Example sentences of "as [vb pp] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , however , we can propose that the infinitive event with its internal spatial support ( intra-verbal person ) must be conceived as situated at a point in time beyond that at which its explicit actual support is located . |
| 2 | Most ancient and medieval writers thought of human life not as a continuous development but instead as punctuated by a number of sudden changes from one ‘ age ’ to the next . |
| 3 | To see this double image as joined to a symbol of the grave ‘ that linked one Vincent to the other ’ is not as far-fetched as it appears when one sees the multiplicity of twinned and fused pairs appearing later : pairs of cottages , trees , and chairs , as well as of people on roads or seated at tables , overlapping or merged or shadowed . |
| 4 | But information may be treated by the speaker as given for a variety of other reasons . |
| 5 | This paper explores the social policy contexts of prevention , as developed in a research study carried out for the Department of Health ( Hardiker et al . , |
| 6 | Or try an Accommodation Package as arranged for a visit to Edinburgh during the Festival which includes a visit to the Edinburgh Tattoo . |
| 7 | This order stays all further proceedings except for the purpose of carrying terms agreed — as contained in a Schedule annexed into effect ; the order ends with the words " … for that purpose , the parties are to be at liberty to apply " . |
| 8 | To grasp the meaning of a handshake we must not only see it positively as located in a greeting ceremonial , that is in a sequence of actions identified with respect to the social act they accomplish , but we must also see it negatively , as excluding certain alternatives and possibilities of action . |
| 9 | She is represented as accoutred with a shield and a trident , the traditional attributes of the Sea-god Neptune , to symbolize the fact that Britain 's strength depends on her sea-power as ‘ ruler of the waves ’ . |
| 10 | As expected of a de-luxe hotel , the well-hotel , the well-appointed rooms feature bath/WC , radio , telephone , TV and minibar and some have a balcony . |
| 11 | As an example we may take gaseous SiCl 2 H 2 whose IR spectrum ( Fig. 5.29 ) contains bands with three distinct types of envelope , as expected for a molecule with C 2 ν symmetry . |
| 12 | As before , cancer was not significantly more common in clinic patients than in controls though , as expected in a hypertension clinic , cardiovascular causes of death showed a greater than twofold excess in men , and slightly less in women ( fig 2 ) . |
| 13 | First , they can be compared with the actual distribution of population as reported on a grid square basis by the 1971 Census of Population ( Fig. 5.11 ) . |
| 14 | The NME established itself quickly , even if the musical world it reflected was to remain dominated by Geraldo , Humphrey Lyttleton , Johnny Dankworth , differing varieties of big band jazz , and the showbiz gossip direct from ‘ Tin Pan Alley ’ ( Denmark St ) , where the paper had its offices ) as reported by a variety of wackily pseudonymous hacks such as ‘ The Slider ’ and ‘ The Alleycat ’ . |
| 15 | Combining elements from his childhood reading with his reading about recent political thought and events , Eliot shows the man-child who has not evolved a cry , and so for whom ‘ the lost word is lost ’ , as trapped in a corner , paralysed for all his magnificence and that of his City . |
| 16 | THREE centres will run pilot schemes of four-year industrially-oriented courses for engineering postgraduate students , as recommended in a report of a panel chaired by Dr John Parnaby of Lucas Applied Technology . |
| 17 | The Oxford Pest Control surveyors , as depicted by a non-Rentokil person ! |
| 18 | It was said that if a claim is directed to a technical process which is carried out under the control of a program ( whether implemented in the hardware or the software ) , then the claim can not be regarded as related to a computer program as such . |
| 19 | From somewhere in the back Cecilia could hear that sound she had never been able to identify and had not liked to ask about , a regular screeching as made by a bird in a zoo . |
| 20 | I have described him as a literary concept and this , as applied to a man in a dirty trench-coat moving in and out of sleazy beds and corrupt gambling dens , may seem to be rather excessive . |
| 21 | A more modern example is " prime position " as applied to a shop ( Ashburn Anstalt v Arnold [ 1988 ] 2 All ER 147 ) . |
| 22 | Consider these principles as applied to a population of ants . |
| 23 | But you often hear the expression , tack iss stock ope , tachistoscope as presented by a tachistoscope , right , there you go . |
| 24 | Study of three dots , charged , discharged and variously weighted reveals that : ( 1 ) Symmetry , as presented in a void by the equilateral trio , is static . |
| 25 | This is Sigmund Freud 's , as presented in a study Der Witz und seine Beziehung zum Unbewussten . |
| 26 | Section of a potato as seen through a microscope |
| 27 | An artist 's feelings of separation from her family , as seen through a series of fragmentary communications between the artist and her mother . |
| 28 | The first Sydney station , as seen in a print of 1855 , was a one-platformed wooden barn . |
| 29 | Figure 5.14 shows a panel of gold filigree work from an eighth-century Irish paten as seen in a scanning electron microscope . |
| 30 | A building near Bruton Dovecote , Somerset , as seen from a Plymouth to Paddington train . |