Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [adv] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In truth , her performance in winning at Edgbaston probably told us far more about how she is likely to make out when she tees up as a professional than could ever have been gauged from an isolated week among those playing for pay . |
| 2 | The result is that Griffith gets room to roam into those spaces where she performs best as a blue balladeer . |
| 3 | Solid waste is different : unless it is burned or buried at sea , it lingers on as a visible souvenir . |
| 4 | It stands independently as a valuable scheme . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Since we are using it for choices of ends , we can not treat the awareness it prescribes simply as a universal means to our ends whatever they may be , which is what the admonition suggests in ordinary discourse ( with the implication ‘ If you do n't you 'll suffer for it ’ ) . |
| 8 | Go alt N and you can see what 's happening is your text is actually being indented one tab stop at a time so it ends up as a narrow thin ribbon of text skating down the page and if you do this really crazily you can end up with a document that is only just one word wide ! |
| 9 | At this temperature the molten rock is at its least viscous and it flows downhill as a fiery river , splashing and bounding over minor irregularities like a mountain stream , and cascading over larger obstacles in glowing fire-falls . |
| 10 | One of the largest settlements in Gloucestershire is that at Bourton-on-the-Water , which has spread westwards from the Iron Age fort at Salmonsbury towards the Fosse Way , which it treats almost as a secondary feature ( fig. 7.4 ) ; but it is here , where the road bridge crosses the Windrush , that Mrs Helen O'Neil has found a Posting . |
| 11 | Stepping up for the pre-fight weigh-in at a solid 144 pages , it comes across as a black , grainy , militant meltdown of Premiere , Rolling Stone , Spin , The Source and Details . |
| 12 | In sum then , though the Supplement has a good deal more to commend it than its 1977 parent , it comes across as a car-orientated guide , static in outlook and narrow-minded in perspective . |
| 13 | When Mr Major waxes philosophical , he comes over as a strange mix of nostalgia and modernism . |
| 14 | Jettisoning Shakespeare , and talking in a ludicrous mixture of Italian and heavily accented English , he comes on as a hilarious parody of a libidinous Latin , pinching handbags from the audience , flogging dodgy cassette tapes and offering healing laughter after all the grief of the earlier acts . |
| 15 | To the home bodies he comes across as a good father , a man who always helps his daughter with her homework . |