Example sentences of "[was/were] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If time were as a looped conveyor belt , endlessly revolving , with past , present and future all existing simultaneously , our constrained human view would be of just one thin sliver across this belt . |
| 2 | The woods kept by the woodwards were as a general rule also subject to the authority of the king 's foresters ; if the latter discovered a Forest offence there which had not been reported by the woodward , the wood was seized and the woodward attached to answer for his default . |
| 3 | When he was asked why he himself did not become one , he replied that all men wanted to be Senators but he did not ; he did not want to be the same as other men who were as the uncoloured cloth of the Toga but he wished to be the red , that small and brilliant portion which causes the rest to be comely and beautiful . |
| 4 | The idol of the juniors is Jeremy Guscott , the Lions , England and Bath centre , whose first steps in the game were as an eight-year-old mini-rugby player . |
| 5 | Now I knew him for what he was as a right softly softly . |
| 6 | One of the ways she visualized life was as a swirling , unpredictable tide of confusion which swept you along helpless , bumping against rocks , trying to snatch at branches , bits of wreckage , anything that might help to keep you afloat for , if you did n't watch out , the waters would suck you down and close over your head . |
| 7 | Important though this visit was as a political signpost , a far more decisive meeting was to follow . |
| 8 | It was as a cool scented meadow . |
| 9 | The actual legislative status was as a Comprehensive Development Area under Section 5(3) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1947 . |
| 10 | Wallace came from a poor background , and the only way he could finance his interest in natural history was as a professional collector of rare specimens . |
| 11 | I remember his telling us how the first time he encountered stress incontinence was as a young boy standing at the foot of the ladder while a little old country woman handed him down apples from the tree . |
| 12 | But it was as a young cricketer , distinctive even then with his fair complexion and blond hair ( hence ‘ Ghost ’ , years later ) , that he particularly impressed his games master , John Kitson . |
| 13 | Crilly , I 'll tell you about the sparkle of Belgravia , the shimmer of white marble , a sumptuous , salubrious white , the sugary white of fluffy friendship , cloudship , feely white , and the slim cobblestone road which led to the river where I met James who was fresh from Waterstone 's with his arms full of Pinter plays , O he was as a young Terence Stamp , Crilly , but for the sly cracks of wisdom about the corners of his eyes , and we drank espresso and he told me about Spain and the high mountains of India , and the Pyrenees he had taken on foot , and though I was as trite as my shopping Saturdays and my small muggy and squirming palms in summertime , he painted my body swirly-lined and peach upon a large canvas and made love to me upon the tip of the Heath with all of London a basin of rooftops beneath us while the sky loomed low in grey and pink , the Heath a dark pudding of sloping mountains , wild and white and wide as Brontë country , with only the smug suburban cliffs of Highgate Village peering from behind its sprawling hem , and big dogs scurried like brown birds to the crevice of foothills and then disappeared , so we made love for a while beneath that sky , which cast a blaze upon us the colour of cream . |
| 14 | Hornblower is no more comfortable with himself as an admiral , commodore of a Baltic convoy , than he was as a junior captain . |
| 15 | It was as a mere 12-year-old — forever doodling characters from favourite children 's stories — that Albert Uderzo set his heart on becoming France 's answer to Walt Disney . |
| 16 | It was as a mere friend that he went to the private view of Vanessa 's second exhibition and met Rain Morgan . |
| 17 | His appearance record shows that , once Ron had gained a position in the team , he became difficult to displace and probably his best spell with the Palace was as a regular member of the team that finished 1952–53 with such a creditable run of performances . |
| 18 | It has been shown above that , on the basis of the careers of a number of Muftis in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries , one might tentatively conclude that by that time it was as a practical matter desirable , if not absolutely necessary , to have taught on at least two levels of medreses beyond the Sahn in order to have a chance to attain the highest office in the learned profession . |
| 19 | His first trading venture was as a woollen exporter , principally to Spain and Italy ; he was also briefly involved with a woollen-cloth factory near Exeter . |
| 20 | Pareto 's initial training was as a civil engineer ; he always seems to have regarded the natural sciences as superior to the social sciences , and he consistently attempted to apply models of equilibria derived from mechanics to society . |
| 21 | Maconochie was a pioneer in unrelated disciplines but it was as a penal reformer that he was most influential . |
| 22 | His strength was as a representative figure , not as an ‘ independent statesman ’ like those whose advice had been swept aside at the Carlton Club , and he wished this to be underlined by a meticulous attention to proper procedure . |
| 23 | Beirut : His first embassy posting was as a Third Secretary in Beirut . |
| 24 | Her first job was as a psychiatric social worker at the Maudsley Hospital in south London . |
| 25 | I was a Sergeant at er police headquarters and my duties amongst er others was as a senior tactical advisor for the police force on firearms matters . |
| 26 | In many ways the consulting arm of GROVE PROJECTS is stronger as a specialist engineering and surveying consultancy than it was as a multi-discipline practice . |
| 27 | Her first celluloid appearance was as a younger version of Susannah Yorks character in Falling In Love Again . |
| 28 | Deborah 's first job was as a bright-eyed teenager , working for Jocelyn Stevens on the merchandising side of Queen Magazine , in the late sixties . |
| 29 | But what if your last job was as a cleaner or temporary postman , just because it fitted your circumstances — say to work within school hours ? |
| 30 | ‘ He presented this as evidence at our investigation on Thursday and the action we took was as a direct consequence . ’ |