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 | I feel bitter that while I was out there I was somebody but I 've come back as a third class citizen . |
| 4 | He wanted his personal belief and his professional expertness to come out as a single attribute . |
| 5 | But a combination of embarrassment , shock , and some other nameless disturbing emotion caused her initial protest to come out as a soundless squeak . |
| 6 | 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 : |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | So she had come across as a man-crazy huntress scouting prospects . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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ninety five , fifteen , sixteen , seventeen , eighteen months later , those brochure figures will inevitably be out of date in the sense of being inaccurate would n't they ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Mildred tried to shriek , but it only came out as a frenzied croaking . |
| 16 | Kelly 's question came out as a loud protest . |
| 17 | Richard was so exhausted with cold and emotion that his laugh came out as a foolish titter . |
| 18 | Her voice came out as a hoarse whisper and she had to clear her throat . |
| 19 | I came here as a Chilean refugee . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The story is similar in other areas , with an older organization or group of charities coming together as a local Family Welfare Association . |
| 26 | It was odd coming over as a tragic heroine . |
| 27 | All of this is coming about as a direct result of the original plan for the Local Management of Schools and it 's continuing success , in spite of the Labour Group and not because of it , and so I move the amendment my Lord Mayor . |
| 28 | These two facets are complementary rather than necessarily exclusive — an EEIG could come together as a multi-disciplinary vehicle to tender for a construction , engineering or hi-tech project , whether within or outside the Community . |
| 29 | Even if I went onstage and did a direct rip-off of Jagger or Bowie it would never come off as a complete copy because Blondie is a girl . ’ |
| 30 | They were kept waiting for just a couple of minutes — ‘ While Mr Magill completes a call ’ in a cool-warm windowless reception area soundproofed so that even the loudest complaint about a bill would come out as a hushed croak then ushered through into an office that was almost straight from Charles Dickens . |