Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The keel stayed solid for a few moments , then clouded and became clear as glass . |
| 2 | Some teachers felt that the advisers were out of touch with the problems they were having in this respect and saw more oral work as an unrealistic expectation — that pupils did not consider oral as work and were often not prepared to listen , thus to try to do it would only be creating problems . |
| 3 | In 1887 , Bore retired as Carriage Superintendent and C.A. Park succeeded him . |
| 4 | Needless to say , using both structures , there will still be many trainees who drop out or are deemed unsuited as advice workers . |
| 5 | FT-SE stands still as confidence flags |
| 6 | But at Meehan 's trial this same argument — that evidence against Griffiths in the matter of the planted bits of paper should not be considered competent as evidence against Meehan — was rejected by Lord Grant ( Lord Grant being as keen to see Meehan convicted as Robertson was to see Waddell acquitted ) . |
| 7 | The band , made up of sophisticated London rich boys , never really looked happy as teen heart-throbs . |
| 8 | The napkin now weighed heavy as death in my hands . |
| 9 | Sihanouk resigned as president of the CGDK on Jan. 24 , citing " international hostility " towards him since the August 1989 Paris conference . |
| 10 | More and more fonts are becoming available as time passes and a quick look in our catalogue will show you that the fonts range is currently the most rapidly growing disk range in our library . |
| 11 | Meanwhile the breakaway Glina assembly , comprising half the Krajina deputies , on Feb. 16 dismissed Babic as president of Krajina and commander of its armed forces , rejected his referendum proposal and relieved the Krajina government of its duties . |
| 12 | Richard says he started ski-ing on the coast and then one day went out with skies and that 's how he started barefoot … he says three years ago he stopped competing as life or death and just goes out to enjoy himself |
| 13 | But , this of itself is not deemed sufficient as preparation for R.E . |
| 14 | Dream come true as music girl lands leading role in new film |
| 15 | It got dark as thunder . |
| 16 | ELVIS SEEN ALIVE AS SUN PUTS NETWORKING INTO ORBIT |
| 17 | BACKLASH ALERT AS TERROR GROUP IS OUTLAWED |
| 18 | It is known that sodium nitroprusside releases NO through a spontaneous reaction independently of the enzymatic pathway that uses L-arginine as substrate . |
| 19 | Thus Realism was able to make a quick conquest by importing a neat and powerful idea of science and showing how an economics-style analysis of nation states as pursuers of national interest scored high as science . |
| 20 | The woman 's face had turned white as snow and her mouth was opening and shutting like a halibut out of water and giving out a series of strangled gasps . |
| 21 | The bundles of notes , in their elastic bands , made Emmie feel cold as stone . |
| 22 | Even on expectations revised down after ‘ Black Wednesday' , volatile trading in most sectors had left forecasts looking vulnerable as Christmas approached . |
| 23 | Not simply was he mentioned , as men may well have been in the prayers of intercession , but he was actively made present as lord of the situation . |
| 24 | But Wales ' hopes of victory are looking shaky as coach Clive Griffiths faces a horrific injury list . |
| 25 | My room looks out over a croquet lawn , at the end of which is a pond thickly planted with papyrus — the eponymous plant always mentioned by school teachers in any history of written language — in which , I know with certainty , all hell will break loose as dusk falls . |
| 26 | Though Bede considered Oswald 's brother and successor , Oswiu , to have been the sixth of the overlords of the Anglo-Saxons ( HE 11 , 5 ) , it is clear that it was many years before Oswiu could securely establish himself as king even over all the northern Angles let alone as overlord of his southern neighbours and that this latter position was very short-lived . |
| 27 | Particulars of claim ( with Swannson on Wheels as plaintiff and Computex Ltd as defendant ) were drafted as follows : PARTICULARS OF CLAIM |
| 28 | The European Commission announced on July 18 that US$13,000,000 would be made available as emergency aid for modernization work at the Kozloduy plant . |
| 29 | The human Thy-1 gene used for C1300 transfections was a kind gift of Dr.E.Spanopoulou and the human β-globin construct used as cotranfection control in the HeLa transfections was as described ( 9 ) . |
| 30 | An income beneficiary will also only be taxable on the net amount of income available after deduction of any income which has been applied to meet trust expenses on capital account , and , when the income account is made good , that income will become taxable as income of the beneficiary . |