Example sentences of "and [vb past] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | the case that most people regard the way in which the National Library has been built and planned as a total national disaster and a vast waste of public money . |
| 2 | The composition of any Palestinian delegation remains one of two crucial issues at the heart of Likud 's opposition to the 10 points put forward by President Mubarak of Egypt and devised as clarifications of Israel 's own initiative . |
| 3 | So I graduated from watcher to player and clapped as the sons and the Omani drummers played and sang . |
| 4 | When Alexei Sultanov , a nineteen-year-old from the USSR , was finally declared the winner , he rushed up on stage and lifted his trophy over his head and yipped with glee and the people of Fort Worth stood and clapped as if they had been seized with divine ecstasy . |
| 5 | What is more interesting here , however , is the method of reasoning by which Dobson reaches his conclusions on how EModE pronunciation is to be codified and legitimized as part of the canon . |
| 6 | 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 … |
| 7 | More to the point , the passage has a rhythmic regularity which enables it to be written out and scanned as poetry in a quasi-blank-verse metre : He has learned an alphabet of arch and aisle : The language of dim stairs and moth-hung rafters . |
| 8 | Plenty of other good bands around the country have tried to grab at the coat-tails the Manchester scene and failed as a result . |
| 9 | In 1894 he lost his job and failed as a cobbler . |
| 10 | Plenty of other good bands around the country have tried to grab at the coat-tails the Manchester scene and failed as a result . |
| 11 | Fingers , red , long and tapered as talons , dug possessively into Matthew 's arm . |
| 12 | ’ When still she made no move , he chuckled and made as if to put the document away again , pausing when he saw out of the corner of his eye that she was returning to the desk , albeit hesitantly . |
| 13 | He stopped when he saw the car and made as if to turn back . |
| 14 | He had an excellent temperament and lived as a family pet . |
| 15 | Linked to an alleged coup attempt by Mao 's then heir-apparent Lin Biao in 1971 , Chen was arrested and reviled as a traitor . |
| 16 | Angled away from the path of the hurricane , the concrete tube had become a giant organ pipe across the mouth of which the hurricane moaned and howled as if driven into enraged dementia by their evasion of its savagery . |
| 17 | The new drama pioneered by Euripides and perfected as New Comedy ( rejected the implications of tragic myth and ) was obliged , faute de mieux , to look for " an earthly resolution of the tragic dissonance " . |
| 18 | On the other hand , it is also possible that some abortions that were originally induced by primitive or illegal means will be finally treated by medical personnel and reported as spontaneous abortion . |
| 19 | After putting a trial foot several times in the river , Harriet launched herself and swam as if she had been used to water all her life . |
| 20 | Automatic weighing machines are very accurate and sample packs are taken regularly and weighed as a check . |
| 21 | Unfortunately , the overwhelming majority of surviving herds of deer either died off or escaped when country houses were requisitioned during the Second World War ; the ‘ Dig for Victory ’ campaign meant that much ancient pasture was ploughed and used as arable land which was often never reseeded . |
| 22 | We have , therefore , two possibilities to offer at this stage of our thinking : a simultaneous approach offering a mixture of BSL and English presented concurrently by teacher and pupil , or a bilingual approach where both BSL and English are accepted and used as separate languages . |
| 23 | Coal dust should be collected up into strong brown bags , dampened down and used as coal . |
| 24 | The interviewer is looking for a relapsed sport or hobby which can be restarted and used as behavioural tasks in homework assignments . |
| 25 | All such topics can be referred to with the help of suitable denoting phrases and used as grammatical subjects in subject/ predicate propositions . |
| 26 | Er , scrap timber can be stacked up at one side , and used as firewood . |
| 27 | 5 ) The main priority was to develop databases which could be shared between members of the group and used as introductory material for school librarians who had newly acquired microcomputers . |
| 28 | And used as a medicine as well . |
| 29 | And used as a medicine ? |
| 30 | The US engine was initially designated as GE 's model l–A ( later improved and redesignated as the 1–14 for use in the three XP aircraft ) and with continued improvements , evolved into the l–16/J–31 series turbojets . |