Example sentences of "who [verb] [pron] [noun] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Only a man who offers his word as a guarantee could be so naïve . |
| 2 | Simon , who quit his job as an estate agent , begins a one-year accountancy course in Newcastle upon Tyne today . |
| 3 | Jo accepts that despite Craig 's well-publicised engagement to his former co-star Rachel Friend , his fans will scrutinise every leading lady who crosses his path as a possible new love interest . |
| 4 | ‘ What heroes they are leaving a bomb in a pub during a busy lunchtime in London 's West End , costing a very caring man , who made his living as a nurse helping others , his life . ’ |
| 5 | Shareholders who hold their shares as an investment without knowledge of the detailed affairs of the company are also unlikely to give warranties or indemnities . |
| 6 | Cynics — who adopt their attitude as a defence to protect themselves against their hopes being dashed — may ridicule you . |
| 7 | Mr Slater appears to enjoy the attentions of his doting raven-haired companion , who sees their love as a fixture in a minefield of misfortune ( including a brutal attempted rape ) . |
| 8 | We hear that Chester Pest Control have extended their ‘ Customer type ’ list in order to cater for a new customer who classifies his business as a massage parlour ! |
| 9 | The Canadian actor who began his career as a radio DJ was signed on a three-year contract by Taunton . |
| 10 | Amanieu VII was an executor of Régine de Goth , countess of Armagnac , in 1325 and his son Bernard-Ezi , who began his career as a clerk , was especially favoured under Clement V. In August 1305 , for example , the pope recommended him to the abbot of St Denis and the deans of Bordeaux and Bourges . |
| 11 | Later he worked as a test pilot for Chance Vought , who arranged his secondment as an ‘ observer ’ with the USAAF in the Pacific . |
| 12 | We had much evidence during fieldwork that these complicated rules are maintained by community pressures : for example , when a young East Belfast informant applied a strategy of front-raising ( similar to RP ) to the item chap ( on a word-list ) , he was loudly mocked by his companions , who perceived his pronunciation as an attempt at RP ( which for them is an effeminate stereotype ) . |
| 13 | Er Chairman thank you erm the wording which we 've been erm given by Mr erm refers to erm in particular those matters where uncertainty of responsibility between various agencies needs to be addressed erm as far as this committee is concerned of course , erm our erm er role is that as a strategic planning authority and er I 'm quite sure that there will be erm an analysis after the event erm most likely by the Fire and Public Protection Committee who , to whom emergency planning erm are answerable and it 's the Emergency Planning Team who shoulder our responsibilities as a County Council erm and er any implications then for the Strategic Planning Committee will no doubt be taken into . |
| 14 | Kylie has never disguised her contempt at being sniped at by critics who dismiss her talents as an actress and as a singer . |
| 15 | The members who got most out of it , and were most appreciated by the Boards , were those who saw their role as a symbiotic mixture of representing consumer complaints to managers and presenting a favourable public relations image for the Board . |
| 16 | His stubborn cousin , who saw his models as a kind of earth , part of the body and blood of the soil they dug , one impregnating the other , failed to see how the interchange he saw stamped on the dazed faces of these men could be smoothed away without losing the secret of how they lived , rooted and dumb and rough-barked as live willow trees . |
| 17 | But Rodrigo had made many enemies , both among the disgraced followers of the murdered Sancho ( who saw his change of allegiances as disaster ) and those at the court of Alfonso ( who saw his rise as a threat ) . |
| 18 | There follows an attempted conspiracy by ‘ I-narrators ’ in the aim of increasing their prominence and defining their specific needs , a revolt by several characters against their authors ( most notably Oedipa Maas from The Crying of Lot 49 who declaims her views as a feminist despite Pynchon 's ‘ macho ’ stance ) , and finally , a protest by a gay rights group against the under-representation of homosexuality in literature . |
| 19 | A dies and his next-of-kin begin practising vengeance-magic against a number of suspects one of whom is B. B eventually dies , to the gratification of A's family , who regard his demise as a judgment . |
| 20 | Here once again we see the advantage that comes to the novice anthropologist who learns his craft as a stranger within a speech community which is totally alien . |
| 21 | Signac , who continued his activity as a print-maker into the period after the First World War , uses the graphic medium superbly . |
| 22 | This peaceful interlude between Gloucester 's assumption of the protectorship and the events which culminated in his accession challenges those historians who see his usurpation as a panic response to growing insecurity . |
| 23 | This peaceful interlude between Gloucester 's assumption of the protectorship and the events which culminated in his accession challenges those historians who see his usurpation as a panic response to growing insecurity . |
| 24 | We are more like room mates than grandmother and grandson , ’ says Kristian who makes his debut as a presenter on hit BBC kids ' show Going Live ! on Saturday . |
| 25 | Many of the sheriffships were also heritable offices , which again conferred powers of private patronage upon their holders where this had not been specifically reserved to the Crown , and a great magnate who had inherited a small empire of such judicial rights had considerable powers of influence in his region , both from the offices themselves and the opportunities which they gave to oblige friends , and from the powers of the courts , for regalian jurisdiction was extended over the possessions of landowners who held their estates as the vassals of the magnate . |
| 26 | ‘ You can imagine what a spell in the Army would have meant for someone who values his fingers as a pianist , so when I came back home I got in touch with some people and now he has been booked for a number of festivals , ’ Alan tells me . |