Example sentences of "[vb pp] 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 | Her lips split , her jaw cracked as the branch thickened , then was still . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The French see their dreams of European domination being shattered as the ‘ centre of Europe ’ shifts from Paris to Berlin . |
| 11 | Furthermore , Webb himself indicated that ‘ much of what is claimed as the progress of socialism might be equally well described as a merely empirical development from the principles of Canning , Peel , Bentham and Gladstone ’ . |
| 12 | It 's claimed as the hangar burned the two men were seen pointing at the flames and laughing . |
| 13 | The all-weather speaker by the bell-panel crackled as the internal phone was lifted . |
| 14 | The head started to smoke as the wax dribbled off it , then the fumes caught light , and the wasp body , a second flame within the crater , flickered and crackled as the fire incinerated the insect from its head down . |
| 15 | He said : ‘ How would a political party as totally committed as the Labour Party to equality of treatment and of opportunity for girls and women , lend its support to the introduction of schools in which men exercise all the power , and women are assigned a subordinate and restricted role ? ’ |
| 16 | John Aubrey , the famous diarist , described the great stones which then lay around the scene ‘ scattered as the sower does his seed ’ . |
| 17 | ( A strange distinction , this , since the KEF arrangement is probably the closest yet to a true concentric — the others are misnomers and should really be termed coaxial. ) claim that their composite driver is essentially free from the dispersion discontinuities in and around the crossover region , which inevitably result when tweeter and bass/midrange driver are physically separated ( because the directivities of the two drive units do not match in the crossover region the perceived tonal balance is modified as the listener moves position ) . |
| 18 | The timetable should be reviewed and , if appropriate , should be modified as the project progresses . |
| 19 | However , it is a very similar process to the one by which the pitch of the siren on a fire engine is deepened as the vehicle rushes away from the listener . |
| 20 | At No. 10 on the evening of 30 May , the gloom deepened as the results came in , worsening as the night dragged on . |
| 21 | After a little practice the full statements may be omitted as the mnemonics will ensure that the data is transmitted in the correct sequence . |
| 22 | Her shoulders dropped as the tensions began to ease and she raised her face to the condensed water on the ceiling , trying to relinquish control . |
| 23 | Because of the low status of part time training and the realisation that it makes the period between registration and achieving a consultant post even longer , the proportion of doctors training part time has dropped as the proportion of women graduates has increased . |
| 24 | Her jaw dropped as the woman walked past her and stopped by the car . |
| 25 | While the numbers of young people had dropped as the overall population grew older , in County Durham , 50% of over 16s were staying on at sixth forms or colleges such as his . |
| 26 | They were trapped as the blaze broke out at the house in Farnborough Close , Matchborough , near Redditch , Hereford and Worcester , just before midnight . |
| 27 | There was no fire escape , and guests at the birthday party were trapped as the flames spread . |
| 28 | This is the first occasion on which a Roman horde in Britain has been correctly excavated and much new information about the burial of such treasures is expected as a result . |
| 29 | When pressed by Jeremy Corbyn ( Labour ) about the department 's perceived shift towards means-testing and away from the universality he replied this was expected as the Labour party was also re-examining its commitment to universality — as John Smith has said ‘ nothing was ruled out and nothing was ruled in ’ . |
| 30 | On the same day Watanabe was interviewed as a sworn witness at the Tokyo Detention Centre by seven budget committee members . |