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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | THE DOCTOR — HE posed as the distinguished society gynaecologist . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He exuded confidence , and even cracked jokes , at what he described as the pitiful state of the mujahedin 's strategy conducted by Pakistan . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Such qualities include not only those which are naturally useful or agreeable but also what he described as the artificial virtues , in particular justice . |
| 11 | Union conferences passed motions condemning what they described as the growing use of temporary workers and employers ' strategies of substituting temporary for permanent workers . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Ashton continued creating roles for him in Birthday Offering , Monotones and Ondine Act III , and he excelled as the Blue Boy in Les Patineurs . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | And it was this need for a ‘ third market ’ that Luxemburg regarded as the driving force behind imperialism . |
| 23 | Beatrice was anxious not to follow what she regarded as the purposeless social round of the society wife and felt that the ‘ governing and guiding ’ work performed by women philanthropists was much less likely to ‘ unsex ’ women than academic work or the ‘ push and severity ’ demanded of a professional woman such as the hospital matron . |
| 24 | Reginald Bray , a friend of Masterman 's , would remark on the same development : As Bray organised the arguments of Iris powerful Christian treatise on The Town Child ( 1907 ) around deep shades of pastoral contrast between the serenity of natural phenomena and what he regarded as the unnatural and shallow inconsistency of the irreverent city , he thought that ‘ the most remarkable effect of an urban environment is to be sought in the disappearance of the habit of self-control ’ : The riotous jingo crowds which had accompanied the Ladysmith and Mafeking celebrations during the Boer War had indeed provided one of the most visible manifestations of these perceived alterations among the British people , and observing that ‘ to ‘ Maffick ’ ’ is not really congenial to the British character' The Times ( 30 October 1900 ) had mused upon whether ‘ our national character was changing for the worse ’ . |
| 25 | The nurses involved in the IMS survey carried out in 1986 for the RCN gave a clear impression of what they regarded as the important features of the work situation : " good job security " , " good atmosphere " , and " doing a worthwhile job " were cited as by far the most important . |
| 26 | During the Falklands War , for example , the Ministry of Defence quite blatantly manipulated press coverage in what it regarded as the national interest . |
| 27 | The City took a dim view of what it regarded as the inordinate amount of time it took for the group to return a profit there . |
| 28 | First , by drawing a distinction between what it regarded as the natural ( and therefore genuine ) core of religion and the complex of authorities , traditions , institutions and doctrines which went to make up the forms of Christianity , it implied that much , indeed very much of the latter was redundant and could safely be jettisoned . |
| 29 | Its hull wailed and its engine whined as the upper atmosphere of Karkason roughly and frustratedly caressed this plasteel intruder which was penetrating it . |
| 30 | The bridge was complete , the air blowers on each rig whined as the remaining air bags were inflated for additional buoyancy , and footwalk posts and ropes were installed . |