Example sentences of "he [be] [verb] [adv prt] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why had he been set up as Don Roberto 's murderer ? |
| 2 | Yet he is held up as an object of ridicule and loathing throughout the land . |
| 3 | There are four possibilities which need to be covered : ( 1 ) that he is held out as a partner and is liable as such ; ( 2 ) that he is held out as a partner but is indemnified against liability as such ; ( 3 ) that steps are taken to ensure that he is not held out as a partner ; and ( 4 ) that , even though the original intention may have been as at ( 3 ) , he is in fact held out as a partner , either by the firm or by himself acting in the course of his work for the firm , in circumstances not initially contemplated by anyone . |
| 4 | There are four possibilities which need to be covered : ( 1 ) that he is held out as a partner and is liable as such ; ( 2 ) that he is held out as a partner but is indemnified against liability as such ; ( 3 ) that steps are taken to ensure that he is not held out as a partner ; and ( 4 ) that , even though the original intention may have been as at ( 3 ) , he is in fact held out as a partner , either by the firm or by himself acting in the course of his work for the firm , in circumstances not initially contemplated by anyone . |
| 5 | He 's dressing up as the Lincoln Imp ; the original imp is a carving in Lincoln cathedral . |
| 6 | So Steve took on the singer 's mantle , but how does he think he 's shaping up as a guitarist/vocalist ? |
| 7 | He was dressed up as a pantomime character in the picture and was posing . |
| 8 | President Arístides Maria Pereira announced at an extraordinary congress of the PAICV on July 26 , 1990 , that he was stepping down as party leader as a first step towards the ending of one-party rule , declaring that the President had to be above party politics . |
| 9 | On May 16 Karl Otto Pöhl , 61 , announced that he was stepping down as president of the Deutsche Bundesbank , although his second eight-year term [ see p. 35724 ] was not due to expire until end-1995 . |
| 10 | In December 1991 had Jawara announced that he was stepping down as President , a position which he had held since independence . |
| 11 | Labour demanded his resignation after the LAS Board chairman , Jim Harris , announced he was stepping down as an inquiry blamed management failures over the £1.5 million computer-aided despatch system ( CAD ) . |
| 12 | He was listed as Edwin Kell , boarder , aged fifteen in the 1881 Pocklington census , but when the family moved from the East Riding to Easingwold about 1888 he was passed off as George and Mary 's eldest son . |
| 13 | It seemed to bear the same relationship to the country he was travelling through as Ptolemy 's view of the world to a satellite picture of the earth . |
| 14 | news on ronny johnsen is that he probably will not be offered a contract with spurs — he was tried out as a central marking defender ( the style most teams play — each central defender marks one attacker ) and as such he was no succes — norway play what we call a zone defence ; ‘ marking ’ their zones instead of players — journalists from Holland were laughing as Norway 's coach Drillo Olsen was asked ‘ who is to mark van Basten ? ’ before our home game against Holland and he answered ‘ No one is ’ — they did not laugh afterwards ( we won 2–1 ) . |
| 15 | Rhos Quarry closed in 1953 — a godsend to Evan 's health as well as his career — and after working briefly in the forestry plantations he was taken on as the first National Nature Reserve Warden of the newly-formed Nature Conservancy Council . |
| 16 | When the earl died without male issue in 1373 , he was taken on as a king 's knight by Edward III who , in addition to confirming the earl 's grant , awarded him an annuity for life of £50 . |
| 17 | He was set up as the triggerman for the massacre by those forces inside President F.W. de Klerk 's administration determined to hang on to white power at all costs . |
| 18 | Scott 's first venture into this unlikely field of design was at Battersea where , in 1930 , he was wheeled in as a famous knighted architect by the London Power Company to try to make acceptable the coal-fired monster power station to which the residents of Chelsea and Westminster were taking strong exception . |
| 19 | Tim and Julie met 11 years ago in Bath where she was training to be a teacher and he was starting out as a trainee accountant . |
| 20 | He quickly carried out a series of bizarre bank raids , claiming he was wired up as a ‘ human bomb ’ . |
| 21 | Robert Crehan claims he was held down as the body building star repeatedly kicked him . |
| 22 | He was bought up as a Catholic and a socialist and was educated at Harrow County School for Boys and Peterhouse , Cambridge , where he gained a first class degree in history . |
| 23 | The words which I have read are plain : it was Mr. Vanbergen who said he was going down to Eastbourne , that he was going down as part of his business , and that he did not think he would be getting back after his business on Thursday in time to pay it on Thursday , and the concession arose out of the question whether or not the debtor could be back in town in time to bring it himself , because he frankly said he was trying to get a little more time . |