Example sentences of "[verb] as the [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An A major-F major chord progression is heard as the remorseful Achilles reflects on his men who died through his fault . |
| 2 | In 1911 Fort Station was developed as the principal Colombo station . |
| 3 | We do not want this My Lords , th the th the appointed members system will be wrong , it will be against the whole trend of policing as the Noble Lord Harris spelt out from eighteen thirty-five . |
| 4 | On Aug. 2 Baker met with a Palestinian delegation in East Jerusalem led by Faisal al-Husseini , who was widely regarded as the unofficial PLO representative in Jerusalem . |
| 5 | They are reported to have requested ( 1 ) that the confirmation of Christian bishops of Jerusalem , Antioch , Ephesus and Alexandria be revoked ; ( 2 ) that these bishoprics be conferred instead on members of the Desposyni ; and ( 3 ) that Christian churches ‘ resume ’ sending money to the Desposyni Church in Jerusalem , which was to be regarded as the definitive Mother Church . |
| 6 | However , it is the next and last version which can most reasonably be regarded as the true Pacific . |
| 7 | He would , somehow , behave as the true Wolfprinces would have behaved in such a situation . |
| 8 | Five years later it was modified as the Trionic Attak , and some boots were given a ‘ sprung ’ , or slightly curved sole — a simple device that makes for far easier walking , first used in Brasher Boots . |
| 9 | But soon after John was selected as the prospective Cheltenham candidate , the Taylors concluded that there were too many pressures to introduce a new baby . |
| 10 | Alcibiades Hidalgo was named as the new UN permanent representative . |
| 11 | Amanda Bairstow 's principal boy was attractive , but , whatever the provincial accent she adopted as the fortune-seeking Dick was meant to be , it was nowhere near the Gloucester that the script ( and history ) specified . |
| 12 | While Hamnett may be seen as the campaigning Bob Geldof of fashion , in design terms she is more the Tony Blackburn , making a living , like him , out of replaying Golden Oldies . |
| 13 | The mounting protests on all sides came as the outlawed Ulster Freedom Freedom fighters , who claimed responsibility for the four shootings , threatened to step up their murder campaign . |
| 14 | During the early 1960s relations flourished as the late President Sukarno embarked on a policy of extreme nationalism and of confrontation with Western and colonial powers . |
| 15 | PETER HARTLAND looks down the corridors of history and produces what he sees as the supreme England one-day team |
| 16 | Lorrimer had one set as the Senior P.S.O . |
| 17 | They are known as the Super Mario Brothers . |
| 18 | It seemed that Jason was keen to distance himself from the increasing danger of being known as the future Mr Minogue . |
| 19 | Some he 'd learnt off the Frenchman — whose name is such a household name it escapes me — Marcel Marceau — and Jack Birkett ( now known as The Great Orlando ) was Harlequin , who could also be Columbine . |
| 20 | The Whitebred/Welsh Black cross is known as the Blue Albion and from time to time it has been classified as a separate breed . |
| 21 | Also known as The Blue Hag of the Highlands , due to the colour of her skin and hair , she personifies the spirit of winter and can freeze the ground with her staff . |
| 22 | By 1957 almost half a million French troops , mostly young draftees or reservists but with a substantial leavening of Foreign Legionnaires and other regulars , were fighting a long and brutal war in Algeria against the forces of an independence movement known as the Front de Libération Nationale ( FLN ) . |
| 23 | The introduction of inflationary expectations into the Phillips relationship created what is known as the expectations-augmented Phillips curve and this plays an important role in the monetarist approach to inflation . |
| 24 | It led across a sinister patch of ground known as the Smiling Meadow , which looked just like a pleasant grassy meadow of brilliant green , but which was actually a treacherous tract of shifting marsh , partly waterlogged and with only a single narrow path of firm ground across it . |
| 25 | The Ghost Train was written by Arnold Ridley , better known as the dithering Godfrey from TV 's comedy series Dad 's Army . |
| 26 | St Giles 's cathedral nearby is more properly known as the High Kirk , having been formally designated a cathedral for only a brief period during the reign of Charles I. It was here that Charles attempted to impose a High Anglican liturgy , virtually a Mass , upon a Presbyterian society which responded with brawls in the church and outside , still remembered as the Jenny Geddes Riots after a vegetable seller from the market who was reported to have thrown her stool at the Dean 's head . |
| 27 | The fourth element of the trust territory was the Mariana Islands ( excluding Guam ) , which had opted in 1978 for status as a self-governing commonwealth of the USA known as the Northern Marianas . |
| 28 | It was at a meeting in February 1880 of Emma 's co-workers and tenants in south London that it was decided to take over the Victoria Theatre ( familiarly known as the Old Vic ) in the Waterloo Road , a hitherto dirty and drunken home for melodrama , and turn it into a coffee music hall for purified and teetotal entertainment . |
| 29 | It was known as the old Edinburgh road . |
| 30 | The other Prendergast sketchbook in the collection , known as the Large Boston Public Gardens Sketchbook , is very much the same sort of thing but more fully worked , with numerous full-page watercolour sketches , possibly intended as presentation pieces to demonstrate his abilities to future patrons . |