Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] as [noun] " 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 | Terah 's three sons are named , and their home-town given as Ur of the Chaldeans . |
| 4 | And it is not unknown for members of a group to manipulate a drama to further their real-life victimisation of the class ‘ scapegoat ’ — so that it is not a drama experience at all but a vicious first-order experience disguised as drama . |
| 5 | He became New Spool Weaving Supervisor in 1969 and on the closure of the department transferred as Supervisor to the Crabtree Threading section . |
| 6 | It seems that Mr Tsurumaki has used ‘ Les Noces de Pierette ’ as security on bank loans to finance an building complex known as Autopolis comprising a museum , hotel and race track . |
| 7 | The Economic Community of West African States ( ECOWAS ) , which in August had sent a regional peace-keeping force known as ECOMOG , in November sponsored the formation of an interim government headed by Sawyer , a former opposition leader . |
| 8 | Reductivist arguments can be supported by the form of moral reasoning known as utilitarianism . |
| 9 | other experiments will look at the effects of further rises in reactor temperature and at an effect known as rod ‘ candling . ’ |
| 10 | According to that author , early in Murad II 's reign Molla Fenari 's position was shaken by the second revolt of the pretender known as Duzme Mustafa , associated by Husameddin with Seyh Bedreddin in the earlier " Melami " revolts . |
| 11 | Paddy End Vein was the first to be cut in these levels and its course can easily be seen in the cliff or scar to the west of Levers Water where ancient mining has left a conspicuous cleft known as Simon 's Nick . |
| 12 | For nearly twenty centuries , the figure known as Judas Iscariot — Judas the Sicarius — has been accursed and despised , cast in the role of most heinous of villains . |
| 13 | The imagination of Presley has been rendered uncomfortable by the presence of the serial killer known as Pitchfork Disney . |
| 14 | Roach is a busy man : as well as continuing work with his quartet ( currently touring the UK ) , his double quartet , a percussion ensemble known as M'Boom and a forthcoming collaboration on a play about the Harlem Renaissance , he 's also involved with New York rappers in a project called From Bebop to Hiphop and Then There 's Max . |
| 15 | What began as a London UK-based co-ordinating body for organisation of stunt kite competitions has grown into a worldwide association known as Stunt , Team And Competitive Kiting ( or STACK ) with representatives in over 14 nations . |
| 16 | In association with The Guardian , the 1991 Festival welcomes to Birmingham international and UK members of the Film Critics Association known as FIPRESCI , who have chosen the Birmingham Festival as the venue for their annual symposium . |
| 17 | Hartley 's philosophy was in fact an early form of the twentieth-century scheme of mental association known as Behaviourism ( Pavlov 's dogs were taught to salivate at the sound of an electric bell ) , and if writing today he would presumably have compared the brain to a computer . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Recent developments in a field of study known as Chaos Theory has focused attention on elements in natural shapes called ‘ fractals ’ . |
| 20 | The army blamed a leftist rebel group , ELN , led by a renegade Spanish priest known as Ayala . |
| 21 | As I have elaborated elsewhere , the early agricultural divine monarchies seem to recapitulate , albeit in purely cultural forms , the natural conditions of that primeval existence : for instance , an economy based on grains ( domesticated rather than wild ) , a social structure centred around one dominant , tyrannous male and his harem ( now a human state rather than a primate group ) , and — at least in the case of some ancient Egyptian dynasties — even the recruitment of apprentice heirs-apparent ( the institution known as coregency ) . |
| 22 | This narrowing or furring up of the arteries can slow down the flow of the blood to your heart ( giving rise to the condition known as angina ) or even cut off the supply completely , at which point a heart attack then occurs . |
| 23 | He had a condition known as hypomania , which makes the sufferer erratic , irrational and hyperactive . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's a condition known as shock , ’ she informed him tightly . |
| 25 | Repeated small infarctions within the microcirculation of the spleen ultimately result in its destruction — a condition known as autosplenectomy . |
| 26 | The commonest RSI is a condition known as tenosynovitis , or ‘ teno ’ to its many victims . |
| 27 | This may have left him with a condition known as Schönlein-Henoch Syndrome , together with the beginnings of chronic kidney disease . |
| 28 | Other parasitic insects which may attack the vine are pyralis ( the larvae of the meal-moth which feeds on young shoots and leaves ) ; altise ( a beetle which feeds on the leaves ) ; phyptus vitis ( a microscopic mite which attacks leaves , flowers and grapes , rendering a condition known as erinosis , first recognised by red leaf blisters which gradually turn yellow ) and cochenilles ( various bugs which feed on the sap , weakening the vine ) . |
| 29 | The condition known as cretinism is caused by defects of the thyroid gland , also caused by the absence of the correct enzymes . |
| 30 | These are all symptoms of a hereditary sight condition known as Retinitis Pigmentosa ( RP ) , for which no treatment is yet available . |