Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] [adv] [adv] [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the hospital bulletin on the Monday afternoon , the condition of Lucy Downes was now officially listed as ‘ comfortable ’ , one notch above the ‘ satisfactory ’ of the Sunday , and two above the earlier ‘ stable ’ . |
| 2 | It seems probable that rebellion in East Anglia was as rigorously suppressed as in Kent . |
| 3 | Over a period of a few days during early August the world 's perception of the Kingdom shifted dramatically , so that King Hussein was no longer portrayed as one of the chief US allies in the region , but instead as one of Saddam Hussein 's prime collaborators . |
| 4 | Bongo was most recently re-elected as President in November 1986 [ see p. 34784 ] . |
| 5 | By the time his aunt arrived Jamie was so far recovered as to be able to refuse to go home and to point out , severely , that he would be needed , either to assist the police or to be lead rider in the eleven-thirty class , or possibly both . |
| 6 | The GCC producers in OPEC were also progressively isolated as Iran tried to convince non-Gulf members that the endorsement of Saudi low price policies was no longer in their interest . |
| 7 | Thus , for example , the simple Ben is also variously spelt as Beinn , Bheinn and Bienne , and Meal ( a hill ) also appears as Meall , Mheall , Meallan and Maolle ; furthermore , the vowels in the names bristle with accents sloping both ways . |
| 8 | The first glimpse of Montserrat is always deeply moving as it begins to rise like a vast ragged curtain on the evening horizon , mysterious and slightly sinister in its grandeur as it looms ever nearer in Goya-like menace , shifting from side to side of the bus until it vanishes behind us . |
| 9 | After the completion of a £5.5M development over the last two years , Douglas Reyburn is now firmly positioned as one of the most modern spinning mills in the business and the largest woollen carpet yarn spinners in the country . |
| 10 | Er , whereas St John is as tightly controlled as a as a strong elastic band is n't he ? |
| 11 | Wales is almost always treated as though it were an offshoot of England although there is a small group of civil servants in Cardiff for specifically Welsh matters . |
| 12 | expected over the next four months it 's nevertheless from a reasonably high level because it 's done well so far erm and I would n't want to over stress the sense in which Wales is perhaps not doing as well as the others . |
| 13 | This was not least because of the respect and affection in which , as I found , Eliot was so clearly held as both a writer and a man . |
| 14 | After his wife died , Howard again took to travelling ; but Cardington was now firmly established as his base and he had sufficient esteem in the eyes of his neighbours to be appointed High Sheriff of Bedfordshire in 1773 . |
| 15 | Their heavy-handed approach might also have deterred Madame Vassoir — if there was such a person — from co-operating , whereas Charlotte was uniquely well placed as Beatrix 's niece and Samantha 's aunt to appeal to her on behalf of the whole family . |