Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] [vb past] as a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My periods , which had always been topsy-turvy and which I saw as a real indicator of health and wellbeing , settled into a reliable pattern . |
| 2 | The outcome of this process , which I indicated as a possible development in the first edition of this book , is the pre-eminence in the present-day labour movement of social democratic parties ; that is to say , of parties which are themselves coalitions of diverse groups and intellectual tendencies , rather than centralized , monolithic organizations held together by strict discipline and an authoritatively interpreted ideology . |
| 3 | Looking for Ianthe and Penelope , Sophia saw that they were deep in conversation , which she welcomed as a good sign . |
| 4 | What I intend to deal with is the record as it stands because anybody who 's going to argue a case against the decline of of any kind of system has to put the facts as they are , not as they would wish them to be , and I would argue that the legacy , before we can do that , the legacy which we inherited as a controlling group back in 1990 , is now a matter of record I would accept . |
| 5 | The Die-hards were opposed to the rise of a socialist Labour party and militant trade unionism , which they saw as a revolutionary threat to property and the stability of British society . |
| 6 | The regular , monotonous monastic discipline gave the monks a peace and equanimity which they saw as a tranquil experience of God which was fully in tune with their normal lives . |
| 7 | In 1811 the Luddites rioted and destroyed the textile machinery which they saw as a direct threat to their jobs . |
| 8 | Lyles stand reported good interest and considerable activity at the show which they judged as a successful exhibition . |
| 9 | His support of plots against Beaton in 1544 and 1545 came to fruition in May 1546 , when a group of Fifeshire lairds headed by Norman Leslie , son of the earl of Rothes , broke into the episcopal castle at St Andrews , murdered the cardinal and slung his body over the castle walls ; the murderers , henceforth known as the Castalians , barricaded themselves inside the castle , which they held as a Protestant stronghold . |
| 10 | For some time he struggles to explain this feeling , and eventually he realises that the taste is of course exactly the taste which he enjoyed as a small boy when his Aunt Léonie gave him a madeline dipped in an infusion . |
| 11 | The prince listened intently as British Korean war veteran Sam Mercer described the battle in which he fought as a 21-year-old private with the Gloucestershire Regiment in 1951 . |
| 12 | In an interview in the Middle East Economic Digest ( MEED ) of April 29 , the Secretary-General of the GCC , Abdullah Yacoub Bishara ( Kuwait ) , had stressed the GCC 's emerging alliance with Egypt and Syria which he described as a new " six-plus-two grouping " . |
| 13 | I understand the feeling within his party that has given rise to some of the security recommendations which he conferred on my hon. Friend the Minister of State last week , and which he described as a root-and-branch policy . |
| 14 | A special visitor to the seminar will be Mr. R.A. Gailey , Director of the Ulster Transport Museum who will read a paper on ‘ The Rise and Fall of the Railways ’ and will include a slide show of the well known interpretive exhibition of Irish Railway Development currently running at the Museum which includes Dargan 's own saloon coach which he used as a mobile drawing office . |
| 15 | The hon. Gentleman then referred to housing , which he regarded as a depressing story . |
| 16 | ‘ I am a poorer man by some 200 £ than when I came to the Province ’ , he told Gould , apologising for his inability to pay his subscription to Birds of Australia , ‘ and my salary has been reduced to the lowest figure and is far below what I enjoyed as a private Gentleman . ’ |
| 17 | I had been what I saw as a stop-gap anchor-man for Report , the teatime news programme , for less than eighteen months . |
| 18 | As Chairman of the National Curriculum English Working Group I was given the responsibility of deciding on programmes of study for all children from 5 to 16 , of putting right what I regarded as a major omission in the Kingman Report . |
| 19 | I therefore recommended to him what I regarded as a sensible viewpoint . |
| 20 | Kahlo 's adoption of Tehuana dress , while being an attractive disguise of what she saw as a less than perfect body , asserted both a feminist and an anti-colonialist position . |
| 21 | She also felt that age 6 was too early to make what she saw as a drastic decision — once out of mainstream education she felt he would be unlikely to get back . |
| 22 | A BALLET lover yesterday lost her £200 damages claim over what she rated as a bad performance by superstar Rudolph Nureyev . |
| 23 | She goes every evening to the post , ’ and they began to laugh again at what they saw as a mocking mirror of their own flowering . |
| 24 | They had wanted an updating of canon law , a reassertion of control over Church organizations , the declaration of Mary 's Assumption ( perhaps as a sop to the pope ) , and a firm condemnation of nascent ecumenism and what they saw as a new outbreak of modernism . |
| 25 | They looked along the Atlantic coast of North America for places in which to settle , and they might have been more successful in founding colonies if they had not at the same time been engaged in what they saw as a desperate struggle to save their religious and political liberties from Catholic Spain , although the Spanish would have said the war was to some extent intended to check the rather aggressive interpretation the English placed on the idea of the freedom of the seas . |
| 26 | It was less than a year since he had marched into this office , having forsaken the job of Director General of the Security Service for what he regarded as a promotion , while the men of Century recoiled at what they saw as a political insult . |
| 27 | The Kiev Rada , panic-stricken at what they saw as a Russian invasion , summoned the German army to defend their power by taking over the western Ukraine and its grain resources . |
| 28 | The two opposition members of parliament were firmly opposed to what they saw as a further extension of government power . |
| 29 | Certainly the fifties was remarkable for the self-assuredness with which writers defended what they saw as a fresh start for English literature , and for the equally unanimous revision this view underwent not ten years later . |
| 30 | In the end they were committed , as he was , to the preservation of a Protestant Ulster , to the suppression of what they saw as a republican rebellion , and to the restoration of majority rule in Northern Ireland . |