Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] as the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of the alleged wisdom that inheres in institutions and practice is part of what she has regarded as the flabby consensus that dragged the country down . |
| 2 | women are not sexy skinny women are not sexy , really skinny women we have to be like the Madonna type woman and I think that the , the , its about money and its about co , its about the consumer and about money and about making money from an image that somebody somewhere has seen as the normal perfect woman and the norm can be any thing it could be whatever you want it to be . |
| 3 | Williams has emerged as the unrelenting villain as he patrols what has turned into Fortress Didcot , the race-team HQ , refusing to enlighten the enraged Mansell army on the reasons for their split . |
| 4 | BSN , the sprawling French group with interests spreading from food and beer to packaging , has emerged as the new favourite for the Scottish stake . |
| 5 | Reference to training inevitably raises questions about the role of the Manpower Services Commission ( MSC ) which has emerged as the major institutional vehicle for government schemes to cope with unemployment . |
| 6 | Since the mid-1960s the growth rate of Eurodeposits has been more than double that of the world money supply and London has emerged as the major centre for Eurocurrency business . |
| 7 | PETER RAWLINS , a former partner with accountants Arthur Andersen , has emerged as the International Stock Exchange 's next chief executive following the decision of Jeffrey Knight to stand down from the post , writes John Moore . |
| 8 | British Aerospace , possibly in partnership with Thomson CSF of France , has emerged as the leading British contender to mount a bid but could face Ministry of Defence objections . |
| 9 | Council housing has emerged as the main form of tenure of the Afro Caribbean population of Great Britain . |
| 10 | THE MAN who masterminded those famously spunky advertisements for Castlemaine XXXX lager has emerged as the Tory Party 's last minute secret weapon . |
| 11 | He has emerged as the dominant personality in the commercial network . |
| 12 | In the twentieth century , natural selection has emerged as the dominant theory by which biologists explain the evolutionary mechanism . |
| 13 | Many of these interactions could be made automatic were it not for the basic need for a human presence for the social/ economic reasons mentioned above and because the human operator has to act as the ultimate back-stop when things go badly wrong . |
| 14 | It is a process analogous in some ways to story-telling , where the point is made precisely through a sacrifice of the kind of literalness and explicitness which the logician , by the nature of his training , tends to regard as the ultimate requirement of clarity , and indeed an intrinsic feature of truth . |
| 15 | However , the rules which regulate take-over bids are so riddled with occasions when the managers of a target company can affect the outcome of the bid that the take-over bid ceases to act as the potent threat to self-serving or inefficient corporate managers which it is supposed to be . |
| 16 | haaland is a central defender and sundgot is an attacker ; both talented — though i value fat-frank far higher than sundgot. so two vikings at forest and three ( ! ) at oldham — so norway 's tally just keeps growing as the biggest contigent of non-english players — which is quite amazing — for years we had just the odd-player like aage hareide ( man city and norwich ) , einar aass ( nott forest — i imagine his english team-mates had some fun with his name : - ] ) and erik the viking at spurs but nowadays you need a computer to have control … |
| 17 | Schoenberg , in his essay on Mahler , sees the capacity to ‘ conceive within ’ oneself ‘ a complete image ’ of what one wishes to reproduce as the crucial element . |
| 18 | No one would suggest that he rivals Sobers as the greatest of all-rounders , for , although he has taken more wickets , his batting has been much less consistent and his Test average is some twenty-three points lower than Sobers ' . |
| 19 | The UK announces that it will send air and naval forces to join what becomes known as the multinational force . |
| 20 | The name is significant because Sony are determinedly working to rename their Data Discman in the public mind and to ensure it becomes known as the Electronic Book Player . |
| 21 | And experience does tell as the French Grand prix turns into a demolition derby … after two laps world championship leader Kerton retires with a broken bracket … |
| 22 | oh yes , yes , yes all you really need to know what the question is in inflation is how the why it 's regarded as the biggest economic problem and secondly |
| 23 | And er a g a good er and er , can be er the mi the name itself , the Scottish Old Age Pensions Association is not to be mistaken from er , sometimes it 's misread as the Scottish Old Age Pensioners ' Association . |
| 24 | Erm and then it 's talking about standard variety that it 's usually the standard variety that 's accepted as the proper one when compared to other like smaller varieties erm dialects and stuff . |
| 25 | What 's known as the uniform branch turn up to investigate a crime , I hope you 're all listening |
| 26 | It 's , it 's known as the Scottish Old Age Pensions Association . |
| 27 | Erm the nuclear industry also has erm er a subsidy , it 's known as the nuclear levy erm and there is reasons for that erm one is that erm some money has to be put aside to decommission nuclear power stations in the future erm now the s C G B , before it was broken up , had been actually putting some money aside year by year yeah ou ou out of the money that was generated fr er er from selling electricity nuclear power stations , some was put to one side , notionally , o on the accounts f f for a future decommissioning . |
| 28 | If anyone was to take on the role of the state police it would be the Metropolitan Police Force who have got experts and if say something happened in Manchester like an I R A bombers left some bombs in Manchester , experts from the Metropolitan Police would go to Manchester to help out , they 're what 's known as the Anti-Terrorist Squad |
| 29 | The wind is blowing directly across the boat , it 's known as the basic two position . |
| 30 | That 's what 's known as the custodial hat , that 's one , that 's one |