Example sentences of "[vb past] as the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also wants Bovril designated as the national football drink . |
| 2 | ‘ A son , ’ he announced as the four young ones ran to his open arms . |
| 3 | William Graffunder , an expatriate German and the promoter of an organisation in Cardiff which he registered as the Amalgamated Seamen 's and Tradesmen 's Union of Great Britain and Ireland in September 1890 , likewise made no bones about its connection with the Shipping Federation in the supply of " free labour " , though he denied being its official . |
| 4 | He first became an MP in 1841 as member for Newark and , apart from a break between 1847 and 1850 , he remained in the Commons until he succeeded as the seventh Duke of Rutland in 1888 . |
| 5 | He had the reputation for being clever but lacking in tact or discretion , and held only a minor post in Grey 's Government of 1853 to 1855 , and although he remained an MP until 1883 , when he succeeded as the tenth Earl of Wemyss and March , he never held office again . |
| 6 | But although they lived as the only intellectual representatives of their own language in so small a place as Rapallo , they were not destined to decrease each other 's mental loneliness . |
| 7 | This included sophisticated equipment and " fly-by-wire " technology to allow India to build the light combat aircraft ( LCA ) planned as the principal fighter aircraft of the Indian Air Force in the late 1990s , and for which the US administration had already granted use of the F-404 engine from General Electric . |
| 8 | THE DOCTOR — HE posed as the distinguished society gynaecologist . |
| 9 | The US engine was initially designated as GE 's model l–A ( later improved and redesignated as the 1–14 for use in the three XP aircraft ) and with continued improvements , evolved into the l–16/J–31 series turbojets . |
| 10 | The parliamentary chairman , Ruslan Khasbulatov , has accused the media of bias and yesterday the parliament kept up its barrage of complaints against the media , saying television programmes closed the eyes of viewers to what it described as the anti-constitutional nature of the president 's seizure of new powers . |
| 11 | He exuded confidence , and even cracked jokes , at what he described as the pitiful state of the mujahedin 's strategy conducted by Pakistan . |
| 12 | The Independence Works campaign will focus on three main areas : the decline of Britain ; the threat of privatisation of Scottish water supplies ; and what the party described as the continued failure of the Labour Party to fight Scotland 's corner at Westminster . |
| 13 | But now as she stood looking at herself in a full length looking glass , she could see that she had indeed what the magazines described as the perfect figure , firm round breasts , a narrow flat waist , good hips , a small posterior , and long slender legs which were greatly enhanced by the silk stockings the assistant had carefully rolled on to them . |
| 14 | Such qualities include not only those which are naturally useful or agreeable but also what he described as the artificial virtues , in particular justice . |
| 15 | Union conferences passed motions condemning what they described as the growing use of temporary workers and employers ' strategies of substituting temporary for permanent workers . |
| 16 | The idea that conversation proceeds according to a principle , known and applied by all human beings , was first proposed in a limited form by the philosopher Paul Grice ( 1975 ) , who put forward what he described as the co-operative principle . |
| 17 | The removal of Saddam Hussein was frequently stated not to be an explicit allied war aim , but allied leaders nevertheless referred on a number of occasions to the desirability of such an outcome , notably on Feb. 15 when US President George Bush urged the Iraqi people to overthrow what he described as the brutal dictatorship . |
| 18 | He criticised the attitude of Scottish Office ministers to what he described as the gravest crisis in employment Scotland has faced since the war . |
| 19 | But his enthusiasm and self-assurance meant that in practice he came to personify what Elizabeth Monroe in The Economist in London described as the American belief that with " dollars and a wrench " one could transform the world . |
| 20 | The crowd , jubilant at President Fidel Ramos ' decision to allow the body 's return , pushed and shouted as the 727 jet , which bore an image of Marcos and the words ‘ I am a Filipino , ’ taxied to the terminal . |
| 21 | He moved as the elderly people from the bus moved , but without their caution because a red Post Office van had to swerve to avoid him . |
| 22 | Ashton continued creating roles for him in Birthday Offering , Monotones and Ondine Act III , and he excelled as the Blue Boy in Les Patineurs . |
| 23 | Weber was impressed with the development and accomplishments of bureaucracy , and especially with the role of technical knowledge in bureaucratic administration which he regarded as the primary source of the superiority of bureaucracy as an organisation . |
| 24 | Labour members , though generally more committed to old-age pensions , free school meals and redistributive taxation than Liberals and considerably more so than Conservatives , gave greater primacy in their election addresses to unemployment and hours of work , which they regarded as the major social issues . |
| 25 | For example , middle class women were as convinced as working class women by the medical profession 's call for hospitalised childbirth , although just as working class women wanted what they regarded as the additional bonus of hospital rest , so middle class women also saw the availability of anaesthesia as a major reason for welcoming the trend to hospital births . |
| 26 | The 18 Kurile islands to the north of the disputed territories were Russian territory , and Soviet troops had occupied what they regarded as the southern part of the chain at the end of the Pacific War in 1945 . |
| 27 | It did not only transform the political and military map : by the destruction which it wrought , unparalleled in previous human history in its scale , it hurled a black question mark against the confidence in the onward and upward progress of Christian civilisation which had so strongly characterised Liberal Theology , and forced the bitter question whether the advanced theological thought of the nineteenth century as a whole had not been far too unaware of the darker side of human nature , too optimistic about innate human capacity for good , too willing to take contemporary culture at its own high evaluation of itself , and overall too disposed to take God for granted , and to assume that he was somehow simply ‘ given ’ in what it regarded as the highest ethical , spiritual and religious values of mankind . |
| 28 | Roamers of the countryside , surprise was their chief weapon , great daring being shown in what some regarded as the finest military feats of all , the capture of walled towns and castles which were then ransomed , having perhaps been used in the meanwhile as bases for military activity further afield . |
| 29 | Oswald , whom Bede regarded as the fifth overlord of the peoples south of the Humber and described as ruling within the same bounds as Eadwine ( HE 11 , 5 ) , clearly became on this testimony as powerful a ruler as Eadwine had been , but on his accession he faced an immediate challenge in midland and eastern England from Penda . |
| 30 | Grierson was dressed in white shorts and a flowing multi-coloured Hawaiian shirt which he doubtless regarded as the correct dress of the day for the summer Aegean . |