Example sentences of "[vb pp] [noun prp] as a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Western banks regarded Romania as a good risk : cynically , they judged that Ceauşescu would keep the lid on the pot in Romania in a way that Gierek had manifestly failed to do in Poland . |
| 2 | While Dexel trades with most of the Far East countries , using a network of agents , it has targeted China as a major growth area . |
| 3 | He had returned to Poland on Jan. 4 to answer the charge , and on Jan. 7 it was reported that a lesser charge was being substituted because prosecutors had ruled that Tyminski had attacked Mazowiecki as a rival candidate rather than as the holder of state office . |
| 4 | Why should n't he have fabricated McCloy as a neat little red herring ? ’ |
| 5 | Now , we 've seen Jane as a passionate , spirited outspoken little girl have n't we ? |
| 6 | Some philosophers of religion have seen God as a higher stage of this process . |
| 7 | Foreigners have too often seen Japan as a monolithic society where individualism is frowned upon and conformity all important , where the tendency is towards harmony and consensus and a healthy element of conflict decidedly absent , and where the role of the group is all-pervasive . |
| 8 | In response , Swoon 's defenders have championed Kalin as a leading light of a ‘ New Queer Cinema ’ which is concerned with putting forward a more complex vision of gay and lesbian sexuality . |
| 9 | The collapse surprised the City and Tory Central Office , which had feted Levitt as a leading captain of industry . |
| 10 | Many people have condemned Herod as a cruel man and certainly he showed a cruel streak , especially towards his own family . |
| 11 | He bitterly regretted that the knife thrown during the banquet had not hit its target for he had recognised Corbett as a dangerous man . |
| 12 | Many of these ‘ apocryphal ’ texts portrayed Jesus as a strenuous advocate of sexual renunciation . |
| 13 | Defenders of the Jewish American pieties and proprieties , and those in Israel for whom the Diaspora Jew is a rootless cosmopolitan , had marked Roth as a bad man , and in their eyes he has yet to turn into a good one . |
| 14 | I suppose I had always imagined Yggdrasil as a vast , dispassionate Intelligence , juggling its million programs and thinking deep thoughts to itself . |
| 15 | The Attorney-General had been astonished at the verdict and came to the conclusion that the jury had viewed Leese as a stupid crank with honest convictions who should not be convicted of the serious charge of seditious libel . |
| 16 | Caernarfonshire captain Dave Wallace said Llandudno had not engaged Barnes as a professional and did not pay him for playing . |
| 17 | While we have examined Oakeshott as a conservative thinker therefore we must be careful to distinguish him from the religious conservatism of Burke and from the mainstream forms of conservatism which Huntington identified in the aristocratic and situational theories as ideological defences of the ancien régime or of established institutions . |