Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [pron] as a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was suddenly seeing herself as a desirable young woman — a woman the famous Maître of the Maison de Verveine might have wanted to marry had he been free . |
| 2 | Barry Humphries ' cartoon hero Barry McKenzie made cracks about Château Chunder , the star wine from down under , fondly describing it as a great emetic . |
| 3 | Pahdra Singh has told me that although Proby 's cousin did manage to register the stand as a car , he did so describing it as a 1964 Skoda with 300,000 miles on the clock . |
| 4 | Although nominally Producer and Script Editor for the series , neither John Wiles nor Donald Tosh had much to do with this serial , the former greatly resenting it as a three-month obstacle to his attempts to raise Doctor Who towards a more sophisticated and adult level . |
| 5 | I should think it probably would , but I do n't think that 's any reason for not starting it and for not seeing it as a major goal , because after all erm the travel market , as we 've heard , is extremely competitive erm people really do vote with their feet and if we do n't then people wo n't come here , and now we really have got a fight on our hands to encourage people to come here , particularly from North America . |
| 6 | ‘ We produce extruded sheet to complement our cell cast range , ’ says Dr Casey , ‘ And have reently introduced a new variety — ‘ Perspex ’ TW — which is rapidly establishing itself as a rigid transparent building material for roofs and non-structural walls . ’ |
| 7 | It was important that they should all be seen to be doing this in a town as a matter of agreed policy , to present a common front to prospective buyers who could not therefore accuse a particular tradesman of unfairly , unjustly discrediting him as a personal vendetta . |
| 8 | ( It is worth adding that multiculturalists are prone to another essentialism with regard to the state , often seeing it as a neutral and uncontradictory vehicle for educational and other reforms — see Troyna 's critique ( 1987b ) of the Swann Report . ) |
| 9 | He was now presenting himself as a cynical hard-nosed East End wheeler-dealer . |
| 10 | This they make by chewing wood , masticating it with their saliva and then expelling it as a moist pulp which hardens as it dries . |
| 11 | ‘ The Buzz ’ is a heavy techno track , already being played widely as a white label , from the man currently establishing himself as a major techno start thanks to his live performances as well as recorded releases . |
| 12 | ‘ The Buzz ’ is a heavy techno track , already being played widely as a white label , from the man currently establishing himself as a major techno start thanks to his live performances as well as recorded releases . |