Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] as a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Its growth is considered here as a specific political issue which , for the purposes of both clarity and brevity , is distinguished apart from the broader social history of the period . |
2 | Hathor is depicted either as a beautiful young woman or as a rather sad cow . |
3 | These can be grown up as a pure bacterial growth in a veterinary laboratory . |
4 | Most often seen either as a long-winged rufous bird flying fast and twistingly out of sight among the trees , or in unmistakable territorial flight ( ‘ roding ’ ) . |
5 | He remained in detention during the rebellion but stated in a letter published in the press that he had been responsible for it , a claim which was interpreted more as a dramatic personal gesture than a statement of fact ; earlier reports stated that the rebellion had been such a surprise to him that he had requested a pistol in order to shoot himself . |
6 | A recruitment committee is to be formed to provide jobs for players and Greville Edwards has been invited back as a commission-only commercial manager to revive the sponsorship and hospitality income . |
7 | But it is not at all obvious to the audience how the couple have arrived at this happier state of affairs , neither is it entirely clear what Bill Alexander hopes to add by exercising his powers of invention on the play 's Prologue , in which an alcoholic tinker called Christopher Sly is persuaded by a group of gentry to think of himself an aristocrat — the story of the shrew being laid on as a suitable dramatic entertainment . |
8 | Thus , a simple linear record of his life and rule is impossible and can not be pinned down as a simplistic historical account . |
9 | Scott 's first venture into this unlikely field of design was at Battersea where , in 1930 , he was wheeled in as a famous knighted architect by the London Power Company to try to make acceptable the coal-fired monster power station to which the residents of Chelsea and Westminster were taking strong exception . |
10 | As the temperature rises the mercury is driven off as a toxic white gas . |
11 | Todd soon set up as a rival next door , a firm which became Hudswell , Clarke & Co . |
12 | The main building is laid out as a four-floor room-by-room illustration of working family life — from the prim living room , to the children 's bedroom and maids ' cramped attic costume workshop and living quarters . |
13 | The main building is laid out as a four-floor room-by-room illustration of working family life — from the prim living room , to the children 's bedroom and maids ' cramped attic costume workshop and living quarters . |
14 | The T9000 memory is laid out as a dual ported memory and is therefore accessible for measurements by the T805 . |
15 | The T9000 memory is laid out as a dual ported memory and is therefore accessible for measurements by the T805 . |
16 | The T9000 memory is laid out as a dual ported memory and is therefore accessible for measurements by the T805 . |
17 | Erm we did n't have what was known nowadays as a formal disciplinary procedure . |
18 | The Museum is now acclaimed worldwide as a National Welsh Heritage attraction . |
19 | Benny Hill : April 21 , aged 67 : Known worldwide as a comic great , he died of a heart attack watching television . |
20 | If there are too few to meet emergency treatment needs , there will be intolerable pressure on families and community services because people will be admitted only as a desperate last resort , treated rapidly and perhaps discharged too early . |
21 | The ‘ Chinese Wall ’ mechanism is singled out as a possible regulatory solution to this problem . |
22 | Despite the overall success of the LDP , Ozawa — whom many commentators had singled out as a likely future Prime Minister — resigned on April 8 , ostensibly as an act of atonement for the defeat of Isomura . |
23 | Saturday evening 's ‘ Severn Coast Express ’ was advertised originally as a ten-coach special hauled by visiting GWS heavy freight loco No. 3822 , but turned into a fully laden 14-coach photographer 's dream due to public demand for seats . |
24 | Of many other periodical bibliographical guides , only one needs to be mentioned here as a useful first quarry for the student : the American Foreign Affairs Bibliography published by the Council on Foreign Relations , whose first volume appeared in 1933 . |