Example sentences of "[vb pp] as a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cole and Scribner point out that the specific skill developed for this purpose can be transferred to other tasks : they tested literates and illiterates in the Vai script for their ability to distinguish and reproduce units of meaning when heard as a continuous flow , and discovered that the literates were better at this task ( 1981 ) . |
| 2 | The freshness and novelty of the musical language can gradually be heard as a brilliant , prismatic treatment of " old-fashioned " tonal devices refracted through two or three prevailing modal scales . |
| 3 | A common example was an auxiliary verb sequence , such as I would n't have been able to go , which was heard as a single syllabic beat , approximately shown here as I wudnbinabluh go . |
| 4 | The case was heard as a minor offence before a low-level court , the tribunal correctionel in Tours , at which three judges ruled that , although the article exculpated the mayor , the advertisement did smear him , and the newspaper was ordered to pay him Fr10,000 ( £1,000 approx ) . |
| 5 | However , this advantage would be lost if the allophones that were the product of word-internal context-effects were also caused by context-effects across word boundaries : thus if in lee were realised as a voiceless [ l ] in a moderately fast production of … tip leewards … , lee would once more be embedded within plea even at an allophonic level of representation . |
| 6 | If a giant cuts off somebody 's head , the spectacle is only realised as a striking and funny denouement … |
| 7 | It was erected as a ducal chapel in 1336 by Azzone Visconti who was buried in it just three years later . |
| 8 | The existing bridge was erected as a temporary measure to replace the original bridge which was destroyed by floods . |
| 9 | opposite the ‘ Old Pack Horse ’ , whilst at the other Chiswick High Road corner — Heathfield Terrace junction — an obelisk was erected as a permanent War Memorial , around which Memorial Services have been held ever since . |
| 10 | This was the first ever building specifically erected as a social meeting place , as opposed to a church , in this country — or for that matter , anywhere else in the world . |
| 11 | The High Court 's Sept. 2 judgment ( following a petition filed by Win Chadha , one of those named by the CBI as centrally involved in the scandal ) had intervened as a cantonal court in Geneva was due to deliver its verdict in response to the CBI 's request for assistance . |
| 12 | Is the Minister aware that a number of people in the west midlands and elsewhere who took the opportunity of buying their accommodation now find that their homes have been repossessed as a direct result of Government economic policy ? |
| 13 | This whole area had blossomed as a great region for settlement , in which the Spanish language was steadily being forced upon the survivors of the original population and to which Spanish emigrants went out as regular reinforcements to maintain the conquests of Cones and Pizzano . |
| 14 | For instance , you can build up a design that looks as though it has been pressed as a single spray ( see pp. 98–9 ) , although in fact each flower and leaf should be positioned with care to give a natural effect . |
| 15 | Rosalind , disguised as a young man ( Ganymede ) speaks to Phoebe , who clearly considers her to be an attractive male . |
| 16 | The first sign of this was two approaches to Gabriel for her services ; one disguised as a joking phone call , the other as a polite invitation to lunch , but both real . |
| 17 | He was once credited with bringing back from Sweden the secret of how the mill worked , which he discovered while disguised as a wandering fiddler ( hence the nickname , ‘ Fiddler ’ Foley ) ; but it now seems clear that the first slitting mill in England was set up at Dartford , Kent , in 1590 . |
| 18 | A FLEETING snapshot , this , of the Douglas Hurd you never see , the minister tormented by doubt , safely if thinly disguised as a fictitious character , in one of the novelist British foreign secretary 's self-revealing stories about a defence secretary forced to justify the sending of British boys to die in a Balkanesque quagmire called ‘ Caucasia ’ . |
| 19 | She came to him maybe two or three times a week : sometimes in the form of an animal , sometimes disguised as a live , normal woman . |
| 20 | It was , of course , still an unsuitable role for her , a seventeen-year-old dancer disguised as a Circassian boy . |
| 21 | In his latter years he created an elaborate water garden at the cottage ornée he had built for himself on the outskirts of Plymouth , and was wont to drive round the streets of the town in a gig disguised as a Roman war chariot , looking , in Wightwick 's words ‘ ( as far as his true English face and costume allowed ) like Ictinus of the Parthenon , ‘ out for a lark ’ . ’ |
| 22 | Then Edgar appears , disguised as a poor knight whose ‘ name is lost ; /By treason 's tooth bare-gnawn , and canker-bit ’ ( 121f. ) , and by defeating him in single combat , completes the exposure of Edmund , the bastard being displayed as a hypocrite and pretender ( 162–74 ) , who in a fair contest — according to Renaissance optimism about the superiority of right — is bound to be defeated by the legitimate . |
| 23 | Certain trade union leaders have always been at risk in Colombia — a military state thinly disguised as a two-party democracy . |
| 24 | I suspect you were disguised as a personable young man , a merry companion for the Gascons , after what must have been a long and gruelling journey . |
| 25 | In 1639–40 he acted as a secret courier , disguised as a commercial traveller , for the English opposition leaders in their clandestine — if not treasonable — correspondence with the Scottish Covenanters . |
| 26 | These cottages ( palheiros ) are now preserved in Santana , and many are still lived in — even the public toilets are disguised as a thatched cottage . |
| 27 | CDTV uses a CD-ROM system coupled to a powerful computer , disguised as a domestic electronic appliance . |
| 28 | For a man painted as a heartless thug last week , Blissett himself has shown a lot of character . |
| 29 | Femininity is painted as a deviant , mysterious , finally unknowable object of investigation , and the ‘ riddle ’ of it ( Freud 1933 : 113 ) comes to stand for unconscious sexuality as a whole . |
| 30 | Diana , they decided , would be painted as a sick woman with only a tenuous grasp of reality . |