Example sentences of "[vb pp] [noun sg] as a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And having sanctified violence as a positive good , Bukharin then proceeded to argue for coercion to be applied to the working class also : |
| 2 | Hitherto Braque had attracted attention as a significant latter-day recruit to the Fauve movement . |
| 3 | Redford makes the most of his blue eyed integrity as a humane prison governor who reforms the place and discovers a nasty secret . |
| 4 | A major part of the paper 's thinking was that it could employ people who would have been good journalists if they had pursued journalism as a conventional career . |
| 5 | Resolutely opposed by two of Gardiner 's less-enlightened predecessors as Lord Chancellor , Simonds and Dilhorne , the Law Commission under its first chairman , Sir Leslie Scarman , soon earned acceptance as a valuable strengthening of the hitherto piecemeal procedures for revising laws which had become outdated or unsatisfactory in practice . |
| 6 | Emma Lawson , formerly at ABC , has joined Pavilion as a senior editor . |
| 7 | He would have regarded mastication as a terrible waste of time . |
| 8 | The man who had offered the seat had seen Ianthe as a tall fragile-looking woman in a pretty blue hat that matched her eyes . |
| 9 | Another 115 , serving wider research and technology requirements , are unaffected by these changes but have undergone reorganisation as a major part of the plan for the whole R & T function . |
| 10 | Other sociologists have seen stratification as a divisive rather than an integrating force . |
| 11 | Lou has never seen love as a sufficient motive for anyone doing anything , which , when it comes to it , I daresay is why I left . |
| 12 | It was hard to imagine this tall , powerfully built man as a young , unformed boy . |
| 13 | In so far as Freud thought he had done psychology as a natural science , he has been vulnerable to critics within psychology who have applied natural scientific criteria to his work and found it wanting . |
| 14 | Although Catholics in theory regarded poverty as a holy state , they recognized that too much of it was not conducive to spiritual contemplation . |
| 15 | The old Arabs regarded Alcor as a naked-eye test , whereas today it is perfectly obvious , under reasonable conditions , to anyone with normal sight . |
| 16 | Little wonder therefore that all religions have used story as a prime means of communicating and of inspiring people . |
| 17 | Her sweaters had necks that were sewn and cut and Pauline included the following instructions for adding a fully fashioned band as a neat finish by her easy method that avoids having to backstitch through open loops . |
| 18 | ‘ Out of the same racist experiences have come Richard Pryor , Eddie Murphy , Lenny Henry , because we as black people have always used comedy as a liberating force ’ |
| 19 | Out of those same experiences have come Richard Pryor , Eddie Murphy , Lenny Henry , because we as black people have always used comedy as a liberating force . ’ |
| 20 | Avedis Donabedian , an American pioneer of quality assurance in health care in the United States whose work has been very influential in the United Kingdom , modelled quality as a dynamic relationship between structure , process and outcomes . |
| 21 | The latter was used as a support within the oral method , while Comett ( 1975 ) would identify Cued Speech as a manual method . |
| 22 | They employed hundreds of workers who had previously known lace-making as a domestic craft , and turned it into a mass-production industry which brought an end to cottage lace-making here and in the villages of Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire . |
| 23 | Within a short time of Jesus 's death , he had taken his brother 's place , had assumed the presiding role in the Nazarean hierarchy in Jerusalem and had attained status as a holy man himself . |
| 24 | Classical elitists regarded Marxism as a religious faith , a prophylactic for the downtrodden proletariat which wrongly attributes all previous systems of elite rule to economic forces , and which ignores the inescapable evidence that organizational logic and the psychological dependence of a mass of citizens on leadership makes ineluctable some such structure of domination . |
| 25 | It has long wanted recognition as a great power , especially among its Asian neighbours . |
| 26 | Unemployment has fallen in the county , although not as fast as in other parts of the region , but it does appear that some 800 previously unemployed Kent people have gained work as a direct result of the Tunnel . |
| 27 | We have also gained registration as a Basic Food Hygiene Centre offering the Institute of Environmental Health Office 's Basic Food Hygiene Certificate . |
| 28 | Orwell , you remember , that great Englishman who knew so much about our national character and wrote about it , some of his best essays characterised decency as a British peculiarity . |
| 29 | When he returned home he was given employment as a personal companion to an Austrian count , who took him to Vienna and Constantinople . |
| 30 | ( c ) If so construed the word " practice " plainly meant practice as a general medical practitioner . |