Example sentences of "[noun sg] is [verb] [adv] as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BMW 's model range is used today as industry code for different market segments , a rile model that car companies everywhere have tried to emulate . |
| 2 | more landmasses are above water than usual — although this may be a chicken-and-egg effect because during an ice age much of the world 's water is locked up as ice , so that ocean levels are lower |
| 3 | A pedestrian is blown over as hurricanes and snow storms hit Atlantic City on the U.S. coast |
| 4 | At Sciennes , homework is phased in as children approach high school age . |
| 5 | As you join us tonight , a torchlight procession is getting underway as doctors and patients protest against plans to cut services at their hospital . |
| 6 | This conferring is mature and quiet , and no disagreements occur : leadership is acknowledged and obeyed , and the attack is carried out as Jack wants it to be . |
| 7 | The budget deficit is rising alarmingly as recession cuts revenues and drives up unemployment . |
| 8 | Now if the child can not interpret and relate the symbols to the animal , then he 's left wondering what the symbols mean , he ca n't relate the symbols to understanding that a cow is spelt verbally as C O W , and he 's left quite mystified , and he does n't know what we 're talking about . |
| 9 | Every mishap , every fatality is held up as evidence in an attempt to prove the case that light aviation is hazardous not only to those who commit it but the public at large too . |
| 10 | Obsidian is erupted quietly as lava , forming thick , sluggish flows , while pumice is blasted out rapidly and blown up into a consistency something like expanded polystyrene , with a delicate cellular structure that results from the expansion of large volumes of gas within the magma . |