Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [pron] [noun] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most reports of this incident underlined Mrs White 's loss , or used her son as a metaphor for the ‘ death of hope ’ in a precinct riddled with drugs . |
| 2 | We have analysed the influence of a combined index ( the Newcastle prescribing index ) , which is based on patient age and sex , on the prescribing of general practitioners in two family health services authorities and evaluated its usefulness as a notional indicator of costs and items . |
| 3 | A strong force behind her husband 's career , she was the first woman chairman of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations in 1926 , a member of the Church Assembly 's house of laity from 1925 and of the archbishop 's commission on church and state ( 1930–5 ) , and succeeded her husband as a BBC governor . |
| 4 | Police believe Gary may have been caught up in the world of drugs and met his death as a result . |
| 5 | Ironically , by writing the novel Christine Brooke-Rose pursued the opposite route and made her début as a ‘ lady novelist ’ . |
| 6 | In 1906 , having worked as a foreman on Merseyside , he became general organizer of the National Union of Dock Labourers under ( Sir ) James Sexton [ q.v. ] , and made his mark as a strike leader and socialist propagandist in Belfast during 1907 . |
| 7 | Hislop trained with Bratt and made his début as a principal singer at the Royal Swedish Opera , Stockholm , as Faust in C. F. Gounod 's opera on 12 September 1914 . |
| 8 | For all those years Adolph Brückner had guarded his bloody loot and built his reputation as an art lover around it . |
| 9 | He serrated the air with his sword and used his shield as a wall and a battering-ram . |
| 10 | When the Green party was formed 20 years ago , many treated it as a political joke and dismissed its members as a bunch of idealistic hippies . |
| 11 | The enlightened Baptist minister Robert Robinson in Cambridge denounced the trade as an encroachment on natural rights and envisaged its end as the result of a general offensive , congenial to Rational Dissenters , making ‘ the natural connection between civil and religious liberty ’ . |
| 12 | At the conclusion of the Sudan wars , shortly before , the victorious British general , Kitchener , had smashed the tomb of the defeated enemy and claimed his skull as a souvenir . |
| 13 | A JUDGE at the Old Bailey in London yesterday reprimanded the former wife of the Earl of Cassillis for ‘ unacceptable ’ behaviour in court after she pulled faces , made noises and shook her head as a witness gave evidence . |
| 14 | Athelstan groaned and hid his face as a crowd of parishioners led by Black Clem , Ranulf the rat-catcher and Pike the ditcher , passed the tavern door , roaring a filthy song at the top of their voices . |
| 15 | But it was the dynamic sexuality of her act that grabbed the headlines and confirmed her arrival as a new musical siren . |
| 16 | Kacprzak came to Germany from Poland in 1978 , and began her career as a gallerist in Stuttgart in 1986 . |
| 17 | Licensed to preach whilst in Edinburgh , he was ordained by 1727 , and began his ministry as an assistant to his father , at the time minister of the Presbyterian meeting-house at Leather Lane , Hatton Garden , London . |
| 18 | Di Gesu , a native of Sicily , arrived in Brooklyn , New York , at the age of seven and began his career as a 14-year-old assistant to a theatrical photographer . |
| 19 | Swallowing his pride , Lexandro inveigled , connived , and bribed his way as a junior shrimp into the very Ducas clan gang which his father had heard would soon be pressed into service — an action that grieved his parents . |
| 20 | She was now a companion and friend rather than a nursemaid and domestic servant ; she prepared herself to run her own household and developed her skills as a needlewoman . |
| 21 | Cherine Woolwich describes how she established and developed her role as an emergency nurse practitioner at St Mary 's Hospital , London |
| 22 | The pope despatched two pallia in June 634 ( HE 11 , 18 ) , but the death of Eadwine in battle in Hatfield Chase against combined Welsh and Mercian forces , either in October 633 or more likely October 634 , and the subsequent collapse of the ecclesiastical community at York with the flight of Paulinus to Kent ( HE 11 , 20 ) ( see below , p. 83 ff. ) , terminated this phase in the history of the church of York and arrested its development as an archiepiscopal see for a hundred years . |
| 23 | I was on the defensive and wore my makeup as a barrier . |
| 24 | The WID then went on to encourage women to increase their productivity and saw their poverty as a reflection on underdevelopment , and not a result of their social status . |
| 25 | It seems a justifiable inference , too , that , even more than had been the case in 1939 , a sizeable proportion of the population would not have been saddened by Hitler 's assassination , and viewed his survival as a hindrance to the ending of the war . |
| 26 | His father-in-law accused him of breaking his marriage vows and questioned his integrity as a Privy Councillor . |
| 27 | This practical middle aged surveyor with a wife and new baby left the relative security of surveying , at which he had already achieved some distinction ; turned his back on London and its opportunities , and took his chances as an artist in Ambleside . |
| 28 | John Dalton eventually elicited the truth of his identity from him and offered him sanctuary as a hermit in his own home ( perhaps Richard had been reconnoitring in his disappearance before dinner ) and at his own expense . |
| 29 | Those of Canon John 's professional musical friends who took part in the concert came from far and wide and gave their services as a gift to him in gratitude for being the leading light in all the musical ventures for the Third World while he was parish priest of St Joseph 's , Sale . |
| 30 | Others shuffled and stamped their feet as the cold from the frosted pavement penetrated the thin soles of their shoes . |