Example sentences of "it [vb past] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon I came to a strange place where the river divided , one part of it compressed as a hurling white torrent between steep artificial banks , the other part let into a tranquil canal that entered Galway from the countryside . |
| 2 | She was a little disappointed in its capacity in relation to its size , for it cheated as a false-bottomed suitcase cheats . |
| 3 | Christianity , as it arose as a messianic reform movement within Judaism in the first century AD , had some characteristics of an early reform Judaism . |
| 4 | The ANC had earlier resisted a meeting with Inkatha on the grounds that this would lend undue national legitimacy to what it regarded as a Zulu organization with a power base confined largely to Natal province . |
| 5 | Early on , the RCM tried hard to play down differences with policy statements which leaned some way towards orthodoxy without limiting the freedom of the RCM to act in what it regarded as the best interests of individual children . |
| 6 | It did not only transform the political and military map : by the destruction which it wrought , unparalleled in previous human history in its scale , it hurled a black question mark against the confidence in the onward and upward progress of Christian civilisation which had so strongly characterised Liberal Theology , and forced the bitter question whether the advanced theological thought of the nineteenth century as a whole had not been far too unaware of the darker side of human nature , too optimistic about innate human capacity for good , too willing to take contemporary culture at its own high evaluation of itself , and overall too disposed to take God for granted , and to assume that he was somehow simply ‘ given ’ in what it regarded as the highest ethical , spiritual and religious values of mankind . |
| 7 | The City took a dim view of what it regarded as the inordinate amount of time it took for the group to return a profit there . |
| 8 | During the Falklands War , for example , the Ministry of Defence quite blatantly manipulated press coverage in what it regarded as the national interest . |
| 9 | First , by drawing a distinction between what it regarded as the natural ( and therefore genuine ) core of religion and the complex of authorities , traditions , institutions and doctrines which went to make up the forms of Christianity , it implied that much , indeed very much of the latter was redundant and could safely be jettisoned . |
| 10 | The parliamentary chairman , Ruslan Khasbulatov , has accused the media of bias and yesterday the parliament kept up its barrage of complaints against the media , saying television programmes closed the eyes of viewers to what it described as the anti-constitutional nature of the president 's seizure of new powers . |
| 11 | And for those , especially within the Movement , for whom it ranked as a burning issue , Hitler 's words were clearly taken as a signal and sanction for further radical action and were increasingly treated as a literal description of what was actually taking place . |
| 12 | In particular , it proposed the ending of detention without trial as soon as was politically possible , and it condemned as a serious mistake the establishment of a ‘ special category ’ for convicted prisoners claiming political motivation . |
| 13 | In fact , it came as a complete surprise to the hoteliers of Ramsey when they were given notice to quit their premises within six days , leaving behind ‘ all furniture , bedding , linen , cutlery , crockery and utensils ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ Although Steven said he 'd heard arguing , I never had so it came as a complete shock . ’ |
| 15 | Cooper said : ‘ It came as a complete bombshell . |
| 16 | However , it came as a great shock to Richard when , some time later , this friend fell into profanity and drunkenness . |
| 17 | It came as a great shock . |
| 18 | Gavin , who chose The Crusades , 1095–1154 , as his final specialist subject , said : ‘ It came as a great surprise to win . |
| 19 | Maggie was called to see Mr Parnham during the next morning and it came as a great surprise . |
| 20 | Nasser was not informed of his mothers death until he returned to Khatatba , several months later , when it came as a great shock . |
| 21 | He says it came as a great shock , although when she was a drug addict they had wondered how she managed to pay for heroin . |
| 22 | It came as a great surprise to me for some reason or other . |
| 23 | Glen Coe Still on conservation issues , it came as a pleasant surprise to many when the news leaked that the Countryside Commission for Scotland , who built and own the controversial visitors centre on National Trust for Scotland ground in Glen Coe , had recommended that the centre be moved . |
| 24 | It came as a pleasant surprise and is most gratefully received . |
| 25 | It came as a mild shock to realise that there was none . |
| 26 | But there is no masking the truth and , when Costakis learnt of this ‘ bashfulness ’ , it came as a painful blow to his self-esteem as a collector . |
| 27 | Considering that Russia had not engaged in naval warfare for some 50 years and that its industrial economy had been almost totally destroyed during the war , it came as a considerable shock to discover that it was capable of building such a strikingly graceful , and powerful , class of warship . |
| 28 | It came as a considerable shock , therefore , when , on 24 January 1977 , the Chief Executive of the Mid-Glamorgan County Council received a letter from the Welsh Education Office of the DES stating the government 's intention of removing courses of teacher-training from the Polytechnic as part of the overall plan to reduce the number of teacher-training places in the Principality to 2,850 by 1981 . |
| 29 | Every time I visited him he made me polish the dust off the bottle , so it came as a huge relief when we were finally able to open it . |
| 30 | He was sort of evasive and fey and appeared relatively shy and my impression of him at the time was that he had little charisma , no star quality and not a lot of talent , and it came as a big surprise when he became as successful as he was . |