Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] as the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Pierre Mauroy , an ex-prime minister and party workhorse , will stay on as the party 's first secretary . |
| 2 | In the case of Monetary Union , the situation arises not just from the special treatment accorded to the UK and Denmark , but also from the fact that it was appreciated that not all Member States would meet the rather strict criteria for economic convergence laid down as the precondition for participation in the monetary union ; such States are referred to as ‘ Member States with a derogation ’ , and would , inter alia , be excluded from the decision-making process on certain matters . |
| 3 | This switch was intended to enable Roshanara to retain her influence by stepping in as the child 's regent . |
| 4 | From this viewpoint cultural rules are not given determinants of individual action but are continually built up and broken down as the result of individual choices and decisions . |
| 5 | It is a top-down approach in that the entities are identified first , followed by the relationships between them , and then more detail is filled in as the attributes and key attribute(s) of each entity are identified . |
| 6 | In an important sense , Hugh may almost be looked on as the instigator of the Investiture decree of 1078 , for he had gone to Rome for his episcopal consecration four years earlier in order to avoid contact with a secular ruler , who claimed the right both to nominate and to invest his nominee in his episcopal office . |
| 7 | But it 's strange to think that the day 's not so far away when players like Robert Cray , Bonnie Raitt and Jimmie Vaughan , for so long representatives of the new American blues generation , will themselves be looked on as the elders of the blues . |
| 8 | How Christianity starts off as the religion of peace but ends up violent like other religions . |
| 9 | Time to find whether opting out adds up As the 2% incentive to contract out of SERPS nears an end , LIZ WALKINGTON takes stock |
| 10 | Andy Payton and Stuart Slater showed , for example , that they may now have come to terms with the tribal ritual that is entitled to pass their understanding until time and circumstances dictate that they become as wound up as the rest . |
| 11 | Kate was down in the pit lane for the Friday qualifying session , her nerves nearly as wound up as the drivers ' , knowing that Ace was waiting to live up to his name with the fastest lap . |
| 12 | Nahh … what I 'd really like to do is come back as the guy who shot Reagan a few years back , only I would n't miss ! |
| 13 | Star stayer Rahan Arc ( 9.15 ) showed a glimpse of his old form at Walthamstow on Thursday and stands out as the banker bet of the seven open races on an attractive Ramsgate card . |
| 14 | They ease gently , throbbingly through ‘ Kinky Afro ’ , but ‘ Loose Fit ’ stands out as the song that suits their current mood exactly ; slinky , elastic , swaying with a sexy guitar , it 's effortlessly groovy . |
| 15 | One man stands out as the architect of the Midland 's golden era : Sir Edward Holden . |
| 16 | In the US there have been extensive experiments with new forms of reporting and in Europe , Germany stands out as the leader in environmental reporting . |
| 17 | Hewlett-Packard currently looks by far the best placed of the biggest manufacturers to come out as the winner in the 1990s — but then three or four years ago , that was being said about DEC . |
| 18 | The first pieces of Jason , once also called Medley , its long-awaited graphical object-oriented next-generation product for client-server environments , is being rolled out as the tip of an overall strategy it has dubbed Nouveau . |
| 19 | The first pieces of Jason , once also called Medley , its long-awaited graphical object-oriented next-generation product for client/server environments , is being rolled out as the tip of an overall strategy it has dubbed Nouveau . |
| 20 | The house is a mobile home , carried about as the caddis walks , like the shell of a snail or hermit crab except that the animals builds it instead of growing it or finding it . |
| 21 | Mark Cameron ( 1987 ) felt that the knot symbolized possession by a man , a token of the collective sacred marriage which all young people had to go through as the culmination of their initiation sequence . |
| 22 | If you were in a wine bar with ferns , mellowed out on red wine and having a really sloppy kissy kissy lovey dovey ooghy woogy dinner with your lover and Blueboy came on as the cabaret , you would go berserk and slash open their gizzards with the cake fork . |
| 23 | The undertakers have moved in as the middle-men , the ‘ third party ’ , who handle all the unpleasantness and worrying details of death . |
| 24 | Alain came in as the doctor 's car left the house and he stood at the foot of the bed and regarded her sternly . |
| 25 | Well I 've got that written down as the beginning of what goes in but e , I do n't actually do those the departments do them . |
| 26 | The 1770s house had become a boarding house and the eighteenth-century garden paved over as the city bus station . |
| 27 | On these occasions the gloves came off as the Service most adversely affected sought support in Parliament , in the media , from industry , and from the electorate , in what it saw as its fight for survival . |
| 28 | Between the 1150s and the 1180s connections between the curia and Paris were built up as the studium , or university , began to form . |
| 29 | It is then written up as the business strategy or plan together with a detailed plan for implementation . |
| 30 | He 's dressing up as the Lincoln Imp ; the original imp is a carving in Lincoln cathedral . |