Example sentences of "[adv] as a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Union des populations camerounaises ( UPC — Union of Cameroonian Peoples , operating latterly as a Paris-based clandestine organization , having been banned since 1960 ; it was held responsible for unrest in the 1960s and was regarded as communist-led ) . |
| 2 | John Wayne may be fresh-faced as the Ringo Kid in Stagecoach ( 1939 ) but , a scant decade later , he was prematurely playing old men in She Wore A Yellow Ribbon ( 1948 ) , much more convincingly that he would 20 years later on as a real old man in the indulgent True Grit ( 1967 ) . |
| 3 | But it is not at all obvious to the audience how the couple have arrived at this happier state of affairs , neither is it entirely clear what Bill Alexander hopes to add by exercising his powers of invention on the play 's Prologue , in which an alcoholic tinker called Christopher Sly is persuaded by a group of gentry to think of himself an aristocrat — the story of the shrew being laid on as a suitable dramatic entertainment . |
| 4 | Although the English savant Roger Bacon deciphered the composition of gunpowder in the thirteenth century , it was used in the twelfth by the Moors in wars in Spain and so was probably known to the troops of Barbarossa , perhaps as a terrible Moorish secret weapon . |
| 5 | I bet Stuart sees her basically as a good little shopper . |
| 6 | However , many of those connections which Walcott thought he had identified appear to have been tied together by little more than familial relationship ; he was not able to show that they acted together as a cohesive political force . |
| 7 | These , as he entered the headship , were coming together as a mixed voluntary-aided comprehensive high school . |
| 8 | Roosevelt and his advisers saw Huey Long as a serious political threat , whose support for a third-party candidate in 1936 might split the Democratic vote . |
| 9 | It took several layers of slightly thinned fold acrylic paint to get the effect I wanted , then , as the final touch , I worked over the parts I have previously painted red , now visible only as a dull tonal value within the fold , using well thinned films of the different pearlescent colours . |
| 10 | Frank Tate will be well known to you all , not only as a fine bass player , but as the architect of many special groups that have appeared in the Guinness Spot . |
| 11 | The Side , an unlovely , but beloved spot was where the miners met to squat and smoke and gossip : Burton recollected it warmly as a fraternal masculine club , much cherished . |
| 12 | Impressive enough as a light visual snack , but ultimately a ten-minute gag stretched far past breaking point . |
| 13 | Scott 's first venture into this unlikely field of design was at Battersea where , in 1930 , he was wheeled in as a famous knighted architect by the London Power Company to try to make acceptable the coal-fired monster power station to which the residents of Chelsea and Westminster were taking strong exception . |
| 14 | Marks me down as a prime strategic thinker , and no mistake . ’ |
| 15 | Thus , a simple linear record of his life and rule is impossible and can not be pinned down as a simplistic historical account . |
| 16 | until then the French and Italian and other delegations had us down as a quiet reserved nation |
| 17 | James settled down as a wealthy young laird and later married a daughter of the Swedish Ambassador . |
| 18 | More and more it tended to be regarded not merely as a useful political device but as something with a moral value and justification of its own . |
| 19 | Spenser uses the commonplace theory of correspondences not merely as a convenient poetic device , but to reflect his belief in linkages and parallels among ( from our perspective ) apparently diverse ideas . |
| 20 | This is the distortion of perception referred to by Bruch , but I must add that in my case I see it less as a longstanding perceptual difficulty than as a consequence of my general state of confusion as to my self-image . |
| 21 | She had told me the tunnels had now been connected up and the workmen used the subway constantly as a private short cut . |
| 22 | Next moment every head turned to gaze skywards as a brilliant red star flared into life high above Bethlehem House . |
| 23 | Most often , the car parks , protecting your customer 's property , offering him or her protection ; the fire exits ( not to stop people getting in because they are already alarmed but to check that they are not obstructed ) ; the reception or foyer and other public areas so that management can see which parts of the hotel are being used by guests and roughly by how many , which is very useful if there is an emergency and you have to clear the building ; and finally as a good old-fashioned deterrent and for detection . |
| 24 | We could hear the V2s thudding down onto London in the far distance , but the sound came over as a far-off double bang , which puzzled us for a long time until someone told us what it was . |
| 25 | Modern witchcraft has as many ‘ denominations ’ as does Christianity and , just as a respectable high Anglo-Catholic might shrivel with embarrassment at the gregarious worship of black Pentecostals , and vice versa , there are similar reactions between various branches of witchcraft . |
| 26 | Indeed West German satellite companies are so stong that one bought exclusive German rights to Wimbledon this year , just as a similar Swedish company did there , each denying the traditional terrestrial stations access . |
| 27 | That day , while being shown round the Zoo by the Foreman , he came to the Cages just as a female golden eagle was being put in one of them . |
| 28 | I have informally intimated to British Gas that we 'll be taking it up with them , not as a mere procedural matter through the joint secretary 's machinery , but as a negotiating matter , with the negotiating committee . |
| 29 | Like many others , Schellenberg had seen it as employment , not as a political ideal , and his rise had been astonishing . |
| 30 | Supremely , however , this generous desire to show us the best in an author is manifested in his long chapter about Spenser , and there he marks himself out not as a kindly eccentric , but as a pioneer of modern taste . |