Example sentences of "come [adv prt] as an " in BNC.

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1 This obviously is n't going to come up as an issue for quite a long time , since transcribing this 'll be a long time .
2 It still came in as an F S T did n't it ?
3 He called them Amurricanes , in a heavy stage accent that came over as an envious sneer .
4 The ability of this young quartet to present two works from such different worlds so convincingly , led one to expect that Dvorak 's American quartet would be a powerful experience ; but what might have been hot-blooded came over as an indoor gypsy — more pretty than potent .
5 Its child protection procedures have information about what to do if a child is worried about HIV , and how to make an appropriate referral if HIV/AIDS came up as an issue for child who has been sexually abused .
6 It came out as an exclamation , and she heard the controller mutter something uncomplimentary through the headphones , but she did n't care .
7 Coming in as an outsider probably helped as a bit of a catalyst but really it was the fact that we were at the bottom of the underwriting cycle and everyone was looking to improve results and build up market share . ’
8 She was not looking forward to her coming out as an Italian girl , but she was determined not to let herself get married early .
9 But it could always of course come in as an odd .
10 The answer is that , despite his biographer 's sterling efforts to dig up neat psychoanalytic excuses for even his most venal sins , a Dickens often given to kindness , empathy and geniality but more predominantly disposed to be cruel , self-centred , self-pitying and sententious does not come over as an especially lovable specimen .
11 Alfred Molina 's Shannon comes over as an assemblage of mannerisms rather than a man whose behaviour arises from dissipation and anguish ; Frances Barber is too young , too wiry and too busy for the over-ripe Maxine ; Robin Bailey , though he believably slips in and out of awareness , is too sturdy for the ancient poet , and he sounds and gestures just like colonel Hall on Sergeant Bilko .
12 So I think the communications department wanted to pull together all of these issues , and make sure that we hear your voice effectively , we represent it effectively and that , the sense in which N C V O comes over as an organisation is more appropriately presented and projected in all the many different spheres in which we 're currently operating .
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