Example sentences of "[verb] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first half of the 19th century saw many changes in the trade with mills rebuilt and workforces reorganised as the ‘ factory system ’ was adopted . |
| 2 | He was wounded as the marines opened fire . |
| 3 | As I was called by you on Question 16 , only to be discourteously interrupted by the hon. Member for Bradford , South ( Mr. Cryer ) , will you refer to the Procedure Committee whether or not such an interruption should be permitted as a means of closing a question , or whether Members should be afforded the courtesy of asking their question , after such an interruption , when Question Time ends ? |
| 4 | For one thing it was not as easily won as the trust of adults , or children or animals . |
| 5 | Colours also may get distorted as the eye lens gets yellower with age ; in some pictures of Mulready he believed he could demonstrate this defect . |
| 6 | One particularly important example of such an interaction is where sickle cell anaemia is co-inherited with the benign condition hereditary persistence of fetal haemoglobin ( HPFH ) , in which levels of the fetal form of haemoglobin HbF do not fall as the patient grows . |
| 7 | Purchase intentions are unlikely to grow continuously throughout the sales presentation ; they are more likely to rise and fall as the presentation progresses ( see Fig. 15 ) . |
| 8 | They were rattled and bounced as the tail of the column swung about , but they were safe . |
| 9 | Her lips split , her jaw cracked as the branch thickened , then was still . |
| 10 | She surfaced as the car slowed down and turned sharply to the right . |
| 11 | These visits to New Southgate were , of course , reciprocated as the grandchildren paid a visit to Granny in Freegrove Road ; stopping off at Beale 's on Holloway Road for chocolate fingers on the way — a great treat — they would go to the side entrance of no. 17 and ring the bell . |
| 12 | The dummy is nonetheless a vital element in the scrum-half 's armoury in order to buy that odd half-second of time ; for example , in a scrum where a flanker or scrum-half is set to pounce as the ball lies at the opposing no.8 's feet , a dummy for the no.9 would ( 1 ) remind the players where the off-side line is , and ( 2 ) buy him an extra second of time to distribute the ball , and ( 3 ) avoid potential injury from being flattened by his opponents and , controversially … ( 4 ) earn the chance of a penalty . |
| 13 | Elaine scrambled to recover her bikini and fell over , laughing as the relentless waves pulled her under the water , time and time again . |
| 14 | She snatched Buster from his play and we went back into the house where she held him close to her face , laughing as the big cat purred and arched himself ecstatically against her cheek . |
| 15 | Between 1979 and 1986 the UK 's portfolio investments overseas rose as the annual outflow increased . |
| 16 | Behind them a column of dust rose as the temple collapsed in on itself , but they did not look back . |
| 17 | Jackie hopped up and down , squeaking as the feeling came back into his arms . |
| 18 | At the same time he is depicted as a saint by the bishop of Tours , who may well have thought of him as a fellow victim of Merovingian politics . |
| 19 | The dispenser hummed as the null-grav units tried to compensate , and the machine juddered to one side . |
| 20 | With both , it is important to keep an open mind and to be alert to the various clues and pointers to meaning that appear as the communication unfolds . |
| 21 | When it is serious , spots and patches of yellow and red appear as the green chlorophyll is not made , or breaks down . |
| 22 | Compressed as the battle arena had become , losses suffered among the senior commanders were every bit as grievous as among the rank-and-file ; in one French division , three out of four full colonels were killed during the mid-March fighting . |
| 23 | However , this body of theory is now being questioned , partly because of growing evidence that people do not behave as the theory predicts , and partly because of the continuing discovery of cases in which the theory 's recommendations as to rational choice conflict with most people 's intuitions about what it would be reasonable to do . |
| 24 | lt was heading away from me and I could see the twin yellow eyes of its exhaust which dilated as the plane changed its inclination and became airborne . |
| 25 | She saw the sands cooling as the temperature fell . |
| 26 | The committees functioned effectively in north Korea in the initial stage of communist rule before their independent characteristics were curbed as the northern regime consolidated itself . |
| 27 | It would include as the policy is drafted light industry in town centres . |
| 28 | She crossed the room and flung the window open , then sneezed as the sudden breeze sent dust motes dancing in the air . |
| 29 | The French see their dreams of European domination being shattered as the ‘ centre of Europe ’ shifts from Paris to Berlin . |
| 30 | About six feet below them they could hear thumps and scrapes as the luckless Stim dug his way down into the darkness . |