Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] as a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All day and all night he would be there loitering in the streets of Chichester , either surrounded by hoards of admiring people or dismissed as a dirty scavenging wretch , ruining the ornate Georgian Streets . |
| 2 | The story weaves the Japanese viewpoint widely through the film and presents , probably for the first time to most movie viewers , a rational reason why the Japanese felt they had to attack the United States or suffer as a second-class nation . |
| 3 | Bureaucracy , for example , interdigitates with the social reality of individuals and communities , penetrating some spheres of life deeply , others not at all : in each , it may be invited , welcomed , kept at bay , questioned , resented , taken for granted , or regarded as a closed book . |
| 4 | FAST does not consider the possibility of a social discontinuity or rupture as a necessary Step towards the biosociety . |
| 5 | Rule 5 — 30(1) provides that a firm must not recommend a transaction to a private customer or act as a discretionary manager unless it has taken reasonable steps to enable the private customer to understand the nature of the risks involved . |
| 6 | It no longer supervised , as in the seventeenth century , the administration of certain Russian provinces , or acted as a tax-collecting body . |
| 7 | To say they 're a wild flower or classed as a wild flower . |
| 8 | Images could then be viewed as still sequences ( Fig 1 ) or displayed as a continuous real or accelerated sequence or ‘ movie ’ loop , or parts , or of the whole study . |
| 9 | And it may see a child as a foal , and may not find it as intimidating or threatening as a mature person . |
| 10 | The new entry-level nCube 2E — for parallel software development , entry-level scientific computing or use as a networked database server — is due to ship in October starting at $30,000 in the US , and $40,000 to $50,000 in Europe . |
| 11 | The existence of the necessity or obligation is not asserted but denied , questioned , conceded ( in concessive clauses ) , or represented as a mere conception rather than as a positive fact ( " subjunctive " ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | When the fry hatch out , they should be fed on Liquifry or rotifers as a first food , because they 're too tiny to take newly-hatched brine shrimp . |
| 14 | This fluid phase may migrate and be consumed in melting reactions elsewhere , or rise as a low-viscosity fluid , causing metasomatism in refractory lithosphere away from the melt zone . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He was taken under the paternal wing of MGM who launched him in 1942 in tiny roles in prestige films like Mrs Miniver and Random Harvest , finally allowing him his first major role in 1945 in Son of Lassie , and to blossom as a leading man opposite leading ladies such as Judy Garland ( Easter Parade ) , June Allyson ( Two Sisters from Boston ) , and Elizabeth Taylor ( Little Women ) . |
| 17 | SRI LANKA 'S Tamil Tiger guerrillas announced yesterday that they had renounced violence and registered as a political party . |
| 18 | Alternatively they may be subsumed within the department and treated as a poor relation . |
| 19 | Thumb Sucking — If this is done frequently and perniciously it must be taken in hand and treated as a bad habit . |
| 20 | A consultant 's job can be divided roughly into three areas of work , all of which are interrelated , but each of which may be taken and given as a separate service . |
| 21 | They recognise that mixture of theatre and dance as a general trend in the dance world . |
| 22 | Currently a Deputy Chair of the USSR Council of Ministers and Chair of its Bureau for Machine Building , and regarded as a moderate reformer , Silayev defeated Mikhail Bocharov ( reportedly Russian President Boris Yeltsin 's favoured candidate ) in an inconclusive first round , and standing unopposed and with Yeltsin 's public endorsement in a second round he was backed by 163 of the 220 deputies present . |
| 23 | He led a field of seven candidates in an inconclusive first round , and in the second round run-off he defeated Oleg Lobov , currently the second secretary of the Armenian CP and regarded as a pro-Gorbachev reformer . |
| 24 | Three weeks ago , the 102nd Airborne Division , Russian-trained and regarded as a crack unit , was rushed from its base at Asmara to the front line , but it too has been mauled by the rebels , who swept through the mountains flanking the main road , capturing all the towns as far as Woldiya . |
| 25 | The second is ‘ Welcome the Asian Games ’ , the international event scheduled long ago for September 1990 which the authorities both welcome as an opportunity to demonstrate normality and fear as a possible platform for dissident protest . |
| 26 | If Grimbergen is closed , and developed as a residential area , or even worse , if factories are built there , the loss of a convenient airfield to attract business and executive aircraft will be far reaching to the ‘ hub of Europe ’ , ie Brussels . |
| 27 | A chip off the old block without a doubt , but updated and designed as a fellwalking boot ( the ‘ L ’ stands for Lady ) . |
| 28 | Written with Arabic-speaking students in mind , and designed as a commercial reader with a story line of setting up a company . |
| 29 | A board of directors could not exist and act as a corporate entity if it were composed of two groups of people , each deriving its authority from and answerable to a different principal body , the one liable to be in conflict with the other ; for it would in fact be a negotiating committee . |
| 30 | When debt and equity securities fall into neither of the previous two categories , they would be classified as securities available for sale and reported at fair value , but any unrealised gains and losses would be excluded from earnings and reported as a separate component of shareholders ' equity . |