Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] as a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here , as with the vernacular , the Council for the sake of strengthening the ‘ active participation ’ which it correctly laid down as a vital principle of liturgy , overthrew a deformation which had become customary in the Middle Ages and against which the Reformation had vigorously protested . |
| 2 | Treleaven , from Hayling , only got in as a last-minute replacement when Michael Welch , on EGU duty in Spain , crushed his thumb in a door and had to scratch from the Salver and Sunday 's Hampshire Hog at North Hants , where he should have been defending . |
| 3 | She winced painfully as a burning sensation spread across her cheek , and jerked her hand away from her face . |
| 4 | QUAYLE Munro , the small Edinburgh merchant bank , is set to become a quoted company following what it described yesterday as a reverse takeover by East of Scotland Industrial Investments , the unquoted investment group managed by the bank , writes BILL MILLAR . |
| 5 | Of these compounds , special attention has been given to chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) , especially CFCl 3 ( CFC 11 ) used mainly as a propellant in aerosol sprays , and CF 2 Cl 2 , ( CFC 12 ) used extensively as a cooling agent in refrigerators and air conditioners ( figure 6.2 ) . |
| 6 | Thus the Mig-25 , designed originally as a high altitude interceptor of the B-70 , found itself adapted , upon the demise of the B-70 programme , for high speed reconnaissance and air defence . |
| 7 | Rincewind peered around the doorframe and jerked back as a heavy throwing axe whirred past like a partridge . |
| 8 | I want them here by two at the latest — ’ Philpott stopped abruptly as a crushing pain seared through his chest , radiating out to his neck , jaw and arms . |
| 9 | John Williams who became a colliery manager in 1934 , and later manager of the Banwen colliery under the National Coal Board , described how as a young man he had an early glimpse of one kind of persuasion : |
| 10 | She remembers Guildford with affection — since she trained there as a young actress in the 1950s . |
| 11 | Every coherent thought fled abruptly as a tall figure appeared round the side of the building . |
| 12 | NPFL gunners attacked just as a Nigerian air force Okada aircraft was about to land with 100 peacekeeping troops on board , reinforcements for the 9,000-strong Nigerian-led Economic Community of West African States ( ECOWAS ) Monitoring Group ( ECOMOG ) . |
| 13 | Rohan 's brows lifted appreciatively as a creamy liquid was ladled into his bowl . |
| 14 | This Progressive influence lingered on as a minor theme in the cinema of the 1920s and was an obvious outlet for the continental directors who were drawn in by the glamour and potential of Hollywood . |
| 15 | Mr Hay left out the experienced campaigners Karen Brown , Vickey Dixon and Jane Sixsmith from the starting line-up , though Sixsmith came on as a late substitute for Joanne Menown . |
| 16 | thank you and you would accept would n't you , that if we have a brochure , let us say printed for next January , January nineteen ninety four alright , and I came along as a retired person in the Spring of nineteen ninety five or indeed the Summer of nineteen ninety five , fifteen , sixteen , seventeen , eighteen months later , those brochure figures will inevitably be out of date in the sense of being inaccurate would n't they ? |
| 17 | 1910 is the year in which the Cubist painters , other than Picasso and Braque , came together as a conscious group , although many of them had known each other earlier . |
| 18 | I came in as a young teacher , enthusiastic , full of new ideas but you soon find that the old attitudes rub off on you , and so you end up thinking , ‘ Oh , why am I doing this ? |
| 19 | It was often her task to carry it up to the little sitting-room , followed by Mary from the village , who came in as a daily maid , bearing a silver jug of hot water and matches to light all the lamps . |
| 20 | We could hear the V2s thudding down onto London in the far distance , but the sound came over as a far-off double bang , which puzzled us for a long time until someone told us what it was . |
| 21 | As they set off to cross a bridge already cordoned off as a prohibited area , the police hurriedly re-formed in front of them . |
| 22 | Even so , a sense of vocation is noticeable among most field officers , even many of the older ones : pollution control is still conceived of and practised more as a calling than a job . |
| 23 | Here the pope had the advantage over the emperor for , with the removal of the empire to the West , Roman law ceased to be declared and the Roman law dried up as a living law . |
| 24 | Mildred tried to shriek , but it only came out as a frenzied croaking . |
| 25 | Kelly 's question came out as a loud protest . |
| 26 | Richard was so exhausted with cold and emotion that his laugh came out as a foolish titter . |
| 27 | Her voice came out as a hoarse whisper and she had to clear her throat . |
| 28 | I came here as a Chilean refugee . |
| 29 | The NSA came about as a direct result of the Allied wartime successes in breaking the coded messages of both the Germans and the Japanese . |
| 30 | Then finally , Paul Reichmann saw the opportunity he had been waiting for in London , a city he fondly recalled from the days when he studied there as a young man . |