Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [pron] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Economic living is a splendid virtue when practised by the bourgeoisie , but the French neither liked nor respected it as a kingly attribute . |
| 2 | As he stood there , his glittering black eyes were the only feature that identified him as a living creature , and not a darker patch of shadow in the benighted forest . |
| 3 | He concentrated on drawing cartoons and in 1932 had his first acceptance from Punch , the beginning of a partnership that established him as a major comic artist and one of the most original talents in the long history of the magazine . |
| 4 | Here he took off the pendulous wig , wiped his face on the yellowing lace handkerchief dripping out of the over-ornate and antique jacket and revealed himself as a young man . |
| 5 | I supervised her professional training while she was working at the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute at Penicuik , and appointed her as an Assistant Librarian at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh just over a year ago . |
| 6 | Her parents then moved to London and admitted her as a free scholar to the sculpture studio in the Royal College of Art , where she stayed for four years and graduated an A.R.C.A. |
| 7 | The Parquet had existed , he thought , since at least 1883 when a reforming Minister of Justice had unearthed in his office some Arabic translations of parts of the French Code Napoleon and promulgated them as the new Egyptian legal system . |
| 8 | The wind caught the spindrift and flung it as a jewelled and treacherous veil into the depths of the ragged sky that dizzied her when contrary winds ripped the clouds this way and that . |
| 9 | By the latter half of the century , the majority of books on child care — which were enjoying a tremendous popularity — strongly recommended breast-feeding and described it as the normal practice ( Fildes 1980 ) . |
| 10 | Some elements in the Argentine military , along with members of the opposition UCR , characterized the abandonment of the missile programme as a capitulation to US demands , and described it as an irresponsible move at a time when Chile was suspected to be seeking a new missile . |
| 11 | They realised the strategic importance of the site and used it as a naval base and trading post . |
| 12 | The Junkers tolerated the troublesome middle classes only because they guaranteed the Junkers their place in German society ; the middle classes looked up to the Junker traditional leadership , and regarded them as the German image of itself . |
| 13 | His deputy , Robert Forgan , had satisfactory talks with Neil Francis Hawkins about the amalgamation of the New Party with the British Fascists , but the grand council of the British Fascists voted against a merger by one vote in May 1932 after its founder Rotha Lintorn Orman , who was very suspicious of Mosley and regarded him as a near communist , vigorously opposed the change . |
| 14 | Roy Bradford who had been a member of the Executive stood as an Ulster Unionist in East Belfast but without the support of UUUC , and Tom Conaty who was well known as Chairmen of the Central Citizens Defence Committee ( CCDC ) stood as an Independent in West Belfast and identified himself as a Catholic representative . |
| 15 | The Earl of Salisbury , director of government intelligence ( and chief minister of the realm ) , infiltrated and masterminded it as a timely and much-needed device to make permanent the rule of the same monarch and régime . |
| 16 | Between August 1975 and December 1978 the COS-B satellite observed 2CG342–02 on five occasions and catalogued it as the tenth-strongest γ -ray source . |
| 17 | So when Fleischmann and Pons announced test-tube fusion as a source of energy — which was the ‘ angle ’ that the media took up and portrayed it as a clean source — the news that they apparently saw tritium as a fusion product was lost on most media , but it made many scientists concerned and others excited . |
| 18 | Edward of course was unaware of its connotations and encouraged it as a handsome and relatively uncommon plant . |
| 19 | In financing the development at home and abroad of the railways , it made possible the enormous growth in the production first of iron , later of steel , which characterised the secondary stage of the Industrial Revolution and guaranteed it as an irreversible change . |
| 20 | Producer Michael White saw her in Monotones at the Royal Opera House and signed her as the haunting governess in the Julian Sands-Patsy Kensit film , Turn Of The Screw . |
| 21 | But Jane insists she 's still a Gazza fan … and that no-one would be happier than her if he put his troubles behind him and established himself as the best , as well as the most talked about , footballer in the world . |
| 22 | The company reckons that it maintained its position as the leading supplier of computers to UK education , and established itself as an important supplier to the home market , and made good progress in Australia and New Zealand through the subsidiaries there . |
| 23 | But the Arts Council stepped in to buy the place in 1976 and re-opened it as a traditional theatre with Frank Carson in pantomime in December 1980 . |
| 24 | Apparently he was involved in an accident at work a few days ago , went to his local casualty department who could n't actually detect any break and treated it as a severe sprain . ’ |
| 25 | Schoenberg was a great admirer of Brahm 's music , and saw himself as a natural successor to the German romantic school . |
| 26 | ‘ He heard there was someone senior in the neighbourhood and saw it as a golden opportunity to pass on the responsibility . ’ |
| 27 | The gains would far outweigh the losses , provided Britain made full use of all her bargaining strength , and offered herself as an equal partner and not as a beggar . |
| 28 | One day when Mr Rochester was out alone on business , a stranger arrived in a carriage , and introduced himself as an old friend of the master 's . |
| 29 | In 1888 he bought Kirkstall Abbey near Leeds for £10,000 and presented it as a civic monument , and he gave £5,000 to Leeds Infirmary , as well as other sums for charitable purposes — deeds for which , in 1889 , he became the first honorary freeman of Leeds . |
| 30 | I always admired him in his Swindon days , and advocated him as a viable replacement/competitor for fat Mel . |