Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] as [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 're desperate to put that right because we do n't want to go down as one-season wonders . |
| 2 | But a war of sorts , and prejudice lingers on as new owners search for finance — in Japan . |
| 3 | Now Asian residents , many of whom run businesses , fear they will be in the front line of any flare-up and even be picked out as special targets . |
| 4 | We do not report that 22% of all tonsillectomies for glue ear in Yorkshire were done as day case procedures but that 22% of tonsillectomies carried out as single procedures were . |
| 5 | What is beyond question is that it must be carried round as extra pounds . |
| 6 | It could stop the erosion of rights catalogued throughout this book , and for this reason such a document needs to be considered seriously by the socialist opposition in Britain , and not written off as mere attempts at electoral reform when instead it should be developing a radical heart along democratic socialist lines . |
| 7 | Different large-scale multi-divisional enterprises may exploit these advantages in different degrees , according to the form and degree of diversification they have developed and according to the particular effectiveness of their management , but the general point here is that these advantages can not be written off as financial/speculative considerations . |
| 8 | For their pains , they were written off as sentimental adulators of the noble savage . |
| 9 | The drawing and the birdwatching had grown up as complementary interests from a very young age . |
| 10 | They show up as curved lines on a photographic film . |
| 11 | Dot-density diagrams are still the most common method of portraying results because features such as walls , which give high readings , show up as dark lines . |
| 12 | Atomic particles in the cosmic rays show up as dark tracks , and then the hard work comes in interpreting them , deciphering their code , and learning about the basic entities of matter . |
| 13 | Ken playing Rodney , Hugh Paddick as Charles , two frightfully , frightfully Mayfair types , doing ridiculous things together like dressing up as red Indians when they took a canoeing holiday . |
| 14 | The indentured labourers hoped to be able to set up as independent farmers once they had worked off the costs of their passages , but the islands soon became so crowded that they were unlikely to be able to do this . |
| 15 | A few people have tried to set up as independent ironers but we seem to be reluctant to pay someone £4 an hour to iron . |
| 16 | The ends of the chaplets ( metal pins used to hold a clay core in position inside the mould of a hollow statue or vessel during casting ) may show up as small patches of a different alloy on the surface of the finished piece . |
| 17 | Secondly , disused flues must be ventilated at top and bottom ; if they are not , condensation can occur within the flue and this may show up as damp patches on chimney breasts . |
| 18 | In addition to the flabby growth and increased susceptibility to pests and disease that follows , the visible indications show out as brown patches which spread and coalesce round the leaf edges . |
| 19 | Amongst those who did give , education , health and general welfare came out as top recipients , but the top 200 corporate donors altogether only gave 150 million for all purposes — a trivial sum in comparison with any social spending total : 25 billion , say , on the NHS or education ( see Figure 9.1 ) . |
| 20 | For some this had the additional attraction that the hospital trusts could , at a future date , be simply floated off as private bodies . |
| 21 | There was little danger that his pictures ( which were valued at hundreds of pounds ) would devalue the currency or be torn out of their frames and passed off as real banknotes : his jury acquitted after retiring for only ten minutes . |
| 22 | Some of our more charming wayside stations have been sold off as private houses . |
| 23 | The men began to wonder if the people whom they had laughed off as superstitious niggers were n't right after all . |
| 24 | It is often apparent in sophisticated users of the language , and shows up as recurrent mistakes , usually of syntax , one school of thought , however , to be discussed later , considers this another strategy and not interference ) . |
| 25 | The elemental functions of intersection are thus reflected up as internal functions of space at the next level , with the result that the required characteristics of the system are specified in more and more detail as the assembly is decomposed into its constituent elements ( see Figure 3.5 ) . |
| 26 | In Brazil the forests are being indiscriminately destroyed and many indigenous peoples , like the Yanomami Indians , are being slowly wiped out as gold prospectors and others invade their lands , poison their rivers , and bring disease and death in their wake . |
| 27 | Far more than before , however , and far more substantially because of the growth of TV and other new media , they stand out as dominant features . |
| 28 | The pioneers of the NHS accepted that it would initially be necessary to increase the resources devoted to the service , but that this would level off as medical needs were satisfied . |
| 29 | Then came more accidents — we seemed to have a large number of accidents in the 1950s and early 1960s and many of them finished up as public inquiries . |
| 30 | When the Rolling Stones leapt on stage in jeans and open necked shirts they were immediately marked down as Dangerous Rebels . |