Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] as a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It no longer supervised , as in the seventeenth century , the administration of certain Russian provinces , or acted as a tax-collecting body . |
| 2 | Big Allen , the highest peak of the foinland , which was so often veiled in mist or appeared as a blurred blue shape , this morning showed every crevice and crag on its slopes , every wind-bent bilberry , every clump of ling . |
| 3 | She tightened her lips against the chuckle that began as a small sound deep in her throat , but her amusement would not be contained and soon she was laughing loudly and helplessly . |
| 4 | Its the culmination of a career that began as a long shot . |
| 5 | the case that most people regard the way in which the National Library has been built and planned as a total national disaster and a vast waste of public money . |
| 6 | Whitlock pulled himself to his feet and winced as a sharp pain shot through his left leg . |
| 7 | But the growth in consumer debt should not be simply seen and condemned as a complete descent into mindless consumerism . |
| 8 | The increase , to 109,373 from 101,107 last October , was the highest monthly rise since April and came as a welcome boost to the struggling industry . |
| 9 | His name lives on today in the title of Lamplugh House , once the rectory of Thwing and opened as a Christian conference centre for young people in 1973 . |
| 10 | The fine clock-tower , together with the famous Peninsula Hotel near by , dominated the Kowloon waterfront , and acted as a powerful Western gateway to China . |
| 11 | The corollary of the latter explanation is that the northwest-southeast anticlinal ridge with a core of Westphalian A strata was not significantly buried in later Westphalian times and acted as a controlling feature on Westphalian sedimentation . |
| 12 | Reporting to the Steering Committee was a working party which dealt with the overall management of the project and acted as a direct liaison between computer staff , payroll staff and personnel staff . |
| 13 | A group baking session might provide the real thing , and with careful supervision a real tea might be prepared and served as a special treat . |
| 14 | In due course many of these became great barons in their own right ; but their origin was not quickly forgotten , and served as a constant reminder that royal patronage and service to the great counted for as much as blood and status . |
| 15 | Minutes of the last meeting were read and signed as a true record . |
| 16 | Mr Chester 's valet who , after Chester 's death , ‘ true to his master 's creed , eloped with all the cash and movables he could lay his hands on , and started as a finished gentleman on his own account ’ . |
| 17 | Even if you were out on your feet , and fell as a dead weight , your arms would n't drop tidily by your sides . |
| 18 | ( This was added to over the centuries and culminated as a gigantic mansion of the early 1830s ) . |
| 19 | Meredith met Lucenzo 's hard , stony eyes , and shivered as a strong gust of icy wind sent her hair in all directions . |
| 20 | Accordingly , in 1883 a woefully neglected Ruckers of 1612 was located in Windsor Castle and proffered as a likely candidate . |
| 21 | Yet Saettler comments ( 1968 : 193 ) : " the audiovisual instruction movement was a relatively late development of this century and emerged as a small , specialized movement almost completely separated from the mainstream of instructional technology . " |
| 22 | No-one thought then that much would come of the idea , but just two years later it was picked up by Margaret Thatcher 's review and emerged as a central plank of the restructured NHS . |
| 23 | Gaynor Harris and her husband Charles Bullworthy have purchased the Southampton office , which Ms Harris set up in 1980 and ran as a sole practice until it merged with A E Hook & Co , an old established firm on the Isle of Wight . |
| 24 | The shot from D can be panned to follow her as she walks past ( now from screen right to left ) , or it can be cut before the pan and continued as a separate shot from C. |
| 25 | In 1880 he had had a political fling and stood as a Liberal candidate for the City of London in favour of disestablishment , temperance legislation , social and political reform . |
| 26 | He was Hampshire 's coach in 1939 and stood as a first-class umpire in 1949 , the year before his death . |
| 27 | The Dannewerk at the narrowest point of the isthmus of Schleswig , reached from sea to sea , and remained as a strategic position in wars between Danes and Germans until as late as the nineteenth century . |
| 28 | A singer of poignant songs , Rikoran was born near Mukden in Manchuria in 1920 of Japanese parents , but lived as a young girl with a Chinese family . |
| 29 | He had married Jemima Mott in 1816 but lived as a childless widower from 1829 after the death of his wife . |
| 30 | Mrs Thatcher , however , claimed that the riots had nothing to do with unemployment and deprivation , but arose as a direct consequence of a lack of discipline within the family and in the schools . |