Example sentences of "[to-vb] as the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wilko came top by miles in a phone in vote of who YEP readers wanted to see as the new england manager ( 2nd coppell , 3rd keegan , 4th Atkinson , 5th Gerry Francis , 6th screaming lord such ) |
| 2 | On theoretical grounds , it has been proposed that hot coronal loops become unstable in evolved stars because of the combined effects of large size ( presumed to scale as the stellar radius ) and low surface gravity , leaving only low-lying cool loops which do not emit X-rays . |
| 3 | So far , I have managed to restrain myself from putting pen to paper to put a balance to the view emanating from the media and their very well-paid political hacks that Tom Clarke can not be allowed to continue as the parliamentary leader of the Scottish Labour Party in Parliament . |
| 4 | The D12 has been designed to perform as the ultimate in digitally controlled amplification . |
| 5 | But the personnel manageress said later : ‘ We may ask him to appear as the real thing next time . ’ |
| 6 | so and they then erm I have got some friends I used to know as the little school but they 've left now . |
| 7 | It can thus be seen to stand as the architectural counterpart to the other key artistic expressions of the age , the panoramic canvases of John Martin , Edward John Poynter , and Lawrence Alma-Tadema , toweringly romantic and imaginative recreations of the temples , palaces , baths , and amphitheatres of the ancient world , and the novels of Walter Scott , Harrison Ainsworth , and Bulwer-Lytton which evoked a monumental and teeming past of medieval castles , Tudor mansions , and unbridled Gothic imagination . |
| 8 | Such an objective involved establishing what , in practice , were to stand as the proper constituents of the new English , and their relation to each other . |
| 9 | Nina had no time to answer as the main doors opened and Julie Weatherstone , one of the personnel officers , came into the centre accompanied by a tall man . |
| 10 | Briefly , one polyethylene cannula was inserted into the common bile pancreatic duct to serve as the pancreatic fistula . |
| 11 | Representations and ultimata from Japan and other nations were ignored , and it was this Russian occupation of Manchuria that was to serve as the immediate casus belli of Russo Japanese confrontation . |
| 12 | On this definition , the task of the EC is to continue to serve as the chief engine of economic growth in Europe , an engine characterised by high performance , high output , high quality and ( agriculture excepted ) low running costs . |
| 13 | The application can , at this point , hand back any structure it chooses to , to serve as the final output of CLE-I . |
| 14 | A second dimension , to serve as the horizontal axis , is selected from the next highest scoring constructs provided that this is not highly correlated with the first choice . |
| 15 | IBM , Motorola and Apple last week formally dedicated Somerset , the new facility in Austin , Texas that is to serve as the focal point of their PowerPC design and development efforts . |
| 16 | In fact , however , its function ‘ was not to represent the workers ’ interests , but to prepare for the seizure of power and to serve as the organizational prototype of a new form of state power . ’ |
| 17 | Too early for the ballet , Gina wandered around giving herself up to the magic of the gardens , walking round the lake where large metal dragon-flies appeared to hover as the flickering lights in their wings simulated movement . |
| 18 | The reefs soon cease to grow as the poor light transmissions through the murky waters prevents the zooxanthellae actively photosynthesising underlining the vital life-sustaining role sunlight plays in this relationship . |
| 19 | In the latter case , of course , the sole criterion for being in the right is that of being opposed to the protagonist most closely identified with the parental authority — a very easy requirement to fulfil as the following true , but rather ludicrous , example shows . |
| 20 | It took a year to train a group of people to function as the general managers . |
| 21 | The Civic Centre complex with the Palace of the People ( later renamed Palace of the Republic ) at its heart was designed to function as the main shrine and nerve-centre of the cult of Nicolae Ceauşescu . |
| 22 | They then show how these discriminatory procedures could come to function as the semantic anchoring of our lexicon . |
| 23 | Although LMS sees LEAs transfer much of their powers , authorities still have a key role to play as the principal source of advice on the complexities of employment law and on fair procedures for appointment , discipline , grievance and dismissal . |
| 24 | For example , medical explanations of the ‘ blues ’ tend to favour as the principal causative element biochemical changes taking place in a woman 's body during pregnancy and immediately after birth . |
| 25 | This involves keeping one concession in reserve to use as the final push towards agreement : ‘ If you are willing to place an order now , I 'm willing to offer an extra 2½ per cent discount . ’ |
| 26 | Some birds are so small that twigs are too coarse a material for them to use as the main fabric of their nest . |
| 27 | A climate of artistic opinion is as tricky to predict as the English weather , and also quite as changeable . |
| 28 | He immediately told me that to do a smoothly coned skirt would be vastly expensive in terms of bending and shaping wood , and equally expensive to do as the multi-part mould which he reckoned was necessary because of the protruding hemispheres . |
| 29 | Here we find the theoretical corollary of what Althusser was to characterize as the tragic ‘ double thesis ’ of Sartre 's ‘ historicist humanism ’ , and which produced , in Michael Sprinker 's words , a ‘ ceaseless rebounding between the poles of revolutionary optimism and historical pessimism ’ . |
| 30 | Huge crowds turned out to cheer as the Prime Minister , spurning elaborate security precautions , rode through the city of Amritsar to the holiest shrine of the Sikhs , the Golden Temple . |