Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] as [art] " in BNC.

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1 I wanted to carry on as an airborne soldier , a paratrooper , enjoying the prestige which came from being part of an elite , and also the better pay and training opportunities that were the lot of such units .
2 ‘ Hopefully I 'll be able to carry on as an amateur and help mum in the shop . ’
3 And what started as a language-game had to go on as a lie , or a myth .
4 They found the babies who were left for longer began to make crawling movements towards the breast after 20 minutes , and after 50 minutes virtually all had suckled correctly at the breast — and were more likely to breastfeed successfully as a result afterwards .
5 ‘ I think the Border clubs would have to sit down as a composite group and work out a new sevens structure . ’
6 what would you like to go down as a scrubber ?
7 The Wilhelmshaven dockyard had been , in its day , the largest naval yard in Europe , and is likely to go down as the largest purely naval yard in history .
8 Britain began to slip badly as a competitive producer of films , and the national market was increasingly ceded to imports from France and America .
9 Injuries have hit the club , and coach Billy Lomax had to come on as a substitute midway through the second half .
10 Unashamed nostalgia makes Radio Days ( RCA / Columbia , PG ) a gem to wallow in as a family of Jewish misfits huddle round their wireless at the start of the Second World War .
11 To keep their jobs , employees and managers began to pull together as a team .
12 At Charing Cross the boatman began to pull in as the deep bend in the river became more pronounced .
13 Ken , if we could er look at what 's actually happening out there to pensioners at the moment , I think of which we 're all very concerned , but there has been a small item of good news to balance against the concerns we have for those pensioners that are still suffering from uncertainty and that is some money has started to come in as a result of legal actions and settlements out of court .
14 Simon was made aware that he might find himself obliged to stand down as a Parliamentary candidate if he failed to make an honest woman out of the Press Lord 's daughter .
15 So far , Jansen has declined to stand down as a trustee .
16 Executive members of one of the party 's most active branches , Mossend , confirmed yesterday they had written to Mr Salmond asking him to stand down as a result of the MPs ' decision to strike a deal with the Conservatives in exchange for their votes on the Maastricht bill .
17 An agreement to come together as an economic unit was reached by the exiled governments in 1944 , though the scheme did not envisage any political arrangements .
18 If you can take a member of the family with you to stand in as a practise subject , so much the better .
19 Saturday might begin by dividing the participants into small groups of three or four , each composed of people from different communities so that everybody will be encouraged to work together as a team rather than rely on ‘ traditional ’ dominant group-leaders .
20 It will help to ensure that educational priorities remain at the forefront of planning and that the school continues to work together as a team .
21 The teacher , librarian and media officer need to understand each other 's special skills in order to work together as a team :
22 The UUUC candidates consented to work together as a group at Westminster .
23 Which is why all the products in the range are carefully formulated , not just to work in isolation but to work together as a complete programme — repairing , cleansing , caring and styling .
24 One way to encourage children to work together as a group is to ask them to discuss their explanations of a particular event .
25 They became collectively known as the Brat Pack because , like the original Rat Pack , these young actors tended to work together as an ensemble .
26 And for those reasons and for the fact that I , more or less enjoyed the journey and had to come anyway as a chauffeur !
27 A fuller treatment of trust the industry is due to appear soon as a CIOB Construction Paper .
28 This is particularly so for workers whose lives are related to work not as a vocation or as a career , but as a job for earning money to spend in private .
29 The distinction , termed ‘ polarisation ’ was deemed necessary to make more transparent to customers the possible ties of their advisers , and to eliminate the ability of an intermediary to pass off as an independent adviser yet suggest the policies of the advisers ' own company ( or those which provide the highest commission ) .
30 During the past two or three years more wives had gone out to work usually as a result of increased economic Pressures on the farm .
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