Example sentences of "[verb] as the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An adult 's constant blaming of another can also be heard as the angry protest of the deprived internal infant within that adult body , and when it turns to whining , may also serve to express the yearning and become an attempt to control the whereabouts of the other . |
| 2 | We were contented to let things remain as the Great Spirit … made them . |
| 3 | Industrial manufacture would remain as the basic technique of production in the society which would replace capitalism . |
| 4 | He also wants Bovril designated as the national football drink . |
| 5 | Wilko came top by miles in a phone in vote of who YEP readers wanted to see as the new england manager ( 2nd coppell , 3rd keegan , 4th Atkinson , 5th Gerry Francis , 6th screaming lord such ) |
| 6 | On theoretical grounds , it has been proposed that hot coronal loops become unstable in evolved stars because of the combined effects of large size ( presumed to scale as the stellar radius ) and low surface gravity , leaving only low-lying cool loops which do not emit X-rays . |
| 7 | There were to be no less than 2,000 uniformed Blackshirts , marching and parading as the advance guard of revolution . |
| 8 | She only liked me for my wealth , and when I , disguised as the gipsy woman , told her that I had only a little money , she and her mother lost interest in me . |
| 9 | Neighbouring Middlesbrough has always been developed as the regional centre . |
| 10 | The Butlin version of the holiday camp prospered in a climate of campaigning for holidays with pay and in a period before packaging had been fully developed as the major way of selling holidays and travel . |
| 11 | In 1889 the new Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway took over the lines and Melton was further developed as the new Committee 's locomotive building and repair centre . |
| 12 | Over the past decade , digestive enzyme activation by lysosomal hydrolases ( particularly cathepsin B ) has been implicated as the initial event in three forms of experimental pancreatitis . |
| 13 | The results were then calculated as the average error across the 20 readings for a single condition for each of the three pre- and post-adaptation phase conditions . |
| 14 | Transit time was calculated as the average passage time of all markers recovered . |
| 15 | And that would be calculated as the total amount dissolved in the ocean divided by its rate either of addition or removal so if we 're assuming steady state the two will be the same , whichever is easiest to ma measure and that would normally be expressed in years |
| 16 | Death rates were calculated as the annual number of deaths in a population of 100000 in each age and sex groups . |
| 17 | Graphs showing the relative enhancement of P ( b ) and v 1 ( c ) following the tetanus as a function of the initial P. The P and v 1 ratios were calculated as the mean value for the 500 trials immediately after the tetanus divided by the mean for the 500 trials before the tetanus . |
| 18 | The question of whether the cash equivalent of a benefit to an employee should be calculated as the marginal cost or average cost of providing the benefit is currently under consideration by the House of Lords , in the case of Pepper v Hart . |
| 19 | The question of whether the cash equivalent of providing a benefit to an employee should be calculated as the marginal cost or average cost of providing the benefit is currently under consideration by the House of Lords in the case of Pepper v Hart . |
| 20 | Three kinds of post-market institutions have become important ; they can be distinguished as the modern patronal , the intermediate and the governmental . |
| 21 | His obituary in the Gentleman 's Magazine ( vol. lxxxii , part 2 , 1812 , p.187 ) , however , states that as an advocate he possessed ‘ a persuasive oratory , infinite wit , and most excellent fancy ’ and that he was ‘ distinguished as the powerful rival of his friend , Lord Erskine ’ ( Thomas , later first Baron , Erskine , q.v. , lord chancellor 1802 ) . |
| 22 | Garfield has described twigging as the inexorable result of realignments in the organization of disciplines 67 . |
| 23 | Garfield has described twigging as the inexorable result of realignments in the organization of disciplines . |
| 24 | Some theft cases can be prosecuted under section 15 , but it is fallacious , having regard to what I perceive as the true meaning of appropriation , to say that all cases of obtaining by deception can be prosecuted under section 1 . |
| 25 | In the next part , I describe Buid attitudes towards what they perceive as the intrinsic aggressiveness of their lowland Christian neighbours , before turning to the activity in which the symbolism of tranquillity and aggression receives its greatest elaboration : animal sacrifice . |
| 26 | The English which is to be formulated as the major instrument for achieving the more general policy goals turns out to consist of systematic inculcation of linguistic practices , firmly aligned to a very specific sense of Englishness . |
| 27 | Suppose a Royal Society of Building were formed as the professional home for all the professionals involved in building . |
| 28 | A series of high , narrow ranges was formed as the Eastern Cordillera were pressed against the resistant block of the Brazilian Shield to the east ( Fig. 3.13 ( D ) ) . |
| 29 | Listening and writing predominate as the major pupil activities , there being little opportunity for pupils to contribute to , or take responsibility for , their own learning , to develop self-confidence , independence and similar personal qualities . |
| 30 | Already in 1913 , as the Independent observed , ‘ gray hair has come to be recognized as the unforgivable witness of industrial imbecility . ’ |