Example sentences of "[verb] as a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wrote a book which we bought , all about the discrimination he endured as a Methodist living in Ireland . |
| 2 | A few doors away I watched for half an hour through a film of sunlit flour motes as a small , soft mass of dough was miraculously spun and flung out to cover six-foot squares of sacking by two whirling , wizened old men . |
| 3 | New signing Ryan Cross will fill the problem position of right back , even though he also plays as a central defender . |
| 4 | He had appeared in only five stage plays as a professional adult when he was called to Stratford-upon-Avon to play a full season of major Shakespearian roles . |
| 5 | She plays as a middle hitter . |
| 6 | In the event , Burnell goes as a dependable foot soldier and Wright as a tight-head who proved his versatility by scrummaging so solidly at loose-head against Jeff Probyn . |
| 7 | Cole and Scribner point out that the specific skill developed for this purpose can be transferred to other tasks : they tested literates and illiterates in the Vai script for their ability to distinguish and reproduce units of meaning when heard as a continuous flow , and discovered that the literates were better at this task ( 1981 ) . |
| 8 | The freshness and novelty of the musical language can gradually be heard as a brilliant , prismatic treatment of " old-fashioned " tonal devices refracted through two or three prevailing modal scales . |
| 9 | A common example was an auxiliary verb sequence , such as I would n't have been able to go , which was heard as a single syllabic beat , approximately shown here as I wudnbinabluh go . |
| 10 | The case was heard as a minor offence before a low-level court , the tribunal correctionel in Tours , at which three judges ruled that , although the article exculpated the mayor , the advertisement did smear him , and the newspaper was ordered to pay him Fr10,000 ( £1,000 approx ) . |
| 11 | The summons was heard as an ordinary Friday summons in the Commercial Court and occupied about 20 minutes . |
| 12 | And throughout it all the music , first heard as an eerie sketch inside the hero 's head , skeletally indistinct and bone china fragile . |
| 13 | Perceptions may change — her body can feel as vast as a mountain , and her own breathing be heard as an urgent sound coming from a different person . |
| 14 | Quasi-science will remain as a perpetual epiphenomenon . |
| 15 | but someone he could trust , someone who understood the language , someone who would afterwards be gone , who would n't remain as a perpetual reminder of his uncertainties , a fellow professional to whom he could comfortably think aloud . |
| 16 | Whether Highland should remain as a single-tier region or be divided into smaller units is likely to be one of the most difficult decisions Mr Lang faces as he reaches an advanced stage of drawing up his plans for local government reform . |
| 17 | Now that herbs have invaded many parts of our lives , and not least our gardens , how much of this is just a fashionable " phase , and how much will remain as a permanent and essential ingredient of everyday living ? |
| 18 | However , this advantage would be lost if the allophones that were the product of word-internal context-effects were also caused by context-effects across word boundaries : thus if in lee were realised as a voiceless [ l ] in a moderately fast production of … tip leewards … , lee would once more be embedded within plea even at an allophonic level of representation . |
| 19 | If a giant cuts off somebody 's head , the spectacle is only realised as a striking and funny denouement … |
| 20 | He postures as a political activist , and the solidarity forced on the quintet by Shatov 's murder might be expected to make them a more effective instrument . |
| 21 | Charles 's personal copy of the psalter ( a manuscript designed for daily devotions ) also had ivory covers , showing the prophet Nathan 's rebuke of David for his liaison with Bathsheba ( Ps 51 , Vulg 50 ) and the protection of David 's soul ( Ps 57 , Vulg 56 ) depicted as a little child on the lap of a kindly angel . |
| 22 | Suddenly her throat was tight ; a pressure seemed to be constricting her lungs , making it difficult to breathe as a tiny alarm bell began to ring in her brain . |
| 23 | It was erected as a ducal chapel in 1336 by Azzone Visconti who was buried in it just three years later . |
| 24 | The existing bridge was erected as a temporary measure to replace the original bridge which was destroyed by floods . |
| 25 | opposite the ‘ Old Pack Horse ’ , whilst at the other Chiswick High Road corner — Heathfield Terrace junction — an obelisk was erected as a permanent War Memorial , around which Memorial Services have been held ever since . |
| 26 | This was the first ever building specifically erected as a social meeting place , as opposed to a church , in this country — or for that matter , anywhere else in the world . |
| 27 | The High Court 's Sept. 2 judgment ( following a petition filed by Win Chadha , one of those named by the CBI as centrally involved in the scandal ) had intervened as a cantonal court in Geneva was due to deliver its verdict in response to the CBI 's request for assistance . |
| 28 | The story weaves the Japanese viewpoint widely through the film and presents , probably for the first time to most movie viewers , a rational reason why the Japanese felt they had to attack the United States or suffer as a second-class nation . |
| 29 | Steel , also designated as a key recovery sector immediately after the war , was a key input into major export industries such as ships ( and in turn the development of huge ore-carrying ships allowed the Japanese steel industry to overcome a major disadvantage in transport costs for materials ) . |
| 30 | Unable to summon the courage to enter the cold dark of the river the man , a lawyer by profession , finds himself at odd moments thereafter , and even in the courtroom , increasingly assailed by a laugh at the back of his mind , a laugh that mocks his whole posture in the world , a laugh that progressively exposes in him what he chooses to see as a guilty pretence . |