Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [pers pn] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Economic living is a splendid virtue when practised by the bourgeoisie , but the French neither liked nor respected it as a kingly attribute . |
| 2 | That this was true offered no excuse to the sick , evil , vicious minds that used it as a tool . |
| 3 | I had never really noticed before this common use of the label that identified me as a means to imply wilful ignorance . |
| 4 | As he stood there , his glittering black eyes were the only feature that identified him as a living creature , and not a darker patch of shadow in the benighted forest . |
| 5 | In recent months the presidential asset has been the subject of some distinctly unflattering news articles , including a long Vanity Fair magazine story that painted her as an autocrat angry with her husband and out of touch with her family . |
| 6 | At 11 p.m. on the night of June 18 , when Edward was sitting bog-eyed with weariness in the small metal box that served him as a cabin , Foley sought him out . |
| 7 | He concentrated on drawing cartoons and in 1932 had his first acceptance from Punch , the beginning of a partnership that established him as a major comic artist and one of the most original talents in the long history of the magazine . |
| 8 | One thing that puzzled me as a boy was Mrs. Farrer 's hair — it used to change overnight from snow white to jet black and a few days later it was white again . |
| 9 | A shop that fascinated me as a youngster was Wrides , towards the Ivy Street end of Catherine Street . |
| 10 | My father made a number of water-colour sketches of them that fascinated me as a boy but have since disappeared . |
| 11 | MRS Leona Helmsley , the hotel queen dethroned earlier this year by a New York court that convicted her as a tax cheat , was yesterday sentenced to four years ' imprisonment and fined $7 million ( £4.5 million ) . |
| 12 | I had n't asked to do it , but in fact found it very interesting and that took me as a result into trade union negotiations and finally into becoming personnel director . |
| 13 | ( He still possesses the tattered paperbacks that inspired him as a trainee BP manager in the 1950s — Dale Carnegie 's How to Win Friends and Influence People and Lord Beaverbrook 's folksy handbook to success , Do n't Trust to Luck . ) |
| 14 | Yet around his neck was a chain bearing the bronze octagon that marked him as an alumnus of Unseen University , the high school of magic whose time-and-space transcendent campus is never precisely Here or There . |
| 15 | It was then that I began to discover the fate that awaited me as a female . |
| 16 | ‘ There was one thing that struck me as a bit odd when I had a chance to look back on it . |
| 17 | I noticed his saying in a magazine interview that he could never have survived these past few years without the help of Fleet Street — and that struck me as an unusually candid confession for a politician . |
| 18 | ‘ One of the things that struck me as an outsider , coming into the firm two and a half years ago , was that there was no accountability , ’ recalls Mel Smaje . |
| 19 | Netherwood has carried out modifications to the kit and relaunched it as the Rotorway Exec 90 , currently selling for $35,000 including power plant . |
| 20 | Cecilia did not dislike Jarvis , she did not dislike anybody , but she feared and distrusted him as a bachelor with no regular job , no real income and a home which she was convinced would be sold to the property developers . |
| 21 | The initial agreement made was a licensing agreement whereby Rover ( then known as BL ) assembled the Honda Ballade from 1981 onwards with limited alterations and sold it as the Triumph Acclaim . |
| 22 | I supervised her professional training while she was working at the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute at Penicuik , and appointed her as an Assistant Librarian at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh just over a year ago . |
| 23 | Her parents then moved to London and admitted her as a free scholar to the sculpture studio in the Royal College of Art , where she stayed for four years and graduated an A.R.C.A. |
| 24 | The Parquet had existed , he thought , since at least 1883 when a reforming Minister of Justice had unearthed in his office some Arabic translations of parts of the French Code Napoleon and promulgated them as the new Egyptian legal system . |
| 25 | The wind caught the spindrift and flung it as a jewelled and treacherous veil into the depths of the ragged sky that dizzied her when contrary winds ripped the clouds this way and that . |
| 26 | Malcolm Muggeridge later said that Burgess ‘ gave me a feeling of being morally afflicted in some way ’ , and described him as the ‘ sick toast of a sick society ’ . |
| 27 | Robin Cook , the shadow trade and industry secretary , said the Government had put forward the biggest tax increases for any Budget in history and described it as a ‘ Budget of failure and a Budget of cheats ’ . |
| 28 | By the latter half of the century , the majority of books on child care — which were enjoying a tremendous popularity — strongly recommended breast-feeding and described it as the normal practice ( Fildes 1980 ) . |
| 29 | Some elements in the Argentine military , along with members of the opposition UCR , characterized the abandonment of the missile programme as a capitulation to US demands , and described it as an irresponsible move at a time when Chile was suspected to be seeking a new missile . |
| 30 | Dougal picked them up and used them as a lever . |