Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] as a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The redundancies apparently came as a complete surprise to USL staff who were assured before Christmas that no jobs would be lost through the Novell deal . |
| 2 | The original defections of Burgess and Maclean in 1951 naturally came as a great shock to the British establishment and were embarrassing because of the inept way MI5 handled the matter . |
| 3 | The labour camps , temperatures of 50 degrees below zero , a lifetime condemned to stare out over thousands of miles of the bleak , barren permafrost , where blindness eventually came as a minor blessing . |
| 4 | Every time he looked her way , that frightening compulsion went sweeping through her , the urge to let him look , let him absorb her until nothing was left and she no longer existed as a separate , individual entity . |
| 5 | One important effect of this conflict appears to have been to accentuate what many economists already saw as a serious drift on the part of the OECD world into recession . |
| 6 | Not the work , which was back-breaking and tedious — he specialized in bolting on bumpers and screwing down steering wheels on trucks — but the mostly Asian workforce whose respect and confidence he soon won as a shop-floor activist . |
| 7 | Support for a fixed Channel link soon emerged as a prime candidate for assistance although the British and French governments remained committed to the idea of a privately financed tunnel . |
| 8 | He zoomed to save height , heard the cackle of machine-guns , skidded round in a savage , 180-degree turn , and instinctively ducked as a bright blue Pflaz hurtled over his head . |
| 9 | Their most outrageous step toward re-regulation is rigging the stockmarket , which officials once disdained as a mucky casino . |
| 10 | TROOPS will be used to provide emergency ambulance cover in London from this afternoon in what the unions yesterday described as a political attempt by the Government to escalate the dispute . |
| 11 | TROOPS will be used to provide emergency ambulance cover in London from this afternoon in what the unions yesterday described as a political attempt by the Government to escalate the dispute . |
| 12 | This emerges clearly in its tortuous attempt to grapple with what it still regarded as a fundamental difference between ‘ Asian ’ and ‘ West Indian ’ patterns of educational performance . |
| 13 | I usually do n't mention the fact that I once trained as a social worker . |
| 14 | I had been expecting this news for some time but it still came as a terrible shock . |
| 15 | The company 's 5,750 British workers had been braced for cuts all week but they still came as a devastating blow . |
| 16 | There were still traces of ethnocentrism in the nationalist viewpoint elsewhere in the report : for instance , they still referred to ‘ the historic integrity of Ireland ’ ( New Ireland Forum 1983–4 : i. 28 ) , implying an almost naturalistic concept of Irish unity , when as a political unit Ireland only ever existed as a British-administered territory . |
| 17 | Olsen has therefore concentrated on four periods when the paintings connect most directly with historic events : from 1797 to 1814 when Napoleon 's Empire imposed a kind of unity on the country ; from the restoration of the monarchy until mid century when historic Romanticism came into conflict with Realism and gradually waned as a moving force in Italian art ; the triumph of Realism in parallel with the rapid progress towards unification from 1849 to 1870 ; and the final period from 1870 until the end of the century when Realism evolved under wider European influences into Symbolism and Divisionism . |
| 18 | The colonies as a group quickly emerged as a key element in British strategy because they were net dollar earners ( basically because of Malayan rubber and West African products such as cocoa ) and could be made so on a bigger scale by a number of policy devices . |
| 19 | Despite these understandable teething problems , McKenzie quickly blossomed as a leading Victoria Schools rugby player and toured the United Kingdom with the state in the early 1980s . |
| 20 | So I quickly dressed as a young man and followed you home to Baker Street . |
| 21 | The polling factor probably arose as a natural mutation which local farmers selected for preference in due course , as they did later with the Aberdeen Angus . |
| 22 | Steel , also designated as a key recovery sector immediately after the war , was a key input into major export industries such as ships ( and in turn the development of huge ore-carrying ships allowed the Japanese steel industry to overcome a major disadvantage in transport costs for materials ) . |
| 23 | In 1989 it was revealed that he had engaged in a homosexual relationship with Steven Gobie , whom he also hired as a personal aide and driver in 1985 . |
| 24 | Also present was Mrs. Blair , mother of Eric Blair ( 1903–1950 ) , alias George Orwell , who also played as a junior , and whose father , a golfer of considerable skill , became Club Secretary in 1912 . |
| 25 | We read ‘ Glory in the church ’ ; it 's a phrase that ca n't be found elsewhere in the New Testament ; when the Ephesian Christians heard that phrase when the letter was read out , it probably came as a great surprise . |
| 26 | Edo itself also acted as a major centre of commercial activity . |
| 27 | It did to some extent aggregate demands and turn them into viable policy issues , and it also acted as a downward channel of communication , explaining and rationalizing government policies in the hope of their greater acceptance by the citizens . |
| 28 | It also acted as a central store and clearing house for hops , organising the supply to the brewers . |
| 29 | Ezra was a cobbler who also acted as a local estate agent , although in those days he would n't have recognised the term . |
| 30 | If other cities are a guide to Milan then it also served as a useful quarry for the inhabitants . |