Example sentences of "as [verb] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He saw the theory as a way of uniting all sciences but the academic world did not readily accept the theory as presented at a philosophical seminar in Chicago in 1937 ( Holt-Jensen , 1981 ) . |
| 2 | It has serious implications for the freedom of the press , as shown at a European Conference in Luxembourg on 3 July 1991 . |
| 3 | In the post-war period , more universally than before , old age , and the socially accepted roles associated with it , was accepted as beginning at a fixed chronological age : the state pensionable age of 60/65 . |
| 4 | One group was quoted as ranting at a young police woman : ‘ We 're going to cut your belly open . |
| 5 | The excavator noted that domestic rubbish had been tipped inside the precinct because , either it had become a convenient dumping ground , or there had been an attempt at deliberate desecration , as happened at a later date in the orchestra of the Verulamium temple theatre . |
| 6 | Railways are a type of transport that fall easily under central control , and whose construction may even intensify political centralism , because of the rationality of disposing lines so as to converge at a central point . |