Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All fruits that naturally grow as trees , even if trained by gardeners into ornamental shapes , are normally grouped together as top or tree fruits . |
| 2 | Marshall , the court held that a charge applied to factory machinery which had replaced that originally used as security for the repayment of a substantial debt . |
| 3 | Paul Hopkinson was born on June 29 1906 , the son of a former professor of archaeology who became a clergyman and eventually retired as Archdeacon of West Morland . |
| 4 | The little larvae soon emerge — they know which way to go ! — and bore down into the stem where they pupate and eventually emerge as adults . |
| 5 | An exponent of traditional economic expansion through centralized planning , Li was attacked by Deng and his reformist allies after 1979 , and eventually removed as Deputy Premier and given the largely ceremonial position of national President . |
| 6 | When he first took up the post in September 1943 one of his students was the fourteen-year-old Robert Hunt , then doing a junior art scholarship and familiarly known as Bobby . |
| 7 | Instead of being repressed , the frightening possibility is voiced , dramatized and laughed about and so acknowledged as part of life . |
| 8 | Secondly , conflict may be formal in the sense of being openly recognised by the parties involved , and perhaps institutionalised as part of an established bargaining procedure ; or it can be informal , and confined to a sphere of covert activity outside the organisation 's authority structure . |
| 9 | ‘ The waste and desert appearance is partly caused by the vast extent of the common lands belonging to the towns and villages , the system of management of which is ruinous in the extreme , and the finest districts , capable of enriching the proprietors and the country at large , are abandoned to , and only serve as pasture for goats , sheep or a few asses . ’ |
| 10 | However the Saloon Bar was only one section of the pub , and only originated as part of the trend of the 1890s towards gentrification . |
| 11 | He is a widower , with no family and few interests outside the hotel : as a result , he is prepared to work for long hours and generally acts as night porter during the week . |
| 12 | Data on breaches of the taboo in small-scale communities are sparse and largely considered as cases of individual deviance . |
| 13 | John Sillett who returned to manage Hereford United for one season only last year , and best known as Coventry City 's F A cupwinning manager — is Central 's new signing for the new season . |
| 14 | The former opens with David an outlaw , fleeing from Saul , and ends with the death of Jezebel , Jehu 's brutality , and finally Jehoash as King of Judah . |
| 15 | Most of the world 's greatest wines are carefully and deliberately made as vins de gardes — wines to keep . |
| 16 | They still often continue , in the capacity of Custos Rotulorum , to be the senior magistrate in the county and usually sit as chairman of the committee which recommends the names of new justices of the peace to the Lord Chancellor , a partial explanation for the dull , middle-class nature of the magistracy . |
| 17 | Quoom and Kerman , the vast majority are now made in India and usually marketed as Indo Mirs . |
| 18 | The manifestation of God in the Indian tradition would take such forms as Brahma , Vi u and Śiva , the trimūrti of the Hindu way of life , and innumerable other gods and goddesses , the veneration of which , in Gandhi 's view , is sometimes inaccurately and insensitively described as idol worship . |
| 19 | Jonathan Carroll 's After Silence ( Macdonald , £14.99 ) comes complete with a curious endorsement from Stephen King : ‘ I would say that only five writers have written serious novels which incorporated scenes of fantasy or the inexplicable and still qualify as literature , ’ writes the doyen of domestic horror , prompting the thought that it all depends what you mean by literature . |
| 20 | ( If one refrains from oiling the gear teeth of a grandfather clock , the teeth will not only not collect the dust and so not grind each other away , but also become harder and more polished as times goes on and so last virtually for ever . ) |
| 21 | Their side-effects can be different from those of alcohol , and are considered in more detail in Chapter 15 , but similarly they can be mistakenly classified and thereafter dismissed as part of the normal process of growing old . |
| 22 | He was ordained in Durham Cathedral in 1950 , and later served as curate at Hartlepool , Huddersfield and Gateshead . |
| 23 | From the start of the movement in 1907 she held high office , and later served as president ( 1929–35 ) . |
| 24 | After much transatlantic exchange of information , the synthesis and study of more than 300 compounds , and collaboration with physicians in many parts of Africa and Asia , the drug christened ‘ Daraprim ’ and later known as pyrimethamine emerged in 1952 as an antimalarial of considerable importance . |
| 25 | The French psychiatrist Pierre Deniker , records that a substance closely related to promethazine and later known as chlorpromazine was synthesized in 1950 and ‘ would have remained on the shelves had the surgeon and physiologist Henri Laborit not asked the manufacturer for a drug with central effects stronger than those of promethazine ’ . |
| 26 | Those that he produced for sale through the Redfern Gallery were usually printed in editions of fifty and include Thames-side , Bull Fight , Spain , Tropical Landscape , Horse Guards in their Dressing Rooms at Whitehall and Working Men 's College , this last relating to his association with the Working Men 's College in Crowndale Road , Mornington Crescent , where he gave a lecture , ‘ The Painter 's Intention ’ , in 1952 , taught lithography and also acted as Art Adviser . |
| 27 | As in the past , the information for guidance will be conveyed mainly by the head teacher 's report , which governors would come to regard rightly as a source of sound professional advice , subjects for discussion and a welcome touch of humour ( ‘ Mr C scored three goals for the staff against the pupils and also acted as referee ’ ) . |
| 28 | He is a cost accountant and also acts as company secretary in respect of share issues , pensions and the like . |
| 29 | Each branch has its own indigenous publishing programme and also acts as sales agents for the UK publishers . |
| 30 | Constitutional rule is more ostensibly and controversially exercised as Head of the Commonwealth . |