Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The track goes on as a pleasant lane beyond Calf Holes , coming alongside a belt of trees on the left and arriving after a mile at the sixteenth-century Ling Gill Bridge , a modest structure with a tablet built into parapet giving the information that it was repaired in 1765 at the expense of the inhabitants of the West Riding . |
| 2 | I wanted to carry on as an airborne soldier , a paratrooper , enjoying the prestige which came from being part of an elite , and also the better pay and training opportunities that were the lot of such units . |
| 3 | Sheena Falconer , senior lecturer in textiles , has been told by the principal , Dr David Kennedy , that there is room for only one textile lecturer , but that she could stay on as an ordinary lecturer — the post held by her sister , Barbara Diack . |
| 4 | I confess I can not really see worm watching catching on as a mass pursuit with worm watcher clubs and organised field visits , but I did hear of an infants ' school where the worm has joined the tadpole as a creature for study . |
| 5 | ‘ I think the Border clubs would have to sit down as a composite group and work out a new sevens structure . ’ |
| 6 | Here , as with the vernacular , the Council for the sake of strengthening the ‘ active participation ’ which it correctly laid down as a vital principle of liturgy , overthrew a deformation which had become customary in the Middle Ages and against which the Reformation had vigorously protested . |
| 7 | Treleaven , from Hayling , only got in as a last-minute replacement when Michael Welch , on EGU duty in Spain , crushed his thumb in a door and had to scratch from the Salver and Sunday 's Hampshire Hog at North Hants , where he should have been defending . |
| 8 | However , due to the short notice , Randalstown would have been without four key players on May 15 which was pencilled in as the reserve date . |
| 9 | The Wilhelmshaven dockyard had been , in its day , the largest naval yard in Europe , and is likely to go down as the largest purely naval yard in history . |
| 10 | As a proper noun standing for the state of being modern it has never really caught on as a popular word in everyday speech . |
| 11 | Finally , in the week that the flame of altruism flickered on as the saintly Mother Teresa and her divine holiness the Princess of Wales clasped hands in a gesture of tender solidarity that touched the souls of millions , it was revealed that : |
| 12 | Can I make a suggestion rather than re-numbering all those , its going to be quite a long job , is that from what I can see at the moment there is no reason why that ca n't be added on as a last sentence to nine anyway , cause nine says you records the outcome of the enquiry , . |
| 13 | Solid waste is different : unless it is burned or buried at sea , it lingers on as a visible souvenir . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Articles 100 and 235 of the Treaty of Rome provide a mechanism whereby the amassment of power by the Community may be carried on as a continuous process . |
| 16 | For about the first 12 years of its existence the centre was carried on as an unincorporated organisation . |
| 17 | Injuries have hit the club , and coach Billy Lomax had to come on as a substitute midway through the second half . |
| 18 | Today , their legacy lives on as the British Pteridological Society ( BPS ) , which this year celebrates its centenary . |
| 19 | If I make a few constructive points , it will be looked on as a Liverpudlian poking his nose in . |
| 20 | I 'm now looked on as a one parent family . |
| 21 | It was probably effective the first time , but now it is looked on as a desperate move , a last ditch attempt to gain attention . |
| 22 | The absence of CD4 binding by the MicroGeneSys gp160 vaccine may therefore be looked on as an added safety feature . |
| 23 | The tale of how an astute Cornish furze-cutter came to be founder of one of the great landed families of Cornwall , with one of the County 's most famed stately homes , could be looked on as an ideal example of Thatcherite-style enterprise and self-help . |
| 24 | You 've got to remember that at the time , deregulation was looked on as an open cash-register . |
| 25 | While I agree that worm watching will probably never catch on as a mass pursuit , something well known here in Cornwall is to observe seagulls tap dancing on the lawn after rain . |
| 26 | It is hard to disappoint someone who may have come in as a last port of call when all other channels to sort out their problems seem closed . |
| 27 | At Charing Cross the boatman began to pull in as the deep bend in the river became more pronounced . |
| 28 | Simon was made aware that he might find himself obliged to stand down as a Parliamentary candidate if he failed to make an honest woman out of the Press Lord 's daughter . |
| 29 | The police moved in as the three loaded part of a haul of 200 kilos of hashish into a warehouse near Madrid . |
| 30 | You had me pegged down as a full-time thief . ’ |