Example sentences of "[vb past] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tom Slack 's sense of fun effectively camouflages the dramas and dangers he endured as a pilot , as an escaper and ultimately as a POW . |
| 2 | He wrote a book which we bought , all about the discrimination he endured as a Methodist living in Ireland . |
| 3 | Now that my sons are becoming more independent , I have time for myself and confidence in middle age that I lacked as a youngster . |
| 4 | Peterborough : Shelley revealed as a heartbreaker |
| 5 | Charles 's personal copy of the psalter ( a manuscript designed for daily devotions ) also had ivory covers , showing the prophet Nathan 's rebuke of David for his liaison with Bathsheba ( Ps 51 , Vulg 50 ) and the protection of David 's soul ( Ps 57 , Vulg 56 ) depicted as a little child on the lap of a kindly angel . |
| 6 | Steel , also designated as a key recovery sector immediately after the war , was a key input into major export industries such as ships ( and in turn the development of huge ore-carrying ships allowed the Japanese steel industry to overcome a major disadvantage in transport costs for materials ) . |
| 7 | An extrapolation of this responsibility saw Hermes designated as the conductor of the souls of the dead to HADES , as well as being a god of sleep and dreams . |
| 8 | He also wants Bovril designated as the national football drink . |
| 9 | The land revenue tax ( at first as much as a third of a peasant 's gross yearly produce ) had to be paid no matter how bad the harvest or how impoverished the family became as a result . |
| 10 | erm If you were not so much an artist as a technician , you became as a technician interested in what this camera of yours could do , and therefore George Albert Smith , who was primarily I would say a technical man rather than an artist , he was very interested in the trick film . |
| 11 | And [ Molla Fenari " s ] standing rose in [ the sultan " s ] estimation and he occupied the highest place therein and consulted with the sultan in all affairs [ of state ] and became as the vezir … |
| 12 | ‘ Well now , and just in time for tea , ’ he beamed as a second and third bomb fell sickeningly nearer . |
| 13 | Is that agreed as a fair way of proceeding ? |
| 14 | He fought as a banneret in the first Welsh war of 1277–8 , visited Gascony and Paris on Edward 's business in 1278–9 , and fought again in the second Welsh war of 1282–3 . |
| 15 | ‘ If it 's not his jokes , he is constantly relating how he fought as a moss trooper on the northern march . ’ |
| 16 | The prince listened intently as British Korean war veteran Sam Mercer described the battle in which he fought as a 21-year-old private with the Gloucestershire Regiment in 1951 . |
| 17 | Lewis 's connection with Scotland in general ( he fought as an amateur during the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh ) and the city of Glasgow in particular may soon be strengthened beyond the use of a fax machine . |
| 18 | Even so , I am teetering on the brink of spending £300 to replace the turntable I foolishly ditched as an anachronism a few months ago . |
| 19 | Image ‘ I would n't mind if it was someone I respected as a player and a hard-man . |
| 20 | Between humdrum research and showpiece research , what the humanities scholarly community is really anxious to see is work which is both ( a ) respected as an original scholarly contribution within its own discipline and ( b ) could clearly not have been done without a computer . |
| 21 | However , of the studies I have mentioned it would be difficult to claim that more than a handful fulfilled the criteria I mentioned earlier : both ( a ) respected as an original scholarly contribution within its own discipline and ( b ) could clearly not have been done without a computer . |
| 22 | Linked to an alleged coup attempt by Mao 's then heir-apparent Lin Biao in 1971 , Chen was arrested and reviled as a traitor . |
| 23 | The PLO failed as a leadership , not as an idea . |
| 24 | He failed as a writer and as an actor but then discovered that the easily acquired skills of movie-making would enable him to become the artist and prophet for which his background had prepared him and for which Progressive America was so eagerly waiting . |
| 25 | Spain did not become a great mercantile nation because she failed as a naval power to retain political control of her great empire , and as a producer to supply cheap goods . |
| 26 | Plenty of other good bands around the country have tried to grab at the coat-tails the Manchester scene and failed as a result . |
| 27 | In 1894 he lost his job and failed as a cobbler . |
| 28 | Plenty of other good bands around the country have tried to grab at the coat-tails the Manchester scene and failed as a result . |
| 29 | Mujjaddedi had on June 21 threatened not to hand over power ( as required by the Peshawar accord ) to Rabbani , whom he branded as a Khomeini-like Islamic radical . |
| 30 | — Also this week , BR branded as a fake a leaked document which claimed to reveal plans to close vital lines in Cleveland and County Durham . |