Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [pron] [noun sg] as [art] " in BNC.
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1 | As well as acting as presenter of the various scenes Richard Baker displays his talent as a pianist , singer , and even for one moment as a dancer ! |
2 | It is not clear whether Lancaster 's men were in arms or not , but Mortimer regarded his absence as a sufficient threat to raise a force in the king 's name , and on the way back to London from Salisbury in the company of the king this force encountered Lancaster 's men near Winchester . |
3 | Osiris retained his role as a fertility god but soon added other elements to his character . |
4 | Koirala described his visit as a " goodwill visit " aimed at strengthening the friendly relations between the two countries . |
5 | Jailing him for three and a half years Judge Richard Lowry described his behaviour as a dreadful crime . |
6 | Despite the hectic pace of his life , Minton maintained his professionalism as an illustrator . |
7 | Britain 's innings began in 1984 , when Gorbachev made his name as a man the West could do business with . |
8 | Osaka maintained its importance as a financial , commercial and industrial centre , but despite a population of over 1.5 million in 1920 was still dwarfed by Tokyo , which was not only the locus of a highly centralized national administration but attracted financial , commercial , industrial , educational and cultural activities as well . |
9 | The result on March 14 could well hinge on the boots of Stabler and his Newcastle rival David Johnson , whose 28 points on Saturday maintained his position as the country 's leading points scorer . |
10 | Strauss began his career as an Idealist theologian and New Testament scholar in the Tübingen mould , but by the end of his life had abandoned Christian faith altogether . |
11 | Lewis E Waterman began his career as an insurance salesman in New York . |
12 | DAVE HILL began his career as a contributor to the NME in 1981 , moving swiftly on to become music editor at London 's City Limits listings magazine . |
13 | It 's not surprising that Koons began his career as a salesman , selling memberships for the Museum of Modern Art in New York in the late Seventies , following a stint of art school in Baltimore and a relatively nondescript youth in a small Pennsylvania town , where he listened to Led Zeppelin and ‘ chased after women ’ . |
14 | Mr Prichard remembers his grandmother as a warm but private person who liked nothing more than to sit beside the Thames at her home in Cholsey and to tend her beloved roses . |
15 | Mr Ferreira has returned to South Africa since the life-saving operation but Mr Hill praised his ability as a vet . |
16 | As a result of this belief Eleanor retains her place as the woman who , above all others , symbolizes the new social and cultural pattern of courtly love . |
17 | Appel and Jacobson represent their dawg as a finite-state recogniser of the lexicon . |
18 | Tina regarded her mother as a kind of insurance policy and her house as a bolthole . |
19 | Sibylle Alexander describes her experience as a protagonist in this story with grace and eloquence . |
20 | Outside-half Bob Ross showed his worth as a kicker , supplying three penalties and three of five conversions while Clarke kicked Newfoundland 's single penalty . |
21 | I hope John Barnes sees his target as the QPR game . |
22 | Clifford Ross began his career as an Abstract Expressionist but has , over the years , found notions of landscape surfacing in his work . |
23 | In the same election , though in a different constituency , as that in which Lieutenant Cunningham secured his captaincy , an impoverished Berwickshire gentleman named Brown , who was serving as a private soldier in Holland , though a son of the late Sir Alexander Brown of Bassenden , returned to Scotland to cast his vote as a freeholder of Berwickshire . |
24 | Jane saw her degree as a process of narrowing down , rather than a broadening out ; it shut out the creative , ‘ qualitative ’ aspect of her nature , and presented her with a set of rules and definitions which she had to conform to , or reject , but which she could not challenge . |
25 | In another story , Frank tries his luck as a gas repair-man and , while he is working in one house , there is an enormous explosion and the doors and windows blow out . |
26 | IBM emphasized its record as a good corporate citizen in Europe , employing 100,000 Europeans , paying $ 1 billion in local taxes , and investing another $1 billion in new plant in Europe in 1983 . |
27 | Some conceal it and hide behind the fence of balance and objectivity but Hampden Babylon wears its attitude as a badge . |
28 | Cooper got his start as a collector in 1932 , after coming into a £100,000 trust fund inheritance when he was twenty-one years old . |
29 | Havelock Wilson regarded its collapse as a direct consequence of shipowner hostility but the true situation was certainly more complex than this . |
30 | Thus Foxton retained its importance as a place of special interest to canal people , and reinforced its reputation by becoming the site for one of the oddest , most technologically ingenious and most spectacular pieces of engineering in the whole canal system . |