Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pers pn] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Netherwood has carried out modifications to the kit and relaunched it as the Rotorway Exec 90 , currently selling for $35,000 including power plant . |
| 2 | Cecilia did not dislike Jarvis , she did not dislike anybody , but she feared and distrusted him as a bachelor with no regular job , no real income and a home which she was convinced would be sold to the property developers . |
| 3 | The initial agreement made was a licensing agreement whereby Rover ( then known as BL ) assembled the Honda Ballade from 1981 onwards with limited alterations and sold it as the Triumph Acclaim . |
| 4 | I supervised her professional training while she was working at the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute at Penicuik , and appointed her as an Assistant Librarian at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh just over a year ago . |
| 5 | Her parents then moved to London and admitted her as a free scholar to the sculpture studio in the Royal College of Art , where she stayed for four years and graduated an A.R.C.A. |
| 6 | The Parquet had existed , he thought , since at least 1883 when a reforming Minister of Justice had unearthed in his office some Arabic translations of parts of the French Code Napoleon and promulgated them as the new Egyptian legal system . |
| 7 | The wind caught the spindrift and flung it as a jewelled and treacherous veil into the depths of the ragged sky that dizzied her when contrary winds ripped the clouds this way and that . |
| 8 | Malcolm Muggeridge later said that Burgess ‘ gave me a feeling of being morally afflicted in some way ’ , and described him as the ‘ sick toast of a sick society ’ . |
| 9 | Robin Cook , the shadow trade and industry secretary , said the Government had put forward the biggest tax increases for any Budget in history and described it as a ‘ Budget of failure and a Budget of cheats ’ . |
| 10 | By the latter half of the century , the majority of books on child care — which were enjoying a tremendous popularity — strongly recommended breast-feeding and described it as the normal practice ( Fildes 1980 ) . |
| 11 | Some elements in the Argentine military , along with members of the opposition UCR , characterized the abandonment of the missile programme as a capitulation to US demands , and described it as an irresponsible move at a time when Chile was suspected to be seeking a new missile . |
| 12 | Dougal picked them up and used them as a lever . |
| 13 | Perhaps she had heard our voices and used them as an excuse to break away from Henry Clerval . |
| 14 | You know our king , when he visited Maubisson , often called on Abbe Gerard and used him as a confessor ? ’ |
| 15 | In the ‘ FURNITURE ’ section he made a little hut out of cardboard and used it as a base for his search . |
| 16 | He named the coccus Micrococcus lysodeikticus and used it as a test for identifying the destructive or lysing agent . |
| 17 | ‘ I suppose he could have folded it and used it as a spill to get a light from the pilot on the gas water heater . ’ |
| 18 | They realised the strategic importance of the site and used it as a naval base and trading post . |
| 19 | The creative team took this new insight and used it as a spring-board to create a very successful campaign based on sprouting leaves and the headline : " Refreshes the parts other beers can not reach " , thus demonstrating the imaginative leap creative people make from research findings to effect communication messages . |
| 20 | Weather prediction is vital to the success of farming and other activities , and for centuries people have watched the natural world closely and used it as a guide . |
| 21 | Like the Edwardians , the Mods assumed what had been an exclusively and outrageously homosexual style and used it as a key to cross into the ‘ private ’ space of the body and of self-discovery ; unlike their forebears , they were far more intimately involved with black culture , from the new black music of the Tamla and Sue labels , to the ‘ bluebeat ’ clubs that were opening , as an index of Britain 's more visible black community . |
| 22 | We published Agenda for the 90's , a statement of RIBA policies ranging from Housing to the Environment and used it as a tool with which to lobby parliamentary candidates for the General Election . |
| 23 | It controlled the economic infrastructure and used it as a means of exploitation . |
| 24 | Speaking almost simultaneously on Tyne-Tees Television 's Face the Press , Mrs Thatcher showed an acute awareness of criticisms of her Cabinet style and used it as an explanation for not confronting Heseltine earlier in the Westland debate : |
| 25 | She had plenty of wool , so kept the sleeve and used it as the material for her cushion . |
| 26 | When Dixie Dean was on holiday in Ayr , he noticed that a professional sprint was to be held and entered it as an outsider and won ; he thereby not only demonstrated the outstanding athletic abilities of top footballers ( Matthews was also a fine athlete ) , but underlined the survival of the old pedestrian traditions at the new resorts catering for working-class holiday-makers . |
| 27 | The Junkers tolerated the troublesome middle classes only because they guaranteed the Junkers their place in German society ; the middle classes looked up to the Junker traditional leadership , and regarded them as the German image of itself . |
| 28 | His deputy , Robert Forgan , had satisfactory talks with Neil Francis Hawkins about the amalgamation of the New Party with the British Fascists , but the grand council of the British Fascists voted against a merger by one vote in May 1932 after its founder Rotha Lintorn Orman , who was very suspicious of Mosley and regarded him as a near communist , vigorously opposed the change . |
| 29 | If ever we had to be away for a night , Shanti used to go to spend the night at Mavis 's house , and regarded it as a very great treat . |
| 30 | Quite early on " I ceased to consider representative democracy as an absolute principle " , he wrote later , " and regarded it as a question of time , place , and circumstance … " |