Example sentences of "[noun prp] as [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I do not read the decision in Effer v. Kantner as having that effect which would be contrary to the form in which the question posed was answered in that decision .
2 According to the electoral platform of the CPD as regards political prisoners , a distinction would be made between prisoners of conscience and prisoners of violence , and those accused of " homicide , grievous bodily harm , kidnapping and child theft " would fit into the former category .
3 He has been replaced by Muriel Dunbar as Acting Assistant Director ( National Certificate Unit ) .
4 There are many similar examples of skilful writing , so that it is hardly possible to think of Wordsworth as abandoning traditional forms in 1798 because he was unable to write in the accepted manner .
5 Contemporary sources described Mithra as having 10,000 ears and eyes , and as riding a gleaming white chariot above the clouds .
6 You know how Kissinger 's policy lines up with that of Russia as regards Southern Africa and particularly Rhodesia .
7 The following passage from the judgment of Atkin L.J. , at p. 887 , was relied upon by Mr. Gardiner as showing that recoverability was not dependent upon any measure of compulsion :
8 Disturbing the Ritual : The adventurers can do this simply by stepping into the circle and attacking the Vampire and his minion , but the circle offers them some protection by the time the adventurers attack : treat Maximilian and Juliane as having 1 AP , all locations , and +10 bonuses to their I scores while within the circle .
9 During the course of 1990 Prime Minister Michael Manley spent a period in hospital recovering from pneumonia and later again underwent surgery , leaving Percival Patterson as acting Prime Minister for several months and raising speculation about Manley 's eventual retirement should his health deteriorate further .
10 Stephen called all the heads of departments to a meeting the following morning , informing them of Michael 's departure and the appointment of James Morris as acting general manager .
11 About 800 plants are scheduled in the UK as presenting serious hazards .
12 Nichols ( 1969 , p. 12 ) views PPB as following five processes which accord to the three elements outlined in the previous paragraph .
13 Strangely we find that its diamond shape was less like the present day Delta with its rigid leading edge spars than the design by George D. Wanner of Dayton as filed 11 months prior in January 1948 , as against November 1948 for Rogallo .
14 Don Juan did not recognize Franco as having any authority over him and openly challenged the Generalísimo 's public and self-image of omnipotence .
15 Given its origins , the NUR saw itself as an industrial union ; originally it organized most groups of BR workers , and it continues to be recognized by BR as representing all grades of staff other than management .
16 You can regard each setting Sk as depicting some fact .
17 This was inevitably rejected by the Catholic SDLP as perpetuating Protestant rule in Ulster , while the Paisleyite Unionists condemned any form of power-sharing with the ‘ Papists ’ .
18 Kaunda is now reported here as talking of Rhodesia as becoming another Phnom Penh ( or however you spell it ) , or Saigon .
19 The whole Wolfchild Red Indian routine can only work as a fantasy role if the music transcends the mundane and enables the listener to bliss out on that alone , and if the singer thinks he 's Geronimo , fine , after all we 're quite prepared to accept Black Francis as having some handle on space travel , David Bowie as an alien , Rock Messiah human being and Bono as a cowboy bluesman .
20 They perceive Euro Disney as undermining French values and Mickey — the French never use the rodent 's surname — as some sort of Trojan mouse of American cultural imperialism .
21 Constitutionally , presidential powers passed to the Chair of the Supreme Soviet , Akbarsho Iskandrov , who on Sept. 24 appointed Abdumalik Abdullojanov as acting Prime Minister .
22 The Sex Disqualification ( Removal ) Act 1919 , designed to facilitate the admission of women to the House of Commons but worded in such a way as to be apt to give them access also to the House of Lords was seized upon by Viscountess Rhondda as having this effect but the Committee of Privileges refused to endorse her claim and the House rejected it .
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