Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] as a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he got on as a substitute against Sweden he was first class ; in Albania he was one of our best players . ’ |
| 2 | I said , ‘ I am older than you , sir ( how easily that polite ‘ sir ’ crept in as a mode of address ! ) — old enough to discover that finding out often leads to less pleasurable states of mind than mere ignorance ! ’ |
| 3 | The coaching committee in fact , had originally settled for four boxers but then included a fifth and Crowley then got in as a result of tremendous pressure from the body of the floor . |
| 4 | They therefore need to gain insight into what language is and what it can do , insights which bilingual children intuitively possess ’ , and ‘ Whilst we recognise that they [ bilingual pupils ] need to gain access to standard forms of English — used widely as a vehicle for implementing the school curriculum , we recognise the value and importance of their own dialects and languages . |
| 5 | For fifty years since the posthumous publication of Henri Pirenne 's Mahomet et Charlemagne ( 1937 ) scholars have been debating what they have labelled its ‘ thesis ’ : that the ancient rhythms of an undivided Mediterranean civilization had enough tenacity to survive Germanic invasions and settlements , and were disrupted and transformed only as a consequence of the spread of Muslim power , cutting the Mediterranean in half . |
| 6 | The original Company depot was built in Copse Road , and used largely as a store for surplus cars . |
| 7 | The ash swelled slightly as a result of the wetting and set hard round the corpses , making perfect natural moulds of them , and in some cases preserving even the imprint of clothing and the details of facial expressions . |
| 8 | Inasmuch as the Bretton Woods system contributed both as a framework for the expansion of the other capitalist countries and as a mechanism for granting US exports and capital access as soon as practicable , it can only be counted as a success . |
| 9 | We can see from Table 16.4 that between 1964 and 1970 the total receipts from all taxes ( including National Insurance ) rose sharply as a proportion of GDP . |
| 10 | This situation changed radically as a result of the ‘ merger boom ’ of the period 1957–69 , which saw the national brewers ' share of net output rise from 18 per cent to 64 per cent . |
| 11 | Of these compounds , special attention has been given to chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) , especially CFCl 3 ( CFC 11 ) used mainly as a propellant in aerosol sprays , and CF 2 Cl 2 , ( CFC 12 ) used extensively as a cooling agent in refrigerators and air conditioners ( figure 6.2 ) . |
| 12 | AT TREVOR , I crossed the Dee by Thomas Telford 's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct , built nearly 200 years ago to carry barges on the Shropshire Union Canal across the deep valley ; then cycled up past the church on steep Methodist Hill , built surely as a penance for sinning churchgoers . |
| 13 | Which he described incidentally as a bit of a damp . |
| 14 | These questions arose largely as a consequence of EC membership , which necessitated a phased withdrawal of ‘ protection ’ from the Spanish home market . |
| 15 | If anyone have seen pictures from our game against Poland he came on as a substitute for Fjortoft as lone attacker — and he played brilliantly for the 20 minutes he was on . |
| 16 | He came on as a substitute against Monaghan in the provincial semi-final and played well , but a place in the final starting line-up still eluded him . |
| 17 | ‘ I think he also came on as a substitute in a first team friendly against the New Zealand national team . |
| 18 | ‘ I think he also came on as a substitute in a first-team friendly against the New Zealand national team . |
| 19 | Dan Jackart , the other capped prop , went off with a damaged shoulder in the first half against North Harbour but came on as a replacement for Szabo . |
| 20 | Both the sun and the air as wind were essential to human life and in Amun-Re came together as a coalescence of creative elements . |
| 21 | The work on show , produced by none recently graduated women artists , demonstrates an unmistakable commitment both to engage and challenge the painterly and formal conventions of modernism. 2 The group originally came together as a result of a set of interviews and articles coordinated by Rebecca Fortnum and Gill Houghton , published in a special issue of the Women Artists ' Slide Library Journal in 1989. 3 |
| 22 | The French army before Dreyfus appealed especially as a career in which it was possible to offer patriotic service untainted by compromise with the Republic . |
| 23 | Mostly it came over as a matter of feeling hard done by — self-pity rather than bravado ; or a habitual , weary tinkering to save a bit here and there . |
| 24 | He came home as a passenger in the tractor of another driver who brought his trailer home . |
| 25 | The investment , back of house , at the hotel came partly as a result of consultation with local environmental health officers . |
| 26 | I preferred doing what we call off-diary stories , not the councils and the jobs that came up as a matter of routine . |
| 27 | Sysmin 's rules of application were extended to cover situations where a country 's export earnings suffered substantially as a result of disruption of production without necessarily affecting viability . |
| 28 | He often came out as a bit of a bighead and , accused of this at the time , took a tape-measure and agreed that his head had indeed expanded by one-eighth of an inch since leaving Wales . |
| 29 | I came out as a result of sexual frustration and a desire to be honest with myself . |
| 30 | I know some young women rightly feel that they came out as a result of their own strength — and of course many of them do come out without any youth work involvement . |