Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] as [v-ing] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had a choice between a Western adventure in German , two American spy thrillers or a much-thumbed pornographic comic which had had all the lurid pages torn out as wanking aids . |
| 2 | Many other obstacles to review , such as collusive disregard of inconvenient problems , when management of an institution prefers not to recognize a problem , and a course team does not want to be seen either as having problems , or as inconveniencing management , must be addressed by incorporating external expertise into the review process at judicious points . |
| 3 | At two stores , cars were used unsuccessfully as battering rams to breach security shutters . |
| 4 | At two stores , cars were used unsuccessfully as battering rams to breach security shutters . |
| 5 | Decisions about design , especially where these involve the introduction of technological innovations , can then be interpreted both as reflecting priorities within a society and as influencing the ways in which technological developments will affect that society . |
| 6 | In medieval times , mirrors were sold by pedlars , and were used mainly as looking glasses . |
| 7 | FPG is recognised internationally as having research and consultancy experience in geological aspects of waste disposal and contaminant migration . |
| 8 | It has bee modernised with a powerful automatic fog-horn known locally as Moaning Minnie . |
| 9 | ‘ This is known technically as creating brand equity ahead of sales . |
| 10 | [ … ] The many important differences in analysis that separate the dominant approach from that of the Austrians are most neatly summed up as reflecting disagreement ( possibly only implicit disagreement ) concerning the aim of price theory in general . |
| 11 | The experiment had to be abandoned however as drenching rain was continuous and the tent was blown down . |
| 12 | The observations cited above as constituting problems are only problematic in the light of some theory . |
| 13 | In practice , as the Party learned , so its patience diminished : it shifted to incorporating territories by force , while conceding the forms of federation and a measure of cultural autonomy ( those things formerly ruled out as institutionalizing division ) . |
| 14 | And since even a polygonal story should have at least two sides in all international farewell orgies , how about packing it in and having a bash at normal behaviour eh , so as to get bashed again as whipping boy despite my morseled-out attempts to break free or go shiating on , turning the other cheek to sheer cheek as sitting target for the unclear missiles of affreux dizzy acts or as wailing wall of blame beyond the demarcation line or bowstring frontier that will boomerang back and much joy may it give me. ( 102 ) |
| 15 | This is not only the case in socialist states , where the old debates about the managerial revolution and the ‘ new class ’ suddenly become relevant again ( though Mali , Tanzania and Ghana are among the states that have been singled out as using socialism as an ideology enabling the bureaucracy to control the economy ) . |