Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] as a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was doing all right as a nursing orderly in a geriatric hospital — one of her favourite ‘ legitimate ’ jobs as it gave her easy access to sleeping pills and downers . |
| 2 | John Sinclair , who runs Cliveden so successfully as a luxury hotel , and his attractive wife , guests went in to dinner in the dining-rooms . |
| 3 | And for their inspirational captain and star batsman to see himself so early as a lonely figure of torment , when England will need his strengths in the weeks to come , does not bode well . |
| 4 | But at the same time one can not help feeling that Proofs is the kind of story that would have been better off as a three-page essay in Granta . |
| 5 | Is it not better off as a hidden surprise to be discovered by the interested tourist ? |
| 6 | The very unfamiliarity , now , of the language and concepts of Christianity makes it possible to present these anew both as a moral ideal and an attitude to humanity and the capacities of humanity . |
| 7 | Rugby is identified so strongly as an Afrikaner sport by the black majority that there appears little doubt that it will become a political football . |
| 8 | Vegetable lasagne or cannelloni are sometimes offered and would do especially well as a main course choice . |
| 9 | I shall tear out your soul , and carry it away to the Prison of Hostages , and then perhaps the Conablaiche will come to tear out your heart , for there is nothing my Master likes so well as a warm heart , a Mortal heart , still beating , fresh and running with blood and juices … |
| 10 | These systems use two endocardial defibrillator coils placed transvenously either as a single lead ( 12F ) or two separate leads . |
| 11 | It appears the naughty boys were in the altogether just as a primary school field trip walked past . |
| 12 | Baldwin was uneasy about the reaction to the so-called pact , and became more so as a violent storm of influential criticism burst over his head , The editor of The Times , most of the bishops ( even Lang of Canterbury ) , and the whole of the liberal establishment were horrified at the sell-out . |
| 13 | Not many growers offer them any longer as a separate classification , and there is a general tendency to lump a few — if any — with others in a rather cursory grouping as Old roses . |
| 14 | We present evidence that the complex formed by partial melting of newly underplated basaltic crust , and argue that this mechanism should be considered more generally as an additional way of generating sodium-rich arc magmas . |
| 15 | Storr 's agreement with Rundell 's terminated on 18 February 1819 , by which time he had already found suitable workshops in Harrison Street , Gray 's Inn Road , where he set up once more as an independent manufacturer . |
| 16 | Dennis Waterman is set to hit our screens once more as an ex-SAS soldier in the political thriller , Circle of Deceit . |
| 17 | Er , the honourable gentleman wondered whether we would ever have a truncated view again , certainly not under the ninety three legislation because that was a once off as a careful reading of the act will show , er but er we will erm and his honourable friend , the member for Perry Barns hoped er that er we would have no more reviews of European boundaries , I know because he was talking at P R but we will certainly have one new review of er er Euro constituency boundaries because as soon as the parliamentary boundaries are completed er we will have to go into a new review on that basis of all the European seats and of course the full enquiries will be held in the normal way for them . |
| 18 | The dark area in the top right of Figure 5.20(a) is seen more clearly as a bright region on Figure 5.20(b) . |
| 19 | He might be described more realistically as an unexpected collision between Woody Allen , Spalding Gray and Steven Patrick Morrissey . |
| 20 | However , it occurs more frequently as a clinical problem in some warmer areas such as Mediterranean countries , the Middle East and India . |
| 21 | Here , to differ is the equivalent of to be different , that is to say , the infinitive expresses its event as a state , more precisely as a resulting state , in this type of use . |
| 22 | He turned on his side and clasped her more tightly as a new wave of passion stirred him . |
| 23 | More people had come in , well-dressed men and women , shedding vast overcoats , ordering wine , food , lighting cigars … a violinist , young , blonde , blue eyed , dressed improbably as a gipsy woman was playing a tzigane , accompanied by a pianist dressed even more improbably as a gipsy man . |
| 24 | I had a bit of an interest in gardens because I grew up in the country at Drewsteignton , but I always think I was very lucky to get that job at Castle Drogo — straight in as a single-handed gardener with no experience . |
| 25 | In the second-half the Dragons had a strong wind at their backs and almost made good use of it straight away as a long ball found McClean and his shot was pushed round by Westwood . |
| 26 | The polymer treatment might be used straight away as a daily mouthwash for mentally handicapped people to stop plaque sticking to teeth . |
| 27 | This might well have been followed by Salt 111 discussions in which various new measures could have been put on the disarmament agenda — British and French strategic weapons , American F-111 bombers in Europe-as well as a continued ban on the deployment of ground-launched cruise missiles by both sides . |
| 28 | We saw this one item almost as a totemic object , tabooed for our clan , and filled with a spirit of otherness . |
| 29 | You can also make a gorgeous looped and fringed edge simply by knitting lots more rows between picking up the stitches to make loops at least en centimetres deep ( four inches ) — or even longer as a tremendous finish for shawls and stoles , or for the edges of collars and cuffs and jackets . |
| 30 | In June 1963 , Khomeini denounced the Shah particularly harshly as a Zionist agent , and was arrested . |