Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] as [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wheel came full circle last year when he suddenly became ill with a bewildering illness eventually diagnosed as amyloid of the kidneys . |
| 2 | Deng was reported to have been particularly incensed by an attack on the country 's five special economic zones ( SEZs ) , widely regarded as showcases for the reformist line . |
| 3 | Executorships and trusteeships are , of course , commonplace and will ( save perhaps where there is a family connection ) nearly always be effectively treated as activities of the firm . |
| 4 | Further Cabinet changes followed the resignation in mid-September of Minister of State for Finance , Economy and the Budget Said Ali Kemal , hitherto regarded as second in the government only to Djohar . |
| 5 | The wetlands , long regarded as wastes by generations of farmers , have been replaced by a harvest which fits the dictionary definition of ‘ waste ’ in every sense . |
| 6 | However the Saloon Bar was only one section of the pub , and only originated as part of the trend of the 1890s towards gentrification . |
| 7 | Each national economy is not only seen as part of that world economic ( and social ) system , it is treated as subordinate to its global forces . |
| 8 | The examples given in Table 6.1 refer to the kind of experience well within the capacity potentially of everyone , and may be so much accepted as part of everyday life as to go unnoticed . |
| 9 | As charges against the profits of manors these payments were naturally classed as income from land . |
| 10 | Far from being ‘ non-interventionist ’ , in this case Mr Lang has not only acted as promoter of the scheme itself , but also as overseer of the setting up of the public inquiry . |
| 11 | Barbara not only acted as secretary to a succession of senior managers including Harold Worland and Raymond Anderson , she also carried out the secretarial work for the Board for many years . |
| 12 | Now Castle also includes obligations to make further payments under existing agreements , which were previously only noted as commitments in the notes to the accounts . |
| 13 | Computers are not only employed as tools for use within organizations . |
| 14 | Bowe won the undisputed title on points from Holyfield in November but is only recognised as champion by the IBF and WBA . |
| 15 | Although it is often presented as a scientific term , relating to features of urban development , its use is better understood as part of an ideological set which has been borrowed from the United States . |
| 16 | Charmingly known as Children of the Evening Star , these three lovely Greek goddesses guarded the golden apples which HERA received as a marriage gift . |
| 17 | Subsidies would be far better utilised as rewards for environmentally friendly farming methods or for protecting the countryside . |
| 18 | The competition takes place in Grantham on March 15 and winners will be presented with prizes by actress Gretchen Franklin , better known as Ethel from Eastenders . |
| 19 | Brian — better known as BK to his friends — went to the Ukraine in November on a visit organised by the Life Church of Mobile . |
| 20 | The label 's ‘ Shostakovich Film Festival ’ ( ) is music from The Gadfly , Five Days and Five Nights , Hamlet — and , more dubiously , the Tahiti Trot ( which Shostakovich simply orchestrated for a wager after hearing a gramophone record of it — there 's no evidence he ever saw the son , better known as Tea for Two , performed on film or intended that his own version of it should be ) , and the First Piano Concerto ( some of the themes of which were recycled for a Soviet cartoon in 1933 ! ) . |
| 21 | Instead of being repressed , the frightening possibility is voiced , dramatized and laughed about and so acknowledged as part of life . |
| 22 | Perhaps the facts are better viewed as ones of forgoing payment within para. ( b ) . |
| 23 | In the novels of the eighteenth century and Regency , the great houses of England occupy the foreground , while its cottages , when seen at all , are merely glimpsed as details in the scenery . |
| 24 | For there is indeed an observable general tendency ( however deeply complicated by historical and cultural diversity ) to distinguish and to value kinds of work which meet no immediate and manifest need , of an everyday practical kind , and which are at least not necessarily taken as evidence of some metaphysical or non-human dimension of reality . |
| 25 | There may be justifiable frustration at the low priority currently assigned to Rights of Way in county highway departments , but we think it may be better to ensure statutory responsibility remains within local government so that the interests of pedestrians , riders and cyclists can be greatly enhanced as part of a wider ‘ greening ’ of local transport policies . |
| 26 | That , however , is to ignore the reality of Arab politics , where governments are unrepresentative of popular will , and many have long functioned as clients for Western interests in the region . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Let's face it , wear them already for Saturday shop in Waitrose along with thousands of other middle-class fathers all dressed as derelicts in the wines section ( A nice little Pouilly Fuissé ? |
| 29 | The jetty in the centre of Funchal ( long described as part of the ‘ Entrance to the City ’ ) was begun in 1843 , but then neglected so that it was almost destroyed by the waves . |
| 30 | Not only have vital subsistence crops been burnt but civilians have been brutally murdered as part of a deliberate policy to create terror and clear the regions where the FMLN operate . |