Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] as [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was looked on as a very serious offence . |
| 2 | So if there 's one draw , for example , or one match which looks as though it stands out as an absolutely surefire score draw , and everybody puts it down , and it comes up as a score draw , then nobody gains anything . |
| 3 | each one came out as a very personalised and individualistic comment which reflected that child . |
| 4 | McDonald 's came out as the most parent-friendly restaurant , with Forte as the best hotel chain . |
| 5 | It was encouraging that during many permutations and re-appraisals of the project , and a protracted consultation period , that Glasgow consistently came out as the most cost-effective location for this type of central administration function . |
| 6 | McDonald 's came out as the most parentfriendly restaurant , with Forte as the best hotel chain . |
| 7 | In fairness , it must be said that the professions have worked out a number of checks and balances to this system , and a common alternative to a percentage fee , hourly rates , can work out as an even more expensive open cheque drawn on the public purse . |
| 8 | That view is reinforced by the Newsons , who say : ‘ The measures that stand out as the most predictive of criminal record before 20 years are having been smacked or beaten once or more a week at 11 , and having a mother with a high commitment to formal physical punishment at that age . ’ |
| 9 | The drinkers , drunk as they were , full of glasses of wine , fell back from the man , who , with the rags he wore , had surprisingly clean white underpants — what struck Rab — raised his coat and squatted down as the most natural thing in the world . |
| 10 | For example Candy , who started off as a fairly minor part in the book , became part of George and Lennie 's dream and they became a ‘ threesome ’ . |
| 11 | mm , mm , were , were talking about what happens when people who have fallen in love get together and decide to stay together for a bit and its been suggested that marriage can put some strains on er what started off as a very heady mutual experience , if your lucky , let me ask you this , do you think marriage destroys love ? , button one for yes and button two for no , does marriage destroy love ? , as you understand it mm a few are not sure but thirty people have said yes , who said yes |
| 12 | Well do you see this vote against opting out as a basically a vote in favour of the tertiary college plans for Banbury ? |
| 13 | There are substantial grounds for regarding opting out as the most radical and successful experiment in state schooling for 30 years . |
| 14 | He singled out as the most significant object , a bronze mace 13½ ″ long in the form of the club of Hercules surmounted by a panel of figures in solid relief . |
| 15 | In a constantly shifting scene it must go down as the most important symbolic change imaginable . |
| 16 | It also weighs in as the most comfortable waterproof jacket I 've worn . |
| 17 | As it is , he has gone down as a highly skilled bowler who , because he lacked the flamboyance of some of his colleagues , attracted less attention than many of them ; but who consistently , almost stealthily , got on with the job of collecting three or four wickets in innings after innings after innings . |
| 18 | That tour has , of course , gone down as the most exciting series of the century . |
| 19 | ‘ But I was fortunate because then Stoddard took over as a professionally run and profitable company and I 've spent 11 happy years with them . ’ |
| 20 | Rincewind swayed back as a wildly thrown stool sailed past and smashed on the far side of the street . |
| 21 | The French stood in sharp contrast to all this ; their main energies were directed at expansion in Europe , with the Netherlands marked down as a particularly attractive target , but they were so rich , so dynamic , and so confident in the second half of the seventeenth century that they were quite willing — as asserted in the motto of their great king , Louis XIV , nec pluribus impar — to fight several enemies at once . |
| 22 | The answer is that , despite his biographer 's sterling efforts to dig up neat psychoanalytic excuses for even his most venal sins , a Dickens often given to kindness , empathy and geniality but more predominantly disposed to be cruel , self-centred , self-pitying and sententious does not come over as an especially lovable specimen . |
| 23 | It was only a short step from here to the so-called ‘ New Pop ’ of Duran Duran , Wham ! and Culture Club , with ABC standing by as a rather aloof and better-dressed alternative . |
| 24 | If an aspiring agent does n't go to college or university , there is no reason why he or she ca n't apply to an agency and come in as a very junior person to work their way up . |
| 25 | A keyboard adds depth to the slower , moodier numbers ( ‘ Better Life ’ , ‘ Leave Tonight ’ ) and the band come over as a pretty tight and professional unit . |
| 26 | Yeah , she come back as a bloody well , thirteen year old was a five year old and she come back |
| 27 | Does the fixity on a particular occasion set in as a purely mental act of knowledge ? |
| 28 | In Kevin Billington 's production , Quartermaine 's Terms comes over as a deceptively sedate and profoundly funny play that is a serious pleasure to watch from start to finish . |
| 29 | This unsensitivity aside , though , George comes over as a pretty decent bloke who simply got fed up with his celebrity status . |
| 30 | This unsensitivity aside , though , George comes over as a pretty decent bloke who simply got fed up with his celebrity status . |