Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If these events became regarded as a norm for science then public confidence would be threatened . |
| 2 | Dysentery became regarded as a norm of life at Verdun . |
| 3 | Fawcett soon became regarded as a dasher , but a dodgy proposition on defence . |
| 4 | In 1891 came the publication of African Aphorisms , or Saws from Swahililand , an annotated collection of some 600 proverbs ; the work ( reissued in 1924 ) provided an outlet for his immense erudition , and became recognized as a classic in the domain of Swahili studies . |
| 5 | But too often the pack failed to ruck as a unit . |
| 6 | ‘ We do not consider that the judgment in [ Dobson ] requires or allows us to disregard what we have earlier in this judgment sought to extract as the ratio of the decision in [ Morris ] . |
| 7 | This was the question I tried to answer as the decade of the 1980s began . |
| 8 | The demographic evidence on this matter has been examined above and found wanting as an explanation of population growth . |
| 9 | I have the greatest sympathy for hon. and learned Member for Leicester , West ( Mr. Janner ) , but there is a principle involved and it is about time that my right hon. and learned Friend stopped speaking as a lawyer and started acting as a politician . |
| 10 | She stopped speaking as the buzzer on his desk interrupted her . |
| 11 | During his three years at University College , London , he got work each Christmas with the post office in his home town of Woking : ‘ When I was coming to the end of my university period I sat a civil service examination with possible jobs at the end which included income tax , the secret service and the post office which involved travelling as a management trainee . |
| 12 | But then I stopped reading as a reader and began to read as a writer . |
| 13 | Whereas Moscow tried to pose as the champion of German unity therefore , the West posed as the defender of German liberty , arguing that reunification must only come after free nation-wide elections , and that Germany should be able to choose its own Allies . |
| 14 | Spain also promised to act as an intermediary to gain more support from the United States government and the EC for the government 's crop substitution schemes , designed to reduce the number of coca plants being grown by thousands of peasant farmers . |
| 15 | Bartlett ( 1958 ) regarded thinking as a form of skill in that it has the characteristics of organising information . |
| 16 | Once Marxism was a value system then capitalism and free enterprise tried to coalesce as a value system — largely unsuccessfully . |
| 17 | He did his preregistration year and a year of vocational training in general practice but then stopped working as a doctor until he opened an allergy clinic in 1982 . |
| 18 | These were collected by a stonemason , Hugh Miller ( 1802–56 ) , who became accepted as an authority on the subject and went on to become an outspoken critic of evolutionism . |
| 19 | This rationality it came to see as the basis of a universal culture ; the justification for its claim to define universal values , to define its values as universal . |
| 20 | This , with other and routine business , took him half a morning , during which Inspector Lane was out of the office on other business and the two young sergeants were in and out all the time ; they seemed to work as a unit . |
| 21 | Instead I came to work as a layman at the diocesan office . ’ |
| 22 | Science in this sense came to stand as a meta-discourse , framed by the broader contours of the conjuncture . |
| 23 | Each question seemed to come as a relief , as though he had expected something more dangerous . |
| 24 | As ‘ an unrepentant believer in the Commission 's unitary plan ’ he came to accept as an advance on the existing system the Conservative proposals for ‘ two tiers everywhere ’ and in particular the establishment of ‘ the principle of metropolitan counties for great conurbations ’ ( foreword to Wood 1976:8 ) . |
| 25 | Mr Hall hit the headlines in 1985 when he drove to work as a groundsman at Hummersknott School , Darlington , in a Silver Shadow putting the head teacher 's Escort to shame . |
| 26 | Dana had embraced the dancing and singing lessons with fervour , but Claudia , trailing behind her sister , had been bored to tears by them , and after a time her father had put an end to what he 'd seen as a waste of his money and Claudia 's time . |
| 27 | Oh and we 'd love to do swimming , erm , because we 'd done as a surprise for Carla for Christmas cos I mean we said the kids are getting older now , Dave heard it on the radio , erm , for one fifty a head , erm they were opening Guildford 's swimming pool erm , from ten till twe twelve ? |
| 28 | The effect of giving non-reinforced pre-exposure to the target flavour was to reduce the readiness with which it came to function as a safety signal — that is , the outcome was the opposite of that predicted by the suggestion that the pre-exposed stimulus might already have acquired some of the properties of a safety signal . |
| 29 | But they offered a very tempting fee simply to transport an art object , a sculpture , which they 'd bought as a centrepiece for a planetary arts festival they were staging . |
| 30 | His mother had shown him lots of things , photographs and even odds and ends she 'd had as a child , but she 'd never shown him her wedding-dress . |