Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] as an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Greenwich had begun producing a return on the money spent to launch it as an astronomical and nautical centre well before that : in the early eighteenth century French charts were still better than any others , but the table of wind movements , trade winds , and monsoons that Halley published in 1686 was a great help to navigation . |
| 2 | They agreed to release him as an uncontested registration to enable him to find a county where he could hope for greater opportunities , and although we ca n't guarantee a first-team place , he 'll get plenty of chances if he does the business . |
| 3 | In Azerbaijan the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region voted to establish itself as an independent republic with the support of 99.9 per cent of those who took part in a referendum on the matter , and applied to join the newly-established Commonwealth of Independent States ; Azerbaijan , for its part , voted to abolish the region entirely , renamed its capital city and placed the whole area under the control of a military governor . |
| 4 | Chamberlain had seen it as an ideal way of combining the efficient running of Birmingham with improving its water supplies , housing and city centre . |
| 5 | Fashion editors had used it as an exotic background to collections of fabulous clothes . |
| 6 | Scotland had re-established itself as an independent nation . |
| 7 | He had inherited it as an agreeable but mildly onerous responsibility , together with her considerable fortune . |
| 8 | However , whereas Chatterjee had left it as an interesting hypothesis , Jones and Palmer had designed an experiment right away to try and simulate the effect in the lab . |
| 9 | Surely she had taken it as an ill omen ? |
| 10 | Mr D. Davidson turned out to be Alec 's father and after I had identified myself as an old school-friend of Alec 's — I allowed myself a little poetic licence in this description — he confirmed that Alec still lived in Strondonald . |
| 11 | Within a year of his appointment he had managed to sever the College from the Ministry of Education and had established it as an independent foundation with its own College Council . |
| 12 | I intended to present him as an attractive personality — the sort of man who is very charming , hospitable , physically attractive to a lot of women . |