Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] [pron] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A female in a long pleated dress is leaping over two animals , the neck of one of which is heavily covered with barbotine dots , perhaps intended to identify it as a leopard . |
| 2 | We would obviously like to see ourselves as the organ of a revolutionary party , however embryonic it may be . ’ |
| 3 | His actions had caused him to be one of the most reviled prisoners among the white community , and the government had hitherto refused to recognize him as a political prisoner . |
| 4 | ‘ Giles Hawick is taking it seriously enough to have reported her as a missing person , ’ he said tightly . |
| 5 | Johnnie Armstrong , distinguished from others of that surname by the to-name of Black Jock , dressed himself up in all his finery and rode with fifty of his best men to meet the king in Teviotdale , obviously hoping to impress him as a near equal . |
| 6 | Why he seemed so determined to treat her as a friend when all her instincts told her that he was in love with her . |
| 7 | Unusual coat colours and patterns can arise spontaneously by genetic mutation anywhere in the world , and breeders in different regions might quite coincidentally seize upon a colour mutation and henceforward seek to establish it as a mark of their breed . |
| 8 | The likeable Frenchman , born in St. Chamond in 1955 , could just as easily have established himself as a professional soccer player . |
| 9 | Well that shows us what a dramatist was lost to the English stage when Milton finally decided to write it as an epic and not as a play . |
| 10 | He just wanted to use me as a sort of social-aid-cum-aphrodisiac . |
| 11 | Yet it is a testimony to the strength of party during this period that the Court , despite the resources of patronage at its disposal , largely failed to establish itself as an independent interest . |
| 12 | Colombia , it is true , still seems to regard herself as an Atlantic nation — her trade goes principally through the Caribbean port of Cartagena rather than through the dire and crime-ridden wharves of the Pacific port of Buenaventura ; but Ecuador ( which has island possessions in the Ocean ) and Peru seem to be becoming further and further entwined in Pacific matters ; and Chile — ah , Chile ! |
| 13 | But its disappearance will be of serious concern to the growing medium-sized business needing a serious injection of equity to continue to fulfil its potential and also the venture capitalist who may always have seen it as a desired exit route for an investment . |
| 14 | ‘ I have always tried to take him as a melancholy warning ’ ( wrote Tolkien in 1964 ) , so the danger was seen . |
| 15 | So on would go the self mocking Uncle Basil , punctuating everything with a high pitched giggle that was so appealing I remember deliberately trying to adopt it as a young adult . |
| 16 | Syria still likes to portray itself as the sworn enemy of the Israelis , but the Ba'ath Party officials who rule with an iron hand appear to have given up trying to stop their citizens tuning in to the ‘ Zionists ’ wavelength . |
| 17 | And it demonstrated that Hitler 's instinctive grasp of the ‘ gut feelings ’ of the population , on which his effectiveness as a speaker greatly rested , was also beginning to leave him as a result of his isolation in his distant field headquarters . |
| 18 | The PC is also beginning to establish itself as a consumer item , as demonstrated by its appearance in high street retail chains like Dixons , Wildings and John Lewis . |
| 19 | Professors Gordon Donaldson and I. B. Cowan have both tried to assess her as a character of history rather than drama , going further than Lady Antonia in considering her political role . |
| 20 | In gender terms this means that it is ‘ precisely when most compelled to see yourself as a woman or as a man , [ that ] you are confronted with the mystery of the other [ sex ] who faces you from across an impassable moral divide ’ ( p. 306 ) . |
| 21 | The historic state coach No 351 which was being restored at that time suffered exterior damage in the fire but it is now intended to restore it as a museum piece . |
| 22 | It seems that the ‘ most powerful screen actor since Brando ’ now wants to reinvent himself as an independent movie mogul . |
| 23 | The violence of this transition became more cushioned for me in the mid-seventies , when we built our bamboo and coconut-wood home in the highlands of Bali , which for seven years now has served us as a sort of decompression chamber between the two worlds . |
| 24 | ‘ I think caring really means treating you as a human being . |
| 25 | He 's we do n't really get to know him as a person . |
| 26 | Connolly 's observation is often taken to confirm him as a better judge of literature than of politics , but in many ways he was remarkably prescient : Home was indeed ‘ honourably ineligible ’ for the new age which was dawning in the Tory party . |
| 27 | There are people out there who really do see him as the pioneer of a computer-generated escape from reality . |
| 28 | Director Arthur Penn had bought the rights to the Thomas Berger novel Little Big Man in 1965 , and MGM had originally planned to produce it as a multimillion-dollar epic before the deal fell through . |
| 29 | I detect no conventional underlying plan : although certain melodic ghosts ( from La Mer , and if I 'm not mistaken from Berg 's Op. 6 Orchestral Pieces ) seem to cry like shags and gannets from the rocks at various locations around the coast , the work really does offer itself as a succession of episodes , most of them only a few bars in length ( the shortest of all is the single bar — string and brass glissandi giving onto flutter-tongue flute with gong — that represents Orfordness ) . |
| 30 | And he was a little , he was like , try really trying to prove himself as an actor , I do n't know , bit over the top , |