Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] as a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The track goes on as a pleasant lane beyond Calf Holes , coming alongside a belt of trees on the left and arriving after a mile at the sixteenth-century Ling Gill Bridge , a modest structure with a tablet built into parapet giving the information that it was repaired in 1765 at the expense of the inhabitants of the West Riding . |
| 2 | Solid waste is different : unless it is burned or buried at sea , it lingers on as a visible souvenir . |
| 3 | History rather suggests that the discipline needed for insurrection lingers on as an authoritative force after the revolution in a way that blocks the larger end of a socialism that advances opportunities for freedom and self-development through a true democracy of equals . |
| 4 | The mammalian heart starts off as a straight tube and then bends , folds , and , together with further growth and subdivision , gives the four chambers that pump the blood . |
| 5 | In the Godfather , Michael Corleone starts off as a good guy . |
| 6 | An unborn child starts off as a tiny sphere , soon begins to look like a minute hamburger ( complete with bun ) , and finally adopts the form of a large-headed , small-limbed human being . |
| 7 | The first is a surface sore which starts off as a red mark . |
| 8 | Freud 's finding was that guilt is , starts off as an aggressive drive in the id that could go anywhere , preferably towards other people , but the superego uses some of this aggression and destructive energy arising in the id and then turns it back against the ego , and uses it to punish the ego , so the aggression , instead of going into someone else or into the outside world , is turned back against the self and to that extent is self-destructive . |
| 9 | Soon an object reaches meteorite size , and then finishes up as a planet-sized object , all within a few thousand years . |
| 10 | And Inderjit Singh , of the Council of Sikh Gurdwaras , said : ‘ Handsworth always finishes up as a chaotic dump and the traders are scared . |
| 11 | Some of the tracks have been available already — if you bought the limited edition live versions of the singles ‘ Stop ’ and ‘ Shivering Sand ’ — but ‘ IT ’ still holds up as a worthwhile representation of the Megas ' consistent live set ; in full and in earnest . |
| 12 | Nonetheless he stands out as a prophetic beacon , a fresh and radical thinker whose radicalism did not lie in attempting a consciously ‘ modern reinterpretation ’ of Christian faith , but in struggling afresh with the heart of the matter , and charting out a very different course from those being recommended on all sides around him . |
| 13 | Rosalind Belben 's ‘ My sole feeling of happiness lies in the fact that no one knows where I am ’ stands out as a brilliant piece of writing , but the stories by Alison Fell , Tom Wakefield , Ian Breakwell , and Elizabeth Cook are also noteworthy , particularly the last about two women who send each other erotic messages by leaving little bite-marks on their mutual man 's body . |
| 14 | Even so , the Bosnian Serbs ' rejection of the Vance-Owen peace plan on May 6th stands out as a spectacular triumph of greed and folly over common sense . |
| 15 | In a continent notorious for appalling prison conditions , where brutality and corruption are the norm , Nicaragua 's penal system stands out as a genuine effort to find a more humane yet affordable alternative . |
| 16 | Through Santa Cruz and on towards San Francisco , whose sky-scraper-stacked skyline stands out as a silent rebuke to the Manhattanisation of the city , for which many residents blame ex-mayor and gubernatorial candidate Dianne Feinstein . |
| 17 | Once they are included in the explanation participation drops out as an inessential part of many consent situations . |
| 18 | This — which several British critics have seen as a post-AIDS film — is postmodernist in its mixture of genres : it starts out as a straightforward melodrama and shifts into a horror or ‘ stalk and slash ’ genre . |
| 19 | M56 is not at all prominent , but shows up as a faint patch of light . |
| 20 | French towns , large or small , have a raffish , down-at-heel quality which shows up as a relaxed attitude to their urban fabric . |
| 21 | When a foot is damaged , the volley of nerve impulses produced by the damage and arriving in the spinal cord sets up a long lasting increase of excitability which shows up as an exaggerated flexion reflex , among other changes . |
| 22 | If you choose the second alternative , the result usually ends up as an unhealthy hybrid of the Sale Of The Century theme and a Mick Talbot solo album . |
| 23 | If you choose the second alternative , the result usually ends up as an unhealthy hybrid of the Sale Of The Century theme and a Mick Talbot solo album . |
| 24 | Jeanne Tripplehorn — who you may care to remember , rather laughably , was the one who ‘ dun it ’ in ‘ Basic Instinct ’ — is McDeere 's wife , while Holly Hunter , who has been rather quiet of late , turns up as a lovesick secretary . |
| 25 | POLE-AXED THE strain breaks through as an emotional Nigel Mansell quits . |
| 26 | The Profitboss only sub-contracts out as a last resort . |
| 27 | If Daine 's Dream adheres to the formulae , then that reads out as an unacceptable risk to me . ’ |
| 28 | Instead of drifting along the ceiling of the corridor , the smoke moves along as a solid plug . |
| 29 | The height of style The unique design of this foldable resin highchair means that you can set it a seven different height positions and it also doubles up as a low chair with removable tray . |
| 30 | Focusing on the small-time hood ( Danny Aiello , the pizza parlour boss of Do The Right Thing ) who shot Oswald , this winds up as a daft romance . |