Example sentences of "[vb pp] as an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is heard as an anticipation of the next chord , resolving by scale step . |
| 2 | At one station we were stopped for several hours alongside a troop train on which I discovered the Reverend R.H.L. Slater , now enrolled as an army chaplain , who told me the comforting news that my wife and three children had got away from Myitkyina a day or two earlier . |
| 3 | The design of a machine or device which is assigned as an aid for one person will not usually encounter the problems associated with elaborate design teams just described , but nevertheless some human factors sensitivity will help to provide a better product . |
| 4 | A little devil disguised as an elf . |
| 5 | A mushroom disguised as an onion bhaji with flaking batter was a mouthwatering morsel , but not really a dish in its own right , more an interlude before the chicken à la British Airways , both accompanied by more Hellmans relatives . |
| 6 | The Principles is subtitled as an inquiry into the grounds of ‘ Scepticism , Atheism , and Irreligion ’ ; according to its preface it will be useful ‘ particularly to those who are tainted with scepticism , or want a demonstration of the existence and immateriality of God , or the natural immortality of the soul ’ . |
| 7 | In Orkney , to which Slee ( 22 ) specifically referred as an example of the detrimental effect of farm investment , notably in buildings , HIDB-assisted farms have retained their full-time labour whereas on the island as a whole agricultural employment has declined by 9% . |
| 8 | The subcutaneous nature of the disorder allows its natural history to be followed with ease ; if we can confirm that the disease is caused by cell-mediated immune mechanisms , medical therapy might be developed as an adjunct or alternative to surgery , allowing a more conservative surgical approach with the prospect of reduced postoperative morbidity and recurrence . |
| 9 | The realist approach , although developed as an extension of the functional positivist approach , attempted to probe beyond the relationships derived from observed regularities and to seek the mechanisms and underlying structures which are responsible for the operation of environmental processes . |
| 10 | The tabular key has also been developed as an alternative to the traditional kind . |
| 11 | The machine was developed as an alternative to the many CP/M based machines that dominated the computer industry at the time , and was , unusually for IBM , designed around ‘ off the shelf ’ building blocks . |
| 12 | Woodford was developed as an initiative by the North Western Area . |
| 13 | Kuhn 's theory of science was subsequently developed as an attempt to give a theory of science more in keeping with the historical situation as he saw it . |
| 14 | The historic site of Athelstaneford was developed as an estate village by Sir David Kinloch , leasing out smallholdings on which his tenants could build their own harled ( rough-cast ) and pantiled cottages ; and here , too , many of them wove cloth . |
| 15 | Hydrogeochemical maps are being developed as an aid to interpreting environmental problems such as acidification and agricultural and mining pollution . |
| 16 | The colon weight/body weight ratio was calculated as an increase in this ratio has been shown to be an accurate marker of colonic inflammation . |
| 17 | On return of this document , the participant named overleaf , will automatically be registered as an entrant in the Ultimate Prize Draw , with six changes to win the first prize jackpot of £50,000 . |
| 18 | John 's other children consisted of two boys , William and Joseph , and four girls — one of whom , Elizabeth , born in 1787 , would eventually broaden the family 's chapel affiliations by being registered as an adult church member at Rook Lane Independent Meeting House in 1837 . |
| 19 | In the event of a second conviction for a like offence , a member is liable , in addition to the penalties already named , to be adjudged to be for ever incapable of holding any public office , and to be incapable for five years of being registered as an elector or voting at an election either of members to serve in Parliament or of members of any public body . |
| 20 | Once the foreign lawyer is registered as an RFL , he or she may enter into partnership with an English solicitor . |
| 21 | When you first approach an agency check that they are registered as an employment agency with the local government authority . |
| 22 | This may be done by including in the grant of the option a proviso that it is to be void if it is not registered as an estate contract within , say , three months from the date of the lease . |
| 23 | Having missed the deadline to register as a Democratic candidate in the November elections , he resigned from the party on Aug. 13 and registered as an independent . |
| 24 | His Lordship then considered whether the decision of the Court of Appeal could be justified as an exercise of review rather than appeal . |
| 25 | Heterosexuality , once it is exposed as an exchange of women between men , reveals itself as a mediated form of homosexuality . |
| 26 | Lowe blamed the newspapers and television for transforming the storm clouds of revolution he had sensed as an undergraduate at Sussex University into this thin drizzle of social democracy . |
| 27 | His basic salary as Naval Officer was only $800 a year which was not high for the importance of his position but compared favourably with the $180 a year he had received as an army Captain 3 years earlier . |
| 28 | Wardhaugh 's ( 1986 : 175–7 ) reference to the Belfast research , for example , appears to suggest that the whole thing was undertaken as an investigation of social network and the linguistic variables selected specifically for the purpose of demonstrating network patterns quantitatively . |
| 29 | BELOW A rescue site being excavated as an area excavation , with stretches of ditches excavated leaving vertical sections to provide more information . |
| 30 | In fact with product placement turning the feature film into a series of disguised commercials , it 's actually quite appropriate that most modern Hollywood product is best consumed as an advert . |