Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] as [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1759 some of the greatest Portuguese nobles whom Pombal regarded as threats to his position , the Duke of Aveiro , the Marquis of Tavora , the Marquis of Alorna , were accused of conspiring against the king , tortured and in some cases broken on the wheel . |
| 2 | One night in 1962 Kurdish rebels entered a Kirkuk cinema disguised as policemen and silently surrounded an officer known to be torturing opponents of the government . |
| 3 | And that includes all the people who come from outside of Richmond who were brought as children , who may have come with jazz bands as children . |
| 4 | The loss resulted from a practice known as tobashi , which involved brokers shifting investment losses by one client to another , in order to prevent a favoured client from having to report the loss . |
| 5 | However , the supplementary benefit that he was receiving was deductible from the figure awarded as damages . |
| 6 | ‘ Above all , the British industrial revolution was a regional phenomenon ’ ( Pollard , 1981 ) ; but often pioneering regions , four declined soon after they had made their vital contribution ( Cornwall , Shropshire , North Wales and the Derbyshire uplands ) , while two more ( Tyneside and Clydeside ) had to get something like a second wind to survive as centres of expanding metal industries and shipbuilding . |
| 7 | The skilled negotiator , on the other hand , asks questions not only to gain more information and understanding but also as an alternative to disagreeing bluntly and as a means of putting forward suggestions ( ie possible courses of action said as questions . |
| 8 | The decision on the existence of a dispute in Leigh therefore led the court into error over the capacity of a partnership to act as arbitrators . |
| 9 | We had brought in respected experts from outside Whitehall like Mark Weinberg , Professor Alan Peacock , and Marshall Field of the Life Offices ' Association to act as assessors . |
| 10 | Some of these were vagrant children , others victims of crime required as witnesses . |
| 11 | More recently , with the end of the Cold War , Europe has also nursed the ambition to recruit as members countries in Northern and Central Europe . |
| 12 | On the demand side , there were three categories of budget holder acting as purchasers of services for patients . |
| 13 | Rejection of an agency relationship between the Council and the member States depends upon separating the members of the Council acting as members of the Council , from members of the Council acting as delegates of the States . |
| 14 | Rejection of an agency relationship between the Council and the member States depends upon separating the members of the Council acting as members of the Council , from members of the Council acting as delegates of the States . |
| 15 | Bingo is still enjoyed on two Mondays per month with members of the Village Association committee acting as callers . |
| 16 | Bingo is still enjoyed on two Mondays per month with members of the Village Association committee acting as callers . |
| 17 | Malcolm Jubb and Jim Ridge of the Ribchester Museum acted as judges and had a very difficult task . |
| 18 | And fear induced by very high-pitched musical notes could simply be the natural panic reaction to what the cat hears as squeals of pain . |
| 19 | For two thousand years and more the branch of philosophy known as metaphysics had dealt with arguments and proofs about the existence and nature of God , his relation to the world and human beings , and such related matters as human freedom and life beyond death . |
| 20 | Such flexible approaches to credit accumulation and transfer were also being explored north and south of the border by CNAA , leading to formal systems of credit transfer known as CATS in the south and SCOTCAT in Scotland . |
| 21 | farther to the north-east , in Taimyr , it was the influx of Evenkis and Yakuts into land inhabited by Tavgi Samoeds that led to complex ethnic mixing and the emergence of the new nationality known as Dolgans . |
| 22 | This implies that people at work operate as robots , devoid of emotional involvement with one another . |
| 23 | Solicitors also undergo two years of training at work known as articles . |
| 24 | But the late Elizabethans and Jacobeans cultivated with the utmost fertility both a free form of ricercar , the fantasia or ‘ fancy ’ , and the peculiarly English ‘ In nomine ’ ( see p. 240 ) , as well as dance music and song-arrangements , both for consort ( usually for viols , though also ‘ broken ’ , i.e. for mixed instruments ) and for keyboard ( usually the small table-harpsichord known as virginals , or organ ) . |
| 25 | What I do know is that it is disgraceful and defamatory to label as stooges the people from the Borough Community Relations Council who gave up a day 's work to act as observers , and who have made it clear that they would have reported whatever they had seen , good or bad for police . |
| 26 | The Admissions Committee regrets that it can not consider SCOTEC , SCOTBEC and other National Certificates and Diplomas , nor nursing qualifications nor Open University credits as alternatives for all or part of the Minimum Entrance Requirements . |
| 27 | the Board considers the B R employe employees who transfer involuntary involuntarily to the private sector should return an indefensible right to remain as members of the joint industry |
| 28 | Moreover , Forester ( like most of his contemporaries and successors in the sphere of the naval sea-novel ) offered enough young characters to reassure boys and girls engaging with adult fiction , since he rearranged historical fact to the extent that his midshipmen were invariably between fourteen and eighteen : those older , even middle-aged men , soured by repeated failure to pass as lieutenants , were not suitable for his purpose . |
| 29 | Various isolated examples of unrest acted as reminders to the authorities . |
| 30 | Finally , and still more distantly , the goat-antelopes are related to cattle , true antelopes , gazelles and other members of the Bovid family , which is itself a subdivision of the large and diverse group known as artiodactyls , or even-toed ungulates . |