Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] as [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of these girls were not fiancées but daughters , come to join their parents ; the internal examinations were used to claim that they were too old to come as dependants . |
| 2 | Some appear as GHOSTS , while others turn into cannibalistic monsters like the witch BLACK ANNIS who was said to be a descendant of the Celtic winter goddess , Anu or Danu . |
| 3 | A Borderer from Melrose , he showed more interest in keeping up the rivalry between Highlander and Lowlander than in scoring off the Sassenachs , whom he was prepared to respect as competitors and , if they were good enough , business associates . |
| 4 | Intrusions can be composed of a wide range of rock types , although very large intrusions with a surface exposure of over 100 km 2 known as batholiths , often have an acidic granitic composition ( Fig. 5.17 ) . |
| 5 | Catholme , Staffordshire reveals a similar pattern of enclosed units with a large central building surrounded by lesser structures , some interpreted as granaries . |
| 6 | It concedes that some actual judicial decisions and practices are very different from those a conventionalist would make or approve : these it is prepared to count as mistakes . |
| 7 | The practice of States was more liberal : the United States , for example , is prepared to appoint as commissioners any persons who are entitled to administer oaths . |
| 8 | On June 25 Iran , reportedly at the request of the leadership council of Lebanese Hezbollahreleased 40 Lebanese taken as prisoners of war during the Iran-Iraq war . |
| 9 | This probably reflects the perceptions of the respondents rather than a real difference in the actual quality of life of the people who died , although staff members may have been more willing to act as respondents for residents they had got on well with , and those residents may have had a better quality of life because of their relationship with the staff . |
| 10 | In ‘ The Real Thing ’ a painter is offered the services of an extremely genteel couple who have fallen on hard times and are willing to act as models for his illustrations of aristocratic life . |
| 11 | These ‘ others ’ comprise housing workers , people skilled in developing and supervising work and other forms of daily occupation , welfare benefits negotiators , domestic care staff to provide help in the home and with personal care , teachers , counsellors and sympathetic listeners , people willing to act as befrienders and companions and , finally , responsive general practice services . |
| 12 | Further progress was made in developing a conciliation scheme as a means of alternative dispute resolution between members and clients , with particular attention being given to training for members willing to act as conciliators . |
| 13 | At a local level , voluntary help is usually available ; there is often a list of people speaking other languages who are willing to act as interpreters . |
| 14 | Although postage has to be charged extra , often visiting teachers , trainers and other ‘ travellers ’ to your area are willing to act as couriers . |
| 15 | Some remained as gaps in the puzzle , suggestive in their outlines but mystifying in their detail . |
| 16 | Fifteen yeomen were stated to be in the service of some lord or other , four being ‘ reteyned ’ by them ; six acted as bailiffs of townships , and the remainder were simply ‘ servants ’ , like Christopher Lacy of Riddlington , ‘ Seruant in the Howsehold w the Lord Hastings ’ , who had £15 in goods , reduced to £8 in the subsidy , where he was described as husbandman . |
| 17 | Snakes living in crevices are easy to understand as symbols of the life within the earth . |
| 18 | Twenty years ago there were sixteen Catholic Colleges of Education , of which six survive as colleges of Higher Education . |
| 19 | Not for the tsetse fly the hundreds deposited as eggs by a house fly . |
| 20 | The advantage of the local authority course is that the information relates to what is available in your locality , and people are welcome to attend as couples or singly . |
| 21 | I was very happy ; and if sometimes the familiarities in our relationship were of an irritating nature ( like the way he teased me , as he had always teased me , about my sticking-out ears , for instance ) I pushed them aside and refused to acknowledge them — even when they were quite important , the sort of things on which the nagging small voice was once wont to pounce as reasons against any positive commitment . |
| 22 | These act as resonators . |
| 23 | It is especially important that no breaks in the skin occur during shaving as these act as routes for bacteria to enter . |
| 24 | Often these act as devices for obtaining the right to a longer turn , like a story . |
| 25 | I was very concerned that the space of the north gallery would dissipate out into these side pockets , these large shadow boxes , which are too small to be rooms and too large to function as niches for sculpture . |
| 26 | Pearce argues that two catalysts , the church and the revolutionary organisations , encouraged the movement to rebel and support the guerrillas in the civil war , but she stresses that these acted as catalysts rather than agents . |
| 27 | They also identified that more passive people were likely to accept the idea of residential care so that homes are more likely to have as residents the ‘ passive responders ’ rather than the ‘ active initiators ’ identified by Evers ( 1981 ) in her study of a long-stay hospital ward . |
| 28 | These serve as billboards for symbolic displays . |
| 29 | The first three of these serve as forms of energy ( starch mainly in plants , glycogen mainly in animals ) while cellulose is the tough material from which the cell walls of plants are constructed . |
| 30 | These factors may indeed be present but are more likely to act as partners with unresolved emotional issues in people 's lives , rather than to initiate the disease . |