Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When presented with adequate messages , even though they may contain only the minimal information necessary to locate the target , young children are capable of the necessary perceptual discrimination and message decoding to perform effectively as listeners . |
| 2 | Gala goes on as opera ban ends . |
| 3 | PETER SHILTON is 90 minutes from a potential disaster — but the former England international vows to carry on as player-manager of Plymouth even if the club lose to non-League Dorking tomorrow . |
| 4 | However , after a lively meeting with directors , Reg was persuaded to carry on as coach by three men in a hearse who asked to meet him outside during a beer break . |
| 5 | An informant from Aberdeen , where the last women were still working up until the 1950s , told me that these elderly women sometimes had little to do , were regarded rather as passengers and had to put up with rather disparaging remarks , but were kept on until retirement age by the firm , which felt it had obligations towards them . |
| 6 | MICK O'Dwyer will stay on as Kildare boss despite their Leinster final humiliation . |
| 7 | and then they 'll just pick one out of that to go on as part of the calendar . |
| 8 | I says er , I want to go on as yard foreman next week . |
| 9 | perceiving through reflecting all as will . |
| 10 | Blowflies winter also as maggots or pupae in carcasses ; butterflies and moths probably winter only as larvae or pupae . |
| 11 | If you have been successful in treating the interview as a two-way communication then much of what you hope to say will arise naturally as part of the interchange between you . |
| 12 | The 43-square-mile site also includes two water parks with enough rapids , tidal waves , water chutes and body slides to occupy several sunny days , five golf courses , and 10 resort hotels , plus a collection of nightclubs , cinemas and comedy theatres gathered together as Pleasure Island . |
| 13 | It was only fair that Neil Kinnock should be allowed to relinquish his post quickly , although the possibility of Roy Hattersley stepping in as deputy for a few months was ruled out too early . |
| 14 | His pals from the Cheltenham club are going to take it in turn to swim alongside as pacemakers and companions . |
| 15 | Davis , of course , would have walked into England 's team in Poland a week on Wednesday ; until last season 's prolonged suspension , followed by injury , Bobby Robson had him firmly pencilled in as Bryan Robson 's replacement . |
| 16 | Blackburn Rovers ' Scottish defender , who has only one B cap to his name , has already been pencilled in as replacement for Richard Gough who was sent off in Switzerland this week . |
| 17 | After his Mirror Group Newspapers is floated in April , Robert Maxwell is stepping down as chairman of Maxwell Communication Corporation , and making his son Kevin chief executive . |
| 18 | It was announced on Sept. 19 that a senior Exco member , Dame Lydia Dunn , was stepping down as head of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council and would be succeeded on Oct. 1 by Victor K. Fung , chairman and chief executive officer of Prudential Asia Investments Ltd. |
| 19 | Tanzania 's President Ali Hassan Mwinyi was elected on Aug. 16 as chair of the ruling Chama cha Mapinduzi ( CCM ) party , with 1,846 out of 1,851 votes cast , in succession to the " elder statesman " leader Julius Nyerere , who had held on to the party chairmanship for five years since stepping down as state President in 1985 . |
| 20 | On May 16 Karl Otto Pöhl , 61 , announced that he was stepping down as president of the Deutsche Bundesbank , although his second eight-year term [ see p. 35724 ] was not due to expire until end-1995 . |
| 21 | On March 12 , shortly before stepping down as President , José Sarney created three Amazon reserves for use by rubber tappers , in response to demands from the National Council of Rubber Tappers . |
| 22 | In December 1991 had Jawara announced that he was stepping down as President , a position which he had held since independence . |
| 23 | Andrew is used to being the centre of attention , especially after last summer when he did the unthinkable by stepping down as captain of Camborne to join Redruth , their neighbours and rivals — Cornish rugby 's equivalent of a footballer leaving Manchester United for City . |
| 24 | There are two safer bets : Lord ‘ Derry ’ Irvine , Labour spokesman on legal affairs and long-time favourite for the Woolsack , who is backed by John Smith ; and Peter Archer , the former Solicitor General , who is stepping down as MP for Warley West . |
| 25 | President Arístides Maria Pereira announced at an extraordinary congress of the PAICV on July 26 , 1990 , that he was stepping down as party leader as a first step towards the ending of one-party rule , declaring that the President had to be above party politics . |
| 26 | Search unemployment can be seen as part of the annual turnover of the job market — firms rid themselves of workers who have proved to be unproductive or unsatisfactory in some way , and workers quit jobs which have failed to meet their expectations or which were intended only as stop-gaps in the first place . |
| 27 | This extreme ergonomics stance serves as an antidote to the equally extreme engineering approach in which systems are regarded basically as hardware which for reasons of economic or technological limitations have to depend occasionally on some human performance . |
| 28 | **Previously given wrongly as Jan Wiktor Slezak . |
| 29 | It was their tree ; although distant from Nana 's house , it was one of several passed down as part of the family 's inheritance . |
| 30 | He 's asked me to go along as wardrobe mistress , I said I 'd think about it but I ca n't stand the heat . |