Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv prt] as an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Graham Crowley says the North-East stands out as an area that is creating opportunities for artists and many craft people encouraged to move to the region in readiness for Arts ‘ 96 . |
| 2 | From anywhere else it 's a choice of hitting and hoping or laying-up near the opening Braid built in as an option . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | The Marie Lloyd costume she was wearing : buttoned boots , feather boa , black-straw , flower-trimmed hat , gave her the appearance of a child dressed up as an adult . |
| 5 | Alfred Molina 's Shannon comes over as an assemblage of mannerisms rather than a man whose behaviour arises from dissipation and anguish ; Frances Barber is too young , too wiry and too busy for the over-ripe Maxine ; Robin Bailey , though he believably slips in and out of awareness , is too sturdy for the ancient poet , and he sounds and gestures just like colonel Hall on Sergeant Bilko . |
| 6 | Iron shortage shows out as an overall pale colouring in the leaves . |
| 7 | His name cropped up as an acquaintance of Mills . ’ |
| 8 | History rather suggests that the discipline needed for insurrection lingers on as an authoritative force after the revolution in a way that blocks the larger end of a socialism that advances opportunities for freedom and self-development through a true democracy of equals . |
| 9 | His Quaker father started out as an illiterate nailer at Stourbridge , but , through thrift and considerable business acumen , became a manufacturer of nails on the putting-out system , an ironmonger , and an owner of iron-refining works . |
| 10 | Kyaw Nyein went along as an Adviser , and Rance also wanted Thakin Nu to go : he was , he told London , ‘ The most important member of AFPFL Working Committee excluding Aung San ’ ( 29 December ) , but he remained behind to give direction to the League while the others were in London . |
| 11 | The end-of-term atmosphere was maintained when Mrs Kinnock dressed up as an air hostess and handed out sweets to the accompanying press corps . |
| 12 | In a rather confused , uncertain , period Reagan stood out as an upbeat , optimistic candidate who , despite his failings , had an easily understood programme and a clear sense of the direction in which he would take his country , if given the opportunity . |
| 13 | Each individual man starts out as an animal with a potential ( genetic predisposition ) for acquiring culture ; we become civilized human beings by virtue of our training ; our moral judgements derives from that training . |
| 14 | Once they are included in the explanation participation drops out as an inessential part of many consent situations . |
| 15 | And again , elsewhere , she writes : ‘ The rest of my life stretches out as an emptiness before me . ’ |
| 16 | Up till recently , ceilings , walls and woodwork were either done in gloss , eggshell or flat paint , with perhaps the odd contrast border or super graphic thrown in as an added bonus . |
| 17 | But it could always of course come in as an odd . |
| 18 | 15 — 479 BC — whom there is no special reason to write off as an anachronism by the historian ) and the league was never dissolved in the fifth , despite the disgrace and demoralization caused by Theban medism in the Persian Wars , and despite a decade 's loss of independence to Athens , in Boiotia as a whole , between 457 and 446 . |
| 19 | In Taylor 's reign , only Trevor Steven 's effort in Russia earlier this year from a Nigel Clough pass stands out as an example . |
| 20 | POLE-AXED THE strain breaks through as an emotional Nigel Mansell quits . |
| 21 | Dichotic listening thus appeared to offer a comparatively simple , non-invasive technique for determining the speech dominant hemisphere in neurologically intact subjects as well as in neurosurgical patients , since the side of speech dominance shows up as an advantage for digits presented to the contralateral ear . |
| 22 | So I think the communications department wanted to pull together all of these issues , and make sure that we hear your voice effectively , we represent it effectively and that , the sense in which N C V O comes over as an organisation is more appropriately presented and projected in all the many different spheres in which we 're currently operating . |
| 23 | As in the case of a bibliography , an index may form an integral part of the book , or an extra of dubious value tacked on as an afterthought . |