Example sentences of "[noun] have [vb pp] as a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for accident victims like Marie Moore from Darlaston , today 's decision has come as a bitter blow . |
| 2 | Although Bazille has figured as a peripheral figure in several recent museum exhibitions on the Impressionist epoch and was the subject of a 1978 exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago , he has never been judged as completely on his own as he is in the current show at the Brooklyn Museum , N.Y . |
| 3 | Charles Tompkins , managing director of NOS , a subsidiary of Cable & Wireless , said the contract has come as a major breakthrough for his company , propelling it into the major league of offshore suppliers . |
| 4 | Political defeat has come as a profound shock for the ruling Cambodian People 's Party ( CPP ) . |
| 5 | He studied the cruel falcon face framed by the iron-grey hair , watching those slightly slanted eyes , one half-closed — a mannerism Edward had acquired as a young man . |
| 6 | In the absence of appropriate provision by other bodies , the WEA had grown as a social movement which sought to provide those opportunities for people , denied access to further and higher education , either through its own efforts or cooperatively , but without patronage , in partnership with the universities , LEAs , and other agencies . |
| 7 | Unstereotyped , of striking beauty and enduring strength , the north Wales castles have survived as a unique and lasting monument to their age and their creator . |
| 8 | There are important clues that , for the British police , ‘ Northern Ireland has served as a valuable laboratory , offering important lessons for the control of labour protest and racial unrest at home — some ‘ compensation ’ for Britain 's losses in the provinces ' ( Weitzer , 1985:41 ) . |
| 9 | Work has emerged as a differentiated experience within the life space of the individual in industrial societies . |
| 10 | The marriage had come as a complete shock even to Eliot 's closest friends , such as Emily Hale and Mary Trevelyan . |
| 11 | The sun had appeared as a brighter white puddle in the white sky and the mist had begun to move . |
| 12 | Rhodesian-born Reynolds had operated as a financial services tied agent for Guardian Royal Exchange until February 1991 . |
| 13 | In the Franco-Prussian War in which de Castelnau had fought as a young officer he could recall all too vividly how , once it had started retreating , the French Army had never ceased until it was rounded up piecemeal . |
| 14 | Mr Rutskoi has emerged as a leading opponent of the economic reforms introduced by his boss , Boris Yeltsin . |
| 15 | Boro boss Lennie Lawrence said : ‘ The lad has arrived as a Premier League goalkeeper . ’ |
| 16 | It is impossible to recognize in the poet thus characterized — ‘ precious ’ , ‘ insulate ’ , ‘ toylike ’ — the William Carlos Williams whom American opinon over the last thirty years has promoted as a respectable , and better than respectable , counterweight to Eliot . |
| 17 | IN the more radical mood that has now gripped East Germany 's revolution , the question of where the army would stand in the event of conflict has emerged as a key issue . |
| 18 | Indeed , their growth , which Dr Borsay has described as a key dynamic in an " urban renaissance " between 1680 and 1760 , is central to his argument for an expanding leisure industry . |
| 19 | A majority of the EC , in which the Georgian Menshevik I.G. Tsereteli had emerged as a leading figure , had by this time adopted ‘ revolutionary defencism ’ , accepting that until peace had been secured they must uphold the front . |
| 20 | By 1980 , recombinant-DNA had declined as a burning public issue in the US and the character of remaining concern , now limited to the cognoscente , had shifted . |
| 21 | In North Worcestershire also industrial growth made little or no visible impact on the structure of wealth , possibly because a man 's position in the rural hierarchy determined his choice of trade , In Yardley tile making had evolved as a major activity early in the fifteenth century ; along with tanning , which may still have been the principal industry in nearby Birmingham , it was practised by farmer-craftsmen , who mostly had well under £20 in goods , the £3 — £9 range forming a good two-thirds of the list : Thomas Walton , whose £11 was the highest assessment , made tiles and practised cooperage in winter . |
| 22 | They did so this time without the usual , drum-beating , bugleblowing support of a packed ground that Vivian Richards had identified as a vital source of inspiration to his teams . |
| 23 | But the news has come as a total shock for many people . |
| 24 | The role has evolved as a basic but flexible care worker , with a minimum of three months skill-based training . |
| 25 | This whole area had blossomed as a great region for settlement , in which the Spanish language was steadily being forced upon the survivors of the original population and to which Spanish emigrants went out as regular reinforcements to maintain the conquests of Cones and Pizzano . |
| 26 | Along with Argentina , Chile was one of the first countries in Latin America to experience union organisation and by 1970 , the labour movement had emerged as a strong and ideologically independent organisation . |
| 27 | Juan had moved as a young man to La Blanquilla , the Venezuelan island furthest from the mainland . |
| 28 | Oxfam had begun as a tiny war-time committee organised by a small group of friends , including the then vicar of the parish of St Mary 's … |
| 29 | ‘ Not that I have any wish to flatter you , but I have to admit that your sometimes acerbic comments have come as a welcome change . |
| 30 | Some young people have died as a direct or indirect result of sniffing glue or other solvents . |