Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] as [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Enayes have a delicate racial balance between the indigenous Enayas , the Indians brought in as indentured labourers , the Arabs , the Carib-Enayas and the nomadic Karfonas . |
| 32 | In a classic Desmond manoeuvre , the big names were brought in as Ordinary shareholders for a total of £1m . |
| 33 | Perhaps we will even copy the German Gruppe in which the decentralized units are set up as separate companies with their own top managements . |
| 34 | And for the opposite reason we neglect variations in the numbers of those who are brought up as seafaring men for these variations are too slow to produce much effect in the year or two during which the scarcity of meat lasts . |
| 35 | She 's the latest of a series of elderly people singled out as easy targets for robbery . |
| 36 | Walsh did not appear , but Cooper and Pilger went in as non-executive members of the Board . |
| 37 | They are parasitic on fish , feeding on the blood for three months before dropping off as miniature mussels . |
| 38 | For the most part , the PC 's central processor is used to perform the calculations that end up as pretty pictures on your monitor , but there is a way to take some of the load off the CPU . |
| 39 | This whole area had blossomed as a great region for settlement , in which the Spanish language was steadily being forced upon the survivors of the original population and to which Spanish emigrants went out as regular reinforcements to maintain the conquests of Cones and Pizzano . |
| 40 | Our social mores have changed so much that it is easy to single out as personal characteristics those which were actually held in common by neatly everyone . |
| 41 | In an inquisitorial process of this kind lawyers do not stand out as good investigators ; they appear to be obsessed with the necessity to attribute blame . |
| 42 | A steady stream of sightseers made their way along the river to see the villa where they were shown round by the WEA class decked out as praetorian guards and vestal virgins . |
| 43 | All the large houses have been pulled down , or taken over as nursing homes . |
| 44 | And some Microsoft-led protocols and specifications such as MAPI ( Windows Messaging Interface ) and ODBC ( Open Database Connectivity ) are almost certain to be taken up as industry-wide standards , says Sanders . |
| 45 | The two tests were explained in that case by the Lord Chancellor … who commented that not the law but our mode of life has changed over the years ; that what has changed is " the degree in which certain things have seemed susceptible of being put up as mere ornaments whereas at our earlier period the mere construction rendered it impossible sometimes to sever the thing which was put up from the realty . " |
| 46 | They 're wired up like a lighting circuit , with the circuit cable terminating at the last — to fixed appliances like cookers and immersion heaters — are also wired up as radial circuits . |
| 47 | Fool 's Gold director Terry Winsor says : ‘ The truth is extremely elusive but my understanding is that unlike the Great Train Robbers , the boys who did go inside wo n't come out as poor men . ’ |
| 48 | Critics like the duchess believe the Government 's allocation of up to £22 million for care agencies will be heavily trimmed back as local authorities are given the final say on how the money is spent . |
| 49 | Whatever the aspirations of the corporate planners , most of the attempts to develop corporate objectives and goals ( whether in structure plans or corporate documents ) have ended up as bland statements of intent , which are either unachievable or virtually meaningless . |
| 50 | But is may not be an accident that two out of the last three large , completed bids have ended up as tender offers , not full-scale takeovers . |
| 51 | Sir Fred Hoyle has argued that ‘ extra-supermassive ’ white holes on the scale of 10 14 solar masses have ended up as large clusters or superclusters of galaxies . |
| 52 | But neither Johnson nor former Gosforth and West Hartlepool lock Kevin Westgarth could have been singled out as outstanding performers . |
| 53 | Not that Arsenal should be singled out as sole instigators of the ill-feeling at White Hart Lane . |
| 54 | Unlike many black kids who consider themselves singled out as possible sportsmen because of stereotyping , he found only his PE teacher took an interest in his sport . |
| 55 | Universities , banks and the like are being singled out as potential customers , and Harari 's best guess is that ACTec should have a product within 14 to 18 months . |
| 56 | The Committee considered such appointments preferable to more covert arrangements whereby certain officers became singled out as sympathetic sources of advice . |
| 57 | Where it is ( as in Ferejohn , 1974 ; see also Johnston , 1980 ) , the southern States usually come out as major beneficiaries — because their Senators and Representatives tend to be among the longest-lived politically ; the Midwest States , on the other hand , tend to benefit much less , which is a source of much local concern ( Murphy , 1971 ) . |
| 58 | This may help to explain why Dearlove 's conclusions were premature , but the issues he identifies come back as key concerns in the 1980s and 1990s . |
| 59 | Where the main constructive waves are swell waves which may have been generated hundreds and even thousands of kilometres away and travelled on as free waves , it is quite likely that the local resultant wind has a far smaller part in the orientation of coastal forms . |
| 60 | But the truth is that HMI is to be privatised by the back door because the half of HMI who will not be employed by it will have to go and set up as private consultants . |