Example sentences of "[adv prt] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She too exhibits both a fascination and a scepticism with regard to structuralist theories of the text , manifest in Thru as a healthy mistrust of theory whenever it becomes over-systematic . |
| 2 | Labour was moving on as a renewed party — ‘ a party that cares as much about consumers as it cares about producers ; a party that wants to make the economy work as much as it wants to change the economy ; a party that embraces as much of the green as it does of the red ’ . |
| 3 | When he got on as a substitute against Sweden he was first class ; in Albania he was one of our best players . ’ |
| 4 | She feels sorry for smokers — ‘ Nowadays , I think it is looked on as a sort of disability ’ . |
| 5 | It was probably effective the first time , but now it is looked on as a desperate move , a last ditch attempt to gain attention . |
| 6 | There is one area of management , however , that Sir Monty has changed his view on as a result of greater experience . |
| 7 | The General looks on as a cadet is singled out to deliver his orders to others from his platoon . |
| 8 | I confess I can not really see worm watching catching on as a mass pursuit with worm watcher clubs and organised field visits , but I did hear of an infants ' school where the worm has joined the tadpole as a creature for study . |
| 9 | Provision of the means to wage an atrocious war had been agreed on as a sign of good faith . |
| 10 | But it is not at all obvious to the audience how the couple have arrived at this happier state of affairs , neither is it entirely clear what Bill Alexander hopes to add by exercising his powers of invention on the play 's Prologue , in which an alcoholic tinker called Christopher Sly is persuaded by a group of gentry to think of himself an aristocrat — the story of the shrew being laid on as a suitable dramatic entertainment . |
| 11 | Mr Hay left out the experienced campaigners Karen Brown , Vickey Dixon and Jane Sixsmith from the starting line-up , though Sixsmith came on as a late substitute for Joanne Menown . |
| 12 | Although Mr Brown , the anti-establishment populist , failed to come close to his win over Mr Clinton in Connecticut two weeks ago , he will undoubtedly fight on as a spoiler until the final primary in California in June . |
| 13 | Jettisoning Shakespeare , and talking in a ludicrous mixture of Italian and heavily accented English , he comes on as a hilarious parody of a libidinous Latin , pinching handbags from the audience , flogging dodgy cassette tapes and offering healing laughter after all the grief of the earlier acts . |
| 14 | In May of 1920 , a new Minute Book was started , so complementing the newspaper reports from now on as a source of information . |
| 15 | If they were all to get on as a family , she would have to be careful about introducing Richard to the children . |
| 16 | As the search for a suitable guitarist proved fruitless , it appeared that The Smiths would not be carrying on as a unit . |
| 17 | Sensationally , The Smiths would not be carrying on as a band at all . |
| 18 | He took small parts in ballets by Ashton ( a courtier at the ball in the premiere of Cinderella , one of the revellers in the cave scene of Apparitions ) and de Valois ( Checkmate , Don Quixote and Job ) , walked on as a pall-bearer in Helpmann 's Hamlet , and appeared in the classics , where his most prominent parts were a mazurka dancer in Swan Lake and a marquess in the hunting scene of The Sleeping Beauty . |
| 19 | The track goes on as a pleasant lane beyond Calf Holes , coming alongside a belt of trees on the left and arriving after a mile at the sixteenth-century Ling Gill Bridge , a modest structure with a tablet built into parapet giving the information that it was repaired in 1765 at the expense of the inhabitants of the West Riding . |
| 20 | In October 1922 , employees ' wages were reduced by three shillings a week ! conditions at that time were severe ; men had to serve for several years on the seasonal staff before being taken on as a regular . |
| 21 | It was looked on as a very serious offence . |
| 22 | Visitors to the National Fishing Heritage Centre sign on as a crew member of a 1950 's steam trawler and journey to the Arctic fishing grounds . |
| 23 | While I agree that worm watching will probably never catch on as a mass pursuit , something well known here in Cornwall is to observe seagulls tap dancing on the lawn after rain . |
| 24 | In 1688 some of them marched with the invading army of William of Orange to Salisbury where one of them decided to stay on as a small shopkeeper . |
| 25 | Philip was taken on as a sort of pupil-teacher , helping with the children and also furthering his own education . |
| 26 | They had just simply and totally fallen out of love with each other , and like the devout Catholics they were , carried on as a pretence . |
| 27 | If only he had thought of recorking his wine after dégorgement , then the perfectly limpid sparkling wine he had managed to achieve for himself and , no doubt , passed on as a ‘ tip ’ to others , would have been available to everybody . |
| 28 | By now , however , in the twilight of their existence on Earth , problems of climate were becoming more important , having finally a crucial bearing on whether they would continue to live on as a species , or succumb . |
| 29 | If Dire Straits had n't been so successful , would you have carried on as a circuit band , or would you have gone back to teaching or journalism ? |
| 30 | ‘ In the long-run I 'd like to be looked on as a composer rather than a stick player . |