Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] as an " in BNC.

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1 It is just as well that the tax price index , introduced by Nigel Lawson in an attempt to distract attention away from the inflationary impact of switching taxation from direct to indirect taxes , has never caught on as an indicator .
2 For about the first 12 years of its existence the centre was carried on as an unincorporated organisation .
3 The tale of how an astute Cornish furze-cutter came to be founder of one of the great landed families of Cornwall , with one of the County 's most famed stately homes , could be looked on as an ideal example of Thatcherite-style enterprise and self-help .
4 The absence of CD4 binding by the MicroGeneSys gp160 vaccine may therefore be looked on as an added safety feature .
5 The naive inductivist account of science , which I will outline in the following sections , can be looked on as an attempt to formalize this popular picture of science .
6 For this reason , it should not be looked on as an end user language .
7 You 've got to remember that at the time , deregulation was looked on as an open cash-register .
8 It was remarkably brief , but encompassed a great deal and was consciously planned and carried through as an ecumenical Council , the first of its kind .
9 Time spent on this may be looked up as an investment in that if essential job elements are identified , then the people involved in the recruitment process will be less inclined to develop the criteria as they go along .
10 A school that , though equipped with a sixth form , did not have good A level results could be picked out as an inefficient school .
11 The operation can be carried out as an outpatient procedure in a clinic , hospital or in some specially-equipped GP surgeries .
12 This assistance inevitably spilled over as an increase in general prosperity for the ordinary Milanese city dweller .
13 Computing needs to be built in as an integral part of the Horticultural Training programme , so that future students will leave having acquired skills in handling word-processing , database , spreadsheet and design programs for correspondence , reports , record management , financial planning , and graphic techniques .
14 The naming from the dock of John Cameron ( alias Sergeant Mor ) , a vindictive Jacobite soldier of fortune , can not be written off as an act of desperation by James Stewart , who was promptly marked out as accessory once the actual murder occurred in Appin .
15 Being treed by the great wonder-rabbi Shmuel ben Issachar might be written off as an occupational hazard ; being trapped — on an assignment officially aborted-by an undead amateur is unforgivable .
16 Repertoires of schemata are built up as an organism adapts to its environment .
17 Before he died in 1983 , Swire had the exhilarating experience of watching one of his Cathay Pacific aircraft landing at Gatwick airport , the first of innumerable scheduled passenger flights from and to Hong Kong by the airline he had built up as an international enterprise .
18 In the Baghdad Times , the English-language newspaper , the Presidential Guard were always written up as an elite force .
19 It is significant that Phil Weston , with his imposing England Under-19 cv , has turned up as an opener alongside Curtis .
20 I am told that with good binoculars ( presumably × 12 or more ) it can be made out as an aura of soft light surrounding the cluster , but I have had no success myself .
21 But it 's actually now made out as an adoption of the dog .
22 Workfare was on the committee 's agenda but the committee has now been wound up and it is thought workfare has been pushed back as an idea requiring long-term consideration rather than implementation in the near future .
23 George Sanders was out of the running now , having been hauled in as an enemy spy , but I 'd be interested in knowing who precisely had tipped the Feds off to his brokerage for state secrets in the suburbs .
24 Fred Dunston ( Fritz Deutsch ) , a Youth Allyah worker and former Scout leader from Vienna , was drafted in as an organiser of the transit camp , which was to be built on a large meadow across the road from the training centre at Great Engeham Farm :
25 When you use these numbers — you will need to use a credit card with Forte — your booking will be logged up as an AEA purchase . ’
26 The Commander is best left separate from the tank so that he can be painted up as an individual model and put in or left out of the hatch as desired .
27 He was immediately roped in as an extra for the night .
28 I was privileged to be invited along as an observer at the latest meeting at which the question of the small company audit was discussed .
29 The windows which had been nailed up as an anti-escape measure were thick with steam , and water was pouring down the panes .
30 Connaught was set up as an investment vehicle after the 1987 crash .
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