Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] as [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Consultant 's Register has been published for the first time , and the Technical Information Service successfully relaunched as the Construction Information File . |
| 2 | Stevenson readily admits that his business talents did not blossom early — ‘ I was a most inept apprentice , ’ he says — but he successfully qualified as a CA and joined a subsidiary of the British Steel Corporation . |
| 3 | There are , she says , around 71,000 households on council waiting lists in Tyne and Wear , Northumberland and County Durham and yet housing and homelessness rarely surfaced as an election issue . |
| 4 | Even so , I am teetering on the brink of spending £300 to replace the turntable I foolishly ditched as an anachronism a few months ago . |
| 5 | Cell walls perhaps arose as a device to keep useful chemicals together and stop them leaking away . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , with repeated French insinuations that they had neither the means nor the intention of reconquering Vietnam , it obviously came as a shock to the US to discover that this was exactly what France seemed to have in mind . |
| 7 | Harry , who only joined as a boarder a week ago , began his day opening cards and presents . |
| 8 | It was a further proof of Thomas Carter 's blissful innocence that he evidently had no idea that his swimming-pool , tennis court , fitted kitchen and high-tech appliances were as contemptible to the class whose values he so admired as the Parsons ' van Gogh prints and Dacron three-piece suite . |
| 9 | I was upset because I was proud to play for Scotland but the crowd 's reaction only acted as a spur . |
| 10 | Right so , you know , there are those who would teach that Jesus he would die for our sins and he 's forgiven us sins , but only those who come to him , Jesus died for the sin of the whole world , for every man , woman , boy and girl that has ever lived or ever will live , he died for the sin of the whole world , not just for those even who lived after his death , that 's why it talks about in the Old Testament people like Abraham looking for that day , and so Jesus who in , when he died , because he 's eternal , so we 've got the problems with time , God has n't got problems with time , he 's eternal and so his sacrifice , the sacrifice of him on the cross was effective for Abraham as it is for you , it was as effective for David as it was for Paul otherwise Abraham would never of had his sins forgiven because what happened with all the sacrifice with all the little lambs that were killed and all the goats and all the rest they only acted as a covering for sin , did n't take them away , it covered them , what for , until the moment when Jesus would come and would take those sins away and so when you think of David 's sin , his adultery and his murder , how does he get forgiven for that because Jesus died from the cross and he takes upon himself David 's sin and he takes upon him Abraham 's sin and Noah 's sin and Adam 's sin , just as much as your sin and the person who will be born in ten years time their sin also , all our sins er as Gloria just read there from , from one John to two they were all of him he has died for every one , well that 's his humiliation , hurry along quickly now his exhortation , the period from Jesus 's resurrection onward is referred to as to the , as the state of exhortation , now what does that term mean , well as Jesus according to his divine nature has always been , he was always every where , now in his human nature , before , be , sorry it 's not , it 's not on that one , but before he , he came to earth , he was every where , he was God , he was , he was omnia present that means he was every where at the same time , but he takes upon himself he 's su , he 's , he 's human nature and he takes upon himself the limitations and when Jesus is walking down second avenue in , in Jerusalem he 's not in Nazareth that 's why there were times when people came to er , to , to , came rushing out because they heard that Jesus was passing by , see he was n't there resident with them , he passed by , now he 's gone back to heaven and where is he , he 's in heaven , he , er whereabouts , where do you think Jesus is now , that resurrected body that was glorified that has gone back to heaven , where do you think it is |
| 11 | Since the Socialists afterwards tried to make out that this was a personal and private effort by the head of the Cecils , it is important to record that Lord Salisbury merely acted as a means of conveying to the Queen the general view inside the Party . |
| 12 | The unsecured creditors therefore sued Salomon personally for the debts which were owed by the company to them , alleging that the company merely acted as an agent or a ‘ front ’ for Salomon himself . |
| 13 | She needed a reminder of this trip even if it only served as a warning . |
| 14 | The outer room contained two wash-hand basins with a paper towel dispenser and , to the left of the door , a long Formica-covered counter with a glass above it which apparently served as a dressing-table . |
| 15 | In 1642–3 he apparently served as an intelligence officer under the Long Parliament 's committee of safety . |
| 16 | Cuba they merely took as a neocolony . |
| 17 | Nothing further is known of him beyond a minor land acquisition in 1538 until , in 1540 , he suddenly emerged as a gentleman of Henry VIII 's privy chamber , a post he was to retain under the young Edward . |
| 18 | as if to make this quite clear , the other charity guest that night was Vicky , a career spinster with beefy-jerky skin and a mouth as tensely muscled as an anus . |
| 19 | By highlighting the threat to the constitution from Labour and Liberal plans for a Scottish Parliament and the proportional representation system by which its members would be elected , he consistently and robustly drove home the message that the Tories alone stood as the party of Union , of collective strength in negotations abroad and strong government at home . |
| 20 | Long derided as the product of a fevered brain , Docklands has made progress this year , despite backlash from Olympia & York 's £5.8bn worldwide debts . |
| 21 | Questions should be formulated with a definite purpose and not just asked as a matter of course . |
| 22 | It thus came as no surprise when it was announced in 1961 that the Marton route would close at the end of the 1962 season . |
| 23 | Left to their own devices , most roses tend to develop new growth into which they direct their sap and energy , bear bloom , and which then — as it becomes old and tired — gradually either becomes starved , by-passed , neglected and finally aborted as the plant constantly turns its attention to new growth , or it develops a barky exterior layer as it settles down to becoming no more than a main road communicating between the raw material goods received from the warehouse in the soil and the production factory upstairs — quite often , a very long way upstairs . |
| 24 | It no longer functioned as a club ; members could not understand what all the others were up to , and were aware that the interests of physicists and of biologists might be opposed . |
| 25 | Well I just thought as a woman not , you know as a person |
| 26 | It called for greater and more concentrated effort along lines which the Government already accepted as the basis for solving the problem of unemployment . |
| 27 | We see God 's good creation progressively soured as a result of man 's sin in overreaching himself in trying to become like God . |
| 28 | It thus featured as an issue in 73 per cent . |
| 29 | Graham climbed from the car and instinctively ducked as a mortar exploded in the distance . |
| 30 | He eventually graduated as a bachelor of astrophysics at London University . |