Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coun Bob Brady , committee chairman described it as an exciting project which would be part of the town 's City Challenge programme . |
| 2 | A vet described it as the worse case of neglect he 'd ever seen . |
| 3 | Drawing refreshed him as a long walk refreshed him , and it was part of the art of forgetting slights , frustrations , old wounds , so necessary if he was to survive and stay serene . |
| 4 | His Honour Judge Maddocks , dismissing their appeal , said the practice of the partnership was that of the two offices together because the partnership ran them as a single business . |
| 5 | In 1939 appointment to the Disney chair of archaeology distinguished her as the first woman professor in the university . |
| 6 | The research team referred to in the follow-on milk ad took it as an established fact and were interested in finding out what effect this minimal rise in blood loss had on a baby 's iron levels . |
| 7 | The outskirts of her home town excited her as a magical cavern will a child . |
| 8 | The exclamation escaped her as a startled squeak . |
| 9 | Does my right hon. Friend remember that when the investment income surcharge was abolished in 1984 , the then Chancellor of the Exchequer described it as an unfair and anomalous tax on savings and on the rewards of personal enterprise ? |
| 10 | A friend described him as a charming rogue ‘ always on the make ’ . |
| 11 | Although " the designers of the [ volost " ] court viewed it as a transitional form of rural justice " , volost " courts remained outside the general judicial system of the empire until 1912 . |
| 12 | This is an interesting case to examine , of course , because in Problems of Social Policy Titmuss presented it as a clear example of a policy change engendered originally by the social debate on evacuation , and then given sudden new urgency by the ‘ decisive ’ influence of Dunkirk in July 1940 ; a marked change in government thinking — a new acceptance of the milk-in-schools scheme as a universalist social service rather than a relief measure tainted with Poor Law associations — took place ‘ five days after the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk ’ . |
| 13 | But the major struck him as an odd fish , rather . |
| 14 | Participants in the plenum described it as the stormiest in Gorbachev 's six years as party leader . |
| 15 | The real swing to Labour was 8.45 per cent , but the newspapers and television had it as a mere 7.5 per cent . |
| 16 | It was piece work , and I earned I er The firm payed me as a retaining fee , ten shillings a week , and then was what I earned , you see ? |
| 17 | The trial unmasked him as a complete charlatan and , in the words of one detective , ‘ as close to being the perfect rapist as you could get ’ . |
| 18 | One Bank of England official described it as the biggest scandal since the South Sea Bubble . |
| 19 | In both cases the RapidCad exhibited full IEEE compliance even though the Cyrix test program reported it as a 486 ! . |
| 20 | The streets of the city welcomed her as an old friend as she made her way unerringly towards the brilliantly lit entrance of Tivoli . |
| 21 | Browne 's prosperity and monopolies were only once endangered , in 1645 , when an intercepted letter named him as a Royalist sympathizer . |
| 22 | Critics of the report saw it as an old-style socialist attempt to plan the future of an industry , without due regard to market forces . |
| 23 | Most of our group were sent to pick grapes under the supervision of an ex-legionnaire whose age and Germanic inflexion marked him as a former member of the Wehrmacht . |
| 24 | He received a partial endorsement from Hawke , much to the chagrin of senior ALP figures , when the former Prime Minister described him as a personable , articulate and presentable candidate " who offered a real alternative for a lot of people " . |
| 25 | The press reported it as a big accident . |
| 26 | There were no clerics nor foreigners amongst them and it was obvious that many of those going in to view the film viewed them as a sad little group . |
| 27 | Member meant it as a medical diagnosis . |
| 28 | Civil rights , the Black problem , race relations , the inequality of blacks in American life — whatever form of words was used to describe this issue , most Americans of the middle years of the 20th century saw it as the gravest problem facing them at home . |
| 29 | The Palace dismissed it as a fake , but within 24 hours Royal officials appeared to add weight to its authenticity by failing to reject it outright as a hoax . |
| 30 | Her mother identified it as a wayfaring tree and she 'd been cutting it back during the summer and it did n't seem to mind but she 'd be very grateful for any information about the wayfaring tree which presumably she 'd like to keep and continue to grow in her garden . |