bass-baritone Peter Dawson , who for many years dressed up as a Scotsman and hijacked Sir Harry Lauder 's songs , touring Scottish music-halls under the name Hector Grant . |
| 13 | Use the ideas suggested here as a starting point . |
| 14 | Plant ecology developed not as a study of the factors affecting the lives and deaths of individual plants and their parts but as a study of the distribution of vegetation types and of particular species . |
| 15 | I think that 's what we 're aiming to do now , get things set up as a standard er , operating erm , levels , having done that then we begin |
| 16 | That was no horseman , but only the farmer 's wife dressed up as a man ! " |
| 17 | That 's a cycle that cost him over two hundred pounds and it would cost him more money to have lights fitted now as an extra . |
| 18 | The grant level reduction announced by MAFF on 11 December 1984 constitutes a major change brought about as a result of wanting to reduce public expenditure and due to concern for the conservation of upland landscapes and wildlife . |
| 19 | The principal of Howard , Colonel Rive , was a very wise leader , whom many of the staff regarded almost as a father figure . |
| 20 | Fast flows experience of the Tees towards cultural exchanges in art VISUAL arts officer Mr Steve Chettle wants to see Cleveland taken seriously as a place to visit and admire its arts as well as being an area of historic interest because of its heavy industries . |
| 21 | Last night his daughter 's presents lay unopened in her bedroom inside the family 's £120,000 detached home as a string of callers delivered sympathy cards . |
| 22 | One of these is a dissertation , and the other a practical project carried out as a group activity . |
| 23 | Our subsequent participation has been conditional upon our acceptance of the inevitable — a curriculum constructed historically as a reflection of men 's ideas , assumptions and priorities , presented as objective truth : and a view of women informed by a range of ideologies collectively based upon notions of male supremacy . |
| 24 | BANK Officer Noel Crossley of Chapel-en-le-Frith Branch dressed up as a tomato on Comic Relief Day and went on a tour of the town with a collection bucket . |
| 25 | And streets laid straight as a die , ’ |
| 26 | It is possible to play with the distance between the position taken up as a reader and the meaning the text seems to offer . |
| 27 | One ardent supporter , no doubt worked up as a result of our pressure campaign , suggested a telegram to H.M. |
| 28 | There was no local version of the Rectitudines Singularum Personarum ( Rights of Individuals ) , the eleventh-century code of legal and rural practices drawn up as a guide for the country as a whole . |
| 29 | Chapman , as we have seen , first held these sessions during his days at Leeds City , but now , instead of the diagram he used then , he had a magnetic table marked out as a football field , with little toy players that could be moved around on it . |
| 30 | We paraded the following night as it was getting dark , the parade ground lit up by flaming torches with four tanks lined up as a backdrop to our ceremony . |