Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] as [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Juan Bosch Gaviño , 82 , on March 15 told the Dominican Liberation Party ( PLD ) , which he had formed in 1973 after breaking from the Dominican Revolutionary Party ( PRD ) , that he had decided not only to resign as party leader but also to withdraw his party membership , because of the bitter fighting between the right and left wings of the party . |
| 2 | THE Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery , better known as film director Henry Herbert , has found an unusual cast member for a short film about his ancestors . |
| 3 | On to Wing On Street , better known as Cloth Alley , where you can find silks , linens and wools at incredibly low prices , and where the salesmen know exactly how much you need for a shirt or a suit . |
| 4 | The sitting Tory MP is Rupert Allason , better known as spy writer Nigel West . |
| 5 | His replacement , Ivan Jarnjak , had hitherto served as Deputy Interior Minister . |
| 6 | It was not intended as music fur dancing . |
| 7 | The rumour and gossip which often tends to overexcite the male patients we leniently designate as latrine talk . |
| 8 | About a quarter of the area of Tibet , about 325,000 square kilometres of land , is already designated as nature reserve . |
| 9 | Certainly the general belief was that , having wantonly thrown away a Conservative majority , Baldwin could not remain as Party leader let alone Prime Minister ; and Randolph Churchill , the biographer of Lord Derby , comments that ‘ It is interesting to notice in Derby 's correspondence , and in that of other leading Tories of the time , how for the first two or three weeks after the Party 's defeat in the Election there was an unchallenged assumption that Baldwin could not survive the catastrophe . ’ |
| 10 | However , stock purchased for growth or expansion is normally regarded as capital expenditure and is therefore not considered for the purposes of recurrent funding . |
| 11 | Almeyda would meanwhile act as party president and Arrate as secretary-general . |
| 12 | From the beginning of 1984 when it seemed probable that Lord Hailsham would soon resign as Lord Chancellor , Sir John was widely discussed as his probable successor in the Thatcher cabinet . |
| 13 | This is not considered as fire damage unless there has been combustion at the source of heat and either direct contact between the property and the source or direct radiation of heat from the source to the damaged property . |
| 14 | Likewise , scorch marks on kitchen worktops due to a hot pan being placed on a worktop is not considered as fire damage . |
| 15 | If one takes the narrow definition of manufacturing investment , which excludes a range of investment that is made by manufacturing companies in services that no longer count as manufacturing investment but which they used to do in-house , the average for the past six years was £10.9 billion — much higher than under the previous Labour Government . |
| 16 | Their plan was turned down because it was not classed as infill development and the site lay outside the built-up area of the village . |
| 17 | He is a widower , with no family and few interests outside the hotel : as a result , he is prepared to work for long hours and generally acts as night porter during the week . |
| 18 | I think erm we are not going to say thank you to Eileen now because she is not finishing as Synod clerk and that 's a conscious decision . |
| 19 | Straw : Some is already converted as farmyard manure ; and attempts have been made to break it down in other ways to make a compost base . |
| 20 | The factor was called ‘ Vitamin U ’ but was finally identified as geranyl farnesyl acetate . |
| 21 | There was one resignation from the committee in June , Elise felt she could not longer continue as publicity officer and we asked Rosetta to step into that office . |
| 22 | The most misused of these is page makeup or page layout software while the second is just described as desktop publishing software . |
| 23 | Their relations are best described as amitié amoureuse . |
| 24 | Though it 's dotted with snappy slogans , the whole thing is less slangy than before , and is best described as cyberpunk prose poetry . |
| 25 | Barley straw is soft and palatable , and is widely used as bulk feed for beef cattle . |
| 26 | As such they are highly suitable for the brewing industry , from plant to road tankers , and are becoming widely used as glass washing agents in the licensed trades . |
| 27 | It was once used as storage space and curator of European Glass , Ceramics and Furniture says the idea is to provide a straightforward display of things which the public would enjoy looking at . |
| 28 | The newly elected 14th central committee held its first plenary session on Oct. 19 , when Jiang Zemin was formally re-elected as party general secretary . |
| 29 | Though wholewheat pastry in my opinion more suited as building material than sustenance . |
| 30 | South Armagh , once known as bandit country , is notorious for the operations of arguably the most effective and committed members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army . |