Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] as [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The redundancies apparently came as a complete surprise to USL staff who were assured before Christmas that no jobs would be lost through the Novell deal . |
| 2 | Because the tall , dark and extremely handsome man — whom she only recognised as the mega-rich industrialist , Ross Wyndham when it was far too late to do anything about it ! — seemed to move across the pavement with the speed of light . |
| 3 | The original defections of Burgess and Maclean in 1951 naturally came as a great shock to the British establishment and were embarrassing because of the inept way MI5 handled the matter . |
| 4 | Measuring applause does not reveal that the movie was memorable for the woman in the third row because the building on screen reminded her of where she went to school and all those childhood memories came flooding back intercut with the film while the auditorium gently shook as an underground train passed beneath and cigarette ash fluttered down from the balcony in the projector beam . |
| 5 | It is at least one possible explanation of a garbled fable , nicely spiced as an entertaining story to be recounted , no doubt with gusto , at the great feasts . |
| 6 | The labour camps , temperatures of 50 degrees below zero , a lifetime condemned to stare out over thousands of miles of the bleak , barren permafrost , where blindness eventually came as a minor blessing . |
| 7 | King Henry himself , with the third army , struck due west from Shrewsbury for Welshpool , strongly garrisoned and lavishly provisioned as an advanced base . |
| 8 | One important effect of this conflict appears to have been to accentuate what many economists already saw as a serious drift on the part of the OECD world into recession . |
| 9 | Not the work , which was back-breaking and tedious — he specialized in bolting on bumpers and screwing down steering wheels on trucks — but the mostly Asian workforce whose respect and confidence he soon won as a shop-floor activist . |
| 10 | labour appeared to have a separate existence from the life of the labourer and thus appeared as an alien object . |
| 11 | Support for a fixed Channel link soon emerged as a prime candidate for assistance although the British and French governments remained committed to the idea of a privately financed tunnel . |
| 12 | Their most outrageous step toward re-regulation is rigging the stockmarket , which officials once disdained as a mucky casino . |
| 13 | TROOPS will be used to provide emergency ambulance cover in London from this afternoon in what the unions yesterday described as a political attempt by the Government to escalate the dispute . |
| 14 | TROOPS will be used to provide emergency ambulance cover in London from this afternoon in what the unions yesterday described as a political attempt by the Government to escalate the dispute . |
| 15 | Baldwin thought the questions somewhat unrealistically phrased , but he nonetheless realized that many of those organizing and participating in the ballot were part of that middle , public-spirited opinion which he always regarded as an important part of his natural constituency . |
| 16 | This emerges clearly in its tortuous attempt to grapple with what it still regarded as a fundamental difference between ‘ Asian ’ and ‘ West Indian ’ patterns of educational performance . |
| 17 | I usually do n't mention the fact that I once trained as a social worker . |
| 18 | Veterans of the Sunset Strip scene did a double-take when the Whiskey A-Go-Go — where The Doors once played as the in-house band for $500 a week — was restored to its Day-Glo glory after a decade of black paint and chrome fixtures . |
| 19 | I had been expecting this news for some time but it still came as a terrible shock . |
| 20 | The company 's 5,750 British workers had been braced for cuts all week but they still came as a devastating blow . |
| 21 | Established in 1793 by the Alien Act of that year , the Alien Office was a branch of the Home Office which ostensibly acted as the administrative centre for the regulation of the conduct of foreigners resident in Britain . |
| 22 | There were still traces of ethnocentrism in the nationalist viewpoint elsewhere in the report : for instance , they still referred to ‘ the historic integrity of Ireland ’ ( New Ireland Forum 1983–4 : i. 28 ) , implying an almost naturalistic concept of Irish unity , when as a political unit Ireland only ever existed as a British-administered territory . |
| 23 | Olsen has therefore concentrated on four periods when the paintings connect most directly with historic events : from 1797 to 1814 when Napoleon 's Empire imposed a kind of unity on the country ; from the restoration of the monarchy until mid century when historic Romanticism came into conflict with Realism and gradually waned as a moving force in Italian art ; the triumph of Realism in parallel with the rapid progress towards unification from 1849 to 1870 ; and the final period from 1870 until the end of the century when Realism evolved under wider European influences into Symbolism and Divisionism . |
| 24 | The colonies as a group quickly emerged as a key element in British strategy because they were net dollar earners ( basically because of Malayan rubber and West African products such as cocoa ) and could be made so on a bigger scale by a number of policy devices . |
| 25 | So I quickly dressed as a young man and followed you home to Baker Street . |
| 26 | Dr Clarke , a retired headmaster who once stood as the Liberal candidate for Edinburgh Pentlands , is a prominent member of the far right . |
| 27 | It presumably developed as an extramural market place . |
| 28 | The polling factor probably arose as a natural mutation which local farmers selected for preference in due course , as they did later with the Aberdeen Angus . |
| 29 | Steel , also designated as a key recovery sector immediately after the war , was a key input into major export industries such as ships ( and in turn the development of huge ore-carrying ships allowed the Japanese steel industry to overcome a major disadvantage in transport costs for materials ) . |
| 30 | Senna struggled for a long time with what he later described as an undriveable car and he collided with Germany 's Michael Schumacher after 40 of the 72 laps . |