Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] as [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ENGLAND were in trouble again in Madras yesterday as their second Test hopes dwindled , with Sachin Tendulkar 's teenage genius , plus important knocks from both Praveen Amre and Kapil Dev , rubbing salt into their wounds . |
| 2 | There is an enormous literature in Russian on the Decembrists ' Siberian exile which accurately reflects the powerful impact which these ‘ first enlighteners of the Siberian people ’ had on the scientific investigation and cultural development of the region with which so many of them came to identify themselves , and where not a few chose to remain after they were eventually amnestied by Alexander H. Just as their initial , ill-fated rebellion marked the beginning of the nineteenth-century Russian revolutionary movement , so did their exile beyond the Urals open a new phase in the history of political exile in Siberia and of the on-going battle between the radical intelligentsia and the autocratic Russian state . |
| 3 | They served the Ceauşescus just as their emasculated predecessors had served the sultans . |
| 4 | IT was double joy for Kilkenny yesterday as their Minors won the All Ireland final by also beating Galway in a lively and entertaining decider . |
| 5 | He had lived his life in dependence on his heavenly Father : if he was to give a true representation in human terms of the nature of Yahweh , then he needed to live , as man , in constant obedience to Yahweh both as his anointed Ruler and as his obedient Servant . |
| 6 | But since her failure to understand and help her over her mother 's lover , Constance viewed Miss Hatherby rather as her mother described her : an old maid , unworldly , afraid of emotions and inexperienced in life . |
| 7 | Karen MacGregor , 11 , of Redmire , Wensleydale , travelled first class on the train to London yesterday as her prize for helping her mum stop smoking for two weeks from No Smoking Day on March 11 . |
| 8 | Such an open-ended commitment to a government that most Unionists regarded with contempt could hardly last for long : Law found it convenient to make use of the Unionist Business Committee , constituted in January 1915 as an official opposition group , and he suggested Walter Long as its chairman , so harnessing Long 's vindictive powers and giving the party some means of influencing the government without breaking the party truce . |