Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [pers pn] as [art] " in BNC.
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1 | In 1964 the TUC sold its 40 per cent of the Herald to the Mirror Group , which relaunched it as the Sun . |
2 | It was nevertheless accepted for a number of years by the Trades Union Congress , which admitted it as an affiliated organisation until 1881 , when it was declared ineligible . |
3 | They were firmly rejected by the ANC which described them as a plan to perpetuate white rule and delay true democracy . |
4 | ‘ He was given the title of honorary research assistant but articles began appearing in newspapers which described him as a consultant , ’ says a doctor who knew him . |
5 | The intensified aerial bombardment and resulting civilian casualties came in for strong criticism , with all the opposition groups in parliament ( hitherto supportive of military action against the LTTE ) subscribing to a statement which described it as an inhuman action against the people . |
6 | She joined an insurance company , which trained her as an accounts clerk . |
7 | However , someone in Wilson 's office proceeded to leak my name to the press , which used it as an opportunity for jibes at him , particularly as he had contrived an impression that the negotiations had succeeded because of him . |
8 | An elderly widow who was robbed , attacked , and raped by a gang of youths was moved to sheltered dwellings with the help of the police , visited by policewomen from the unit at least once a week , and taken regularly to visit the family of one of the policewomen , which adopted her as the children 's granny . |
9 | The Presbyterian ministers who occupied most of the Church 's livings , however , even before his arrival set up a committee to draw up a list of the objectionable features in his works ; their report , which condemned him as a heretic for denying Original Sin , was sent to the King . |
10 | But on a hummock by the road a starling-sized bird turned round to reveal a brilliant crimson front which identified it as a long-tailed meadowlark , locally called military starling . |
11 | This organisation had a journal , The Cabin , which identified it as a union " to promote good feeling between the men and the owners " . |
12 | ‘ I managed to win a few line-out takes and the backrow picked up a bit of their possession which pleased us as a unit . |
13 | Chung ran a campaign — widely compared with that of Ross Perot in the US elections — which portrayed him as a political " outsider " with direct economic experience gleaned as the head of a giant commercial concern . |
14 | The release of his second album , ‘ Hands Free ’ , follows the success of Mona , a hit from his first album which established him as a singer/songwriter but did very little to convince a cynical world that under the suntan there lurked a talented guitarist . |
15 | At the National Eisteddfod of Wales in 1902 , he won the premier literary award ( the chair ) for an ode composed in the traditional strict metres on ‘ Ymadawiad Arthur ’ ( The Passing of Arthur ) which established him as the precursor of a new era in Welsh literature . |
16 | Last September Airtours bought the Pickfords Travel Service business in a deal which established it as a fully integrated holiday company with an airline , tour operations and travel agents . |
17 | My own suggestion that we were dealing with a whole nest of Mata Haris was declared plausible but incorrect while Team C , consisting of two middle-aged couples , produced two theories , the second of which named me as a potential mole ! |
18 | It was the Physics which led him to Engineering , and the Engineering which took him as a National Serviceman to Germany and the experimental air fields . |
19 | This provoked fierce opposition on the part of the Magistrates ' Association , however , which viewed it as an unwarranted attack on the independence of magistrates , and just five years later the measure was repealed as a result . |
20 | This was originally intended as a binding Convention , but concerted lobbying by a number of timber-exporting countries , led by Malaysia , which viewed it as an attack on sovereignty , resulted in its transformation into a non-binding statement of intent . |
21 | Originally intended to have taken the form of a binding Convention , it was watered down to a " Statement " as a result of concerted lobbying by a number of timber-exporting countries , led by Malaysia , which viewed it as an attack on sovereignty , and accused northern countries of hypocrisy , given the fact that they had already destroyed all but a tiny fraction of their own virgin forests . |
22 | I was reminded of a similar mechanism at Evan Roberts department store which fascinated me as a boy in Cardiff during the early Fifties . |
23 | They therefore accepted views of early kinship which represented it as a system where women were superior to men , where sex was unrestricted , and where the private and isolation of the group formed by parents and children was replaced by the commonality of a much larger undivided group . |
24 | A lepidopterist might be able to quote a going price for a preserved chalk-hill blue in good condition , wild rabbits have a price when shot and skinned , but the market price of Twyford Down itself would be low if sold with legal constraints which kept it as an open , public space and high if sold with planning permission for houses or industry ( or even a road ) . |
25 | Blackburn has been associated with the New Left Review 's analysis of the Labour Party , which saw it as a Labourist trend in politics with no connection to socialism . |
26 | The new committee found an immediate ally in the district societies , which saw it as a potent means of influencing the Institute 's technical effort . |
27 | He had inherited a view of the cross which saw it as the place where Christ did something which changed God 's mind about human beings . |
28 | I was sure the triptych mirror was one of her own treasures and I opened it carefully to see myself as I brushed my hair and applied a quick dab of lipstick , the red paint which marked me as a Westerner as surely as my blue eyes and blondish hair . |
29 | Pouting seductively , she assumed a pose which presented her as a raving sexpot , as she alluringly slipped the flimsy straps of her silk and lace petticoat from her ivory shoulders . |
30 | He was a good artist , and he was certainly a competent amateur astronomer , sending several observations of comets and of the planet Uranus to the Gentleman 's Magazine and to the American Philosophical Society , which enrolled him as a foreign member in 1787 . |