Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] [adv] [verb] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Lancashire and Yorkshire Company 's service to Blackpool and Southport was regularly criticized as slow , uncomfortable , and dilatory . |
| 2 | Rex was then re-elected as Premier when the Assembly reconvened . |
| 3 | First Deputy Prime Minister Eriya Kategaya was also named as National Political Commissar . |
| 4 | Several of the old dairy breeds and some of the Pyreneans are now classified as rare , along with one or two of the old draught breeds which are being heavily crossed with Charolais and Limousin . |
| 5 | It goes without saying that his accomplishments did not match his campaign rhetoric — taxes were increased , the state budget more than doubled while he was in office and there were no significant reductions in the size of the state workforce yet his ‘ record in Sacramento is generally regarded as favorable ’ . |
| 6 | Sar Kheng was also appointed as Interior Minister , replacing Gen. Sin Song who took charge of the new Ministry of National Security . |
| 7 | Croatia was effectively split as eastern Slavonia and a stretch of the Zagreb-Belgrade motorway near Okucani came under Serbian control . |
| 8 | Mr Sekula is best remembered as vice-premier in the same government . |
| 9 | The efforts of Lord Carrington as chair of the EC-sponsored peace conference on Yugoslavia were increasingly criticized as ineffective . |
| 10 | To Neil , hide-bound Englishman that he was , Philip Arbuthnot was best described as Irish , because he could n't account for him in any other way . |
| 11 | Birmingham is still declaimed as smoky , grimy , unpleasant and philistine . |
| 12 | By the mid-Eighties , Americans had started to speak of a black ‘ underclass ’ : now , one-third of the black US is officially classed as poor . |
| 13 | Jaggard is best remembered as joint publisher and printer of the First Folio of Shakespeare ; printing was completed in late October or early November of 1623 , around the time of his death ; he is named in the colophon , but the title-page ( probably printed last ) names Isaac , who on 4 November became printer to the City of London ‘ in the place of William Jaggard his late Father deceased ’ ( Guildhall records : Letter Book JJ , fo. 51 ) . |
| 14 | The work of William Acton is usually seen as representative here . |
| 15 | A. and B. are both counted as complete , with zygomatic region intact ; C. is a broken skull with zygomatic intact ; and D. is a maxilla fragment lacking the zygomatic process . |
| 16 | The physical characteristics of blacks in America were traditionally defined as undesirable and associated with a range of negative qualities . |
| 17 | SACRISTON entertainer Brenda Collins is often billed as Little Miss Dynamite for her role as singer-comediennne , a description which could also apply to her everyday life . |