Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] as the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Pierre Mauroy , an ex-prime minister and party workhorse , will stay on as the party 's first secretary . |
| 2 | But whereas such poems are rare in earlier periods , in twelfth-century Europe they multiply so explosively that the phenomenon can not be explained merely as the reflection of a greater number of extant manuscripts . |
| 3 | In the case of Monetary Union , the situation arises not just from the special treatment accorded to the UK and Denmark , but also from the fact that it was appreciated that not all Member States would meet the rather strict criteria for economic convergence laid down as the precondition for participation in the monetary union ; such States are referred to as ‘ Member States with a derogation ’ , and would , inter alia , be excluded from the decision-making process on certain matters . |
| 4 | X-Windows technology suppliers are bandying together as the X Industry Association to promote X at the behest of the X Business Group . |
| 5 | This switch was intended to enable Roshanara to retain her influence by stepping in as the child 's regent . |
| 6 | From this viewpoint cultural rules are not given determinants of individual action but are continually built up and broken down as the result of individual choices and decisions . |
| 7 | The British headquarters is given only as The OTO Oasis , BM Box 3338 , London , WC1N 3XX . |
| 8 | It is a top-down approach in that the entities are identified first , followed by the relationships between them , and then more detail is filled in as the attributes and key attribute(s) of each entity are identified . |
| 9 | And just as linguistics ought to be able to account for the structure and organization of as yet unspoken sentences , so poetics ought to be able to account for the rules governing as yet unwritten works of literature : ‘ Each work is therefore regarded only as the manifestation of an abstract and general structure , of which it is but one of the possible realizations . |
| 10 | In an important sense , Hugh may almost be looked on as the instigator of the Investiture decree of 1078 , for he had gone to Rome for his episcopal consecration four years earlier in order to avoid contact with a secular ruler , who claimed the right both to nominate and to invest his nominee in his episcopal office . |
| 11 | But it 's strange to think that the day 's not so far away when players like Robert Cray , Bonnie Raitt and Jimmie Vaughan , for so long representatives of the new American blues generation , will themselves be looked on as the elders of the blues . |
| 12 | The eight parties which had come together as the Kurdistan Front took part on May 19 in elections for an executive leader and a 105-seat Iraqi Kurdistan National Assembly for the Kurds of northern Iraq . |
| 13 | One physical reason for difficulty which is greatly exaggerated in popular thinking and is even claimed mistakenly as the basis of some sexual dysfunction is that of abnormal size in the sexual organs . |
| 14 | How Christianity starts off as the religion of peace but ends up violent like other religions . |
| 15 | The car hummed nearer as the view to one side slowly opened up through the dunes to reveal the shining beach and blue-green ocean . |
| 16 | Time to find whether opting out adds up As the 2% incentive to contract out of SERPS nears an end , LIZ WALKINGTON takes stock |
| 17 | Andy Payton and Stuart Slater showed , for example , that they may now have come to terms with the tribal ritual that is entitled to pass their understanding until time and circumstances dictate that they become as wound up as the rest . |
| 18 | Kate was down in the pit lane for the Friday qualifying session , her nerves nearly as wound up as the drivers ' , knowing that Ace was waiting to live up to his name with the fastest lap . |
| 19 | Nahh … what I 'd really like to do is come back as the guy who shot Reagan a few years back , only I would n't miss ! |
| 20 | Star stayer Rahan Arc ( 9.15 ) showed a glimpse of his old form at Walthamstow on Thursday and stands out as the banker bet of the seven open races on an attractive Ramsgate card . |
| 21 | They ease gently , throbbingly through ‘ Kinky Afro ’ , but ‘ Loose Fit ’ stands out as the song that suits their current mood exactly ; slinky , elastic , swaying with a sexy guitar , it 's effortlessly groovy . |
| 22 | One man stands out as the architect of the Midland 's golden era : Sir Edward Holden . |
| 23 | In the US there have been extensive experiments with new forms of reporting and in Europe , Germany stands out as the leader in environmental reporting . |
| 24 | He did n't move from the middle of the hall , but watched Maggie standing in a doorway to the right , and she turned her face to him , laughing now as the voice from the other room came to him , saying , ‘ Male or female ? ’ |
| 25 | Hewlett-Packard currently looks by far the best placed of the biggest manufacturers to come out as the winner in the 1990s — but then three or four years ago , that was being said about DEC . |
| 26 | The first pieces of Jason , once also called Medley , its long-awaited graphical object-oriented next-generation product for client-server environments , is being rolled out as the tip of an overall strategy it has dubbed Nouveau . |
| 27 | The first pieces of Jason , once also called Medley , its long-awaited graphical object-oriented next-generation product for client/server environments , is being rolled out as the tip of an overall strategy it has dubbed Nouveau . |
| 28 | Do you want to erm , well I 've come today as the partner responsible for recruiting my men for the audit of the County Council , together with my colleague Stephen Critchley , who is the partner responsible for the regularity audit , the main accounts of the County Council accounts . |
| 29 | The second series of questions focuses on what 's really Happening here as the problem . |
| 30 | It must be recalled that money stands here as the symbol of abstraction in human relations . |