Example sentences of "[vb past] as [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They met as contestants at a Mrs Moscow competition which Yelena won ; modelling contracts and divorce followed for both . |
| 2 | They doubled as bench-tables for small children at Sunday School parties and prizegivings . |
| 3 | The composition of any Palestinian delegation remains one of two crucial issues at the heart of Likud 's opposition to the 10 points put forward by President Mubarak of Egypt and devised as clarifications of Israel 's own initiative . |
| 4 | Further , the growth of a discourse of formal political representation and its implementation in the 1867 Reform Act , made politicians uneasy about the political power wielded by civil servants , especially when they operated as statesmen in disguise . |
| 5 | A Barra fisherman 's son , one of eight born to a couple who lived as squatters in a foreshore hut , ‘ was brought up in my grandfather 's across the road : ‘ I had everything in their house . |
| 6 | Equation ( 2.2 ) in Table 2 reports the equivalent IV estimates for equation ( 2.1 ) with fitted values and lagged fitted values from ( 1.1 ) used as instruments for the expected return terms . |
| 7 | Their thefts of milk , honey , and melons from local household plots he ironically termed as acts of smychka . |
| 8 | Protesting against what they described as years of neglect by the French authorities , young militants among the 420,000-strong community engaged in repeated clashes with police , and some 15 people were injured on July 23-25 . |
| 9 | Both Orton and Vera Chirwa trained as lawyers in Britain during the 1950s . |
| 10 | On the other hand , however , Mr De Haan said the company had to put up with what it regarded as disadvantages of being publicly quoted . |
| 11 | In addition , from their position on the moral high ground , they repeatedly denounced many of the leisure pursuits of their neighbours , such as drinking , dancing , and theatre-going , which they regarded as occasions of sin and distractions from religious devotion . |
| 12 | The groupings of performers seen in the livrets suggest that wind ensembles functioned to provide blocks of sound that is , that they played as consorts of like instruments . |
| 13 | Despite his disappointments he starred for the South African side which played as Springboks against the Juniors late last season . |
| 14 | According to Pedro Castro Tojín 's testimony , two men whom he recognised as agents of the Guatemalan army forced their way into his family home in the early evening of 17 March 1990 , and opened fire , hitting both himself and his wife . |
| 15 | Jack 's agent was already well ensconced at a table with half a dozen people , a couple of whom I recognised as regulars on the pro-am circuit . |
| 16 | A state marketing system gives derisory prices for commodities produced by peasants and later exported to earn foreign exchange spent by the bureaucratic bourgeoisie and other privileged classes , or consumed as foodstuffs at cheap prices . |
| 17 | Since many English naturalists were also clergymen , they were only too willing to describe the species of animals and plants they studied as examples of divine craftsmanship . |
| 18 | In addition there are smaller groups of minority elders , some of whom came as refugees from East Europe , Kenya or Vietnam . |
| 19 | Then the following one we had erm Lord and Lady they came as guests of ours . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The majority of these manned the parish churches and chapels of the diocese , or acted as chaplains to great laymen . |
| 22 | In common with usual practice , most printing establishments acted as agents for the large firms in the country who specialised in wedding stationery . |
| 23 | Each religious community — or millet — was placed under the supervision of its own leaders , who acted as agents for the imperial government in collecting taxes and maintaining order amongst their people . |
| 24 | Some people mentioned that they acted as models to their patients . |
| 25 | This year Douglas Reyburn also acted as hosts with Bill Service , Personnel Manager , organising the administration of the day . |
| 26 | If attempts to establish the continuity of an office of Mufti in this early period appear to break down , however , there can be no doubt either on the one hand of the existence both of muftis and of scholars who acted as muftis in individual instances or , on the other , of the importance of as an instrument of government . |
| 27 | In classical literature , certain fairies acted as guardians for different gods . |
| 28 | In Australia a group of academics acted as consultants to the federal Department of Health , Housing , and Community Services and were given the freedom to consult and encourage participation by as wide a range of people as possible . |
| 29 | They adamantly believed that ‘ at that time it was not done to ‘ ’ poach' ’ settled executives in any direct or overt way' ; but they may be seen as the precursors of headhunting in Britain , in so far as they acted as consultants in executive selection and advertising , within a general management consultancy practice . |
| 30 | In the test-tube , the RNA molecules acted as templates for the synthesis of copies of themselves , aided by the presence of the RNA-replicase . |