Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could that remain intact as the channel strives to keep advertisers happy ? |
| 2 | For the first Christians to claim this as the heart of their faith was a scandal of the first order . |
| 3 | Lloyd 's List later cited a deal whereby the Pacific Valour was to shift a cargo of 240,000 tonnes from the Gulf to Japan at W37 , apparently a fairly durable rate , as the same publication reported W37-40 as the range over which discussion occurred for a voyage from Kharg to Japan in 1984 . |
| 4 | Just a mulch of flesh frozen solid as a rock . ’ |
| 5 | Our voices grow fainter as the mist tucks itself in above us . |
| 6 | Common philosophy : What is becoming clear as the partnership progresses is that BP and Unipart share a common philosophy — based on quality products , a focus on giving customers the best possible service , and a commercial drive to get more bang for fewer bucks . |
| 7 | The visible ones grow larger as the fog reflects up at them ; their voices become bullhorns . |
| 8 | And : ‘ Constantine now stands alone as the saviour of the world . |
| 9 | Although this has clearly been recognised as a ground of challenge for abuse of power ( see Anisminic , for example ) , it is difficult to find examples where it stands alone as the ground for attacking the decision . |
| 10 | He did n't expect to find any as the hotel had recently been refurbished and the KGB would have used the latest available technology , burying it in the plasterwork , the heating and the plumbing . |
| 11 | In more wooded country with old hedges , you will almost certainly come across the field rose R. arvensis , the hips of which tend to be more orange than red , becoming blackened as the winter progresses . |
| 12 | All order became lost as the battle opened out and a struggling press of men fought for the ramparts , the rooftops , the alleys between buildings . |
| 13 | She was a little woman , not much taller than Carrie , but she seemed strong as a railway porter , carrying their cases as if they weighed nothing . |
| 14 | And they must do that as the possibility increases that they might be sucked into a wider Balkans war . |
| 15 | You can tell the solicitor and he will say or she will say to you Good I understand that or Have you thought of this or No you ca n't do that as the case may be . |
| 16 | The seductive influence of Italian style and fashion is made manifest as The Face has us ‘ kitting up for the World Cup ’ with Italian soccer casuals . |
| 17 | Over the next decade that prophetic vision was made real as the landscape of Irish politics underwent revolutionary change at the hands of men and women who had been moulded and inspired by the events of 1916 . |
| 18 | It whined deep in its throat , as though in pain , and he saw the body grow paler as the fur sloughed away into nothing . |
| 19 | Warrender proved his mastery of diplomacy by looking enigmatic as the ambassador continued to fulminate . |
| 20 | Greetings became elaborate as the leader indicated the four glasses in front of each of us . |
| 21 | It became obvious as the system model was expanded to activity and then information level that the volume of data produced was becoming impossible to handle and comprehend using manual methods only . |
| 22 | But this sort of arrangement too became rarer as the century went on . |
| 23 | stated that in his opinion that if the Institute did recommend such action and an embalmer became infected as a result , the Institute could be open to legal action . |
| 24 | International players were made to look foolish as the ball swirled capriciously in the wind that howled around the ground from start to finish . |
| 25 | His face turned thoughtful as the waiter approached with the main courses . |
| 26 | The papal curia acted much as the curia regis and the cardinals became primarily officers of state and administrators who could be used as ambassadors or legates — a position they had reached by the early years of the twelfth century . |
| 27 | management responsibilities tend to overlap and become confused as the size of the management structure gets larger . |
| 28 | Virus F/x-01–74482 , soon referred to as , simply , the Mahon virus was , as far as she could understand , a unique example of something that up till now had only been postulated : that deep in the ocean , under the terrific pressure and in temperatures approaching absolute zero , there had remained chains of biochemicals , primitive viruses that had been part of the great ‘ organic soup ’ at the creation of life , remaining unchanged as the rest of the primordial swamp had undergone the long evolutionary journey to form all the complexities of life on earth . |
| 29 | ‘ Aye , right where you sit , ’ Maggie replied quick as a flash , which earned a laugh from Susan . |
| 30 | Prospects for the highest-rated shares to open at a premium of up to 30 per cent continued to look good as the stock market held steady yesterday . |