Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] as a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Many of Stenhouse 's objections arise out of other people 's oversimplifications , and it is of course true that we know very little of what actually goes on as a result of our work with students . |
2 | Well I mean for the first year she wo n't be in if she goes in as a student she 'll be in college . |
3 | The General looks on as a cadet is singled out to deliver his orders to others from his platoon . |
4 | It lives on as a reality which the poet seeks to ‘ revive within ’ him , to reconstruct the state of mind of the removed passion of the last four lines and the effortless delight of the first two stanzas . |
5 | Immortalized by the soldiery in the war of 1914–18 , Fred Karno 's Army lives on as a descriptor of chaotic organization . |
6 | She has played Mozart on stage and in her new film Orlando plays someone who starts off as a man in Elizabethan times and ends up as a woman in the present . |
7 | It starts off as a satire of Pennebaker 's Dylan doc Do n't Look Back and — cut to the pace of Roberts ' twangy crap folk songs — also attacks Saturday Night Live , rock ‘ n ’ roll , right-wingers , and stupid people . |
8 | What starts off as a bit of a laugh could quickly turn into an embarrassing muddle . |
9 | A banker 's acceptance starts off as a bill of exchange , which is itself a form of IOU . |
10 | They believe that the operating system of a nome starts off as a goose . |
11 | Yeah everybody starts off as a sergeant . |
12 | What often starts as a trickle finishes up as a torrent of new ideas . |
13 | He dresses up as a woman to play a nanny working for a yuppie in Mrs Doutfire . |
14 | Thus the very vibrancy of Impressionist or Pointillist paintings may well result from the discrimination of thousands of similar bits of colour data , all emerging as dots of similar hue , brightness , size or shape so that each momentarily stands out as a mini-figure against all the rest . |
15 | Among the various mid-price CD versions of Smetana 's cycle of patriotic symphonic poems , Má vlast , Kubelík 's 1971 Boston/ DG disc ( 4/90 ) stands out as a performance , but the remastered sound is too brightly lit and not very opulent . |
16 | Goodhart-Rendel writing from the viewpoint of having altered his first plate-glass windowed house , Idsworth ( 1848–52 ) , Hampshire , found his elevations conventional and even perfunctory and in our own time even Howard Colvin found that ‘ not a single building stands out as a masterpiece ’ . |
17 | In Central America it stands out as a model of high quality provision drawn from a small resource base . |
18 | In the social history of twentieth-century Britain the Second World War stands out as a watershed ; the sheer scale and magnitude of the events that took place during those crucial six years seems to lend indisputable credibility to the view that modern wars are a major force behind progressive social change . |
19 | Although , ’ I point out with a wicked twinkle , which shows up as a flash of prismatic light on the edges of the glass , ‘ Rainbow has — recently — been entertaining the flicker of a wild fantasy about returning to religion . |
20 | If so " it shows up as a difference in the wave forms obtained from one or more of the left and right hemisphere leads . |
21 | Stress is always responsible for neuro eczema , which shows up as a patch of inflammation in the nape of the neck at the top of the spine . |
22 | Patrick Dempsey , who looks like Sean Penn without a scowl , plays Randy Bodek , a pizza delivery boy who ends up as a toy boy serving Beverly Hills women with ‘ extra anchovies ’ . |
23 | It starts normally , but ends up as a DYPP ( also known as a sinus(oid) scroller ) . |
24 | She has played Mozart on stage and in her new film Orlando plays someone who starts off as a man in Elizabethan times and ends up as a woman in the present . |
25 | he ends up as a tramp and he gets to ah son get in and you know he fucking hanging out the back of the window we had , we had enough money to move to a bigger house right , and they got this little |
26 | It turns up as a footnote in every textbook and training manual . |
27 | W.J.J. Gordon wrote in his book on Synectics about hedonic response being the joy and ecstasy of the creative process , and he mentioned a factor in the joy of creativity is the release of tension that builds up as a scientist strives to solve a problem and I would further add the pleasure and relief of self-fulfilment which is a fundamental human need . |
28 | Now 36 , he has 28 years ' hockey experience behind him and still turns out as a defender for Milan , training two or three times a week and playing in the Italian hockey league , which started a new season at the end of February . |
29 | There were three women and they died at the same time so God goes cos you do n't all three of you do n't so , erm , the first one goes : I wan na go back to Earth thousand times are better so she goes back as a President , right ? |
30 | He is also , like many archaeologists , a connoisseur of real ale , so it is not surprising that he singles out as a favourite this inscription from Upton-on-Severn : |