Example sentences of "come [adv] as a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Injuries have hit the club , and coach Billy Lomax had to come on as a substitute midway through the second half . |
2 | It is hard to disappoint someone who may have come in as a last port of call when all other channels to sort out their problems seem closed . |
3 | An agreement to come together as an economic unit was reached by the exiled governments in 1944 , though the scheme did not envisage any political arrangements . |
4 | I feel bitter that while I was out there I was somebody but I 've come back as a third class citizen . |
5 | He wanted his personal belief and his professional expertness to come out as a single attribute . |
6 | But a combination of embarrassment , shock , and some other nameless disturbing emotion caused her initial protest to come out as a soundless squeak . |
7 | Much of this had come about as a direct result of the introduction of the GCSE , as these comments from the Head of Art at ‘ Pope John Paul ’ reveal : |
8 | However , a greater proportion of secondary school teachers than either of the other two phases tend to be unsure about whether any of these changes have come about as a direct result of the review and report . |
9 | So she had come across as a man-crazy huntress scouting prospects . |
10 | ‘ In fact , I could swear your image-maker wants me to come across as a free spirit , someone who does n't need the convention of a male escort — and I do n't . |
11 | Mr Hay left out the experienced campaigners Karen Brown , Vickey Dixon and Jane Sixsmith from the starting line-up , though Sixsmith came on as a late substitute for Joanne Menown . |
12 | thank you and you would accept would n't you , that if we have a brochure , let us say printed for next January , January nineteen ninety four alright , and I came along as a retired person in the Spring of nineteen ninety five or indeed the Summer of nineteen ninety five , fifteen , sixteen , seventeen , eighteen months later , those brochure figures will inevitably be out of date in the sense of being inaccurate would n't they ? |
13 | 1910 is the year in which the Cubist painters , other than Picasso and Braque , came together as a conscious group , although many of them had known each other earlier . |
14 | I came in as a young teacher , enthusiastic , full of new ideas but you soon find that the old attitudes rub off on you , and so you end up thinking , ‘ Oh , why am I doing this ? |
15 | It was often her task to carry it up to the little sitting-room , followed by Mary from the village , who came in as a daily maid , bearing a silver jug of hot water and matches to light all the lamps . |
16 | The ability of this young quartet to present two works from such different worlds so convincingly , led one to expect that Dvorak 's American quartet would be a powerful experience ; but what might have been hot-blooded came over as an indoor gypsy — more pretty than potent . |
17 | He called them Amurricanes , in a heavy stage accent that came over as an envious sneer . |
18 | Mildred tried to shriek , but it only came out as a frenzied croaking . |
19 | Kelly 's question came out as a loud protest . |
20 | Richard was so exhausted with cold and emotion that his laugh came out as a foolish titter . |
21 | Her voice came out as a hoarse whisper and she had to clear her throat . |
22 | I came here as a Chilean refugee . |
23 | The NSA came about as a direct result of the Allied wartime successes in breaking the coded messages of both the Germans and the Japanese . |
24 | This had been substantially rewritten since publication of the first draft in February [ see pp. 37234-35 ] , some of the revisions reflecting conservative criticism of the party leadership , but as delivered by Gorbachev it still came across as a spirited defence of his perestroika reform policies . |
25 | This time the Mondays felt the full bite of backlash and came across as a scummy homophobes busy , said writer Stephen Wells , ‘ articulating bootstrap Thatcherism ’ . |
26 | Right at the end Inst coach Denis Guiler , forced into coming on as a 50th minute substitute so depleted were his side 's ranks , almost stole the headlines with the winner , but his effort was brilliantly saved by goalkeeper Raymond Geddis . |
27 | The traditional system for involvement of clinicians at District level incorporates some element of divisional structures for different specialities coming together as a representative body as the Medical Executive Committee . |
28 | The story is similar in other areas , with an older organization or group of charities coming together as a local Family Welfare Association . |
29 | It was odd coming over as a tragic heroine . |
30 | She was not looking forward to her coming out as an Italian girl , but she was determined not to let herself get married early . |