Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [adv] [vb pp] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | These powers , which the reformers Ephialtes and Pericles tendentiously represented as ‘ usurped privileges ’ , were given to the council of 500 and to the People i.e. the Assembly and the law-courts . |
| 2 | What is certain is that Oakland start their second consecutive World Series as firm favourites , their combination of power ( Jose Canseco and Mark McGuire ) , pitching ( Dave Stewart and Mike Moore ) , defence ( Mike Gallego and Carney Lansford ) and speed commonly seen as too strong for a San Francisco side carrying several half-fit pitchers and vulnerable defensively to Henderson 's base stealing . |
| 3 | Boycott stayed over five hours for 70 but had no lengthy support , Botham holed out in the deep when his responsibility as captain was to put his head down , and England never looked as though they were going to make it . |
| 4 | Yet here the lads are 24 hours later , all jaunty smiles and hangovers seemingly forgotten as they line up with newlyweds David and Thorunn Nash . |
| 5 | June 13 : T-28D Trojan VH-LAO/0–38320 badly damaged at Wangaratta , Victoria and registration subsequently cancelled as withdrawn from use . |
| 6 | Thus , it is not uncommon to find Comte , Durkheim , Marx , and Weber all described as positivists , even though from many points of view they make strange bedfellows . |
| 7 | The Foreign Ministers of Saudi Arabia and Morocco also attended as observers , representing respectively the Gulf Co-operation Council ( GCC ) and the Arab Maghreb Union ( AMU ) . |
| 8 | Cats and humans both evolved as meat-eaters — as predators — and until our biochemists have been able to produce synthetic meats , with the magic mixture of essential amino-acids , we are both trapped by our evolutionary past . |
| 9 | Carew 's bleak diagnosis can hardly have been uninfluenced by several decades of mounting concern at the impermanence of non-agricultural employment compared with the stability of farmers fully occupied tending their land , and men continuously employed as servants in husbandry engaged for a year at a time . |
| 10 | It had become a very sad sight indeed , but Jack hardly noticed as he turned and stared back down the hill to Sakata , its neat rows of buildings looking like so much Lego . |